Water Rally Speakers and Presenters

Strategy, Solidarity, and the Power to Protect What Matters

With great change comes great opportunity. Anthony Davis, Jr. will share from his experience as a strategist and organizer how important it is to be strategic, organized, and to move in solidarity in this time of great change in our nation, our state and our communities. He will inspire us to channel our uncertainty into motivation to continue building the power we need to stand up for clean water, healthy communities and for each other!

We are in for a special treat and truly unique opportunity. Marcus Briggs-Cloud will provide an overview of Ekvn-Yefolecv (ee-gun yee-full-lee-juh), a climate-positive, income-sharing ecovillage community of Indigenous Maskoke People who, after 180 years of having been forcibly removed from traditional homelands – in what is commonly/colonially known as central Alabama – returned in January 2018 with unwavering commitments to: the revitalization of Maskoke language and culture, natural building construction, ecological restoration, endangered species conservation, restorative economics, and regenerative agriculture. Designed as a decolonization and reindigenization paradigm shift, the community seeks to exemplify a Just Transition from extractive economies to more equitable, culturally and ecologically regenerative lifeways, all while serving as a replicable archetype for other communities to manifest in their own culturally responsive ways.