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DEcember 2020
Edwards, who runs a nonprofit dedicated to increasing life expectancy on the reservation, has been delivering masks and other medical supplies […]
"We have systemic inequities here that existed long before the pandemic — and have been magnified by COVID," Edwards said.
Minneapolis Star Tribune / Read Full Article
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DEC 2020
Through this conversation she reveals that the lack of access to basic things like […]proper health care on reservations have deeply rooted origins. COVID-19 has exposed this reality that existed pre-pandemic. She hopes that bringing awareness to systemic injustices like this can lead to more people taking action to rectify the situation.
Talking Taiwan Podcast / Listen to Podcast
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December 2020
“Some of the greatest activism in this country in recent years took place at Standing Rock,
a place whose people became catalysts and leaders for so many of us. In vision and commitment it is rich. Yet it is also a place of terrible poverty, so much so that people regularly die for lack of an ambulance to bring them from the remote corners of the reservation to hospitals. So we're raising money for an ambulance […]”
Rebecca Solnit, Writer, Historian & Activist