Even if oil ultimately begins to flow through the pipeline, the movement has learned how to resist in spite of corporations’ endless money and political influence, says journalist Desiree Kane Story Transcript KIM BROWN: Welcome to The Real News Network, in Baltimore. I’m Kim Brown. Tents set ablaze Wednesday, at the campsite where 100’s of […]
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Desiree Kane is a Miwok multimedia journalist who can be found regularly commenting on The Real News Network, producing First Foods, an educational class series by and for Indigenous People, and working as a video producer for The Ministry of Hemp.
Desiree’s documentary photography is currently being showcased in the New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM at the Beyond Standing Rock exhibit. She has worked with Firestarter Films as an associate producer, camera operator and investigative journalist on the feature-length documentary Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She was part of the organizing body for Boulder Valley Indigenous People’s Day 2019, which focused heavily on #MMIWG2S, an epidemic that has taken the lives of so many Native women, girls, and two spirits.
In 2017, Desiree lived in Guyana as a teacher with the Amerindian People's Association and the Rainforest Foundation, developing a two-year, media-making, capacity-building program for Indigenous Guyanese youth facing land loss from logging, deforestation, and mining in their home territories. She spent most of 2016 living at Oceti Sakowin Camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation documenting the #NoDAPL movement.
Desiree has developed an expansive and diverse body of journalistic work, including: a short-form documentary on coal in the Navajo Nation for VICE News; Creative Loafing, a travel+tech column; a report for Earth Island Journal on an Indigenous Women's Treaty Signing in Paris; a multimedia exposé for Shadowproof detailing immigrant detention in Aurora, CO. Her writing and views have been featured across a wide range of publications, from Yes! Magazine and Truthout to The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times. She is proud to be a bridge between communities and so excited to be part of The Real News Network.
