Amelia Diehl (she/her)
@adiehl.bsky.social
Writer, researcher: climate / enviro humanities, COVID Justice, movements. Co-producer Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories podcast on Great Salt Lake. MS Environmental Humanities. Proofreader In These Times. SLC UT via Chicago/MI 🏳️🌈
Packed room in Utah Senate for committee hearing about proposed mask ban. After Chair Rep. Nelson Abbott skipped the proposed mask ban agenda item, because the sponsoring legislator was not present, the masked attendees have stayed. Unclear if or when HB312 will be addressed by committee.
February 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Packed room in Utah Senate for committee hearing about proposed mask ban. After Chair Rep. Nelson Abbott skipped the proposed mask ban agenda item, because the sponsoring legislator was not present, the masked attendees have stayed. Unclear if or when HB312 will be addressed by committee.
Audience is about half/half formal staffers (unmasked), and half young people in masks. One person is wearing a keffiyeh - significant because this mask ban legislation has been explicitly to target pro-Palestinian protest.
February 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Audience is about half/half formal staffers (unmasked), and half young people in masks. One person is wearing a keffiyeh - significant because this mask ban legislation has been explicitly to target pro-Palestinian protest.
We know there are SO many more #GreatSaltLake stories to tell & we are raising funds for another season!
Listening means so much and please rate & share our podcast! You can follow us on Instagram OfSaltandSand, and learn more about the project and make a donation on our website: lakefacing.org/
Listening means so much and please rate & share our podcast! You can follow us on Instagram OfSaltandSand, and learn more about the project and make a donation on our website: lakefacing.org/
November 26, 2024 at 11:24 PM
We know there are SO many more #GreatSaltLake stories to tell & we are raising funds for another season!
Listening means so much and please rate & share our podcast! You can follow us on Instagram OfSaltandSand, and learn more about the project and make a donation on our website: lakefacing.org/
Listening means so much and please rate & share our podcast! You can follow us on Instagram OfSaltandSand, and learn more about the project and make a donation on our website: lakefacing.org/
A 2023 study said #GreatSaltLake would dry up in 5 yrs w/o drastic action.
GSL is a major migratory bird flyway, provides snowpack & exposed lakebed means more toxic chemicals in an already polluted airshed.
Our podcast grapples with what it means to stay as we face an eco & public health crisis.
GSL is a major migratory bird flyway, provides snowpack & exposed lakebed means more toxic chemicals in an already polluted airshed.
Our podcast grapples with what it means to stay as we face an eco & public health crisis.
November 26, 2024 at 11:20 PM
A 2023 study said #GreatSaltLake would dry up in 5 yrs w/o drastic action.
GSL is a major migratory bird flyway, provides snowpack & exposed lakebed means more toxic chemicals in an already polluted airshed.
Our podcast grapples with what it means to stay as we face an eco & public health crisis.
GSL is a major migratory bird flyway, provides snowpack & exposed lakebed means more toxic chemicals in an already polluted airshed.
Our podcast grapples with what it means to stay as we face an eco & public health crisis.
"How do we pivot to the new resistance, when we don't even understand why and how it happened?"
Common understanding =/= common agreement
Fighting Trump in '16 is not the same as '24. The right has been preparing while some on the left are shocked.
@keeanga.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
Common understanding =/= common agreement
Fighting Trump in '16 is not the same as '24. The right has been preparing while some on the left are shocked.
@keeanga.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 12:47 AM
"How do we pivot to the new resistance, when we don't even understand why and how it happened?"
Common understanding =/= common agreement
Fighting Trump in '16 is not the same as '24. The right has been preparing while some on the left are shocked.
@keeanga.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
Common understanding =/= common agreement
Fighting Trump in '16 is not the same as '24. The right has been preparing while some on the left are shocked.
@keeanga.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
"Climate policy means free transit for all."
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: Appealing to basic values ("all life is precious & needs protection") is actually powerful.
The Left will always be at a disadvantage in info wars because we don't have our own networks. We need clear storytelling.
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: Appealing to basic values ("all life is precious & needs protection") is actually powerful.
The Left will always be at a disadvantage in info wars because we don't have our own networks. We need clear storytelling.
November 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM
"Climate policy means free transit for all."
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: Appealing to basic values ("all life is precious & needs protection") is actually powerful.
The Left will always be at a disadvantage in info wars because we don't have our own networks. We need clear storytelling.
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: Appealing to basic values ("all life is precious & needs protection") is actually powerful.
The Left will always be at a disadvantage in info wars because we don't have our own networks. We need clear storytelling.
"If the Left was doing its job, people would be coming to the Left, not the right.
What we need to do is find common ground. What are the values that animate it? We need to do more to connect the dots between the issues we're engaged with."
@naomiaklein.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
What we need to do is find common ground. What are the values that animate it? We need to do more to connect the dots between the issues we're engaged with."
@naomiaklein.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 12:39 AM
"If the Left was doing its job, people would be coming to the Left, not the right.
What we need to do is find common ground. What are the values that animate it? We need to do more to connect the dots between the issues we're engaged with."
@naomiaklein.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
What we need to do is find common ground. What are the values that animate it? We need to do more to connect the dots between the issues we're engaged with."
@naomiaklein.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
"The Left is really needed right now. We need to think about our organizing as building connections and bonds between people."
@astra.bsky.social says the blame game does matter, pushes us to go beyond text-message campaigns @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
@astra.bsky.social says the blame game does matter, pushes us to go beyond text-message campaigns @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 12:25 AM
"The Left is really needed right now. We need to think about our organizing as building connections and bonds between people."
@astra.bsky.social says the blame game does matter, pushes us to go beyond text-message campaigns @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
@astra.bsky.social says the blame game does matter, pushes us to go beyond text-message campaigns @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
"They play longterm ball. What are we going to do?"
@chenjerai.bsky.social urges the Left to get good at campaigns that keep building beyond the electoral campaign cycle, reminding us the fight to overturn Roe took decades. @haymarketbooks.bsky.social "Where Do We Go from Here?"
@chenjerai.bsky.social urges the Left to get good at campaigns that keep building beyond the electoral campaign cycle, reminding us the fight to overturn Roe took decades. @haymarketbooks.bsky.social "Where Do We Go from Here?"
November 22, 2024 at 12:19 AM
"They play longterm ball. What are we going to do?"
@chenjerai.bsky.social urges the Left to get good at campaigns that keep building beyond the electoral campaign cycle, reminding us the fight to overturn Roe took decades. @haymarketbooks.bsky.social "Where Do We Go from Here?"
@chenjerai.bsky.social urges the Left to get good at campaigns that keep building beyond the electoral campaign cycle, reminding us the fight to overturn Roe took decades. @haymarketbooks.bsky.social "Where Do We Go from Here?"
When I added the #MidwestPrincess hat to my collection (which includes this ridiculous oil one) I realized there is a thesis to be written here - about regional identity, gender, labor/class, pop culture/hegemony…
Is Great Lakes Hotshot (oil derrick) the butch corollary to #MidwestPrincess? Etc
Is Great Lakes Hotshot (oil derrick) the butch corollary to #MidwestPrincess? Etc
November 13, 2024 at 9:53 PM
When I added the #MidwestPrincess hat to my collection (which includes this ridiculous oil one) I realized there is a thesis to be written here - about regional identity, gender, labor/class, pop culture/hegemony…
Is Great Lakes Hotshot (oil derrick) the butch corollary to #MidwestPrincess? Etc
Is Great Lakes Hotshot (oil derrick) the butch corollary to #MidwestPrincess? Etc
The energy today feels different compared to last year’s rally, says Ben Abbot, BYU scientist and Executive Director of Grow the Flow.
Last year the legislator couldn’t even agree to set a water level target — but this year they agreed to 4198 ft. This can’t be symbolic, but backed with action.
Last year the legislator couldn’t even agree to set a water level target — but this year they agreed to 4198 ft. This can’t be symbolic, but backed with action.
January 20, 2024 at 11:15 PM
The energy today feels different compared to last year’s rally, says Ben Abbot, BYU scientist and Executive Director of Grow the Flow.
Last year the legislator couldn’t even agree to set a water level target — but this year they agreed to 4198 ft. This can’t be symbolic, but backed with action.
Last year the legislator couldn’t even agree to set a water level target — but this year they agreed to 4198 ft. This can’t be symbolic, but backed with action.
“These are not just ecological or political issues. These are spiritual issues. We are mobilizing our love.”
Terry Tempest Williams calls on everyone, including legislators and Mormon leaders, to protect the Great Salt Lake.
Terry Tempest Williams calls on everyone, including legislators and Mormon leaders, to protect the Great Salt Lake.
January 20, 2024 at 11:09 PM
“These are not just ecological or political issues. These are spiritual issues. We are mobilizing our love.”
Terry Tempest Williams calls on everyone, including legislators and Mormon leaders, to protect the Great Salt Lake.
Terry Tempest Williams calls on everyone, including legislators and Mormon leaders, to protect the Great Salt Lake.
Terry Tempest Williams, wearing an eared grebe bird hat:
“We are the water bearers of the future. GSL is a mirror of who we are: shrinking or expanding. We will bring water back to Great Salt Lake. Who will forgive us if we do nothing?”
“We are the water bearers of the future. GSL is a mirror of who we are: shrinking or expanding. We will bring water back to Great Salt Lake. Who will forgive us if we do nothing?”
January 20, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Terry Tempest Williams, wearing an eared grebe bird hat:
“We are the water bearers of the future. GSL is a mirror of who we are: shrinking or expanding. We will bring water back to Great Salt Lake. Who will forgive us if we do nothing?”
“We are the water bearers of the future. GSL is a mirror of who we are: shrinking or expanding. We will bring water back to Great Salt Lake. Who will forgive us if we do nothing?”
Hundreds of Utahns filling the Capitol steps with signs calling on legislators to protect the Great Salt Lake, which could dry up in 5 years. In the face of this dire situation, a lake-facing culture is cohering around moral urgency.
January 20, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Hundreds of Utahns filling the Capitol steps with signs calling on legislators to protect the Great Salt Lake, which could dry up in 5 years. In the face of this dire situation, a lake-facing culture is cohering around moral urgency.
Forrest Cuch, author and Ute elder, shares the significance of sacred Great Salt Lake before settlers came.
This recognition of the lake as sacred means we all have a responsibility to protect the water.
This recognition of the lake as sacred means we all have a responsibility to protect the water.
January 20, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Forrest Cuch, author and Ute elder, shares the significance of sacred Great Salt Lake before settlers came.
This recognition of the lake as sacred means we all have a responsibility to protect the water.
This recognition of the lake as sacred means we all have a responsibility to protect the water.
“The people in pain should be closest to power.” Muskan Walia, UYES (Utah Youth for Environmental Solutions)
Protecting Great Salt Lake is about environmental Justice. BIPOC and working class communities, impacted the most, need to be heard by the legislators and the movement.
Protecting Great Salt Lake is about environmental Justice. BIPOC and working class communities, impacted the most, need to be heard by the legislators and the movement.
January 20, 2024 at 10:57 PM
“The people in pain should be closest to power.” Muskan Walia, UYES (Utah Youth for Environmental Solutions)
Protecting Great Salt Lake is about environmental Justice. BIPOC and working class communities, impacted the most, need to be heard by the legislators and the movement.
Protecting Great Salt Lake is about environmental Justice. BIPOC and working class communities, impacted the most, need to be heard by the legislators and the movement.
Beverly Harry, water protector of the Navajo Nation, organizing the Healing Water Institute, examines the root cause of violence, against land & women.
Fish have kept Indigenous communities alive & depend on water health. Legislators must honor the life of water & mining must be held accountable.
Fish have kept Indigenous communities alive & depend on water health. Legislators must honor the life of water & mining must be held accountable.
January 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Beverly Harry, water protector of the Navajo Nation, organizing the Healing Water Institute, examines the root cause of violence, against land & women.
Fish have kept Indigenous communities alive & depend on water health. Legislators must honor the life of water & mining must be held accountable.
Fish have kept Indigenous communities alive & depend on water health. Legislators must honor the life of water & mining must be held accountable.
Human and ecological health is interdependent. An exposed lake bed carries toxic dust to Utahns. Great Salt Lake Water is diverted and polluted by corporate industry.
— Dr. Courtney Henley, UPHE (Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment)
— Dr. Courtney Henley, UPHE (Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment)
January 20, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Human and ecological health is interdependent. An exposed lake bed carries toxic dust to Utahns. Great Salt Lake Water is diverted and polluted by corporate industry.
— Dr. Courtney Henley, UPHE (Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment)
— Dr. Courtney Henley, UPHE (Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment)
Izzy Kachatryan, 16 year old leader with Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake:
“The future of our lake is the future of our health and the air we breathe. We cannot separate it from our own.”
Youth at the rally say: protect our future now!
“The future of our lake is the future of our health and the air we breathe. We cannot separate it from our own.”
Youth at the rally say: protect our future now!
January 20, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Izzy Kachatryan, 16 year old leader with Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake:
“The future of our lake is the future of our health and the air we breathe. We cannot separate it from our own.”
Youth at the rally say: protect our future now!
“The future of our lake is the future of our health and the air we breathe. We cannot separate it from our own.”
Youth at the rally say: protect our future now!
Capitalism is unsustainable, says first speaker Darren Parry, former chairman and councilman for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.
“We need to start putting costs on polluting our air, water. Putting a cost on things our economy doesn’t measure.”
“We need to start putting costs on polluting our air, water. Putting a cost on things our economy doesn’t measure.”
January 20, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Capitalism is unsustainable, says first speaker Darren Parry, former chairman and councilman for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.
“We need to start putting costs on polluting our air, water. Putting a cost on things our economy doesn’t measure.”
“We need to start putting costs on polluting our air, water. Putting a cost on things our economy doesn’t measure.”
MC Nan Seymour, local poet, welcomes the Save our Great Salt Lake rally crowd, invites everyone to ground with the earth, tilt heads towards the sky and then to the Lake to the west.
“We need each other as participants of a water cycle.”
“We need each other as participants of a water cycle.”
January 20, 2024 at 10:24 PM
MC Nan Seymour, local poet, welcomes the Save our Great Salt Lake rally crowd, invites everyone to ground with the earth, tilt heads towards the sky and then to the Lake to the west.
“We need each other as participants of a water cycle.”
“We need each other as participants of a water cycle.”
Rally to save our great salt lake begins with chants!
When the air we breathe/Water we drink is under attack, what do we do?
Stand up fight back!
Hey ho the inland ports have got to go!
Hey hey ho ho the waters got to flow!
It’s time to give not to take! Let’s get water to the lake!
When the air we breathe/Water we drink is under attack, what do we do?
Stand up fight back!
Hey ho the inland ports have got to go!
Hey hey ho ho the waters got to flow!
It’s time to give not to take! Let’s get water to the lake!
January 20, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Rally to save our great salt lake begins with chants!
When the air we breathe/Water we drink is under attack, what do we do?
Stand up fight back!
Hey ho the inland ports have got to go!
Hey hey ho ho the waters got to flow!
It’s time to give not to take! Let’s get water to the lake!
When the air we breathe/Water we drink is under attack, what do we do?
Stand up fight back!
Hey ho the inland ports have got to go!
Hey hey ho ho the waters got to flow!
It’s time to give not to take! Let’s get water to the lake!
Today’s rally for Great Salt Lake is the result of years of community organizing, intensifying in recent years as reports have underscored the need to raise water level.
A 2023 report outlined the lake’s vital role in ecosystem, and how we could lose it in just 5 years pws.byu.edu/great-salt-l...
A 2023 report outlined the lake’s vital role in ecosystem, and how we could lose it in just 5 years pws.byu.edu/great-salt-l...
January 20, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Today’s rally for Great Salt Lake is the result of years of community organizing, intensifying in recent years as reports have underscored the need to raise water level.
A 2023 report outlined the lake’s vital role in ecosystem, and how we could lose it in just 5 years pws.byu.edu/great-salt-l...
A 2023 report outlined the lake’s vital role in ecosystem, and how we could lose it in just 5 years pws.byu.edu/great-salt-l...
HAPPENING NOW: hundreds of folks are gathering on the Utah capitol steps for the Save our Great Salt Lake rally! This is the second annual Capitol rally for the lake, which could dry up in 5 years without drastic action. A dried up lake bed means exacerbated public health and ecological disaster.
January 20, 2024 at 9:52 PM
HAPPENING NOW: hundreds of folks are gathering on the Utah capitol steps for the Save our Great Salt Lake rally! This is the second annual Capitol rally for the lake, which could dry up in 5 years without drastic action. A dried up lake bed means exacerbated public health and ecological disaster.