Activism
Alice has been working to make the world a better place through music for close to four decades. She has played more benefits than she could ever count for various causes including protecting the environment, Women’s rights, LGBTQI rights, Indigenous/Native American rights, groups that work for racial equality, justice, and freedom for all. DiMicele has also has helped spearhead many benefits after disasters such as Hurricanes Maria and Katrina, the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal and many other disasters as well as helping friends with health or other personal crises in need of financial support. Alice gathered and sent supplies to Standing Rock and helped raise money for Indigenous First Nations friends to be able to go and participate.
She is a supporter of local environmental groups Rogue Riverkeeper, Rogue Climate, and Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center aka KS Wild. (Three local Southern Oregon organizations that are working tirelessly to protect our region from destruction.) Please consider supporting them as well.
The Winnemum Wintu tribe in California are seeking to restore salmon to their homeland of the McLoud (Winnemum) River that flows from Mt. Shasta. Please support their project at Run4Salmon.org
Alice supports her local Indivisible chapter ORD2 Indivisible. Check out the Indivisible Guide and search for a group near you.
Alice was a founder and board member of Grandmothers Empowerment Project, a 501c3 that offered housing stipends to Native American elders in the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion including Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim aka Grandma Aggie who is a founder of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. We have folded the non-profit after the passing of our beloved Grandma Aggie in November of 2019 and are all working on other ways to support elders in our communities.
She got her start in activism with Earth First! Siskiyou in the 1987 in Southern Oregon playing many benefits for local forest protection with the group EarthSong and as a solo artist. In 1989 she traveled and performed with the Ancient Forest Rescue expedition who brought a 700 year old douglas fir log across the US to raise awareness of the plight of ancient forests in the United States. When Alice’s friends, Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were bombed on May 24th in 1990, she joined forces with the Olympia, WA based group Citizens Band and Bellingham, WA musician Dana Lyons to do a benefit tour through Oregon, Washington and Northern California to raise money for them. She collected money in a passed hat for the next year for Judi and her children at every one of her shows. In 1991 she went to England and Scotland on a tour that helped establish Earth First! there. Di Micele played at several benefits for Julia Butterfly Hill at the Mateel Community Center in Redway, CA including one with Bob Weir and Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead on December 10th 1998 and another with Bonnie Raitt and Joan Baez on December 8th 1999.
