Posted
by Geronimo_Apache
on December 21, 2008
From: Alfredo Padilla
To: Geronimo rubio
Subject: please post
Dear friends, relatives, supporters, and allies of Big Mountain &
Black Mesa,
* Red Alert!: Peabody Coal Is Trying to Usher in Their Massive Coal-
Mining Plans.
* Caravan To Black Mesa is right around the corner! Elders are in
need of wood.
* BMIS is launches a new website!
RED ALERT: The Permitting Process for Massive Coal Mining Expansion
Plans, The Black Mesa Project,
has been Re-opened and comments for
Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) Was Issued the Day After
Election! Peabody Coal, the world's largest coal company, is
currently pushing through plans to massively expand dirty coal strip-
mining operations targeting the Dine' (Navajo) & Hopi peoples sacred
ancestral homelands of Black Mesa, AZ.
The Black Mesa Project - FEIS, funded by Peabody Coal and released
November 4, 2008, outlines harmful impacts
to every level of the
ecological and cultural systems on Black Mesa. Thousands of acres of
pristine canyon lands, animal and plant ecology and cultural sites
would be destroyed, thus preventing religious practices. The
increased detonation of coal on a daily basis would affect the air
quality and health of miners, local residents, and their livestock.
These plans could deplete the already scarce water tables and
regional aquifer that are all essential to residential survival, as
well as uprooting & relocating more families from their ancestral
homelands due to coal mining expansion.
According to an article in the Gallup Independent on November 11,
2008, "The Final Environmental Impact Statement analyzing the effects
of the Black Mesa Project was published Friday in the Federal
Register by the U.S."
We cannot allow Peabody and the US government to essentially
sacrifice human dignity and planetary health for elite profit! Find
Out More About These Plans and what local organizations are doing to
protect their homelands & the planet….
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A Caravan To Support The Struggle For Survival On The Front Lines Of
Resistance at Big Mountain, Black Mesa, AZ. November 22-29, 2008!
The reports are coming in ~ elders need of wood and it's already
freezing temperatures!
A caravan of work crews is converging from across the western states
to support residents of the Big Mountain regions of Black Mesa who,
on behalf of their peoples, their sacred ancestral lands, and future
generations, continue to carry out their staunch resistance to the
efforts of the US Government, which is acting in the interests of the
Peabody Coal Company to devastate whole communities & ecosystems, and
greatly de-stabilize our planet's climate for the profit of an elite
few. More than 14,000 Dine' people have been forcibly removed from
their ancestral homelands due to spin created by the U.S government &
Peabody Coal, under the guise of the so-called "Navajo-Hopi Land
Dispute".
By assisting with direct, on-land projects with the Sovereign
communities of Big Mountain, Black Mesa volunteer work crews are
helping families resist an illegal occupation and to stay on their
lands, who serve as the very blockade to coal mining! With the
guidance of Black Mesa residents, the aim of this caravan is to honor
the elders and to bring support to their communities before the
approaching cold winter months.
We are at a critical juncture and must take a stand in support of
communities on the front lines of resistance now!
Ways you can support the caravan:
donate. Checks can be made out to Black Mesa Indigenous Support.
share information about the Struggle For Survival on Black Mesa and
spread the word in your area.
arrange/organize outreach events and/or fundraisers for gathering
supplies in your town or city with BMIS supporting you.
Black Mesa Caravan Projects Needs List
Chain-saws & chain-saw parts: Stihl MS 170: chain, oil cap, bar/chain
oil.
Axes, mauls, axe handles, shovels (pointed & flat-heads), hammers,
nails, and other tools.
Wood, if you are in the AZ region.
Funds for building materials.
Vehicles to drive to the caravan and to donate to families.
Work gloves.
Solar panels, generators, wind turbines. solar batteries.
Medicinal herbs for stress, immune, lung support, and external salves
& rubs for bad backs, arthritis, arnica, aloe vera.
Blankets
A 1982 VW Jetta manual
Educational books for 13 yr old son and for adults
This caravan is an important opportunity for people of all
backgrounds to listen & work with the families of Black Mesa to
generate more awareness that relocation laws & coal mining need to
stop, that these communities deserve the right of a continued and
uninterrupted existence on their ancestral homelands, & to come
together to strengthen our solidarity and find ways to work together
to protect Black Mesa & our Mother Earth for all life. Visit the BMIS
website for further information.
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We are psyched to announce the launch of the new BMIS website http://
www.blackmesais.org ! Stay posted as more info and pics are posted.
Give Back To Mother Earth! Give Back To Future Generations!
~ Black Mesa Indigenous Support
Black Mesa Indigenous Support
P.O. Box 23501, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002
Message Voice Mail: 928.773.8086
Email: blackmesais@riseup.net
Web: www.blackmesais.org
Black Mesa Indigenous Support (BMIS) is a grassroots, all-volunteer
organization dedicated to working with and supporting the indigenous
peoples of Black Mesa in their Struggle for Life and Land who are
targeted by & resisting unjust large-scale coal mining operations and
forced relocation policies of the US government.
