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Solidarity South Florida<p>Spotted hanging on top of the sign for the Everglades Concentration Camp </p><p>Anarchists in south Florida are deeply conflicted about how to fight against this. Indigenous elders have decided to side with conservatives rednecks who do NOT want to speak badly about ICE. They are also coordinating everything with tribal police, who in turn coordinate with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. They keeping making statements about how their events are peaceful and “agitators” will not be welcome. </p><p>Miccosukee youth are not standing for it. They are organizing with an immigrants’ rights nonprofit from Imokolee, FL. While their rhetoric is much more intersectional, that is where our praise must end. They also coordinate with tribal police, who in turn coordinate with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. </p><p>Nevertheless, there are hints of radicalism which can grow. There are some Miccosukee youth who do not approve of working with the police, let alone the FBI, ICE, and whomever else the tribal police are coordinating with. </p><p>This is undoubtedly a lesson for many anarchists in South Florida, who have not made significant efforts to be a part of indigenous communities’ organizing since the Save the Briger Forest efforts a decade ago. Be part of communities’ everyday struggles, such that when the empire comes to crush them, you are ready to fight side-by-side. We were not ready this time, but we are working on it. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoEvergladesConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoEvergladesConcentrationCamp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeathToColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathToColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbolishBorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishBorders</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>SAVE THE DATE!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesa</span></a> Community Spiritual Walk and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> Against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMill</span></a></p><p>Saturday, October 4, 2025 - 11am MDT<br>At the White Mesa Community Center</p><p>Rally starts at 11AM MDT, followed by the spiritual and protest walk to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> uranium mill.</p><p>Directions:<br>- The White Mesa Community Center is between Bluff and Blanding, Utah.<br>- The community center is located slightly off Highway 191, on the west side of the road, behind the gas station.<br>- Look for a large building with "White Mesa Community Center" written on the side.</p><p>"We live down the road from this mill. When it's running, we smell it from our houses. They're bringing radioactive wastes from all over the world to this mill. We want the mill to close and clean up its mess." ~ Yolanda Badback.</p><p>Sponsored by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UteMountainUteTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UteMountainUteTribe</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaConcernedCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaConcernedCommunity</span></a>.</p><p>For more information call White Mesa Concerned Community (435) 459-2461 protectwhitemesa.org </p><p><a href="https://greenaction.org/2025/06/24/saturday-october-4-2025-white-mesa-ute-community-spiritual-walk-protest-against-energy-fuels-uranium-mill/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">greenaction.org/2025/06/24/sat</span><span class="invisible">urday-october-4-2025-white-mesa-ute-community-spiritual-walk-protest-against-energy-fuels-uranium-mill/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectWhiteMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectWhiteMesa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlandingUtah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlandingUtah</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BluffUtah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BluffUtah</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUranium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectWhiteMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectWhiteMesa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YolandaBadback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YolandaBadback</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUraniumMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUraniumMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DontNukeTheFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DontNukeTheFuture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheUte</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UteNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UteNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCornersToFukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourCornersToFukushima</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectMotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UteMountainUteTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UteMountainUteTribe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaConcernedCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaConcernedCommunity</span></a></p>
The Lifeboat Academy<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aldoleopold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aldoleopold</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metacrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RespectTheLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RespectTheLand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permaculture</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Now Showing Online! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigMountain</span></a> Film Featured at Tokyo Global Film Festival</p><p>By NaBahii Keediniihii, via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span>, May 28, 2:33 PM </p><p>"Greetings All.</p><p>I hope your late Spring is going well.</p><p>The ONLY film festival so far that<br>selected the Big Mountain Film is Tokyo Liff Off Global Film Festival. </p><p>Big Mountain feature documentary will end streaming on June 1st which is night time Saturday in the U.S., 5/31.</p><p><a href="https://liftoff.network/tokyo-lift-off-film-festival-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">liftoff.network/tokyo-lift-off</span><span class="invisible">-film-festival-2025/</span></a></p><p>Sorry that you have to purchase a Ticket (cost is $12), in order to Vote. GO DOWN TO THE 'FEATURES' Category. Find the title: "BIG MOUNTAIN LEGACY, LAST STORIES OF DÍNEH." More Votes = More Exposure about Big Mountain Legacy!!</p><p>Let's hope that other Film Fests judge to select this Big Mountain Legacy film. </p><p>What more can I say, this documentary is not about myself. Understand that I am only the MessenJah.<br> <br>Thank you, again. </p><p>Sincerely, </p><p>Kat Bahe"</p><p>Watch the film trailer<br><a href="https://vimeo.com/848932137" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/848932137</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Big Mountain Legacy Film: SYNOPSIS / Re-enactments / A Dream of a Man<br>Director: Bahe (Naabaahii) Katenay (Keediniihii), October 2023 (75 minute featured documentary)</p><p>Background:</p><p>"In the 1970s, Dineh (Navajo) families around Big Mountain were notified that their communities would be uprooted and that they may never see their ancestral homelands ever again. Now 50 years later, less than 20 home sites remain and the once strong <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> leaders like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaulineWhitesinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaulineWhitesinger</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaastinNiizBegay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaastinNiizBegay</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnKatenay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnKatenay</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RobertaBlackgoat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertaBlackgoat</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s grandmother) have all passed on. </p><p>How should the future remember the legacies of such wise teachers? What gave their community the will to defy U.S.</p><p>Congressional Legislations that were nothing but anti-Indian which was forcing them to give up hundreds of years of cultural existence?</p><p>The Congress of the United States passed Public Law 93-531 in 1974 and it was signed by the President. It is an Executive Order, a declaration to exterminate, a declaration of war. The justification for this law was to “resolve” a supposed “land-dispute” among the Hopis and Dineh, and the lands were divided.</p><p>The 2023 Video Documentary:<br>The original impetus for resisting the federal mandate was the sacredness of the lands, ancestral ties and natural features which were dwelling places of Deities. The elder interviewees knew the future will not be the same way as they had lived and the same childhood experience. The video put aside much of the effective resistance against the most powerful, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalistic</span></a> country in the world, instead the video presents stories about their ancestors’ teachings. A Dineh ritual existence which was basically daily living, ceremonies and nutrition. An indigenous atmosphere long before the Europeans’ arrival with its brutal conquest. The video narrowly touches on a 400-year history of cultural survival and maintaining identity. And how that history overlaps with so-called modern America.</p><p>One grandmother’s story become an intense chapter, and it is about her direct clan ancestry facing near annihilation as one little girl survives which resulted in re-establishing a Clan at Big Mountain.</p><p>"This story comes from a massacre site with two mass graves. Then stories about decades of intense state of fear and which lead into the US’s late 1800s war policy of random killing, starvation and captivity. The modern times the 1920s and 30s when these story tellers were born, a different state of fear had re-emerged, and then again at their elderhood in the late 1900s. All the stories in this documentary program are messages for the future because, as these elders have predicted, the lands maybe empty of indigenous culture which once thrived for centuries."</p><p>Continue reading at: Sheep Dog Nation Media<br><a href="https://sheepdognationmediarockswisdom.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sheepdognationmediarockswisdom</span><span class="invisible">.blogspot.com/</span></a></p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/now-showing-online-big-mountain-film.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/now-showing-online-big-mountain-film.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountainResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigMountainResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dineh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineteh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dineteh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnMcCain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnMcCain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAction</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto copper mine opposed by Native Americans</p><p>By Ernest Scheyder<br>April 18, 2025</p><p>- Forest Service to republish environmental report within 60 days<br>- Publication needed to approve land swap for Resolution project<br>- Native groups oppose project on religious grounds<br>- Related case still pending at Supreme Court</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration said on Thursday it would approve a land swap needed for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BHP</span></a> to build one of the world's largest copper mines, despite concerns from Native Americans that it would destroy a site of religious value.<br>The move is likely to escalate tensions between Indigenous groups vocal about the need to preserve historical lands and Western governments eager to boost critical minerals production and offset China's sector dominance.</p><p>"The U.S. Forest Service, which is part of the Agriculture Department, said it will republish within 60 days an environmental report needed for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> project land swap to occur.</p><p>"Congress and then-President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarackObama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarackObama</span></a> approved the mine in 2014 after it was added at the last minute to a must-pass military funding bill [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA</span></a>] with the condition that an environmental report be published.</p><p>"The underground mine - which President Donald Trump approved in his first term before successor Joe Biden reversed him - would supply more than a quarter of U.S. appetite for copper and be a key part of Trump's plan to boost U.S. mining.</p><p>"Copper is used in construction, transportation, electronics and many other industries. The United States imports roughly half of its copper needs each year.</p><p>"Yet the mine's construction would cause a crater that would swallow the Oak Flat site where Arizona's San Carlos Apache worship. That has fueled strong opposition from all but one of the state's 22 Native American tribes, as well as the National Congress of American Indians.</p><p>"Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit group comprised of the San Carlos Apache Tribe and conservationists, asked the U.S. Supreme Court last September to block the land swap. The court has not yet decided whether to take that case.<br>Were the court to do so, however, the Forest Service said on Thursday it 'may reevaluate how to proceed' regarding the land swap.</p><p>" 'The U.S. government is rushing to give away our spiritual home before the courts can even rule, just like it's rushed to erase Native people for generations,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WendslerNosie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WendslerNosie</span></a>, an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a> leader."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/trump-approve-land-swap-rio-tinto-copper-mine-opposed-by-native-americans-2025-04-18/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/sustainability/boa</span><span class="invisible">rds-policy-regulation/trump-approve-land-swap-rio-tinto-copper-mine-opposed-by-native-americans-2025-04-18/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apaches</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApaches</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApache</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apaches</span></a> ask lower court to stop government’s imminent transfer of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> </p><p>Becket Law, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, April 25, 2025</p><p>There will be a Hearing May 7, 2025 @ 0930 @ Sandra Day O’Connor <br>U.S. Courthouse, 401 West Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85003</p><p>WASHINGTON – "A coalition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApaches</span></a>, other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativePeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativePeoples</span></a>, and non-Native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/allies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>allies</span></a> asked a federal court late yesterday to stop the U.S. government from handing over their sacred site at Oak Flat to a multinational mining giant as early as June 16, 2025.</p><p>"In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a> v. United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last year refused to stop the federal government from transferring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a>, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever (Watch the short video linked below to learn more). </p><p>"The emergency appeal comes after the government announced last week it will forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSupremeCourt</span></a>."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/apaches-ask-lower-court-to-stop.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04</span><span class="invisible">/apaches-ask-lower-court-to-stop.html</span></a></p><p>Video link:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh68xOn0B_8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Zh68xOn0B_</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApache</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Breaking News! (via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span> ) </p><p>Feds Charge Ahead with Plan to Destroy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> poised to consider <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a>’s appeal </p><p>By Becket Law, Censored News, April 17, 2025</p><p>WASHINGTON – "The U.S. government today announced that it is forging ahead with plans to transfer a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> to a multinational mining giant in as few as 60 days, despite a<br>federal lawsuit challenging the action as illegal.</p><p>"In Apache Stronghold v. United States, Apache Stronghold—a coalition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apaches</span></a>, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies—sued to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to<br>Resolution Copper, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. </p><p>"The government has announced it will now forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><p>"Since time immemorial, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApaches</span></a> and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperiorAZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuperiorAZ</span></a>, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces</span></a> and has been protected from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> and other harmful practices for decades.<br>These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was slipped into a must-pass defense bill [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA</span></a>] authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> now plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater.</p><p>"The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelters at one of Australia’s most significant cultural sites.</p><p>" 'The feds are barreling ahead to give Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, even as the Supreme Court considers whether to hear the case,' said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. 'This makes the stakes crystal clear: if the Court doesn’t act now, Oak Flat could be transferred and destroyed before justice can be served.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04</span><span class="invisible">/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a>: U.S. Give-Away would Destroy Spiritual Home of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a><br> <br>By Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold, March 13, 2025, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a></p><p>"In the heart of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> lies a place that my people, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApache</span></a>, still hold above all others. This place is Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat. To us, it is more than a stretch of land; it is sacred and holy. It is where our ancestors walked, where we gather to pray, to carry out ceremonies passed down through generations, and to speak to our Creator. </p><p>"This land is part of who we are as a people, and its spirit is bound to our own.<br>Now, the federal government plans to give our sacred Oak Flat to a multinational <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> owned by the Chinese Communist Party. This will not just scar the land; it will destroy it, poisoning the environment and trampling on our tribal rights. But the deepest wound will be the loss of our spiritual home, a place our people cannot exist without. We are fighting this in the courts, all the way to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSupremeCourt</span></a>. But this is about more than law and policy—this is about survival of our way of life and the spirit of this sacred land.</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/apache-stronghold-us-give-away-would.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03</span><span class="invisible">/apache-stronghold-us-give-away-would.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a></p>

#FirstVoicesRadio Host #TiokasinGhosthorse, Cheyenne River #Lakota, Welcomes #LeonaMorgan, #Diné, '#HaulNo!'

By First Voices Radio, March 9, 2025

Kingston, NY: "This week’s program was inspired by 'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', an article by our friend #BrendaNorrell in #CensoredNews on February 10, 2025. Returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an #Indigenous organizer who has been fighting #NuclearColonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a #UraniumMine near the #GrandCanyon and transport thru #NavajoNation. Recently, Leona helped to halt #Holtec in #NewMexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03

'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', February 10, 2025: bit.ly/3F8Tzb5.

For more information, visit these websites: haulno.com/, genderandradiation.org/
and radioactivewastecoalition.org
#HaulNo #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #FourCornersToFukushima #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWaste #FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #AtomkraftNeinDanke #PinyonPlain #WhiteMesaMill #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ShutDownPinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#ReaderSupportedNews #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture
#UteNation

#Havasupai Elder #DiannaUqualla: #UraniumMining #Contamination is Here, Hold on to Your Ancestral Ways

"Stay strong, no matter what the world throws at us, we survive."

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 24, 2025

TUBA CITY, #NavajoNation -- "Havasupai Dianna Uqualla said that she brought sad news, that the contamination from the #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine is already here, and has contaminated the air and the soil. Uqualla asked for the people to rely on their prayers and ancestral ways to guide them.

"Uqualla, traditional practitioner who served as the council's vice chairwoman, spoke at the #AwarenessWalk here on Saturday, as Native people from the region gathered to shut down Pinyon Plain uranium mine, and stop the #radioactive haul trucks from the #GrandCanyon to the #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte community in #Utah.

"Uqualla said Havasupai tested the soil and air and found contamination. 'There are people that hunt, people that gather medicine, they told us we can't go there anymore, until we stop them, but they are still contaminating.'

"Havasupai never said 'Yes' to this #UraniumMining.

"The tarps are not sufficient that are covering the trucks and there are no warnings to the people."

Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
#HaulNo #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #WhiteMesaMill #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #ShutDownPinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#ReaderSupportedNews #TubaCityArizona #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture
#Dine #UteNation

bsnorrell.blogspot.comHavasupai Elder: Uranium Mining Contamination is Here, Hold on to Ancestral WaysCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
Continued thread

Bill to increase #LithiumMining regulations killed in [#SouthDakota] state House

By Amelia Schafer Feb 14, 2025

"A new bill to increase regulations on lithium mining in South Dakota failed to make it out of the state House on Thursday.

"House Bill 1258, proposed by Rep. Nichole Uhre-Balk, D-Rapid City, would have placed lithium mining under the same regulations as gold and silver rather than its current sand and gravel standards.

"Hard rock mining (gold and silver) is subject to stricter #WaterPollution control regulations than sand and gravel mining.

"Organizations like #MidwestLithium are currently exploring mining operations in the hills. Most lithium in the hills is found around the #HarneyPeak Granite formation, according to the organization's webpage.

"The South Dakota lithium project is comprised of roughly 23,500 acres of both #federal and private Land.
The House Agriculture and Natural Resources committee first split 6-6 on a do-pass motion Thursday before voting 8-4 to send the bill to the 41st day, killing it.

"''I think the general consensus is that the issue needs to be addressed, and so we'll continue to look harder at that, make sure we get all of our any concerns addressed and try to bring that bill back next year,' Uhre-Balk told the crowd at Saturday's crackerbarrel event hosted by Elevate Rapid City.

"Organizations like the local Indigenous led nonprofit #NDNCollective and the #BlackHillsCleanWaterAssociation spoke out in support of the bill Wednesday, stating that increased lithium mining threatens clean water for Black Hills residents especially since its treated like sand or gravel mining.

"Critics of the bill, such as Mike Lees, program administrator for the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Minerals Mining Program, said current regulations are sufficient. At the crackerbarrel, Rep. Tim Goodwin, R-Rapid City, said the bill, 'was going to choke off mining. It was bureaucratic.'

"Uhre-Balk said the bill wouldn't stop mining.

"House Agriculture committee members cited a need to better understand the issue when voting to send it to the 41st day.

"The #SouthDakotaMineralIndustriesOrganization was not immediately available for comment."

Original article:
rapidcityjournal.com/news/stat

Archived version:
archive.ph/Gqvb8
#ProtectTheBlackHills #ProtectTheSacred #DefendTheSacred #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #DrillBabyDrill #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoLithiumMining #DefendMotherEarth

Rapid City JournalBill to increase lithium mining regulations killed in state HouseHouse Bill 1258, proposed by Rep. Nichole Uhre-Balk of Rapid City, would have placed lithium mining under the same regulations as gold and silver rather than its current sand and

[Thread] Unfortunately, South Dakota #HB1258 was defeated [which would have put more restrictions on #LithiumMining]... And I knew Burgum would betray #NativeAmericans (even though he promised not to).

‘Unleashing American Energy’: Mining and Drilling Accelerated Under Trump Administration

By Angelica (Angie) Solloa • February 12, 2025

"You may have heard that #DebHaaland (Laguna Pueblo) transitioned out of her role as the US Secretary of the Department of Interior and announced her candidacy for Governor New Mexico. Her successor, former North Dakota Governor #DougBurgum, is steadfast in carrying out Trump’s Executive Order 14154 '#UnleashingAmericanEnergy' which aims to accelerate #mining and drilling on federal and #TribalLands.

"On February 3rd, Doug Burgum released this document which outlines all the revoked projects and programs intended to protect land and the people; giving a pathway for #MiningCompanies to hit the ground running across Turtle Island.

"In the #BlackHills, the #SacredLands of the #Lakota Peoples’, mining and drilling companies aren’t hesitating to cash out. Currently, South Dakota House Bill 1258 is under consideration by the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, where it will come to a vote this Thursday, February 13th. Community members and citizens of the area were given just six days’ notice.

WHAT IS HB 1258?

"The passage of South Dakota House Bill 1258 would hold lithium mining to the same standards and laws as silver and gold. Under the current law, lithium mining is treated like mining for sand and gravel, and there are not enough protections for human #health, #food systems, #water, #wildlife, and the #land.

"HB 1258 would offer more accountability and appropriate processes for mining companies that would better protect the land, the people, and the economy of the #Ȟesápa. #NDNCollective, alongside partner the #BlackHillsCleanWaterAlliance, collaborated to spread the word as fast as possible, calling on relatives to swiftly take action ahead of Thursday, February 13th."

Read more:
ndncollective.org/unleashing-a
#ProtectTheBlackHills #ProtectTheSacred #DefendTheSacred #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #DrillBabyDrill #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoLithiumMining #DefendMotherEarth

NDN COLLECTIVE · ‘Unleashing American Energy’: Mining and Drilling Accelerated Under Trump Administration - NDN COLLECTIVEYou may have heard that Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) transitioned out of her role as the US Secretary of the...

I haven't seen a website for this event yet, but it's been an annual event for years!

#4DirectionsMarch
February 27, 2025
Wounded Knee, South Dakota

AIM Liberation of Wounded Knee 1973

North Direction: 9am Porcupine Post Office
East Direction: 9am 2 miles back on Mouse Creek
South Direction: 9am 18 Junction & Big Foot Trail
West Direction: 9am Manderson Post Office

AIM Liberation Celebration and Honorings 2pm
Wounded Knee District School, Manderson, South Dakota

#LeonardPeltier #WarriorWomen
#WoundedKnee #NDNCollective #IndigenousProtectorMovement #WaterProtectors #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred

#Havasupai Tribe Deeply Disappointed in #NavajoNation for Failing to Consult Havasupai on #Radioactive Hauling

"Shame on Energy Fuels Resources and those who were not brave enough to do what is right and necessary." -- Havasupai Tribe.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 14, 2025

"The Havasupai Tribe said the Navajo Nation has disregarded the aboriginal people who live on the land, and failed to consult them before entering into a dangerous agreement for #radioactive #uranium hauling. There are two trucks now each weekday, traveling at high rates of speed, each carrying 24 tons of radioactive matter that is only covered with tie-down tarps from the Grand Canyon to the #UraniumMill in Utah.

"Havsuw' Baaja, Havasupai, are Guardians of the #GrandCanyon and have opposed #UraniumMining since time immemorial to protect their land and water for future generations, the Havasupai Tribe said today.

"We are deeply disappointed in #EnergyFuels Resources, Inc., and the Navajo Nation for not including us in their discussions that ultimately led to the dangerous decision to allow hauling of radioactive material across our aboriginal lands," the Havasupai Tribe said.

"The Navajo Tribe is not the only tribe or community affected by this activity."
"Our culture and traditions originate here and are knit together with who we are as individual tribal members and as a tribe."

Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
#HavsuwBaaja #ReaderSupportedNews #WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #PinyonPlain #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

bsnorrell.blogspot.comHavasupai Tribe Deeply Disappointed in Navajo Nation for Failing to Consult Havasupai on Radioactive HaulingCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

#Navajo Nation - Naabik'íyáti’ Committee Regular Meeting, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025

via #CensoredNews

"Who negotiated these terms?"

"Who came up with the amount of $1.2 million."

"We are still fighting the U.S. government for what happened to our people." The response from the federal government is, 'Well that happened a long time ago, that happened during World War II.'

"If we already know the effects of uranium, why are we allowing this?"

Navajo Council delegates are questioning Navajo Department of Justice, questioning the agreement by Navajo President Buu Nygren with Energy Fuels, without the Navajo Nation Council's approval.

Source:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02

Watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=Jd73YnP9xB
#Naabikíyáti #Dine #TubaCity #NavajoNationCouncil #ReaderSupportedNews #WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #PinyonPlain #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

bsnorrell.blogspot.comLive: Navajo Council Committee Questions Uranium Transport Agreement Signed by Navajo PresidentCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

#HaulNo! and #Dine activists deserve #BadassActivist awards! They faced possible #ICE harassment and #Uranium exposure today while protesting uranium transportation!!!

CALL TO ACTION:

"We want to encourage VISIBILITY!
This can be done through autonomous actions:
• Posting signs up
• Putting up banners (along side the haul route)
• Voicing your concerns with your council delegates & chapters

Please stay safe and practice safety measures to protect yourself.

SAFETY:

"We do not encourage standing along the haul route due to safety risks such as possible exposure to radiation and high traffic activity.

"We encourage wearing masks (such as KN95s, N95s) in all areas contaminated by uranium and places of possible exposure.

"For folks protesting, we encourage everyone to know your rights and read available 'Know Your Rights' information, such as by ACLU and other legal resources."

Source:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #PinyonPlain #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

🚨 Alert: #RadioactiveUranium Trucks on the #NavajoNation Today (2/12)

"A banner on the deadly haul route today, Wednesday, as two radioactive uranium transport trucks pass by Dine' homes in #TubaCity on the Navajo Nation. #Dine' families said they had no warning and the #NavajoGovernment sold them out."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 12, 2025
Live and Updating

TUBA CITY, Navajo Nation -- "#EnergyFuels #radioactive #UraniumWaste trucks passed through the Navajo Nation today, following a secretive agreement between the Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels.

"Two radioactive uranium waste trucks passed through #TubaCity headed to the uranium mill in the #WhiteMesaUte community, between 11 a.m. and noon today.

"In a region still strewn with #RadioactiveWaste from the #ColdWar, and gas and oil wells choking the people -- now uranium waste being transported by Dine' homes with only a tarp [!!!] covering tons of radioactive waste. The trucks are dumping their loads in the White Mesa #Ute community at the mill in southeastern #Utah.

"The secretive agreement between Energy Fuels and the Navajo Nation government, says there will be two to twelve trucks a day with radioactive waste from Energy Fuels #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, for the next three to four years.

"Navajo Utah Commission members voiced their opposition to the uranium transport during a meeting with Navajo Nation EPA Executive Director #StephenEtsitty in #WindowRock on Tuesday. This comes after Energy Fuels made a public announcement of the agreement with the tribe.

"The Navajo Utah Commission meeting revealed that Energy Fuels agreed to pay the Navajo Nation government $1.2 million during the negotiations. Dine' in Western Navajo said that Navajo President #BuuNygren showed them how much money their lives are worth: $1.2 million."

Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

bsnorrell.blogspot.comAlert: Radioactive Uranium Trucks on the Navajo Nation TodayCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

#NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025

"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.

"The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.

"Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.

"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,

"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

"Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"

Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

bsnorrell.blogspot.comNavajo Nation Dishonors Legacy of Klee Benally: Agrees to Uranium Transport Through Navajo NationCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.