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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanCarlosApache</a> Tribe welcomes Federal Court ruling delaying trade of sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResolutionCopper</a> By San Carlos Apache Tribe, Censored News, June 9, 2025<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApacheNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanCarlosApacheNation</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> — "The San Carlos Apache Tribe welcomes Friday’s federal court ruling preventing the Trump Administration from trading sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed Resolution <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CopperMining</a> no sooner than 60 days after the government releases an environmental report expected to be published later this month."The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Administration had indicated that it intended to trade 2,422 acres of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TontoNationalForest</a> 70 miles east of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PhoenixAZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhoenixAZ</a> that includes Oak Flat to Resolution Copper immediately upon publication of the mine’s updated environmental report.U.S. District Court Judge Dominic W. Lanza’s order 'preclude(s) the United States Forest Service from proceeding with the challenged land exchange until 60 days after the issuance of the Final Environmental Impact Statement, which is anticipated to be issued on June 16.'" 'We are grateful that Judge Lanza has provided us an opportunity to be heard,' said San Carlos Apache Tribe Chairman Terry Rambler. 'The two-month window provides the Tribe an opportunity to file an amended lawsuit challenging the legality of the pending environmental report and request an injunction to stop the land exchange until the merits of our case are settled.'"The Oak Flat land transfer was mandated by a last-minute amendment to the FY2015 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct</a> that was added by the late Arizona Senator <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnMcCain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnMcCain</a> and former Arizona Senator <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeffFlake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeffFlake</a>. The land transfer provision, which failed to pass Congress in previous years, avoided the normal course of business and was not debated before it was added to the mustsign [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NDAA</a>] defense spending bill that was signed into law by President Barack <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Obama</a>." 'The bill that authorized the land exchange is not in the best interest of the American people, Arizona or the San Carlos Apache Tribe,' Chairman Rambler stated. 'We have filed this lawsuit because of our concerns of the mine’s massive use of groundwater, which will be devastating for both Arizona and eventually the Tribe. We are also deeply concerned about the environmental destruction and the obliteration of Oak Flat will have on Apache culture and religion.'"Resolution plans to collapse Oak Flat, known as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel in Apache, into a two-mile wide, 1,100-foot-deep crater. Chi’chil Biłdagoteel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Place."Resolution Copper is owned by Melbourne-based <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BHP</a> (45%) and London-based <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RioTinto</a> (55%), the two largest mining companies in the world. The Chinese state-owned Aluminum Corporation of China, which spearheads China’s acquisition of strategic minerals worldwide, is Rio Tinto’s single largest investor with a 14.6% stake. Both BHP and Rio Tinto rely on China for the majority of their revenue." 'We fully expect Resolution’s copper to be exported to China, which poses a national security threat,' Chairman Rambler said. “The United States already exports 30 percent of the copper produced by U.S. mines because of a lack of copper smelting capacity."'The Trump Administration’s Oak Flat appraisal concludes that Resolution’s copper will be exported to southeast Asia,' Chairman Rambler added. 'It’s clearly in the best interest of the United States to withhold publication of the Resolution environmental report at least until there is a change in the ownership of this project to companies that are not reliant on China for more than half their business.' "Source: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06/san-carlos-apache-tribe-federal-court.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06/san-carlos-apache-tribe-federal-court.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fight4OurExistence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fight4OurExistence</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtectOakFlat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LandBack</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacredland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sacredland</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OakFlat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveOakFlat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanCarlosApache</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apache</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReligiousLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReligiousLiberty</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CensoredNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReaderSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtectTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ApacheStronghold</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericanNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RioTinto</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CopperMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeaveItInTheGround</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBildagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChichilBildagoteel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WesternApaches</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BecketLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BecketLaw</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResolutionCopper</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MiningTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalForests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateLandGrabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateLandGrabs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CulturalGenocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McCainShame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#McCainShame</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈[Video] Former <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republican</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Senator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Senator</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JeffFlake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeffFlake</a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicansforHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepublicansforHarris</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/stump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stump</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scottsdale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottsdale</a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/event" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#event</a>, held in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scottsdale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottsdale</a> on Oct. 30, 2024, encouraged Arizonans to cast their <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vote</a> for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VicePresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VicePresident</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Governor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Governor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimWalz</a>. <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/videos/news/politics/elections/2024/10/30/republicans-for-harris-and-former-sen-jeff-flake-stump-in-scottsdale/75951363007/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.azcentral.com/videos/news/politics/elections/2024/10/30/republicans-for-harris-and-former-sen-jeff-flake-stump-in-scottsdale/75951363007/</a>

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> Sen. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffFlake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeffFlake</a> says he’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voting</a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harris2024</a> <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4944383-jeff-flake-kamala-harris/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4944383-jeff-flake-kamala-harris/</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republican</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JeffFlake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeffFlake</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/endorses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endorses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a>, says 'she's <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ready" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ready</a>' to be <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#President</a>. Flake said Harris will <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/unite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unite</a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#country</a> and "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#respect</a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/will" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#will</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voters</a>." <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-flake-endorses-kamala-harris-shes-ready-job/story?id=114319479" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-flake-endorses-kamala-harris-shes-ready-job/story?id=114319479</a>

DoomsdaysCWICYMI from 2023: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biden</a> Moves Forward With <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mining</a> Project That Will Obliterate a Sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apache</a> Religious SiteIn court, the feds said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OakFlat</a> would be in the hands of mining giants <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RioTinto</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BHP</a> by early summer. “This is a people matter. This is about the people and their freedom: freedom to be Apache, to be Indigenous, to be Americans.”by Ryan Devereaux March 22 2023"Biden administration attorneys were in court this week to defend a mining project that will obliterate one of the most sacred Apache religious sites in the American Southwest."In oral arguments Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service said it was nearing completion of an environmental impact study that will transfer land east of Phoenix to two of the world’s largest mining companies for the purpose of building one of the largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copper</a> mines on the planet. The massive project will hinge on the destruction of Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, a plateau otherwise known as Oak Flat, that is sacred to many Native American tribes, particularly the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanCarlosApache</a>, who consider the area among their most holy of sites."In a nearly two-hour hearing, an 11-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, peppered lawyers on both sides of the high-stakes legal fight with an array of complex case law questions raised by the project. Begun nearly two decades ago, the battle for Oak Flat sits at the intersection of Indigenous rights and dispossession, religious liberty, public lands and private sales, and a growing demand for so-called green energy solutions in an era of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateCatastrophe</a>."'As the court is aware, this case is not about an agency action. It’s about an act of Congress, in which Congress considered demands on a piece of property, balanced those interests, and made a decision,' said Joan Pepin, an attorney for the Forest Service, the agency that exchanged the land in a controversial deal nearly a decade ago. 'It decided that Oak Flat should be transferred to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResolutionCopper</a> so the third-largest copper ore deposit in the world can be mined.”"The legislation in question — the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act — was the product of a proposal then-Arizona Sens. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnMcCain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnMcCain</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeffFlake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeffFlake</a> added to a must-pass defense authorization bill late one night in 2014. The addendum, known as a rider, incurred no congressional debate. "Described by the San Carlos Apache as a 'midnight backroom deal,' the law transferred Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a British-Australian concern jointly owned by the extractive giants Rio Tinto and BHP, both of which had sought access to the wildly lucrative ore deposit for years."The project centers on a 2,200-acre area known as Oak Flat Campground, part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TontoNationalForest</a>, that has served as a centerpiece of Apache <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReligiousCeremony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReligiousCeremony</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cosmology</a> since before settler expansion into the West. To access the ore underneath, Resolution Copper will use a technique known as block cave mining, which over several years will turn the sacred mountain into a two-mile-wide crater deep enough to hide a skyscraper."Initiation of construction hinges on the publication of an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalImpact</a> study from the Forest Service, which, under the law passed in 2014, starts a 60-day countdown before the transfer of the land from the federal government to the mining company must happen."Luke Goodrich, the lead attorney for Apache Stronghold, an Arizona-based nonprofit that brought the lawsuit to stop the transfer, told the panel of judges that the destruction of Oak Flat was a direct and flagrant violation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReligiousFreedomRestoratioAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReligiousFreedomRestoratioAct</a>. Violation of the statute requires the imposition of a “substantial burden” on a person or group’s ability to practice their faith."'A fine is a substantial burden, but here the government is doing something far worse,' Goodrich said, 'not just threatening fines, but authorizing the complete physical destruction of Oak Flat, barring the Apaches from ever accessing it again and ending their core religious exercises forever.'"In January 2021, five days before leaving office, the administration of President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> released a study supporting the creation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlatMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OakFlatMine</a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ApacheStronghold</a> had filed a federal lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the project."Unsuccessful in the attempt, the group filed an emergency appeal to the 9th Circuit the following month. Six hours before its deadline to respond passed, the Forest Service — by then, in March 2021, under the leadership of President Joe Biden — announced that it was withdrawing the environmental impact study and postponing the land transfer."A three-judge panel of 9th Circuit dismissed Apache Stronghold’s case in October 2021 but agreed to hear the case again before a full panel last winter. The unusual decision set the stage for Tuesday’s hearing."While the postponement of the project had given opponents of the mine a moment of respite in the long-running battle, the government’s testimony this week confirmed that the Biden administration is moving forward with a new environmental impact study and stands behind the controversial land swap."Read more: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/22/oak-flat-mine-arizona-biden/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2023/03/22/oak-flat-mine-arizona-biden/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRightsViolations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CulturalGenocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CopperMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveOakFlat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericanNews</a>

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