Occupy Wall Street organizes 'Op Book Bomb Tucson'

Peoples Library Occupy Wall Street
photo by David Shankbone 2011

OccupyEducated.org was created as a response to the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library in Zuccotti Park (see below video). We knew other governments would collapse their libraries — for purposes of both repression of ideas or simply the results of hard decisions required with restricted budgets.

http://youtu.be/O6viSEztPc0
Looks like Arizona (surprise, surprise) is vying to be a leader in this sort repression as well; apparently legalizing racism wasn’t a badge of honor shiny enough. The powers that be have no interest in letting children know where they come from. Perhaps it’s because those kids may not like those powers so much, once educated.

Below is a plea from amazing The People’s Library. Step up; this one will be fun!

REQUEST:
In response to the disgraceful decision of the Tucson Unified School District to end the Mexican-American Studies program and to ban books from the school curriculum The People’s Library is holding a series of book drives (Operation Book Bomb Tucson) to support the students and teachers of Tucson.
■The first book donation event will be held at the next Occupy Town Square on Sunday, February 26 in Tompkins Square Park from 11AM to 5PM.
■The second book donation event will be held at Word Up Community Bookshop 4157 Broadway at 176th St in Washington Heights on Thursday, March 1 from 7PM to 9PM http://wordupbooks.wordpress.com
■The third book donation event is TBA but will be held in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in conjunction with the Sunset Park General Assembly (Sunset GA contact me at franceslikespeace@gmail.com)
For these events we are asking people to bring any Spanish language books, books on Mexican history, or books on Latino culture to donate to Tucson. In addition to this we would like to have teach-ins and readings on topics such as educational oppression, immigrant rights, and Mexican-American history. We are reaching out to you our friends and allies to support us in the following areas. Here is some of what we need:
■Speakers/Teachers willing to share their time on Sunday, February 26 in Tompkins Sq and or on Thursday, March 1 in Washington Heights. Chris Hedges is already scheduled to speak on March 1, but we are looking for additional people to help educate us and the visiting public on issues regarding Immigrant rights and education in our society. If you are knowledgeable or know someone who is knowledgeable on these issues, and would be willing to hold a teach-in please contact us ASAP at owspeopleslibrary@gmail.com
■Outreach and Press We want to spread the word to the Latino community throughout New York City. I have written to Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez regarding this event but I have not yet heard back from his office. If anyone has a contact within his office please let us know. Additionally we would like to have announcements made on WBAI 99.5FM as well as the Spanish language radio station MEGA 97.9FM. If anyone has contacts for these stations please pass them onto us. Also we would like to let our friends at Democracy Now know about this campaign. Please let us know if you are willing to contact your colleagues there on our behalf. If you are in the press or on the media team and would like to highlight our campaign please do so!
■Transportation & Storage We could really use a friend with a van. We need to transport our donated books from Tompkins Sq Park on Sunday, Feb 26 and from Washington Heights on Thursday, March 1 and get them into storage. Anyone who wants to volunteer to help us with that wins huge hugs from very grateful librarians!
■Translation Since our goal here is to outreach with the Spanish speaking community we need translation. We would like our flyers to be printed in English and Spanish and we would like to have our teach-ins conducted in both languages as well. If you are willing to translate copy for our flyers, or to translate on site on either Feb 26, or March 1, or both please let us know.
■Design We need flyers printed up for the March 1 event in Washington Heights. We would like to get them to Word Up Bookshop ASAP so that they can begin letting people in the neighborhood know about the event. Again we want them to be in English on one side and Spanish on the other. If anyone from our design and printing teams wants to get on that we would be very appreciative.
We have already received donations of books from:
■Richard Delgado the author of the book Critical Race Theory
■The SouthWest Organizing Project which publishes 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures by Elizabeth Martinez
■And Arte Publico Press which sent us Zoot Suit: A Bilingual Edition by Luis Valdez, Y no se lo tragó la tierra… / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him by Tomás Rivera, Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz by Mona Ruiz and Geoff Boucher, Message to Aztlán by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, and Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement by F. Arturo Rosales. Additionally Arte Publico is offering us a 50% discount on any books that we order from their catalog for the campaign.
We are very excited about this action and we are thrilled to be able to help the students and teachers of Tucson and to defend the Mexican-American community from this continued injustice. We hope that you will join us in our fight. Please contact us to help with any of these areas at owspeopleslibrary@gmail.com and thank you so much for your continued support.
Warmest Regards,
Frances Mercanti-Anthony
The People’s Library
photo credit: Glenn Beck’s propaganda hit piece “The Blaze”

Roberto Rodriguez 'Crouching while Mexican: TUSD escalates militarization of its meetings'

CROUCHING WHILE MEXICAN
TUSD escalates militarization of its meetings

By Roberto Rodriguez
Censored News

TUCSON -- A high school student who addressed the school board this Tuesday about the Tucson Unified School District-Mexican American Studies, TUSD-MAS, controversy was reportedly pulled out of his classroom yesterday by security personnel. There is more to the story (and this will be updated soon), but to be sure, him being pulled out of his classroom was a direct result of his participation at the school board meeting.
At the same meeting, the issue of armed guards at TUSD school board meeting was brought up. School board member Adelita Grijalva requested an inquiry into how many armed guards are being deployed at each meeting , at what cost, and how long this will last? There may have been 30 audience members at the meeting Tuesday, along with perhaps 20 TUSD officials, employees and school board members. On Tuesday, 9 armed security personnel were visibly present at the meeting. At the recent White House Summit in Tucson, (which was at least 10 times bigger) with many White House administration officials present, there may have been 6 visible officers present.
However, the real travesty has to do with security coming into a classroom for the student during class time.
UPDATE TO STORY
Board member Adelita Grijalva has confirmed that 2 TUSD security officers went into the student's classroom at Tucson High School as a direct result of the "crouching incident" at Tuesday's board meeting.
Initially, the student gave a firm critique of the TUSD Governing Board board and the superintendent for dismantling the district's Mexican American Studies Department. One by one, he criticized their conduct, including, not paying attention to speakers during call to the audience.
After the critique, he went back to his aisle chair.At a certain point he decided not to sit, but instead chose to crouch in the aisle next to his chair. For this the security in the board room took an alert position, and approached. He told the student to sit. The student asked why at which point the officer said it was against district policy for anyone to crouch in the aisle. The student asked to see the regulation.
On Thursday, that same TUSD officer, along with another TUSD security officer, went into the student's classroom and removed him from class. Apparently, the administration complied and directed the officers to his classroom.
Grijalva said it was mind-boggling that the Tucson High administration complied, but even more so for the officers to have been there in the first place. The officers purportedly went to show the regulation to the student during class time.
The unresolved question is who authorized and directed these two officers to go into Tucson High and pull the student out of class.
THE STUDENT IS BEING REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY.
MORE UPDATES AS IS KNOWN.
They first came after the department, the discipline, then the books... and now the students? Amazing the lack of outrage. Perhaps what's needed is a few thousand petitions to explain to this district that it is not acceptable to ban departments, thrash disciplines, ban books and now go into classrooms to yank out students... for the SERIOUS FELONY OF CROUCHING WHILE MEXICAN...

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Laguna Pueblo Film Festival: The real stories of uranium mining in Indian country Feb 2012

Navajos appeal Peabody's Kayenta Coal permit

Navajos protest Peabody to protect homelands
in Navajo capitol of Window Rock, Ariz.
Photo Sierra Club.

Navajo and Environmental Organizations Partner to Appeal Peabody’s Kayenta Coal Permit

Appeal aims to protect critical drinking water below Black Mesa

Censored News
Feb. 17, 2012
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NIZHONI VALLEY, Ariz. -- A group of five organizations, To Nizhoni Ani, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Dine C.A.R.E, Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity filed an appeal yesterday that challenges the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSM) decision to renew a permit for Peabody Coal Company's dirty Kayenta mine. The appeal charges that OSM revised a permit without considering data and analysis demonstrating how Peabody's pumping of the Navajo Aquifer for coal mining operations is linked to declining water levels, springs and groundwater quality in Navajo communities. The appeal also charges that OSM ignored these signs of material damage and changed the criteria that the agency has used for evaluating the mine’s impact on Black Mesa’s Navajo Aquifer since 1989.

Photo Mano Cockrum
Denver protest of Peabody coal

“With this appeal we are ensuring that Peabody is held accountable to the federal laws that protect our communities, environment, water, sacred places and cultural resources,” states Jihan Gearon of Black Mesa Water Coalition. “It's time for OSM to stop facilitating the destruction of our lands and instead support us in holding the corporations who operate on our lands accountable."

The Navajo Aquifer is the primary source of drinking water to thousands of Navajo and Hopi residents and has a central role in each tribe's cultural practices. For nearly 40 years Peabody has mined the Kayenta Mine, which has supplied approximately 8.5 million tons of coal annually to the Navajo Generating Station in northeastern Arizona. Both the Kayenta

Mine and the coal plant operations have significantly impacted several indigenous communities, particularly in the Black Mesa region, by damaging community health and polluting water resources.

“Drinking water wells in our community have declined over a hundred feet. Sinkholes and cracks near Forest Lakes have occurred where the surface is subsiding. Water quality has deteriorated and our sacred springs are disappearing. For OSM to just ignore this and say there are no significant impacts is a violation of their trust responsibility to our people,” states Marshall Johnson of To Nizhoni Ani.

Between 1969 and 2005 alone, Peabody pumped over 4,000 acre-feet of water annually from the Navajo Aquifer and continues to pump approximately 1,200 acre-feet for use at its mine operations. Peabody has historically been the largest pumper of regional groundwater, which is also used by local indigenous communities as their primary source of drinking water. Moreover, OSM’s permit allows Peabody to expand their operations into new areas that will force Navajo families to relocate, losing their ancestral homes for more coal development. “Four families will be relocated to make way for the mine expansion,” states Anna Frazier of Dine CARE. “How many more communities must be uprooted before OSM believes the impacts of this mine operation are significant?”

The appeal also argues that OSM failed to comply with several environmental laws and has not kept Peabody from posting adequate bonds to help pay for reclamation of the mine areas. "Peabody has gotten another rubber stamp from OSM and local residents' health and homes have been sacrificed in the name of cheap coal. OSM must do better a better job to protect the communities of Black Mesa,” states Andy Bessler of the Sierra Club.

The organizations are represented on appeal by attorney Brad Bartlett of the Western Energy Justice Project and Margot Pollans of the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University.

Contact:
Marshall Johnson, To Nizhoni Ani

(928) 675-1852

Jihan Gearon, Black Mesa Water Coalition

(928) 380-6684

Anna Frazier, Dine C.A.R.E.

(928) 401-0382

Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity

(928) 310-6713

Andy Bessler, Sierra Club

(928) 380-7808

Dine' CARE opposes Kyl, McCain, legislation on water claims

Diné CARE Opposes Kyl, McCain legislation settling water claims with Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe

By Dine' CARE

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Dilkon, Arizona (Navajo Nation) -- Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, a Navajo organization, strongly condemns the Big Business Salt River Project (SRP), Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and Central Arizona Project (CAP) bill portrayed as providing water to the Navajo Nation and Hopi to make life better.

In reality this is a death sentence where the Indigenous Peoples will be forever giving up their water rights to Lower Colorado River.

The bill will “occur if and when the tribes agree to extend the leases and other agreements associated with the Navajo Generating Station.” “It brings us one step closer to addressing the significant water needs of impoverished areas on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, while also providing certainty for non-Indian communities trying to plan for their water future.” Stated Sen. Jon Kyl, R-AZ, when he introduced the settlement Tuesday from the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Dine' CARE gathering

Translation:  "The 1970s Salt River Project lawyer, Senator Jon Kyl, is still carrying out SRP and CAP’s priorities to take the water rights from aboriginal water owners in northern AZ.  To add insult to injury, not only has the Navajo Tribe suffered from receiving discounted value for water but suffer from consequences of pollution from Navajo Generating Station, who provides power for SRP and ensuring that Navajo Nation provide cheap electricity. A fair value is needed in this deal to not steal Navajo water and condemn the people to poor health from NGS pollution.

The Navajo Nation is already an energy and water colony for Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, and southern California. If passed, signed, and enacted, Kyl bill would guarantee 34,000 plus acre-feet a year to NGS for the proposed extended life of the power plant. It also favors Peabody Coal Company since its Kayenta Mine fuels NGS.

And of course, the Winter's Doctrine water rights of the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe would be extinguished.

Diné CARE opposed the Kyle and McCain’s legislation because it has no mercy for the Dine and Hopi people. Instead, it will continue the “improvised state” created by Kyl and his corporate partners on the Navajo people.

“It is important for native communities to unite and oppose this legislation”, said Dine’ CARE president Adella Begaye. “We cannot afford to be idle as our future generations are robbed of their heritage and lifeline.”

In sum, the KYL bill must be KILLED before it KILLS us.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Contacts: Anna M. Frazier (928) 401-0382 E-mail: frazierannm@gmail.com

Lori Goodman (970) 759-1908 E-mail: kiyaani@frontier.net

Oxymoron: Homeland Security seeking intelligence on Facebook

The Oxymoron: Homeland Security seeking intelligence on Facebook
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Feb. 16, 2012

What could be more fun today than following the hearing on Homeland Security spying on Facebook and Twitter?
It is a sad state of affairs that Homeland Security admits that it seeks intelligence on Facebook.
Further, it spies on news reporters on Facebook and Twitter, according to its written testimony. It also admits that its operatives use fake identities on Facebook and Twitter.
Homeland Security, however, stops short of being totally honest. The ACLU makes it clear that Homeland Security is also spying on peace activists and veterans on Facebook and Twitter.
Who is spying on you on Facebook and Twitter? General Dynamics won the contract.
Hearing testimony:
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-dhs-monitoring-social-networking-and-media-enhancing-intelligence
ACLU: Facebook, Twitter and DHS, which one of these things is not like the others: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/facebook-twitter-and-dhs-which-one-these-things-not-others
Hearing: Ooops! Ms. Mary Ellen Callahan, Homeland Security's chief privacy officer, make a slip during the testimony: "We don't care about First Amendment speech ..."
Watch today's hearing on YouTube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVcv-u9TNug&feature=player_embedded

Mohawk Nation News 'Helter Skelter'

HELTER SKELTER

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MNN.  FEB. 14, 2012.  This is the culture of the invaders to Great Turtle Island.  Gold has an objective value.  Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at us resource owners and the workers.  Checks are made by the looters, soon to bounce.  They run the artificial world corporatocracy.  

The upper crust is bankers, bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, empty-headed media blabber mouths, psychiatrists, sociologist nut jobs, some teachers, mainstream journalists and professional politicians.

Abusive power, wealth and property is in the hands of a few.  The middle class neutralizes the masses. The masses work, breed and die, in poverty, sedated by alcohol, porn and lotteries.

The looters fear a free society without whips in their hands.  They want jail without trial, slavery, public executions, torture, hostages and deportation. 

Their mandate is total surveillance, to crush the opposition, manufacture lies, create ignorance and complete obedience to the state. 

Like Indian tribal and band councils on reservations, the administrators tattle on their people and fill their pockets.   

Rulers perpetuate their in-bred blood line. The Catholic Church spreads 'virtue', reaps money and keeps their flock in line. 

Foreign enemies and internal traitors are vaporized.  

To keep the lie ahead of the truth, history is continually revised.  We Indigenous were declared as non-persons who were ‘disappeared’, with no record of our existence.  The biggest holocaust in all humanity was thrown down the memory hole, followed by 500 years of hatred of the survivors. 

Raping,looting, killing of children, enslaving populations and abusing prisoners, happened to us and now to others. We still hear the screams and cries of our ancestors.   

War is controlled insanity, created contradictions, over produced goods without sharing.  Planned warfare is fighting,bargaining, treachery, bases around the world facing each another and secret friendship pacts.

War creates cheap labor and wealth for a few to wage more wars.  Products are wasted to keep the world hungry, poor, controlled and to protect the hierarchy.   

Perverted specialists dream up war scenarios, to kill billions in a second without warning, to produce artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by hitting the earth’s centre. Human life is extinguished by bombs, bigger explosives,impenetrable armor, deadlier gases. Animals and vegetation are destroyed and diseases are created without cures.  Cars are promised that go underground or overhead and the sun’s rays will be controlled.

Rulers are Intoxicated by power.  They foresee jack boots stamping on helpless human faces forever.

War is everlasting without victory. War is peace.  Peace is war. 

The land is still here.  We are part of it.  We’ve never done harm to creation.  We never fell for the fiction that was created by the invaders.

George Orwell’s ‘1984’, written between 1944 and 1948, describes such a scenario.

This destruction will stop.  Those responsible will be brought to justice. All our stolen and desecrated possessions will be returned to us until we feel the debt is paid plus interest.

Bob Dylan said:  “Let me ask you one question.  Is your money that good?  Could it buy you forgiveness?  Do you think that it could?  I think you will find, when your death takes its toll, all the money you made will never buy back your soul.”

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Media conned by Sen. Kyl's scam to steal Indian water rights

Little Colorado River

Media falls for Sen. Kyl's Indian water theft scheme, as Navajo president sells out the people

By Brenda Norrell
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http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

The media fell for a scam today, a ploy by Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl to steal Navajo water rights to the Little Colorado River. The paternalistic Sen. Kyl offered Navajos on Black Mesa a trickle of water to give up their water rights to the Little Colorado.

Navajo President Ben Shelly has been on a roll, wanting to give away Navajo water rights to non-Indians, pressing to halt clean air standards to benefit corporate coal fired power plants, line item vetoing Navajo green jobs, and signing a deal with the war machine in search of uranium.

The Navajo Nation signed a three agreement with the war machines Lawrence Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos labs. Although the Navajo Nation prohibits uranium mining, Navajo President Shelly told Scientific American that "the tribe would monitor technology and techniques to extract the ore, as well as market conditions, to determine whether it might be viable in the future."

The media played its role in the ongoing abuse of Native Americans, cheerleading for the theft of Indian water rights and the promotion of coal fired power plants.

With the collapse of the media, the easily conned media today again regurgitated press releases. The armchair journalists spun their stories from the comfort of their easy chairs, and never went out to Black Mesa to ask Navajos for the facts.

It was the worst case scenario: The media depended on press releases and phone calls to lying politicians.

It was a dark day for journalism, and a death roll for the air, land and water.

Countering these attacks by elected Navajo leaders, on Native America Calling today, Louise Benally, Dine' of Big Mountain resisting relocation on Black Mesa, said greed is the reason that elected Navajo leaders are pushing for coal mining and power plants that are poisoning the environment and making the people sick.

Benally said the term "clean coal" is a dirty lie.

"They are killing the earth. There is no respect for the earth, they are killing the earth in the name of greed."

Sen. Kyl's water theft agreement with assistance from the Navajos' non-Indian attorney:
http://ktar.com/6/1501598/AP-Exclusive-Kyl-to-introduce-tribal-water-deal

More media promotion of the paternalistic theft of water rights by Sen. Kyl:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-news/2012/02/14/deal-could-bring-running-water-to-navajo-hopi-homes/

Selling out to the war machine: Navajo teams up with lab on tribal energy policy
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57370417/navajo-teams-up-with-lab-on-tribal-energy-policy/

Native America Calling: Coal fired power plants poisoning Native Americans

Navajo Generating Station on the Navajo Nation
near Page, Ariz.

Native America Calling: Coal fired power plants poisoning Native Americans

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

On Native America Calling today, Louise Benally, Dine' of Big Mountain and Moapa Pauite Chairman William Anderson said coal fired power plants are poisoning Navajos, Paiutes and the people of the Southwest. Callers to the national live radio show from across the west agreed and said it is time for the toxic legacy of dirty fuel to end.

Program host Harlan McKosato of the Sac and Fox Nation, asked Benally about the term "clean coal."

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“It is a dirty lie. Nothing is clean about coal or extraction," Benally said. "There is no such thing as clean coal. Clean coal is not a reality.”

Benally described Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl's current attempts to steal Navajo water rights to the Colorado River and Little Colorado River. She also described the devastation from the Navajo Generating Station at Page, Ariz., fired by coal from Black Mesa, on Navajoland.

"They are killing the earth. There is no respect for the earth, they are killing the earth in the name of greed," said Benally, among those who have resisted relocation for decades on Black Mesa, where Peabody Coal continues to mine coal and poison the air, water and land.

Moapa Paiute Chairman William Anderson said there are widespread health problems, including respiratory problems and thyroid problems, because of the Reid Gardner coal fired power plant in Nevada.

Chairman Anderson said the brown cloud over the power plant "is what we breathe everyday." He described how the dirty industries try to buy off the people with the promises of money, roads and more, while ignoring the longterm and devastating health results of coal fired power plants.

"This is one of the dirtiest power plants in the nation," Chairman Anderson said, adding that "fugitive dust" is what Paiutes breathe from the evaporation ponds.

McKosato said the devastation is described in the new film, "An Ill Wind Blows in Moapa," about the Reid Gardner coal fired power plant and what it is doing to the Moapa Paiutes. http://earthjustice.org/blog/2011-july/an-ill-wind-blows-in-moapa

Benally pointed out that Navajo President Ben Shelly sent Navajo Attorney General Harrison Tsosie to Washington in February to try and do away with US EPA clean air laws on the Navajo Nation.

Benally said jobs are not the reason for these coal fired power plants. "It is the need for greed," said Benally, referring to the leases signed by elected Navajo leaders. Benally said because of these power plants, Navajos on Black Mesa are now the victims, with respiratory diseases, diabetes, heart problems, cancer and birth defects.

"It is not regulated," Benally said. She said those jobs, resulting in poisoning Navajos, could be green jobs. "But the Navajo government opposes that openly." Recently, Navajo President Ben Shelly's line item veto of green jobs in the Navajo Nation budget.

Meanwhile, while elected Navajo leaders block the Dine' movement for green jobs, Benally said the medicine plants are being poisoned by the coal fired power plant emissions. The air in the region, once pristine, is now heavy with the dark haze.

"If you drive over the ridge to look over Navajo country, you see the brown cloud," she said. "It is toxifying the earth like we don't have a future. We want a future."

"We will continue to fight for what we believe, Mother Earth and Mother Nature."

One caller from Zuni Pueblo, N.M., said Zunis are being sickened and poisoned by the nearby Coronado Generating Station in St. Johns, Ariz., because they are in the wind's path from this power plant.

Another caller from Taos, N.M., pointed out that Peabody Coal is "the main culprit," poisoning people across America.

One Hopi caller described how the Mohave Generating Station depleted the Navajo aquifer, beneath the Hopi and Navajo lands, before it was shut down along with one of the two Peabody coal mines on Black Mesa. Pointing out the loss of pristine water and the diseases cause, he described how the Mohave power plant, which depleted the aquifer with a coal slurry to Nevada, was shut down in 2005.

Still, Peabody Coal's Kayenta mine remains open, and sends coal to Navajo Generating Station in nearby Page, Ariz., which poisons Navajoland and the Southwest. The Navajo Generating Station is operated by the Salt River Project in the Phoenix Valley, which was protested by Navajo and O'odham during the American Legislative Exchange Council gathering in November.

McKosato said neither the Navajo Nation nor the coal industry responded to requests to be on today's show.

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