Protect Ha'Kamwe' Stop Big Sandy Lithium Mine Phoenix Courthouse Sept. 17, 2024

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CALL TO ACTION TO PROTECT HA’KAMWE’
Tuesday, September 17, 9 am -- 4 pm
401 W Washington St. Phoenix, Arizona 85003

Ha’Kamwe’ is still being threatened by exploration drilling for the Big Sandy Lithium Project on behalf of Arizona Lithium Ltd. and Navajo Transitional Energy Co. The temporary restraining order that halted drilling expires on September 17 when the courts will rule if drilling will resume or not.

Gather outside the hearing at 9 am on September 17 to show solidarity with the Hualapai people. Join the call from land defenders to protect the people, the land, and Ha’kamwe’ on September 17!

Australians Rush to Mine Lithium in Hualapai's Sacred Place, and a Navajo Enterprise is Leading the Desecration

The Interior Department's BLM approved the Big Sandy lithium project in Hualapai's Ceremonial Place. The so-called 'Navajo Transitional Energy Company,' a Navajo Nation enterprise is carrying out the drilling operation for an Australian mining company. This is the latest attack on sacred places by Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's BLM. It is another fake green project destroying ceremonial places for lithium for batteries, under the name of green energy for profits for an Australian corporation.
BLM approves lithium mine on June 6, 2024 
https://www.blm.gov/announcement/blm-approves-lithium-exploration-project-arizona

 Ha’Kamwe’

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 11, 2024

Translated into French by Christine Prat

SYDNEY, Australia -- While sipping wine at the Sydney Opera House, investors hear how much money they can make mining lithium in Arizona. The enthusiastic project manager is excited to tell them that Arizona loves mining, as can be seen with all its copper mines.

"They are a mining friendly state," says Paul Lloyd, managing director at Arizona Lithium, owned by Hawkstone Energy, in Perth, Australia.

"They are very pro-lithium production."

On the other side of the world, Hualapai are offering prayers at their sacred spring, Ha’Kamwe’ their sacred place for healing and rites of passage, including childbirth and coming-of-age ceremonies for young women. It has been their ceremonial place since time immemorial.

Not far away, in Farmington, New Mexico -- a bordertown with a long history of crimes against Native Americans -- a new epicenter of fake green energy projects emerges.

The tribally-owned Navajo Transitional Energy Company is in charge of the drilling operations for the Australian company -- getting the drilling permits, developing the mine, and poisoning the water -- just a stone's throw from Hualapai's sacred hot spring.

Vern Lund, the CEO, of the so-called "transitional energy company" signed a formal agreement with Australia's Arizona Lithium in March, which includes joining its board. Lund is already on the board of another mining company in Texas.

Continue reading at Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/australians-rush-to-mine-lithium-in.html

Standing Rock Water Protector Shot in the Head by Israel in the West Bank

"I Stand with Standing Rock," Aysenur Eygi at Standing Rock in defense of the water from Dakota Access Pipeline at the age of 18. Aysenur was assassinated by an Israeli soldier after peace observers held a prayer gathering in the West Bank. As she fled from tear gas for safety, she was standing beneath an olive tree when she was executed.  Photo credit

"Happening Now: Hundreds of people are gathered along Alki Beach right now, calling for justice for Aysenur Eygi, the University of Washington alum killed in the West Bank last week by the Israel Defense Force. She was 26 and described as a lifelong activist." -- Ryan Simms, KOMO News reports on Wednesday evening at sunset.

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Seattle honors Standing Rock Water Protector shot in the head by Israel in the West Bank

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 11, 2024

SEATTLE -- Standing Rock Water Protector Aysenur Eygi was honored tonight on the banks of Alki Beach in Seattle. Aysenur, 26, was a life long activist, an American with dual citizenship in Turkey, and a recent graduate of the University of Washington.

Aysenur was among those who came to Standing Rock to defend the water from Dakota Access Pipeline. Aysenur was 18 years old when she came to Standing Rock.

"It was an intentional killing which can not be justified," said Jonathan Pollak, who tried to resuscitate Aysenur as she bled to death.

"It was quiet, there was nothing to justify the shot, the shot was taken to kill," Pollak said.

Aysenur was assassinated after dozens of Palestinians and international activists held a communal prayer on a hillside outside Beita overlooking an Israeli settlement.

The peace activists were scared and ran into the olive trees for protection after tear gas was fired at them, said one of the women with her.

"She must have put her head out to have a look to see what was happening. And then I heard a gunshot, and I looked and she just dropped." She called Aysenur's name, because she thought she had just dropped out of fear, but she turned her, and saw blood on her left temple, and blood from her nose. She knew she was gone, her eyes were glazed over.

"I just couldn't believe that anyone could actually hold up a rifle, look through the scope, look at her head, look at her beautiful face and shoot straight to her head."

"We had never heard shots before," the woman said. "Someone shouted 'live ammunition,'" she said. "We ran into the olive garden." Aysenu's fellow peace activist said she knows that no one will be held accountable.

Aysenur was there less than two hours before Israeli forces assassinated her.  

https://x.com/i/status/1832825403775549920

(Photo) Where Aysenur Eygi and the Israel soldier who killed her were located when she was shot, according to the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call.

AP reports, "Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli peace activist who participated in Friday’s protest with Eygi, said she posed no threat when Israeli forces shot her. He said the killing happened during a period of calm after clashes between soldiers and Palestinian protesters."

"Pollak said he saw two Israeli soldiers mount the roof of a nearby home, train a gun in the group’s direction and fire, with one of the bullets striking Eygi in the head."

Al Jazeera reports, "The activists were standing within the built-up area of Beita for about 30 minutes, during which time the soldiers took over the rooftop of a house at the top of the hill."

"That home belonged to the daughter of Munir Khudair, who was on the roof that Friday, he told Al Jazeera: “Of course, the army surrounds this house every Friday and climbs onto the roof to use it to shoot at demonstrators. The army came … and we went downstairs.”

"At the time when two shots sounded, Munir said, there were no confrontations or friction. 'I think it was a sniper who fired,' he said, adding: 'We heard shouting from the group, saying: ‘Injury! Injury!'”

Flags fly in support of Palestine over Navajo Nation Fair Parade. Raytheon Dine' Facility on the Navajo Nation continues to manufacture weapons for genocide.

Waving Palestinian flags above the Navajo Nation Fair Parade on Saturday --
Solidarity in a time of genocide.

Now! Apache Stronghold at U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Oak Flat

Now at U.S. Supreme Court. Photo courtesy Gary McKinney, Shoshone Paiute

Speaking now at the rally outside the Supreme Court, Gary McKinney, Shoshone Paiute, said, "Within your communities, activate your communities, your peers, your relatives, bring them to the circle, normalize this," McKinney said, urging action by local governments. "Put them to work, please."

"Take these necessary steps to ensure that our Seven Generations have a chance at clean air and clean water, and to learn our culture and traditions and to keep those alive and well." Standing with a banner of "Life Over Lithium," and standing with the struggle against the lithium mining now ongoing at the Paiute Massacre Site, Peehee Mu'huh, in northern Nevada, McKinney urged staying in prayer today and throughout our lives. "We are with you in solidarity, there are many more like us all around the world, no matter what religion, religious denomination, you belong to, this is our thought for Mother Earth, and those things that help us, those medicines, the sage, the cedar, the water, the land." -- Censored News

Apache Stronghold plans to file case to protect Oak Flat from a devastating copper mine, today, at the U.S. Supreme Court

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, Sept. 11, 2024

WASHINGTON -- The Apache Stronghold has arrived in Washington, DC after two months following in the footsteps of the Spirit from the West on this Journey of Prayer to deliver their appeal to the Supreme Court to protect their religion, their sacred land, but also to protect all of humanity’s spirituality and the earth that is Mother to us all whether we recognize it or not. Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr. once told me that to really know how to fight for justice you must go to the places that are suffering to listen and learn. Mother Earth is crying everywhere, not just at Oak Flat, if you have ears to listen and eyes to see. And these cries of Mother Earth are at the same connected to the cries of the oppressed.

Apache Stronghold Asks Supreme Court to Save Oak Flat

Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold, at Supreme Court.

Apache Stronghold Asks Supreme Court to Save Oak Flat

By Becket Law, Censored News, Sept. 11, 2024

WASHINGTON – A coalition of Western Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies asked the Supreme Court today to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat from destruction by a multinational mining giant. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever (Watch this short video to learn more). The Apaches and their allies hosted a day of prayer outside the Court as they asked the Justices to save the spiritual lifeblood of their people.

Seminole Evan Haney: Fighting the Right War, Bringing the Resistance Home

United Nations Delegation: Bill Wahpepah, Clyde Bellecourt, Russell Means, Greg Zephier, Joe Lafferty, Evan Haney, Juan Aguilar, in Geneva Switzerland, 1977. (Photo courtesy Evan Haney, shared with permission, Censored News.)

Seminole Evan Haney: Fighting the Right War and Bringing the Resistance Home

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 11, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- When Evan Haney, Seminole, was in the military in Vietnam, he suffered a trauma. He found a culture like his own, and found he was fighting the wrong war, Evan said during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering on Sunday.

Evan spent the rest of his life fighting the United States government.

"We're fighting the wrong war," he remembered saying to himself.