Zapatistas Deny any Contact with Newly Elected Mexico President

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The Zapatista Army of National Liberation denies any contact with AMLO. Communiqué of the CCRI-CG of the EZLN, ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.

MEXICO.

TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO:

TO THE PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE
WORLD:

TO THE FREE, ALTERNATIVE, AUTONOMOUS OR
WHAT IS CALLED MEDIA:

TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SIXTH:

THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS AND
THE INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT:

TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS:


JULY 17, 2018
 SINCE THE DAY OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY, IN MEDIA THE VERSION RUNS, SUSTAINED IN STATEMENTS BY ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE (WHO IS PRESENTED AS PRESBYTER, PRIEST, CURE OR AS SAYS, CHRISTIAN, CATHOLIC, APOSTOLIC AND ROMANO), OF A CERTAIN APPROACH BETWEEN THE EZLN AND MR. ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR AND THAT " THE EZLN ALREADY HAVE HAD THE FIRST DIALOGUE " (textual words of Mr. Solalinde).

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Leonard Peltier 'Dick Bancroft Rest in Strength'

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Rogue Navajo Officials Attempt to Buy Remington Gun Company

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Dine' protested outside the Navajo Nation Council on Wednesday opposing the attempted rogue purchase of Remington gun company and attempts to keep the dirty coal fired power plant, Navajo Generating Station, operating. Photo Dine' CARE

The Budget and Finance Committee (Seth Damon) going rogue – bid for Remington. Thank goodness it was rejected! The Navajo Nation offered up to $525 million in cash for gun company.

By Dine' CARE
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WINDOW ROCK, Arizona -- President Russell Begaye of the Navajo Nation said the all-cash offer for the Remington gun company was made without the approval of his office.
"This type of transaction done in secrecy is unacceptable," President Begaye's July 17 post on Twitter read.

According to Begaye, the offer was pushed by the Office of the Controller of the Navajo Nation and "certain members" of the Navajo Nation Council, the tribe's legislative body. He did not name any delegates he deemed responsible for the deal, which he said he was "highly disappointed to learn about."

Andrew Ross Sorkin broke news of the deal in The New York Times on Monday evening. The story did not include the views of any elected tribal leaders but it quoted attorney Drew Ryce and said he represented the tribe in the deal.

Ryce, who is Mohawk, previously said the Morongo Band of Mission Indians was interested in acquiring the Colt gun company after it declared bankruptcy in 2015. He told Reuters at the time the tribe could qualify for government contracts -- the same idea that was promoted in The Times.

The original post about the deal follows below.
The Navajo Nation offered to pay up to $525 million in cash for the Remington gun company, Andrew Ross Sorkin reports in The New York Times.

The deal would have saved Remington's creditors following the company's recent bankruptcy proceedings. But the tribe's offer was rejected last week for non-specific reasons, according to the report.

“All such opportunities are being and have been submitted to the committee for review,” the company said in a statement to The Times. The rejection came after a two-month delay in responding to the offer, Sorkin reported.

The tribe wanted to transform Remington into a government contracting firm, The Times reported. There still would have been consumer sales, but not any of the semi-automatic rifle variety, the ones which have been the focus of failed gun reform efforts.

“Navajo is a community of veterans and people of the land,” a tribal attorney told Sorkin. “We are indifferent to the AR-15 and happy to leave that business behind.”
Remington emerged from bankruptcy in May, The Times reported. The company is now reorganizing and that was given as the non-specific for the rejection of the tribe's offer, Sorkin reported.
Dealbook by Andrew Ross Sorkin: A Surprising Bid for Remington, and an Unsurprising Rejection (The New York Times July 16, 2018)
.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/business/dealbook/remington-sale-navajo-nation.html

Note: Remington filed for bankruptcy in March.

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Hoopa Valley Tribe Plans Lawsuit To Protect Salmon On The Brink Of Extinction

Hoopa Valley Tribe Plans Lawsuit To Protect Salmon On The Brink Of Extinction

By Hoopa Valley Nation
July 18, 2018

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The Hoopa Valley Tribe (Tribe) today announced that it will file a lawsuit within 60 days unless federal agencies reduce the numbers of Endangered Species Act (ESA) listed Klamath-Trinity origin Coho salmon being killed in the Pacific Ocean. Klamath River origin Coho salmon have been listed as a ‘threatened species’ under the ESA since 1997.  Without analysis or formal ESA re-consultation, regulations of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) were changed this year to allow more Coho salmon to be injured or killed, although they are protected by the ESA. “We will not stand by while the federal agencies kill our salmon,” said Hoopa Tribal Chairman Ryan Jackson. “Some of those fish would have returned to the Klamath and Trinity Rivers. The Bureau of Reclamation cannot kill young Coho salmon in our rivers nor can the PFMC use regulations which kill the returning adult Coho salmon in the Pacific Ocean,” he said.

In April 2018, the Tribe warned U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross by letter that the PMFC was proposing to increase its allowances for killing and maiming Coho salmon which are incidentally encountered in ocean fisheries targeting Chinook salmon. Both species of salmon are present in the ocean’s Klamath Management Zone during the summer and the killing of Coho there is called an “incidental take.” However, Ross simply approved the PFMC’s proposal without bothering to request more thorough analysis of the impact to Coho, a violation of the ESA. That analysis is required because the new method for estimating Coho impacts and the related regulations were not considered in the applicable 1999 Biological Opinion assessing impacts in PFMC-managed ocean fisheries.

Adverse impacts to the ESA-listed Coho that result from excessive incidental take of Coho in ocean fishing directly impair and injure the Tribe and its sovereign, legal, economic, and cultural interests. Today’s notice that the federal agencies are violating the Endangered Species Act warns that a federal lawsuit will be filed after 60 days.

For further information, please contact Mike Orcutt, Hoopa Fisheries Director, at 530 625  4267 - Extension 1013.