Desert Rock power plant air permit from U.S. EPA is environmental racism
From Bradley Angel
Greenaction
To US EPA staff that claim you support Environmental Justice,
Please do not EVER claim US EPA is a friend of EJ. Never.
This permit issuance was expected, but is a disgrace.
You and anyone else at EPA who thinks you support EJ should hold a press conference on the steps of the agency, denounce the agency’s racism from Navajo Land to Gila River Indian Community to the Colorado River Indian Tribes to Kettleman City and beyond, and quit.
Your continued participation in EPA’s racist and outrageous actions provides greenwashing of the EPA’s environmental racism.
I hope you all think long and hard about this, and whether you can sleep at night knowing that EPA has permitted a facility that will poison people, cause elders and families to be evicted from their homes, damage or wreck an important cultural site, and contribute to climate change and global warming. Wayne Nastri’s quote that “These analyses make CERTAIN that the existing air quality will not deteriorate as a result of the plant” is quite simply crap and a lie.
You and I know that a giant coal fired power plant will clearly harm air quality.
Shame on EPA and all of its staff that are complicit and remain silent in the face of EPA’s racism and injustice.
Bradley Angel
Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights
August 7, 2008
Human Rights Training in Canada, where KI chiefs were imprisoned in 2008
KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG (KI) where six chiefs went to prison for defending the land from drilling
Human Rights Training for Indigenous Peoples, First Nations and Community Members“Using the United Nations system to defend Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and hold Countries Accountable”
August 25 – 27, 2008
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Nation, Ontario Canada
KI Community Hall
TRAINING TOPICS PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
• Overview of UN and OAS Human Rights • Ron Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree, Canada),Systems and opportunities for involvement Executive Director, Confederacy of Treaty 6 • Human rights mechanisms including the UN First Nations, IITC Board of Directors Committee on the Elimination of Racial • Francisco Cali (Mayan Nation, Guatemala), Discrimination, Human Rights Council, Member, UN Committee for the Elimination of Special Rapporteurs and Committees Racial Discrimination, IITC Board President • How to do a human rights complaints/urgent • Strategies for Implementing the UN Ben Powless (Mohawk Nation, Canada),Environment, Subsistence/Food Sovereignty International Youth Representative and • Free, Prior and Informed Consent Activist Translation: Eno Chapman and Bruce Sakakeep
For more information contact:
Laura Calmwind, (416) 986-9856, laura@coo.org
Human Rights Training for Indigenous Peoples, First Nations and Community Members“Using the United Nations system to defend Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and hold Countries Accountable”
August 25 – 27, 2008
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Nation, Ontario Canada
KI Community Hall
TRAINING TOPICS PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
• Overview of UN and OAS Human Rights • Ron Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree, Canada),Systems and opportunities for involvement Executive Director, Confederacy of Treaty 6 • Human rights mechanisms including the UN First Nations, IITC Board of Directors Committee on the Elimination of Racial • Francisco Cali (Mayan Nation, Guatemala), Discrimination, Human Rights Council, Member, UN Committee for the Elimination of Special Rapporteurs and Committees Racial Discrimination, IITC Board President • How to do a human rights complaints/urgent • Strategies for Implementing the UN Ben Powless (Mohawk Nation, Canada),Environment, Subsistence/Food Sovereignty International Youth Representative and • Free, Prior and Informed Consent Activist Translation: Eno Chapman and Bruce Sakakeep
For more information contact:
Laura Calmwind, (416) 986-9856, laura@coo.org
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