Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

March 13, 2024

O'odham Urgent Call to Action: Stop SunZia Bulldozers Threatening O'odham Cultural Area and San Pedro River


SunZia bulldozing San Pedro Valley for transmission line

Update: Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations filed for an injunction on Wednesday:

TUCSON -- San Carlos Apache and Tohono O'odham Nations filed for an injunction to halt bulldozers and the SunZia transmission line from destroying a large region of sacred places and history in the San Pedro Valley east of Tucson. 

“Every single one of us has a history to this place. We’ve driven through there, we have connections, we’ve prayed, you know, all that matters. Our human lives matter,” said Vernelda Grant with the San Carlos Apache Tribe.

San Carlos Apache and Tohono O’odham Nations' members along with Archaeology Southwest and the Center for Biological Diversity filed an injunction to halt work on the SunZia power line where it crosses the San Pedro River Valley.

The line is expected to carry electricity from wind farms to cities in the west. The tribes said in court that their concerns about the powerline’s impact on cultural sites were ignored by the Bureau of Land Management and Pattern Energy. -- KOLD Tucson
https://www.kold.com/2024/03/14/native-americans-conservationists-take-sunzia-court/

Call to O'odham for Peaceful Direct Action 

Stop SunZia Power Line Bulldozers: Threat to O’odham Cultural Area and San Pedro River
March 13, 2024, Wednesday 9:30am 
Federal courthouse 405 W. Congress St Tucson, Arizona
Courtroom 50 Judge Jennifer Zipps 

Tohono O'odham et al v U.S. Dept of Interior, Deb Haaland and BLM



SunZia Threatens Sacred Places of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache
Another so-called 'green energy' project threatens the sacred places of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 12, 2024
TUCSON -- A so-called 'green' energy project plans to plow through Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache sacred and historical places in the San Pedro Valley in Arizona. The transmission line of 'renewable energy' from wind farms in central New Mexico would cut through Arizona and continue on to California.
The SunZia transmission line is now being fought in federal court.

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