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| Walk to Cameron Chapter House, one-half mile walk today to oppose uranium trucks on Navajo Nation. August 2, 2024. Livestream screenshot by Censored News https://www.facebook.com/PresidentNygren Live in Cameron Navajos Protest Uranium Trucks |
"The sacredness of life is no longer honored." -- Cora Maxx-Phillips
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| Cameron live Dine' Warrior Klee Benally was remembered and honored for Haul No! By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 2, 2024 CAMERON, Navajo Nation -- Dine' spoke out about the long history of uranium mining, cancer and death, and honored Klee Benally for his life of leading with action, before beginning a half-mile walk on the highway to the Cameron Chapter House in opposition to uranium mining trucks crossing the Navajo Nation. Navajo Human Rights Commissioner Cora Maxx-Phillips told Dine', "We are in the Sacrifice Zone my dear brothers and sisters, and that is why we are here today!" "We will not be silenced!" Maxx-Phillips said privileged white people say, "Not in my backyard." "We are just as worthy. Stop using us Indigenous Peoples to be in your sacrificial zone." Describing 80 years of cancer, corruption, toxic greed, she said, "This is environmental racism." "How many more people have to die!" "You don't fool us," she said, adding that the entire infrastructure is to help corporations. "When it comes to push and shove, corporations will have their way." "The sacredness of life is no longer honored. Video livestream: |
Navajo President' Statement
Protestors swarm U.S. 89 and 64, saying: ‘Shut down uranium mines now!’
CAMERON, Arizona – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren marched with protestors here today to oppose the illegal transport of uranium across Navajo land.
On Aug. 2, The First Lady organized a rally with dozens of Díné community members to voice their concerns and opposition to the dangers of uranium exposure.
“Respect our sovereignty, respect our laws,” said First Lady Blackwater-Nygren. “And we say, ‘no.’”
Before they began the walk, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Casey Allen Johnson credited President Nygren for collaboration with the Council to demand President Biden stop the transportation of uranium across Navajo land.
He said the Navajo people do not want uranium being transported across Navajo land.
Energy Fuels Resource, Inc., began to transport uranium ore from Pinyon Plain Mine south of the Grand Canyon on Tuesday, July 30. Both routes to move the uranium from the mine pass through tribal communities on its way to the White Mesa Mill in Blanding, Utah. These include Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai and Ute Mountain Ute lands.
As the walk began from the roundabout on Hwy 89 to the Cameron Chapterhouse, Navajo Nation Division Director of Public Safety Michael Anderson and Navajo police officers stayed close to the walkers to ensure their safety.
Thursday evening, President Nygren spoke with Ariz. Gov. Katie Hobbs to collaborate and pause uranium transport for six months, according to an executive order the president signed earlier this week.
While holding a sign to protest uranium, President Nygren encouraged walkers to keep pushing themselves for a good cause as the sun beat down on them.
“Just a quarter mile left,” President Nygren yelled. “We can do this.”
When the President and First Lady arrived at the chapter house, President Nygren answered community concerns about the uranium threats and gave all credit to the First Lady.
“The company said they followed all the rules and regulations. But what about our rules and regulations?” President Nygren asked. “What about us, our health, our communities? They’re not only harming us, they’re harming other tribal communities. Did they follow their rules and regulations? This is absolutely unacceptable.”
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| Now in Cameron on Navajo Nation. Screenshot by Censored News |
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| (Photo Haul No! Protest at Energy Fuels uranium mine in Grand Canyon) |
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Navajo President Issues Executive Order to Halt Uranium Trucks
Wave of foreign-owned companies now endangering Native communities
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren issued an executive order to require an agreement be in place prior to the transport of radioactive material through the Navajo Nation.
With tribal police in pursuit, two radioactive uranium trucks passed through the Navajo Nation, past Hopi communities, with loads from the Energy Fuels Pinyon Plain uranium mine now threatening the water of the Havasupai in the Grand Canyon.
The trucks made it through -- from Flagstaff and on past Cameron, Mexican Hat and the Utah border -- to the dangerous Energy Fuels uranium mill on ancestral White Mesa Ute land in southeastern Utah.
The Canadian-owned Energy Fuels uranium mine permit was issued by the Forest Service, and is one in the wave of foreign-owned mining companies now endangering Native communities across the Southwest.
The U.S. government issued permits for lithium mining by the Canadian-owned Lithium Americas, now digging into the Paiute Massacre Site in Nevada. The U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management, BLM, issued a permit for the lithium mine now drilling into Hualapai's sacred ceremonial spring area near the Grand Canyon.
Under the guise of "green energy," the CEO of the Navajo tribal enterprise, Navajo Energy Transition Company, is heading the mining desecration operation at Hualapai's ceremonial area and is charge of the drilling into the ceremonial place for lithium for the benefit of Hawthorne Energy, an Australian company. The Navajo Nation's so-called "transitional energy" company also owns coal mines in Wyoming and Montana.
The Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache filed for a restraining order on Interior Sec. Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, which was denied by a Tucson federal judge, to stop the bulldozers now destroying ancient village sites in southern Arizona. Haaland is promoting Pattern Energy's wind project, taking wind energy from New Mexico to California. The bulldozers of SunZia's transmission line are destroying ancient history, medicine gathering places and burial places of O'odham and Apache in the San Pedro Valley. Pattern Energy is owned by the Canada Pension Fund. The battle continues in federal court.
Further, the Biden administration is partnering with Australia's Rio Tinto to fight Apache Stronghold in federal court to dig a copper mine into the Oak Flat ceremonial place in Arizona. Rio Tinto blew up 46,000 years of sacred Aboriginal teachings in caves in Australia. Rio Tinto was forced to admit the widespread sexual assaults at its mines, with the highest number in Australia and South Africa.
Read more on the Navajo executive order to halt the uranium trucks:
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Series at Censored News
Navajo President Deploys Police to Halt Uranium Trucks
Two Uranium Trucks Reached Mill as Tribal Police Pursued
Navajo President Issues Executive Order to Halt Radioactive Trucks
Live in Cameron: Navajos Protest Uranium Trucks
Dine' in Cameron: No More Cancer! No More Death
Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine Protest in Grand Canyon on Sunday
Tó Nizhóní Ání at Red Butte: Solidarity in the Source of Power
Shut it Down! No Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon! Photos by Center for Biological Diversity
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