Apache Stronghold -- Confronting Evil with a Full Heart: Prayers at Oak Flat
By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, April 2, 2026
“Moving as one across the blooming mesa, reminded of our higher purpose - to wish harm on no one, for hard times will find them soon enough; to walk with dignity and courage, gratitude and love for the gift of creation; to confront evil with a full heart, sharp eyes and a quiet mind, to know there is a price to be paid for glimpsing the gates of heaven that are right here on earth. May the people stay blessed and protected. Protect Sacred Oak Flat.” -- Charlotte Levinson, 3/29/26 Charlotte Levinson
Charlotte shared this prayer/poem after our prayer walk this last Sunday led by Apache Stronghold on the east rim of Oak Flat.
The fight is not over to protect Oak Flat and all of creation. Many gathered for ceremony at the original Holy Ground in San Carlos on Saturday and then on Sunday walked with prayers to Ga’an canyon on the East Rim of Oak Flat to pray not only for Oak Flat but for all people and all places that are suffering and dying because of the evil extractive and exploitive ways of Capitalism.
Vanessa Nosie, Apache Stronghold, shared —
“As all people came together and looked to the west to see Resolution Copper, we knew we were on the right side. Because for those people who chose profit and greed over what God has created, will come repercussions. Not because of us. But because of the decision they made. But with that, came hope. We saw the elders walk, and the youth right behind them. We will continue to exist. Nothing can take our spirit and the spirit of Oak Flat. What God has given to us at the very beginning is our spirit. And no corporation or government can ever take that. We pray for those that will suffer, because they choose not to see it, or they choose to look the other way.
These two days of prayer with all walks of life, we were one drum, one circle. one prayer, just as it was in the beginning.
And we will continue to fight.
We will continue to stay in prayer. And we will continue to protect Mother Earth.”
Apache Stronghold/Save Oak Flat
Charlotte Levinson