The Birth of the Environmental Justice Movement, Dine' CARE, Dilkon, Navajo Nation, 1990

A tribute to those who came together on the Navajo Nation in 1990 and created the solidarity movement to protect the water, air and land, today's environmental justice movement. They came from the fishing rights struggle in the northwest, and the Seminoles came from Florida. Hopi Thomas Banyacya was there, and Jim Main from Gros Ventre in Montana, they came from Mohawk lands, and the border, and it was a beginning. They came from near and far -- Havasupai, Zuni Pueblo and Pine Ridge, and gave birth to the movement that has spanned the past 35 years. (Photo Gros Ventre Jim Main, Chief Johnny Jackson from Columbia River, and Hopi Thomas Banyacya.)

Leona Morgan, Dine' -- U.S. Targets Native Americans and Poor with Nuclear Dumping, Transport and Mining

Leona Morgan speaking at Dine' CARE's Peoples Convention on Saturday.
Photo two: Earl Tulley, Dine' CARE, joins Leona at presentation in Dilkon on Navajo Nation..
Photos by Brenda Norrell.

The United States goal is to develop nuclear weapons to control the rest of the world, and dump the radioactive waste on Native Americans and the poor people of New Mexico. -- Leona Morgan, Dine'

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Listen to Leona Morgan at Spirit Resistance Radio
French translation by Christine Prat

DILKON, Navajo Nation -- Leona Morgan, Dine', has spent her life fighting uranium mining and hauling and nuclear dumping. Now, the U.S. is targeting the poor people of southern New Mexico with nuclear dumping, and in northern New Mexico, uranium mining again threatens the Navajos Sacred Mountain of Mount  Taylor.
"We are fighting all of it," Leona said at Dine' CARE's Western Peoples Convention on Saturday.
The most vulnerable are the unborn children.