First Voices Radio: Tiokasin's Guest is Leona Morgan, Diné, 'Haul No!' Uranium

Leona Morgan at Dine' CARE's People Gathering, Dilkon, June 2018 Photo Brenda Norrell

First Voices Radio Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota, Welcomes Leona Morgan, Diné, 'Haul No!' Uranium

“First Voices Radio,” Sunday, March 9, 2025 — 7 to 8 p.m. EDT on WKNY 1490 AM / 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY. Streaming at https://radiokingston.org/ and on Tune In.

By First Voices Radio, March 9, 2025

Listen now to this program: https://radiokingston.org/en/broadcast/first-voices-radio/episodes/leona-morgan-guest

This week’s program was inspired by “Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks”, an article by our friend Brenda Norrell in Censored News on February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5. 

Returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an Indigenous organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon and transport thru Navajo Nation. Recently, Leona helped to halt Holtec in New Mexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Standing Rock Chair: Energy Transfer's Lawsuit Against Greenpeace: 'Frivolous,' Seeks to Silence Tribe and Allies

Standing Rock 2016 Rob Wilson Photography

Standing Rock Chairwoman: Energy Transfer's Lawsuit Against Greenpeace: 'Frivolous,' Seeks to Silence Tribe and Allies

"The Dakota Access Pipeline, referred to in our prophecy as the black snake, has come to harm our land, our water and our people." -- Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 4, 2025

STANDING ROCK NATION, North Dakota -- In the case now before the district court in North Dakota, Energy Transfer versus Greenpeace, Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire blasted Energy Transfer with the facts and made it clear that the Standing Rock Nation led the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline.

Chairwoman Alkire said Dakota Access Pipeline destroyed burial grounds, brought in security forces and law enforcement that brutalized peaceful protesters, and has already had a spill at Standing Rock -- while the pipeline is concealing its devastating safety records.

Defenders in Appalachia Against Mountain Valley Pipeline Avoided Felony Charges

Defenders in Appalachia Against Mountain Valley Pipeline Avoided Felony Charges

"Initially we were charged with conspiracy. The real conspiracy is between the prosecutors and the judges, between the cops and the corporations."

By Appalachians Against Pipelines, Censored News, March 3, 2025

Last Tuesday, 12 pipeline fighters had court in Giles County for charges resulting from three different actions (pictured) against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in 2023 and 2024 in and around the Jefferson National Forest, including one site where MVP was drilling through the mountain under the Appalachian Trail.

Eleven of the defendants accepted non-cooperating plea deals -- all of them were facing absurd felony charges, including felony abduction and felony “unauthorized use of a vehicle.” In the end, they plead to misdemeanor charges and there were NO felony convictions. They were sentenced to community service, probation, and to pay restitution. The court room was PACKED all day long with supporters!

Mountain Valley Pipeline Land Defenders Appear in Court: Images by Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine'

Wetlands and oil pipeline. Photo by Michelle Cook

Mountain Valley Pipeline Land Defenders Appear in Court Images by Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine'

Courtroom monitoring. Sketch by Dr. Michelle Cook