Protest EPA's environmental racism

US EPA’s Administrator Stephen Johnson Is Coming to San Francisco!
PROTEST US EPA’S ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, INJUSTICE AND
PRO-POLLUTER POLICIES THAT THREATEN THE HEALTH OF
OUR COMMUNITIES AND OF THE PLANET

From Bradley Angel, Greenaction:

Let’s tell this friend of polluters that he’s not welcome & should resign!
PROTEST FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2008
US EPA Headquarters, 75 Hawthorne, San Francisco
(between 2nd/3rd Streets and Folsom/Howard)
9:30 a.m. Bring Banners and Signs About EPA’s Crimes
Noon: Rally for Environmental Justice and the Planet
Join in Solidarity with the people of Bayview Hunters Point, Navajo communities, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Kettleman City & communities across the U.S. and the world that are being harmed by US EPA policies
Protest EPA’s veto of California’s attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars
Protest EPA’s approval of the proposed Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on the Navajo Nation in a community already harmed by two dirty coal plants
Protest EPA’s failure to ensure a full and safe cleanup of the toxic and radioactive contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco
Protest EPA’s proposed approval of more PCB and hazardous waste dumping in the San Joaquin Valley farmworker community of Kettleman City
Protest EPA’s failure to close the Siemen’s toxic waste plant on Colorado River Indian Tribes land in Arizona, where EPA has allowed this polluter to operate for almost two decades without proper permits, emitting toxic pollutants and desecrating a sacred mountain.
Protest EPA’s approval of the deadly poison Methyl Iodide as a large scale pesticide fumigant
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Dakota counter genocide celebration in Minnesota

Article by Chris Mato Nunpa

Photo by Pioneer Press
On Saturday, August 16, 2008, a group of Dakota Persons, from the Yellow Medicine Dakota Community, with their allies and supporters, are conducting a Counter Event to the Upper Sioux Agency State Park program. They, the Wasicu (or white man), as part of the Sesquicentennial of the state of Minnesota, are planning a living history portrayal (in 1858) in which the 1st Regiment and the settlers in their costumes will be featured. The wasicu woman, a Ms. Terri Dinesen, is the organizer and planner of the event, which event was planned without any consultation with the nearby Dakota Community, the Upper Sioux Community (the BIA name.) Ms. Dinesen talks about "friendships" between the Dakota and Wasicu and how these "friendship" were "proved during the war four short years later (1862)." She mentions the "numerous accounts of non-Dakota being warned or led to safety by Dakota Indians" and how these accounts are "proof of the trust and friendship." Ms. Dinesen doesn't realize that these same Dakota would be considered "traitors" or "sell-outs" as Benedict Arnold was considered a traitor by the colonists. She says nothing about the massive land theft, the broken treaties, resulting in bitterness and resentment for the Dakota; the genocide perpetrated on the Dakota by the Euro-Minnesotans; the bounties, the mass executions; the two concentration camps; the warfare in order for the military and the Euro-Minnesotans to either exterminate or remove the Dakota, and which warfare allowed the Settlers to safely steal Dakota land; the forced marches; and, finally, the forced removal of the Dakota People from their ancient homelands in Minnesota.
So, we, as Dakota People, are having this counter event to feature a Dakota perspective, in which we'll have our posters and banners. In which we'll have educational/informational handouts re: the newspaper ad announcing the bounties on Dakota People, the 1805 Treaty, a pamphlet on the Sesquicentennial with a Dakota perspective; the pictures of Little Crow's scalp, which scalping was done NOT by the Dakota but by the Euro-Minnesotans; and a pamphlet on the Yellow Medicine area with a Dakota perspective.
Different Dakota individuals, as well as our non-Dakota allies and supporters will be talking on our portable microphones. The Upper Sioux Agency State Park event is, to use Waziyata Win's, "Woman of the North" (or Dr. Angela Cavender Wilson), words, "a continuation of Minnesota's myth-making at the Upper Sioux Agency State Park. Just another celebration of 150 Years of lies in Minnesota." To put it another way, "These lies are perpetuated to cover the shameful, disgraceful and dishonorable history that occurred between the Indigenous Peoples and the white man."
Chris Mato Nunpa, Ph.D.Retired, Formerly an Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies (INDS)Southwest Minnesota State University Marshall, Minnesota matonunpa@earthlink.net "

Dakota exercise fishing rights
Chris Mato Nunpa: "Dakota exercised their fishing rights on Sunday, July 20, 2008 on Lake Harriet, a lake in the ceded area of our Treaty of 1805."Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5kgLcC7afQor

http://www.youtube.com/user/alliesms

Read more by Chris Mato Nunpa on Minnesota's genocide and concentration camps:

http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2008/08/chris-mato-numpa-minnesotas-genocide.html

Bad Bear: Walking and running for the sacred places

Carl "Bad Bear" Sampson, 27, Paiute/Shoshone from Reno, Nevada, joined the Peace and Dignity Journeys after completing the Longest Walk 2 on the northern route. Bad Bear said there were about 30 runners on the stretch through Arizona. He ran with the group from the California border at Fort Mojave to the Gila River Pima Maricopa Indian Nation, when temperatures in southern Arizona reached 117 degrees. On the Longest Walk northern route and Peace and Dignity Journeys, Bad Bear used his cellphone to document the journeys in photos and videos. Please click on the arrow below for brief video. Photos and video by Carl Bad Bear Sampson.

For more of Bad Bear's Peace and Dignity Journeys photos and videos, go to:

http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2008/08/carl-bad-bear-sampson-paiuteshoshone.html



Peace and Dignity runners in Vicam Pueblo, Mexico:
All of our routes will connect on August 13th in Vicam Pueblo, the "capital" of the Yaqui Nation, in Sonora Mexico. From there, we will run through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica until reaching the Panama Canal on November 14th. At Panama we will connect with the runners that began from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Those runners are currently running through Peru.
The Journeys is based on the Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor. We are currently living in the time when its the responsibility of Indigenous Nations of the Western Hemisphere to re-unite, bring healing to the land, and the peoples of the world.
Shiapo,
Jose Malvido
Northern Coordinator (Alaska-Panana)
Peace and Dignity Journeys
415.377.2502
http://www.peaceanddignityjourneys.com/

Lakotah plan civil disobedience fishing near Rapid City

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Lakotah Plan Civil Disobedience Fishing Event on August 25, 2008

All members of the tribes to the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty have the right to fish within the 1851 Treaty territory, which includes all of South Dakota from the east bank of the Missouri River.

By Republic of Lakotah
LAKOTAH REPUBLIC -- In the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Russell Means, the Chief Facilitator of the Republic of Lakotah, is organizing a group of Lakotah Indians to enter Sheridan Lake Recreation Area near Rapid City, South Dakota, refuse to pay the admission fee, and fish without paying the license fee. Means claims that Lakotah retained the right to fish and pass in the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty territory and that those rights continue today and backed by Article VI of the Constitution of the united states of America.
The event, which is being billed as the Lakotah Freedom Fishing Day, is about much more than the admission fee or the fishing license fee; it is about getting the South Dakota and United States governments to follow their own laws. Means said, "After having been an occupied nation for over 150 years, we have asked the United States government to leave our country. Meanwhile, until the United States Government leaves Lakotah territory we will take every opportunity to insist it follow its own laws and that its states do the same."
Lakotah have given notice to Larry Long, the Attorney General of South Dakota, of its plans for this event. (A copy of the notice is online at: http://republicoflakotah.com/...) Means said he has not heard from Long yet and does not know if the state plans on allowing the Indians to fish and pass or if the park rangers will issue citations or arrest any of the Lakotah fishermen. Means plans to call in federal marshalls to enforce the treaty rights. Means said, "According to the Civil Right Act, federal marshalls should arrest any state official who tries to stop Lakotah from entering the park and fishing. However, if the United States ignores its own laws to deny Lakotah rights, it will certainly not be the first time."
This historic event is planned for Monday, August 25th, at 1:00 p.m.
Read Notice of Intent to Fish to South Dakota Attorney General:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2008/08/lakotah-plan-civil-disobedience-fishing.html