'Finding D-Q" film screening

"FINDING D-QU: The Lonley Struggle of
California's Only Tribal College"
To our Brothers and Sisters everywhere:
A brand new film documentary about D-Q University will be shown at UC Davis next Monday evening, November 9th. (Please see the file, attached.)
We invite and encourage everyone interested in D-Q University and it's turbulent history to attend this very special event. Mr. Newman will be on hand to introduce his film. Many of the people involved in The People's Ococupation of D-Q University (20005-2009) will be present, also. Signed, Nezhound (Click on image to enlarge)

Hopi Water Forum: 'Water is Life'

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A Public Forum On Water & Energy
“Water is Life”
Agenda
November 6, 2009
8:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Welcome & Prayer – Alph Secakuku, Sipaulovi Village
President of H.O.P.I
9:00 a.m. Purpose of the Forum: Ben Nuvamsa, Moderator
• Recognition and Honoring of the Late (Former Hopi Tribal Chairman)
Chairman Ferrell Secakuku and the Late
Nat Nutongla (Advocates of the
Preservation of our sacred water)
9:15 a.m. History of Peabody Coal Company Ben Nuvamsa and
on the Black Mesa Mine Vernon Masayesva (former Hopi Tribal
(An Historical Chronicle of Peabody Coal leases Chairman)
from the 1960’s to Present Day and the Role
of Hopi Tribal Attorneys).
10:00 a.m. Presentations by Invited Guest Speakers Moderated by Ben Nuvamsa
11:00 a.m. Collaboration with Hopi and Navajo Tribes; Roger Clark (Executive Director - Grand
Alternative Energy Projects; and Impacts of Canyon Trust)
Black Mesa, Mohave and Desert Rock Power
Plants: Showing of “Power Path” A Documentary
12:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Video: “Burning the Future: Coal in
America” – A documentary on open pit
mining and impacts on the environment”.
1:00 p.m. - Track A: Black Mesa Environmental Impact Sean Gnant (CM Brewer, LLP)
2:00 p.m. Statement (What it is and its long term impacts
on Hopi)
1:00 p.m. - Track B: Life of Mine Permit Vernon Masayesva, Ben Nuvamsa
2:00 p.m. (What it is and what it means to you)
2:00 p.m. - Track C: Black Mesa Lease Reopener Vernon Masayesva & Ben Nuvamsa
2:30 p.m. (What is this and what it means to you)
2:00 p.m. – Track D: Alternative Energy Resources Shannon Francis
2:30 p.m.
2:30 p.m. Environmental, Cultural & Economic Impacts Open Microphone:
of Mining on Black Mesa & Kayenta Mines Testimony Offered by Forum Participants
(effects of pumping on the Navajo Aquifer
on our life ways, our ceremonies, our
economy).
4:00 p.m. Prayer and Adjournment

Martin Luther King: Time to break the silence

Martin Luther King: Time to break the silence

Listen to Martin Luther King speak out against war. It might change your life and your view of the world:

LISTEN:
http://www.africanbynature.com/Resources_2/mlk_vietnam-1967-speech.ram
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
By Rev. Martin Luther King
4 April 1967

"A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us ... "
Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

Text of speech:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2009/11/martin-luther-king-time-to-break.html

Thank you Joy for sending this. Brenda

Protect Grand Canyon: 100,000 letters sent

November 5, 2009
Contact: Taylor McKinnon (928) 310-6713 or tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org

100,000 Letters Support Protecting Grand Canyon From Uranium Mining
By Center for Biological Diversity
Photo: Havasupai at gathering to protect Grand Canyon 2009 by Brenda Norrell

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— In a resounding display of public support, tallies released today show that the public sent nearly 100,000 letters and emails to the Bureau of Land Management favoring new uranium-mining protections in the watersheds surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. More than 21,000 of those comments were sent by Center for Biological Diversity members.
The comments, which were submitted in a public comment period that ended last Friday, voice support for the Interior Department’s proposed 20-year “mineral withdrawal” that would prohibit new mining claims and the exploration or mining of existing claims without valid existing rights across nearly 1 million acres surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. The withdrawal would extend and strengthen protections set forth in the two-year land segregation announced by the Department on July 20.
Read more:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2009/uranium-exploration-11-05-2009.html