Lakota: Sounds of Resistance Youth Concert

Dine' join New Mexicans: 'NO!' to dirty coal of San Juan power plant

NEW MEXICO GROUPS URGE PRC TO PROTECT RATEPAYERS, REJECT PNM COAL PLAN

San Juan Power Plant
on Navajo Nation
in New Mexico

PRC Concludes Hearings on PNM’s Plan for Costly, Outdated San Juan Generating Station

Monday, February 2, 2015

By Shane Levy, Sierra Club – shane.levy@sierraclub.org

Mike Eisenfeld, San Juan Citizens Alliance - meisenfeld@frontier.net

Joan Brown, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light (NMIPL) info@nm-ipl.org

Colleen Cooley, Dine' CARE ccooley22@gmail.com

Julie Ruth, Positive Energy Solar julie@lokacreative.com

ALBUQUERQUE - A coalition of New Mexico community groups today called on the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) to reject a plan from PNM that would extend the utility’s commitment to the San Juan Generating Station coal plant, thereby threatening the health and financial security of New Mexico families across the state for years to come. The PRC recently concluded hearings on PNM’s proposal, which generated strong opposition from New Mexico faith leaders, public health groups, clean energy advocates, environmental organizations, and more.

“Enough is enough, it is time for PNM to start investing in cleaner energy sources for the sake of our kids and future generations,” said Colleen Cooley of Diné C.A.R.E. “The Diné people who reside between the San Juan Generating Station and the Four Corners Power Plant have suffered the burden of climate injustices for far too long and it needs to stop now. We are not fortunate enough to just relocate from our communities, and we all deserve clean air and clean water.”    

"We are in what Christians call a Kairos time or a decisive moment of action to address environmental and economic justice in our community by choosing cleaner, renewable energy instead of a future of dirty coal." said Sister Joan Brown, osf Executive Director of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light (NMIPL).  "People of faith are very concerned and are taking actions to protect our sacred air, land and water from dangerous coal pollution. More and more houses of worship in New Mexico are investing in clean energy solutions by installing solar panels and doing energy efficiency upgrades. We pray that the PRC realizes their responsibility for the common good, life and future generations as they deliberate."

Over the past few weeks, support for continued burning of coal at the San Juan Generating Station has evaporated as admissions by the company have revealed serious financial risks for the future of the plant. Earlier this month, the home city of the plant, Farmington, New Mexico, abandoned its utility’s plans to acquire an increased portion of the plant due to reliability concerns and the huge costs that would be passed onto the community. Other New Mexico stakeholders have also pulled away from an agreement that would continue PNM’s use of coal at the plant, citing the overall uncertainty about San Juan’s operations.

“While PNM charges ahead with its plan to increase its ownership share of the dirty and expensive San Juan Generating Station, cities and utilities in our region are stepping back to safeguard communities from the growing risks of the plant,” said Nellis Kennedy-Howard, Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. “Stakeholder after stakeholder has withdrawn their support for PNM’s plan, but PNM refuses to budge.  PNM’s actions affect the health and financial security of families across New Mexico by locking customers into the dirty, expensive San Juan Generating Station coal-fired power plant while fighting affordable clean energy solutions. We deserve better.”

“With insurmountable evidence that continued investment in San Juan Generating Station is a bad business decision, it appears that PNM will be subjecting ratepayers to the costs of pollution controls and environmental liabilities,” said Mike Eisenfeld, New Mexico Energy Coordinator for San Juan Citizens Alliance.  “To add insult to injury, PNM is also considering ownership of the coal source for San Juan Generating Station: the troubled San Juan Mine or a new coal mine. The story gets worse and worse.”   

The future of coal at the San Juan Generating Station has grown increasingly uncertain in recent weeks as more costs and challenges continue to arise, including the uncertainty of where the plant will get its coal after 2017. Last month, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) in Arizona announced that it would not purchase the San Juan coal mine that supplies the San Juan Generating Station. In addition, PNM announced that the total bill for their plan to increase reliance on dirty coal and other expensive fuels had jumped by over $1 billion, with those costs likely being passed onto local ratepayers. This comes just weeks after PNM introduced a rate proposal that if approved would result in nearly a $10 month increase to the average residential home bill due to utility’s plans to continue burning coal at the plant for the foreseeable future.

"The tipping point is behind us. New Mexicans want affordable renewable energy – even PNM acknowledges this in their new advertising campaign. In the hearing, it was shown that renewable energy is cheaper, safer and keeps the lights on for New Mexicans. The PRC must rule for the people on this case and lead New Mexicans into the clean energy future they demand," said Regina Wheeler, CEO of Positive Energy Solar.

“The League of Women Voters of New Mexico opposes the plan proposed by PNM of New Mexico for replacing the power produced by Units 2 and 3 of the San Juan Generating Station (SJGS), in part because of the over-reliance on fossil fuels and the under-reliance on renewables, and in part because of the billions of gallons of water used annually in coal and nuclear facilities,” said Judy Williams of The League of Women Voters of New Mexico.

MNN. KAYONI #85

PosKAYONI #85

Post navigationKAYONI #85

Posted on January 31, 2015

KAYONI #85

Mohawk  Nation News

Please post and distribute.

MNN. Jan. 31, 2015. Paper currency is fiat and based on nothing. Ongwe’hon:weh land is the only real asset. The following Objection to the fraudulent attempt of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Inc. to usurp Kanion’ke:haka land known as the “Seigneury Sault St. Louis” was on January 29th 2015.

Five people met with Mike Delisle of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Inc. [MCK Inc.] to affirm Kaia’nereh:kowa and Teio’hateh [Guswentha]. We objected to the attempted uprooting of all Kanion’ke:haka interests by selling the tract known as the “Seigneury” to the Corporation of Canada. Teio’ha:teh [Two Row Agreement] is the colonial settlers’ passport to live here in peace with us on our land.

WHEREAS:

1.The Great Peace affirms that our land and line of descent are vested in the women.

MCK Inc. Chiefs: “It’s do or die!?”

2.MCK Inc. are INDIANS, not Ongwe’hon:weh. They act for the CROWN and are overseen by the Privy Council. Christine Deom of MCK Inc., who directs communications with the Privy Council, was absent by design. Their mission is to remove us and our interest by selling our land for money. Those who accept a foreign process alienate themselves. MCK Inc. has no authority to discuss land with our oppressors. They have forfeited their Ongwe’hon:weh birthright, name, clan, voice and right to live among us. Their actions constitute espionage, conspiracy and complicity in genocide.

3.The US genocide model is to remove our ties to each other and to our land. Kahnawake is to be made unlivable through pipelines, highways, canals and railroads to transport stolen resources from the West.

4.Our land belongs to the faces beneath the earth. Kahnawake is part of the vast unceded territory of Ono’ware:geh [Great Turtle Island]. Parliament, the Queen, corporations, bankers and their followers are all foreigners.

5.Small private meetings are being held to falsely represent the consent of the majority. Such meetings as December 2, 2014 at the Golden Agers of 26 people are meant to finalize the murder of over 100 million Ongwe:hon:weh and the theft of hundreds of trillions from our trust funds. They win when we Kanion’ke:haka put a dollar value on our land. This allows Obama to trade Ono’ware:geh for the US bankers’ debt to China. Read: Obama: Ongwe’hon:weh land to pay debt to China We owe China nothing. Any interference with our title must answer to all 49 families, our friends and allies throughout Ono’ware:geh. MCK Inc’s one-page summary to it’s masters on behalf of all Kanion’ke:haka is fraudulent and illegal.

6.Should MCK Inc. continue its treachery, the fire shall continue to burn. Only a duly convened public meeting of the people can deal with all threats.

7.Haudenosaunee and our friends and allies can only conduct political relations through diplomatic channels, prescribed in Teio’ha:teh.

8.The following information is demanded: [a] The exact names, addresses of and all communiques with MCK Inc’s Indian Affairs and Privy Council handlers who are directing this genocide. [b] Why are discussions limited to the monetization and payment for our Mother, and our relocation and fraudulent removal of our interest to all our land. These all constitute complicity in genocide.

9.Kayoni #85 wa’ton: Nen’nen kat’ke ne ti’honon’wen’tsateh tsi’ni’yoreh tsi wahon’wati’senni kwa’toha yahon’wa’tih’sateh, sotsi ya’te’honton’tats ne aha’tiriwa’yenah ne Kaia’nereh:kowa, tohka tih’ken kana’kerasera en’honteh’riyo tsini’yoreh akwe’kon en’honni’heyeh, tsi’na’hoten roti’yen’takwe tahnon ne ra’honon’wentsa, akwe’kon Wisk Nihon’onwen’tsakeh raho’na’wen enwaton.

THEREFORE the Kaia’nereh:kowa and Teio’ha:teh affirm that:

Tehon’watisokwa:riteh.

10]Jurisdiction to our territory belongs to the Rotino’shonni. Iimposition or usurpation is treasonable, fraudulent, unconstitutional and punishable by death. [Tehon’watisokwa:riteh]

11]Rotino’shonni have jurisdiction to Kahnawake and the lands called the “Seigneury of Sault St. Louis” and beyond.

12]Breach of the 1701 Teio’ha’teh agreement with the Rotino’shonni constitutes genocide [Article 3 of the Convention on the Crime and Punishment of Genocide].

Send your objections to: Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Inc.

As Frank Zappa describes the MCK Inc. sales pitch: “The mystery man came over and he said, I’m out of sight. He said for a nominal service charge I could reach nirvana tonight. If I was ready, willing and able to pay him his regular fee, he would drop all the rest of his pressing affairs and devote his attention to me. And I said, look here, brother, who you jiving with that cosmik debris.”

MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com or more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go towww.mohawknationnews.com  More stories at MNN Archives.  Address:  Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L thahoketoteh@hotmail.com for original Mohawk music visit thahoketoteh.ws

Read. Bob Rae on trillion dollar exchange.

Read. Harper’s new terror bill.

Read. Canada loses Bank of Canada law suit [Galati]

Native Women to Protest Redskins Ethnic Slur in Phoenix: Superbowl and Domestic Violence

Native American Activists Tell NFL ‘No More’ Stereotypes--

Hold Vigil/Protest at Super Bowl

By Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst

nicholet@mac.com

Jacqueline Keeler

jackiekeeler@mac.com 

January 28, 2015

Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS

PHOENIX -- Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, a national group of Native parents dedicated to ending the mascotting of Native people and their allies from across the country are calling upon Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner to truly show his commitment to stopping Domestic Violence by Retiring the Use of the Ethnic Slur ‘Redskins’ and Supporting Native Women’s Domestic Violence Programs.

Joined by Native American women’s groups from across the country including the Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, the Montana Native Women’s Coalition and the Native American Women’s Health and Education Resource Center, we will be protesting during the Super Bowl in Phoenix and holding a vigil the night before on Saturday, January 31st to tell the National Football League to recognize that the Washington football team’s continued insistence on using the Redsk*ns as a team name continues to promote an idea that Native people’s bodies are inherently a matter of monetization and objectification.

Historical media stereotypes cannot be divorced from the attacks on Native bodies through the sale of our ancestors’ body parts for real-life bounty—as seen, for instance, in this 1863 newspaper clipping promising the modern equivalent of $3,800 for “every red-skin sent to Purgatory”—and the cutting of body parts of Native men, women and children for keepsakes by U.S. Soldiers (particularly genitalia). And, in turn, this view of Native people as nothing more than body parts used for amusement or profit translates to the perception of Native women as inherently “rapeable.”

"Native American women in the United States experience the highest rates of sexual assault the country. According to the Department of Justice, one in three Native women will experience rape; Native women are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault crimes than any other race. Nearly two-thirds of the time, white American men are the perpetrators of these assaults—Native women are the only group to be more likely to be victimized by someone not of their race.”

Some of these issues are related to jurisdictional gaps on reservations, which the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 was meant to address. But others are clearly the result of stereotypes white men in the United States are still taught about Native women, which sexualize them and devalue them.

“We really want to make the connection that this mascot issue and the name issue really is bigger than just simply changing the name, that there are deep connections with how American Indians are perceived and how stereotypes really do harmfully impact American Indians,” said Nicholet Deschine, a doctoral student and member of the Diné and Lakota tribes who has helped organize past protests against the name in Arizona.

“A lot of the stereotypes promoted by mascots are…the warrior image. The flip-side of that is the ‘Poca-hottie,’ the Savage Squaw, the person who is sexually available to the white man, and that is a big part of the story of America, this idea that there is some Indian princess out there,” [Jacqueline] Keeler said, pointing to images of Washington cheerleaders, who have in the past dressed in their own Native American costumes.

“How white men view us matters,” she added. “These stereotypes that people have are so powerful. They really mislead them about Native people, they cause them to harm Native people. This is why they have to stop.”

(Super Bowl Protesters Will Draw Ties Between ‘Redskins’ Name And Domestic Violence, Think Progress, January 27, 2015)

This is why we are asking Goodell to live up to his promises to tackle Domestic Violence in the NFL and recognize that they mirror what Native people are asking for too. And that this requires the elimination of the mascotting of Native people and the promotion of stereotypes by the NFL that not only marginalize but lead to the victimization of Native women in very real ways.

Our petition to Goodell began just days ago on Saturday, January 24th, 2015 and it already has over 9,000 signatures which has raised funds for Native American women’s organizations across the country. We ask all to sign and contribute and let Daniel Snyder, the owner of the Washington NFL team that help for Indian Country should not be predicated on the use of outdated stereotypes for profit and harm Native people.

Important hashtags: #StereotypesNoMore /  #MMIW  / #NoMore.

Saturday, January 31 at 6:00pm

*Vigil in solidarity for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Civic Space Park, Downtown Phoenix AZ

Sunday, February 1 at 10:00am

*March and Rally for #StereotypesNoMore

March route TBA

Civic Space Park, Downtown Phoenix AZ

Supported by:

Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Montana Native Women's Coalition

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center

AIM Orange County, AIM Southern California

Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry

Logo credit: Native Women's Society of the Great Plains

Media support, Netroots Nation