Tohono O'odham Toy Drive for Southern O'odham 2019 by O'odham VOICE Against the Wall

Photo: Last year's toy drive, 2018. Thank you so much for everyone who helped!

O'odham VOICE Against the WALL
Please call to donate items, or donate at PayPal:
Ophelia Rivas: 520-308-9904
4oodhamrights@gmail.com
PO Box 1835
Sells, Arizona

Read about last year's party and dinner with the community, south of the international border on O'odham lands:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/12/sonora-oodham-voice-against-wall-oodham.html
         At last year's party for the children and family, Ofelia Rivas, on left, with Cynthia Piestewa

Chile Resisters Warn World of Dangers of COP 25 False Climate 'Solutions' in Video

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Watch video below:

Chile offers a warning to the world about the dangers of “natural climate solutions” being promoted at the COP

On December 10, 2019, in Madrid, this video is playing at COP25 at the Global Forest Coalition exhibit booth 3, COP25 Hall 4.
10 DEC: The video is planned to show at the GFC event in Cumbre Social por el Clima "Driving Deforestation - drifting away from real climate solutions to address the climate crisis". 16:00 to 17:30 - SP/EN - Classroom 1107, Em Rosane Santiago

Description:
From 22-30 November, Global Justice Ecology Project and Biofuelwatch filmed this series of short statements opposing neoliberal market-based climate schemes and so-called “green energies” that enable business as usual at the expense of the peoples, rivers, forests and ecosystems of Chile.
Intro from the video:
Chile was to be the host of the COP25 Climate Summit. But in the face of a massive popular uprising against the free market neoliberal economic model, and hundreds of cases of human rights abuses, Chile canceled the COP. The COP moved to Spain, yet Chile retained Presidency of the COP.
Chile, meanwhile, remains a striking example of the impacts of “natural climate solutions” – the carbon market, carbon offsets and large-scale “green” energy. In Chile, these schemes have led to vast tree plantations, destroyed forests, led to forced displacements, loss of fresh water, toxic incinerators and huge devastating copper and lithium mines.
Through the following statements, Chile offers a warning to the world about the dangers of “natural climate solutions” being promoted at the COP.

Statement from Chile to the UN Climate COP25: No "Natural Climate Solutions"! from Global Justice Ecology Project on Vimeo.

You can view this five minute video here: https://vimeo.com/378431292

Two Indigenous Leaders Assassinated in Brazil

By Democracy Now!
Watch online:
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/9/headlines/two_brazilian_indigenous_leaders_killed?fbclid=IwAR3CsMH1Jr6JH6HmxEJB2TkeqSVOt3qhmE3B2LVfro-FjYsjEEoYb2GCpXM

In Brazil, two indigenous leaders were killed Saturday. Firmino Guajajara and Raimundo Guajajara were riding on a motorcycle when they were shot and killed by unidentified gunmen. The two were killed while returning from a meeting with Brazil’s electric utilities company Eletronorte and the Brazilian National Indigenous Foundation, where they had been advocating in defense of indigenous rights.

Dine' Medicine Men's Formal Objection to Desecration of Dook’o’oosliid, San Francsico Peaks

DINE’ MEDICINE MEN ASSOCIATION FORMAL STATEMENT OF OBJECTION 
December 4, 2019 
US Forest Service and Arizona Snowbowl Agassiz Chairlift Replacement and Upgrade Proposal

To: Cal Joyner, Regional Forester, 333 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Responsible Officials: Calvin Joyner, Regional Forester
Laura Jo West, Forest Supervisor Coconino National Forest
Previous Comments: Dine’ Medicine Men Association
provided previous comments on August 30, 2019

We are continually discriminated against by federal agencies as they require us to reply in black and white, with a foreign language that is not our own and does not convey the full depth of our concerns.

Background

The Dine’ Be’ Nanagha’ Yee’ Da’Aho’ta’ (Dine’ Medicine Men Association, Inc.) is an established non-profit organization incorporated with the Navajo Nation since the early 1970s. We are an established and recognized organization of the Navajo Nation, we neither function with remuneration, nor as an established operation with specific sites. We are a membership of traditional apologists, spiritual Dine’ hataalii (healers), prophets, cultural educators, wisdom keepers, medicine people, elders and traditionalists who have come together willingly to maintain, protect and promote the Dine’ way of life, intellectual knowledge, right to self- determination and the fundamental right to worship the Great Spirit according to our sacred (holy) protocols.