Protect Diné Bikéyah: March to Navajo Council Jan. 24, 2023

By Tó Nizhóní Ání

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CALL TO ACTIOJoin Diné frontline and resource extraction-impacted communities as we march to the Navajo Nation Council Chambers during the first 2023 Winter Legislative Session in Window Rock, Arizona.

Protect Diné Bikéyah (The People's Lands)!

Let’s peacefully but firmly express our concerns to the incoming 25th Navajo Nation Council about current and future resource extraction being proposed in all our communities across the Navajo Nation. Until now, Navajo policies and politicians have failed to safeguard the people's health, water, and Diné bikéyah. Join us in reminding our elected leaders that we, the people, will not be forgotten.

We plan to start the march at Window Rock Bashas Parking lot. The meeting time will be announced when more information is available regarding the Winter Session start time. Please check back later.

Photo: Uranium Mine Tailing near T'iis Názbąs, Arizona

Lithium Mining Company Cited for Trespass on Protected Tiehm’s Buckwheat Habitat

Laydown area for drilling operations within Tiehm’s buckwheat critical habitat, December 26, 2022. Photo credit: Patrick Donnelly, Center for Biological Diversity. 

U.S. Tags Mining Company for Trespassing in Protected Tiehm’s Buckwheat Habitat

An Australian lithium mining company, issued a trespass notice in southwestern Nevada, was just offered a controversial $700 million loan by President Biden. In a greenwashing campaign of false climate solutions, Biden announced the huge loan to provide lithium for electric car batteries. 

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By Center for Biological Diversity
Patrick Donnelly

pdonnelly@biologicaldiversity.org

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RENO, Nev.— The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a trespassing notice today to Australian mining company Ioneer after the Center for Biological Diversity documented harm from drilling operations to the critical habitat of an endangered plant called Tiehm’s buckwheat.

On Dec. 26, Center staff conducting routine monitoring of Tiehm’s buckwheat habitat discovered a staging area for drilling operations with a truck, water tanks, materials and explosives storage. The staging area was within the newly protected critical habitat for Tiehm’s buckwheat.

O'odham in Sonora Emergency Food Fundraiser Jan. 17, 2023

Ofelia Rivas, the longtime founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall, received an urgent request for food for O'odham families in Sonora. Please donate for food and gas, by way of PayPal on her website, or contact her by email. Thank you. https://www.oodhamrights.org/  Ofelia Rivas e-mail 4oodhamrights@gmail.com

Ofelia lives on the border on the Tohono O'odham Nation and has spent her life as an advocate for O'odham on both sides of the border. Her international human rights efforts and struggle to protect the sacred have taken her to the Mother Earth Conference in Bolivia, UN Climate Summit in Cancun, and United Nations. -- Censored News

Border Nation

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The Tohono O’odham people have lived on both sides of the US-Mexico border since long before either country existed. As an increasingly militarized border threatens their way of life, Ofelia Rivas journeys across the border seeking to revitalize her ancestral village. Border Nation by Jaason Jacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpkU4uJhSiw

Border Nation

Live Fire and Electronic Warfare -- Myron Dewey Died Trying to Prevent It

Paitue Journalist Myron Dewey spent his final hours trying to prevent it. Now, President Biden and Congress have authorized the expansion of the Fallon bombing range. Bombing, live ground fire, and controversial electronic warfare will be expanded on Paiute Shoshone homelands.

By Brenda Norrell
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Translation in French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7615

FALLON PAIUTE SHOSHONE LAND -- When Myron Dewey live streamed the day before his death from the Fallon bombing range, he was doing what he did best, what he had done at Standing Rock. But now, Myron was defending his homeland, the homeland of Wovoka, who like Myron, lived on Walker River Paiute land.

"Protect your spirits, because you are in a place where spirits get eaten," said John Trudell, whose wife and children died in a house fire in nearby Duck Valley while John was protesting the BIA in Washington.

Myron was opposing the expansion of the Fallon bombing range on Paiute Shoshone homelands, and the war machine in Nevada. Bombing, live combat fire, and electronic warfare are carried out here by the Navy Seals' special ops.

The Navy Seals' electronic warfare sites at Fallon are restricted. Electronic warfare includes directed energy, high-energy weapons using lasers, radio-frequency weapons, high-power microwave, electromagnetic pulse, and delivery of electromagnetic cyberspace attacks. Jammers used to deflect incoming missiles are part of military experiments.

"Genocide," was the word that Myron used in his final words as he live-streamed at the Fallon bombing range. The next day, a truck hit his car head-on, on an isolated dirt road near his family's home on Sept. 26, 2021, near Yomba, Nevada.

"Genocide," is the word Myron wanted his grandchildren to remember.

Electronic warfare can stop cars, military files show. Of course, if it can stop a missile, it can stop a car. High-frequency microwave and infrared are part of the Navy Seals bombing range at Fallon, Nevada.