Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

December 3, 2014

Mohawk Nation News 'Another Trail of Tears'

ANOTHER TRAIL OF TEARS

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MNN. Dec. 3, 2014. As Don Corleone said, “We’ll give them an offer they can’t refuse”. The INDIANS known as the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake MCK were obviously trained at the school of dirty tricks. I saw these tactics played on our people when I worked at Indian Affairs. They tried to follow it at the December 2 meeting at the Golden Agers to discuss the Seigneury land issue.
Corpo INDIANS taking orders from the Crown: "Make them sign it!"
Corpo INDIANS taking orders from the Crown: “Make them sign it!”
Canada needs Ongwehonwe consent for pipelines, resource extraction and so on throughout Canada. They want to remove the Mohawks out of Montreal, the same way the Americans wanted the Cherokee out of Georgia. The white people want to populate Kahnawake.
The Seigneury of Sault St. Louis is on Kanionkehaka land. Any deal between Canada and itself through their corporate councils is an internal deal amongst themselves. The Corpo INDIANS are not Ongwehonwe.
Sitting at the front imitating their masters, the INDIANS dictated the CROWN’s agenda. We were told to keep this a secret. The Great Law provides that all meetings are open to everyone. Every mind is important to the whole.
The INDIANS want to put us on the legal fiction called CROWN land? The INDIANS are trying to get us to agree to a price, as the bankers require for their fraudulent economy based on land theft. We are being offered 65,000 acres of our own land near the border, 24,000 acres towards Ottawa or a large tract near Mt. Tremblant, which is Algonquin land. The Seigneury with ten cities on it will become CROWN land. Kahnawake is not a reserve. Not CROWN land. They want us outside of the Seigneury where we have no Ongwehonwe interest.
We want everything granted to the British according the Two Row from 1701 that they accepted. This includes all of Ontario and everything West in what they now call Canada. it’s time for Britain to come to the table again with the Ongwehonwe to create a new wampum belt of reconiliation with us.
That's right! You ain't taking anything!
Everyone in the world knows it’s ours. The traitors among us are ready to make a deal. They are the cancer within. They have left our canoe and put themselves in the white man’s vessel. Te ho na ton ko ton. They have left the circle of the ongwehonwe and immersed themselves totally in the ways of the colonizers. They are no longer Ongwehonwe. They abandoned their mother and family.
When the meeting got hot, a disrupter, known in blogland as the “troll”, would rise up to deflect the conversation. Their lawyer approached me and said, “We were counting on your not showing up, because of your advanced age”.
Kahnawake will always be under the Kaianerekowa, not part of Canada. No filthy pipeline will ever come through here. We are Kahnawake! Kahnawake is us! We will never leave. We will always defend it. As Tom Jones reminds: “Yes, they’ll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree, as they lay me ‘neath the green green grass of home”.
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com or more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com  More stories at MNN Archives.  Address:  Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0Lthahoketoteh@hotmail.com for original Mohawk music visit thahoketoteh.ws

December 2, 2014

Mohawk Nation News 'Stir the Mind'

STIR THE MIND

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MNN. Dec. 2, 2014. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is calling for a one-day community consultation on the supposed loss of the Seigneury of Sault St. Louis SSSL by the Mohawks of Kahnawake. It was not lost. We always knew where it was! We are not the intruders. Yet we are being asked if we want to stay on our homeland. To ask that question means they know it’s ours. Discussion is being restricted to accepting the loss of our lands, whether it’s possible for its return and will we be removed.
Deganawida calls the people together for a meeting of the minds.
Deganawida calls the people together for a meeting of the minds.
These remarks are those of elders who are of like minds, based on our teachings before the coming of the colonizers.
The band council framed the question as though we are accepting the loss of our land. It can’t be returned to us, as it’s already ours. We can’t give up something that belongs to our children. it’s our duty and responsibility to protect the birthright of our children for their free use and right to our homeland.
This international issue must include all Rotinoshonni. SSSL is part of Kanienkehaka, “people of the flint”, which is part of the Rotinoshonni/Iroquois Confederacy, the 49 families of the Confederacy and our friends and allies. The entire area is Kanienkeh. All of our brothers and sisters should be reminded that our lands are not for sale. We continue to adhere to those teachings.
The issue is the illegitimate occupation of non-Ongwehonwe communities on 45,000 acres of a small portion of our massive land tract. The Canadian government is responsible for the centuries of use of our land and resources, disrupting our way of life and the existing problems we have had to endure. How can the non-Ongwehonwe make this up to us? Are those who wish to remain going to cooperate with us? Do the occupiers want to stay or leave? Do they want to live under a council of our People?
Do they wish to follow our law and live in peace with the Ongwehonwe or not? Those settlers who wish to remain must live according to the Kaianerehkowa. Those who do not must vacate and reside among those of like minds. The MCK, an arm of Quebec and Canada, may join us or leave with those who don’t want to comply.
The “legal fiction” is that in 1680 French King Louis XIV gave our land to the Jesuits. In 1762 General Gage of the British military dispossessed them and affirmed the land is that of the Iroquois, their friends and allies.
On October 25, 1924, the colony of Canada illegally turned Kahnawake into a POW camp. Now they want to relocate us. We are here to stay! The settlers who are on the Seigneury will compensate us as they did before the genocidal event of 1924.
The whole economy of US and Canada is based on them continuing the lie that our land can be monetized. As soon as we agree to this fraud, the bankers win. This meeting is meant to put a dollar value on our land. We refuse to participate in this illegal scam.
We are here to stir up your minds. As Charlie Pride says: “Oh, the snakes crawl at night. That’s what they say. When the sun goes down, then the snakes will play”.
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For 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

December 1, 2014

Mohawk Nation News 'CA'NAZISM'

CA’NAZISM

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mnnlogo1MNN. Dec. 1, 2014. Canada is the first colony to register with the Vatican/CROWN in 1867 as a corporate state. The definition of Nazism is the merger of corporation and state. All those carrying Canadian identification are the new Nazis!
Harper's false flag was all about?
Harper is beefing up Bill C-44, the CSIS secret police act, using Hitler’s Enabling Act as the model. Harper calls it the protection of Canada from terrorists act. He will enhance surveillance powers “to more effectively investigate threats to the security of Canada” and disclosure of informants’ identities of those Canadians already on a watch list to combat radicalization.
On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) passed Hitler’s Enabling Act, called the “Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich”. Democracy was ended in Germany and Hitler’s dictatorship was established.
Nazis had caused ‘distress’ to create a crisis atmosphere that made the law “necessary” to restore order. The Reichstag was burnt down to cause panic and outrage, blaming his enemies. An uprising began.  Harper introduced his act just as a gunman launched a false flag in Ottawa on October 22, 2014.
During the vote, the storm troopers stood in the hallways and aisles where the voting took place, chanting, “Full powers – or else!” Hitler spoke to the Reichstag pledging to use these powers only when essential to carry out vitally necessary measures. Harper said of his Act, ”We will not overreact. But it is also time that we stop under-reacting to the great threats against us.” Hitler promised to end unemployment and promote peace. He needed a two-thirds majority to alter the German constitution. Non-Nazis supported him after he promised to restore some basic rights he had taken away by decree.
"We have to take on those Nazis again?"
“Come into our forest, Nazis.”
One man opposed him. Otto Wells, leader of the Social Democrats. He stood up to Hitler pledging, “to solemnly protect the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible.”
Hitler, enraged, screamed, “You are no longer needed! – The star of Germany will rise and yours will sink! Your death knell has sounded!”
The vote was 441 for, 84, against. The Nazis leapt to their feet clapping, stamping and shouting, then broke into the Nazi anthem. Hitler and his corporate financiers successfully tore down the German Democratic Republic legally and ended democracy, leading to a complete Nazi takeover. The Reichstag became merely a sounding board, a cheering section for Hitler’s pronouncements.
Currently the oligarchs are well advanced in their plan to control the globe through corporate “trade treaties”. President Obama is setting up panels of international corporations to override national laws and the rights and protections of workers, consumers and investors worldwide.
Those who accept the Great Peace are the new Indians and are required to help us Ongwehonwe spread the peace and protect Mother Earth, the only way to heal Nazism.
If apathy continues, we will all be singing:
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

November 30, 2014

Bolivia's Nuclear Power Plant is Disturbing News to Native Americans

Native Americans alarmed by Bolivia President Evo Morales announcement of building a nuclear power plant

By Brenda Norrell

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The announcement by Bolivia President Evo Morales that Bolivia would build a nuclear power plant came as troubling news to those who attended the Climate Change and Protection of Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2010.


Ofelia Rivas, O’odham from the O’odham Territory on Turtle Island, was among those from the north who attended the conference in Bolivia and recommends action.

Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk

"As co-President of the Indigenous Working Group on the Rights of Mother Earth at the 2010 World Indigenous Climate Change Summit, I recommend a world-wide petition to express our deep concern of this 'economic liberation' development decision in Bolivia. I recall the words of the grassroots women of Bolivia, and their deep heartfull love of Pachamama, Mother Earth and the absolute determination to protect her.”


Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that his government will invest around $2 billion US through 2025 to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, TeleSur reports.

President Morales said, "We can never feel like a small country again now that we have liberated ourselves economically. With this type of investment toward atomic energy we are going to guarantee that.”

Bolivia began nuclear cooperation with Argentina in May of 2014, and most recently in mid-July, after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Brazil. Morales then announced that the Russian leader offered Bolivia technology and ongoing training for the country's scientists, TeleSur reported.

The nuclear power plant would be built in La Paz province. The announcement was made after uranium was discovered in the Santa Cruz area. In a strange turn of event, La Paz and Santa Cruz were two of the cities that Native Americans arrived in for the Mother Earth Conference in 2010, before traveling on to Cochabamba.

Following the gathering in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Ecuador both passed laws upholding the Rights of Nature.
In Indian country in the United States, Native Americans are quick to point out the dangers of uranium mining and nuclear waste dumps to Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia.

Klee Benally, Dine' (Navajo) said, "The nuclear production process has only meant death for Indigenous Peoples and desecration of sacred lands. From mining, milling, processing, transporting, energy, weapons, and waste, the toxic legacy of nuclear colonialism is anything but a "green alternative." 

"There are more than 10,000 abandoned uranium mines located throughout the US, many of them are in or near Indigenous communities where high cancer rates and birth defects are caused by exposure to these toxic sites. Sacred places like Mount Taylor in New Mexico or Red Butte in Arizona, are desecrated for uranium extraction. The US currently has more than 71,000 metric tons of that it's attempting to store at Yucca Mountain, a sacred site for the Western Shoshone. The Western Shoshone have also faced more than 1,000 atomic bomb detonations on their lands," Klee Benally told Censored News.

Navajos and Pueblos, and other Natives throughout the west, have suffered from cancer and other deadly diseases for decades because of uranium mining. Navajos were sent to their deaths in uranium mines without protective clothing. As late as the 1990s, in the communities of Cove and Red Valley near Shiprock, N.M., on the Navajo Nation, Navajo elders lived in homes built of radioactive rocks. Navajo members of every family in those communities died from cancer from uranium mining. Navajo children in the region played in yards strewn with radioactive rocks from uranium mining. 

Even in the area of the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley on the western portion of the Navajo Nation in Arizona, which are both major tourist attractions, uranium mines and strewn radioactive rocks left a legacy of death.

Manny Pino, Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, said Pueblos died after the radioactive dust covered their foods, and the radioactive dust covered the fields where their livestock grazed. Pueblo women were contaminated further as they washed the clothing of their husbands who worked in the mines.


Today, unreclaimed radioactive tailings remain scattered on the Navajo Nation. The uranium mining corporations have largely escaped responsibility for the widespread deaths and devastation, even as new uranium mining threatens the region.


Further, Western Shoshone battle the threat of nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, as Native American lands have been targeted for dangerous nuclear waste storage. Nuclear disasters have proven there is no safe way to transport or store nuclear waste. Western Shoshone lands were also the site of US atomic bomb testing.


Responding to the deadly dangers of uranium mining and nuclear waste storage, Louise Benally, Dine' of Big Mountain, told Censored News, "It is all bad, it is not safe."


The dangers were resounded in an open letter from the global community to President Morales, posted on Breaking the Nuclear Chain:
Excerpt from the letter:
The safety of a nuclear plant is a myth, fuelled by industry supporters and industrialists, but clearly denied by the facts: the last half-century shows that we must expect an extremely serious accident every few years. The consequences of a major nuclear accident are worse than those of any other accident. The legacy of the Fukushima accident alone will last for decades to burden Japan and the world!
Nuclear energy is a vulnerable target to terrorist attacks and leads to a militarization of the surrounding territory.
For all these reasons, the production of energy by nuclear means is in steep decline all around the world and is likely to continue that way; it is reasonable to expect that the construction of new nuclear power plants and their total number will decrease in the future.
Nuclear power on planet Earth represents the quintessential "anti-nature" form of energy production. Nature uses nuclear reactions in the creation of new worlds in stars. That however is fusion, not fission; on Earth its use is purely episodic and marginal.
There is a tight bond between civil and military nuclear energy production. The materials and basic techniques are the same, with plutonium - the ‘explosive’ material ideal for nuclear power generation as well as nuclear weapons – resulting as a by-product during the chain reaction.
Anna Polo, World without Wars, Italy
Olivier Turquet, chief editor Pressenza Italy
Angelo Baracca, Professor of Physics, Italy
Carlos Vassaux M.D., USA
Dr. Jouni Ylinen, Finland
Ira Helfand, MD,  USA, co-President International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Claudio Giangiacomo, Italy
Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nigeria
Roberto Renzetti, Professor of Physics and essayist, Italy
People for Nuclear Disarmament, Australia
Human Survival Project, Australia

French translation by Christine Prat, thank you!
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2591



LES AMERINDIENS TRES INQUIETS SUITE A L’ANNONCE PAR LE PRESIDENT EVO MORALES DE LA CONSTRUCTION D’UNE CENTRALE NUCLEAIRE
Par Brenda Norrell
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30 novembre 2014
Traduction Christine Prat

L’annonce par le Président de Bolivie Evo Morales suivant laquelle la Bolivie construirait une centrale nucléaire a été perçue comme une nouvelle troublante par ceux qui ont participé à la Conférence sur le Changement Climatique et la Protection de la Terre Mère à Cochabamba, en Bolivie, en 2010.
Ofelia Rivas, O’odham du Territoire O’odham dans l’Ile de la Tortue [Amérique du Nord] Ã©tait parmi ceux du nord qui participaient à la conférence en Bolivie et elle recommande l’action.
« En tant que co-Présidente du Groupe de Travail Autochtone sur les Droits de Notre Mère la Terre au Sommet Mondial Autochtone de 2010 sur le Changement Climatique, je recommande une pétition à l’échelle mondiale pour exprimer notre profonde inquiétude devant cette décision de développement de ‘libération économique’ en Bolivie. Je me souviens de ce qu’ont dit les femmes boliviennes de la base et de leur profond amour pour Pachamama, Notre Mère la Terre et leur détermination absolue de la protéger. »
Le Président bolivien Evo Morales a annoncé que son gouvernement investira environs 2 milliards de dollars d’ici à 2025 pour développer l’énergie nucléaire dans des buts pacifiques, selon la chaîne TeleSur.
Le Président Morales a déclaré : « Nous ne pourrons plus jamais nous considérer comme un petit pays maintenant que nous nous sommes libérés économiquement. Avec ce type d’investissement dans l’énergie nucléaire nous le garantirons. »
La Bolivie a commencé sa coopération nucléaire avec l’Argentine en mai 2014, et plus récemment, à la mis juillet, après une rencontre avec le Président Russe Vladimir Poutine, au Brésil. Morales a alors annoncé que le dirigeant russe offrait à la Bolivie la technologie et la formation continue des scientifiques du pays, dit la chaîne TeleSur.
La centrale nucléaire serait construite dans la province de La Paz. L’annonce a été faite après que de l’uranium ait été découvert dans la région de Santa Cruz. Par un curieux concours de circonstances, La Paz et Santa Cruz sont les deux villes où les Amérindiens sont arrivés pour la Conférence sur la Terre Mère en 2014, avant de se rendre à Cochabamba.
Suite au rassemblement de Cochabamba, La Bolivie et l’Equateur ont adopté des lois affirmant les Droits de la Nature.
En pays Indien aux Etats-Unis, les Amérindiens sont prompts à souligner les dangers de l’extraction d’uranium et des décharges de déchets nucléaires à l’attention des Peuples Autochtones de Bolivie.
Klee Benally, Diné (Navajo), avait dit : « Le processus de production nucléaire n’a signifié que la mort et la profanation de terres sacrées pour les Peuples Autochtones. De l’extraction, au retraitement, au transport, à l’énergie, aux armes et aux déchets, l’héritage toxique du colonialisme nucléaire, est tout sauf une ‘alternative verte’. »
« Il y a plus de 10000 mines d’uranium abandonnées dans tous les Etats-Unis, beaucoup sont situées dans ou à proximité de communautés Autochtones où les taux élevés de cancers et de malformations congénitales sont causés par l’exposition à ces sites toxiques. Des sites sacrés comme le Mont Taylor au Nouveau Mexique ou Red Butte en Arizona, sont profanés pour extraire l’uranium. Les Etats-Unis ont actuellement plus de 71000 tonnes de déchets qu’ils essaient d’entreposer à Yucca Mountain, un site sacré pour les Shoshone de l’ouest. Les Shoshone de l’ouest ont aussi eu plus de 1000 explosions de bombes atomiques sur leurs terres [ce territoire était l’équivalent de Mururoa pour les Français – NdT], » dit Klee Benally à Censored News.
Klee Benally  parlé (et chanté) des mines d’uranium abandonnées à Montreuil en 2013
Les Navajo et les Pueblos, et d’autres Autochtones dans tout l’ouest, ont souffert de cancers et autres maladies mortelles pendant des décennies à cause de l’extraction d’uranium. Des Navajos ont été envoyés à une mort certaine dans les mines d’uranium, sans combinaisons protectrices. Jusque dans les années 1990, dans les communautés de Cove et Red Valley près de Shiprock, au Nouveau Mexique, dans la Nation Navajo, des Navajo âgés ont vécu dans des maisons construites avec des roches radioactives. Des membres de toutes les familles de ces communautés sont morts de cancers à cause de l’extraction d’uranium. Des enfants Navajo de la région jouaient dans des cours parsemées de pierres radioactives à cause de l’extraction d’uranium.
Même dans la région du Grand Canyon et de Monument Valley, dans la partie ouest de la Nation Navajo, en Arizona, deux sites qui sont éminemment touristiques, les mines d’uranium et des pierres radioactives éparpillées ont laissé un héritage mortel.
De nombreux Pino, des Pueblo Acoma du Nouveau Mexique, dirent que des Pueblos étaient morts après que la poussière radioactive ait recouvert leur nourriture, et les champs dans lesquels leur bétail paissait. Des femmes Pueblo ont été contaminées en lavant les vêtements de leurs maris qui travaillaient dans les mines.
Aujourd’hui, des résidus radioactifs non-décontaminés sont toujours dispersés dans la Nation Navajo. Les entreprises minières ont largement été soustraites à leur responsabilité d’avoir semé la mort et la dévastation, alors même que de nouveaux projets d’extraction menacent la région.
De plus, les Shoshone de l’ouest combattent la menace de voir entreposer des déchets nucléaires sur la Yucca Mountain, dans le Nevada, étant donné que les Amérindiens ont toujours été la cible des décharges de déchets nucléaires. Les désastres nucléaires ont prouvé qu’il n’y a pas de moyen sûr de transporter ou d’entreposer les déchets nucléaires. Les terres des Shoshone de l’ouest était aussi le site des essais pour les bombes atomiques des Etats-Unis.
Réagissant aux dangers mortels de l’extraction d’uranium et de l’enfouissement des déchets, Louise Benally, Diné de Big Mountain, a dit à Censored News : « C’est totalement mauvais, il n’y a aucune sécurité. »
Les dangers ont été exprimés dans une lettre ouverte de la communauté mondiale au Président Morales, publiée sur le site Breaking the Nuclear Chain :
Extrait de la lettre :
La sécurité d’une centrale nucléaire est un mythe, promus par les partisans de l’industrie nucléaire et les industriels, mais c’est clairement nié par les faits : le demi-siècle passé montre qu’on peut s’attendre à des accidents extrêmement graves très régulièrement. Les conséquences d’un accident nucléaire majeur sont pires que celles de n’importe quel autre accident. Rien que l’héritage de Fukushima durera des décennies et affectera le Japon et le reste du monde !
L’énergie nucléaire est vulnérable aux attaques terroristes et conduit à la militarisation du territoire aux alentours.
Il y a un lien très étroit entre le nucléaire civil et le nucléaire militaire. Les matériaux et les techniques de base sont les mêmes, avec du plutonium – le matériel ‘explosif’ idéal pour produire de l’énergie nucléaire et fabriquer des armes nucléaires – qui résulte comme sous-produit de la réaction en chaîne.
Signataires :
Anna Polo, World without Wars, Italy
Olivier Turquet, chief editor Pressenza Italy
Angelo Baracca, Professor of Physics, Italy
Carlos Vassaux M.D., USA
Dr. Jouni Ylinen, Finland
Ira Helfand, MD, USA, co-President International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Claudio Giangiacomo, Italy
Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nigeria
Roberto Renzetti, Professor of Physics and essayist, Italy
People for Nuclear Disarmament, Australia
Human Survival Project, Australia

* BOLIVIA – BOUW VAN KERNCENTRALE VERONTRUSTEND NIEUWS VOOR NATIVE AMERIKANEN
Door Brenda Norrell, Censored News:www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Vertaald door NAIS, De NAIS Gazet: www.denaisgazet.be

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De aankondiging van de Boliviaanse president Evo Morales over de bouw van een kerncentrale in Bolivia kwam hard aan bij diegenen die de ‘Climate Change en Protection of Mother Earth ‘ conferentie hebben bijgewoond in 2010.
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                    Ofelia Rivas- foto van Ben Powless
Ofelia RivasO’odham van het O’odham Territory op Turtle Island, een van hen uit het noorden die deelgenomen heeft aan de conference, roept op tot actie.
 “Als co- voorzitter van de Inheemse Werkgroep voor de rechten van Moeder Aarde op de ‘World Indigenous Climate Change Summit,’ in 2010, roep ik op tot een wereldwijde petitie om onze grote bezorgdheid over deze beslissing voor “economische bevrijding” in Bolivia kenbaar te maken. Ik moet steeds denken aan de woorden van de grassroots- vrouwen in Bolivia, en hun diepe liefde voor Pachamama, Moeder Aarde en hun absolute vastberadenheid om haar te beschermen.”
De Boliviaanse president Evo Morales heeft aangekondigd dat zijn regering ongeveer $2 miljard gaat investeren om een kerncentrale te bouwen voor vreedzame doeleinden. Dit volgens TeleSur.
President Morales zei: “ Wij kunnen ons nooit meer een klein land voelen nu dat we onszelf economisch bevrijd hebben. Met dit type van investering in atoomenergie, kunnen wij daar zeker van zijn.”
Bolivia begon de nucleaire samenwerking met Argentina in de maand mei 2014, en nog eens recenter in midden juli na de ontmoeting met de Russische president Vladimir Putin in Brazilië.
TeleSur rapporteerde dat Morales aankondigde dat de Russische leider Bolivia, technologie en training voor Boliviaanse wetenschappers heeft aangeboden.
De kerncentrale zou gebouwd worden in de La Paz provincie.
De aankondiging kwam er nadat er uranium ontdekt was in het Santa Cruz gebied.
Het toeval wil dat in deze twee steden, La Paz en Santa Cruz de Native Amerikaanse delegaties bijeenkwamen alvorens naar Cochabamba door te reizen.
Volgend op de bijeenkomst in Cochabamba hebben Bolivia en Ecuador wetten gestemd om de rechten van de natuur te respecteren.
In Indian Country in de Verenigde Staten wijzen de Native Amerikanen al meteen op de gevaren van de uranium ontginning en nucleaire stortplaatsen.
Klee Benally, Dine’ zegt: “Het nucleaire productieproces betekende alleen maar dood voor inheemsen en ontwijding van sacraal land. Van ontginning, milling, processing, transporteren, energie, wapens, tot afval, is het erfenis van de nucleaire kolonisatie allesbehalve een “groen alternatief.”
“ Meer dan 10.000 verlaten uranium mijnen zijn doorheen de Verenigde Staten gelokaliseerd, veel daarvan in of nabij inheemse gemeenschappen waar hoge kankersterftes en geboorteafwijkingen vastgesteld zijn, veroorzaakt door blootstelling aan deze toxische sites.
Sacrale plaatsen zoals Mount Taylor in New Mexico of Red Butte in Arizona, zijn ontheiligd door uranium ontginningen.
De Verenigde Staten willen meer dan 1000 kilo opslaan op de Yucca Mountain, een sacrale site voor de Western Shoshone. De Western Shoshone hebben ook reeds te maken gekregen met 1000 atoom bom -detonaties op hun land,” zegt Klee Benally aan Censored News.
Navajo’s en Pueblo’s, en andere Natives in het westen, lijden al tientallen jaren aan kankers en andere dodelijke ziekten door de uranium ontginningen.
Navajo’s werden de dood ingestuurd in uranium mijnen zonder beschermende kledij. Zelfs recent, in de jaren 1990, woonden Elders in de gemeenschappen van Cove en Red Valley, nabij Shiprock, N.M. in huizen die gebouwd waren van radioactieve rotsen.
Van iedere familie in deze gemeenschappen stierven er vele aan de kankers veroorzaakt door de uraniummijnen. Navajo kinderen speelden in tuinen die bezaaid waren met radioactieve stenen.
Zelfs in het gebied van de Grand Canyon en Monument Vallei in het westelijke gedeelte van de Navajo natie in Arizona, die beiden belangrijke toeristen attracties zijn, hebben de uranium mijnen en radioactieve afval hun erfenis van dood achtergelaten.
Manny Pino, Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, zei dat Pueblos gestorven zijn nadat radioactief stof neerkwam op hun voedsel, en het stof bedekte de velden waarop hun vee graasde. Pueblo vrouwen werden nog veder besmet door het wassen van de kleding van hun mannen die in de mijnen werkten.
Tot op vandaag, ligt er nog radioactief afval verspreid over de Navajo natie. De uraniummijn corporaties ontsnappen aan de verantwoordelijkheid voor de wijdverspreide dood en verwoesting, zelfs nu nog wanneer nieuwe ontginningen in het gebeid dreigen.
Verder bevechten de Western Shoshone de bedreiging van nucleaire afval op Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Nucleaire rampen hebben het bewijs geleverd dat er geen veilige manier is om nucleair afval te transporteren of op te slaan. Western Shoshone land was ook de site waar de US atoombom getest werd.
Louise Benally, Dine’ van Big Mountain zei aan Censored News: “Het is allemaal slecht, niets is veilig.”
De gevaren weerklinken in de open brief van de ‘global community’ aan President Morales, gepost op ‘Breaking the Nuclear Chain’:

Uittreksel:
De veiligheid van een kerncentrale is een mythe, gevoed door industriëlen en hun aanhangers , maar duidelijk weerlegt door de feiten: de laatste helft van de eeuw toont ons dat we om de paar jaar een extreem ernstig accident kunnen verwachten.
De gevolgen van een belangrijk nucleair accident zijn erger dan de ergste van eender welk ander accident.
De erfenis van het Fukushima accident alleen al zal nog tientallen jaren aanslepen en Japan en de wereld belasten.

Nucleaire energie is een kwetsbaar doel voor terrorist aanvallen en leid tot een militarisering van het omliggende gebied.

Voor al deze redenen, de productie van energie door nucleaire middelen over de hele wereld is aan een teruggang bezig, die waarschijnlijk nog zal verder gaan; is het redelijk om te verwachten dat de bouw van nieuwe kerncentrales zal afnemen.
Kernenergie op planeet Aarde vertegenwoordigd de zuiverste “anti-nature” vorm van energie productie.
Natuur gebruikt nucleaire reacties in de creatie van nieuwe werelden in sterren. Dat echter is fusie, geen splitsing; op aarde is zijn gebruik louter episodisch en marginaal.

Er is een sterke band tussen burgerlijke en militaire energie productie. De materialen en basis technieken zijn hetzelfde, met plutonium – het “explosieve” materiaal ideaal voor zowel kerncentrales als atoomwapens- resulteert als een bij- product tijdens de kettingreactie.

Lees meer:
Anna Polo, World without Wars, Italy
Olivier Turquet, chief editor Pressenza Italy
Angelo Baracca, Professor of Physics, Italy
Carlos Vassaux M.D., USA
Dr. Jouni Ylinen, Finland
Ira Helfand, MD,  USA, co-President International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Claudio Giangiacomo, Italy
Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nigeria
Roberto Renzetti, Professor of Physics and essayist, Italy
People for Nuclear Disarmament, Australia
Human Survival Project, Australia