Cree Nation Hosts Uranium Film Festival in Quebec City

Published on Apr 16, 2015

World Uranium Symposium, Quebec, 24.-16.April 2015, Quebec City, Canada, by Cree Grand Chief Matthew CoonCome

THE CREE NATION KEEPS URANIUM IN THE SPOTLIGHT

By Cree Nation
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QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC – THE CREE NATION HAS KEPT URANIUM IN THE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK, HOSTING THE INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL AND PARTICIPATING IN THE WORLD URANIUM SYMPOSIUM IN QUEBEC CITY. THE CREE NATION’S POSITION AGAINST URANIUM DEVELOPMENT IN EEYOU ISTCHEE, ITS TERRITORY IN NORTHERN QUEBEC, HAS GARNERED SUPPORT NOT ONLY FROM THE PEOPLE OF QUEBEC, BUT ALSO FROM THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS AND CELEBRITIES GATHERED THIS WEEK FOR BOTH EVENTS.

“WE HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT ONCE QUEBECERS LEARNED WHAT THE CREE NATION HAS COME TO KNOW ABOUT URANIUM MINING AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE, THEY WOULD STAND WITH US. THIS PAST YEAR HAS PROVED THIS TO BE TRUE,” SAID GRAND CHIEF DR. MATTHEW COON COME. “WE HAVE PROUDLY PARTNERED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL TO SHOW QUEBECERS THAT THE WORLD STANDS WITH US AS WELL. WE HAVE BEEN VERY PLEASED BY THE TURNOUT AND INTEREST THIS EVENT HAS GENERATED BOTH IN QUEBEC AND AROUND THE WORLD.”

The Cree Nation’s stand against uranium development began in 2008 when junior mining company Strateco Resources applied to the Quebec Government to pursue the Matoush advanced uranium exploration project. Located on the family hunting grounds of the Cree Nation of Mistissini, at the crest of two major watersheds that bring water throughout Eeyou Istchee, the Matoush project was the most advanced uranium project to date in Quebec. The Government of Quebec has since denied the required permit for the Matoush project, due largely to its lack of social acceptability amongst the Cree Nation.

In 2013, the Government of Quebec imposed a moratorium on uranium mining that remains in force, and mandated the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) to undertake a review of the uranium industry in Quebec. Throughout the BAPE’s public hearings, Quebecers joined with the Cree Nation to call on the Government to maintain the ban on uranium development. The BAPE is scheduled to deliver its report in May 2015.

“The Cree Nation has been devoted to this cause for many years now. We have fought tirelessly, and have been vocal in our opposition to uraniumdevelopment on our territory,” said Chief Richard Shecapio of the Cree Nation of Mistissini. “Events like the International Uranium Film Festival and the World Uranium Symposium serve to tell the stories of other people – both aboriginal and non-aboriginal – who have been affected by all phases of the nuclear cycle. It has never been more clear that the legacy of uranium development is unacceptable, and we must all do our part to put an end to it.”

Source: Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)

For further information, please contact :

Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief, GCC

Telephone: (613) 761-1655

Bill Namagoose, Executive Director, GCC

Cellular: (613) 725-7024

Jessica Orkin, Legal counsel

Cellular: (514) 260-2622

Also see: Exposing Uranium Mining: 'Return of Navajo Boy' Receives Yellow Oscar in Rio

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5TH INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL 2015

FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO QUEBEC CITY, MISTISSINI and MONTREAL

The International Uranium Film Festival has reached its 5th year.  In its short history, it screened hundreds of nuclear and atomic films in Rio de Janeiro and other cities. The festival already traveled to 3 continents and 6 countries. It was a guest in the capitals Amman, Berlin, Lisbon, New Delhi, Washington, Window Rock and important cities like New York, Santa Fe, Munich, Mumbai, Hyderabad and São Paulo. 

Now in 2015, the 5th International Uranium Film Festival starts for the first time in Canada, Quebec.  It is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the first explosion of an Atomic Bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945.

The festival runs from April 15 to 25 in Quebec City, Concorde Hotel, along with the World Uranium Symposium. In addition, special screenings will also happen on April 18 in Mistissini, the largest community of the James Bay Crees in Quebec, and on April 23 in Montreal. The films selected for the Uranium Film Festival 2015 will compete for the festival's "Yellow Oscar Award" in different categories. The winners will be announced on Saturday evening, April 25th, at the award and closing ceremony of the festival in Quebec City.

After the festival in Quebec, the International Uranium Film Festival continues in Brazil, July 9 - 19 at Rio de Janeiro's Modern Art Museum (Cinemateque) and October 5 -7 in Florianopolis.
Photo: International Uranium Film Festival at Rio de Janeiro Modern Art Museum

New Mexicans fight dirty coal of San Juan Generating Station on Navajo Nation

Dirty Coal: San Juan Generating Station

NEW MEXICANS DEMAND THAT ATTORNEY-GENERAL BALDERAS

PROTECT CONSUMERS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT

By Jim Mackenzie and Anna Rondon

Censored News

April 21, 2015

Anna Rondon, Dine'

Today, representatives of more than 40 health, environment, Native American, consumer and faith-based organizations urged Attorney General Hector Balderas to withdraw his support for a stipulated agreement with Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) to replace energy from two retiring units at San Juan Generating Station with dirty, expensive coal and nuclear power.

The organizations, representing tens of thousands of New Mexicans, formally requested that the Attorney General join Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties, the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo Water Utility Authority in recognizing that the stipulated agreement does not provide the most cost-effective energy, yet it will have dire public health and environmental consequences.

“New Mexicans deserve better from our Attorney General,” said Jim Mackenzie of 350.org. “It is the responsibility of AG Balderas to protect consumers from the risks and consequences of PNM’s reckless coal and nuclear plan. So far, Balderas has failed to do so; but he still has an opportunity to step up on behalf of the consumers he is supposed to represent.”

“Attorney General Balderas campaigned as the ‘little guy from Wagon Mound,’” said Anna Rondon of Idle No More – Four Corners, “but he has shirked his responsibilities to New Mexico’s ‘little guys.’ Instead, he has sided with the corporate monopoly of PNM and its out–of–town shareholders. It’s tragic, but it’s not too late for him to act responsibly.”

Mohawk Nation News CANADA'S SMALL TIME RICHARD NIXON

CANADA’S SMALL TIME RICHARD NIXON

Posted on April 20, 2015

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MNN. April 20, 2015.Prime Minister Harper is trying to be like “Tricky Dickie”. But he’s just “Stinking Stevie”, a used car salesman pitching bribes to buy votes. He relies on public apathy. Only 30% will vote in the system he controls. Each family will get $2000 as part of his “honest corruption” scheme.

Harper’s ecstasy of power, snorting the constitution and sending our kids off to war.

The CBC experts of nothing panels called it Harper’s election strategy. It’s actually “payola” to promote himself. “Trust me. I’m doing what I promised”, he urges. The sleeping populace is snoring, “Are Mulcair and Trudeau going to out-do Harper?”

Harper is desperately steering away from the anti-terror enabling bill C-51 that sets up the police state, the immediate conscription of our children for his war and the pipeline police on behalf of his multinational energy corporate backers. Millions are resisting C-51 in the streets. 80% want no part of it. The media doesn’t mention it.

Harper: “If you want the dough, vote for me.”

Ongwe’hon:weh always want freedom. Our resistance to brutal oppression lead to the murder of most of our people. C-51 allows Canadians to be treated like INDIANS. The social upheaval in the US lead to the famous Ludlow massacre in 1914. Dissent was suppressed. Prices were overinflated. Everything was controlled by the corporations. Miners resisted working conditions. The United Mine Workers of America were organizing. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation was owned by the notorious anti-union Rockefeller family. The merciless killings is history. The same corporate elite support Harper’s election campaign.1914 Ludlow Massacre.

Rockefeller: “It matters not who wins the vote. We do the counting!”

The bankers had the money all along. Now they will give it out to buy Harper’s power. Canadians may vote for the money and conscription. if so, they will face what Dekanawida saw. Their leaders in a rough, dirty place, their frightening appearance, snakes woven in their hair, their body crooked and misshapen and they will be unbearably cruel to them. What will the parents say when they took $2000 and put their children on the front line? It is time to comb the snakes out of their hair, it is time for the peace.

As the band Muse points out so well, [Uprising]. “Paranoia is in bloom. The PR transmissions will resume. Another promise, another seed, another package. Lie to keep us trapped in greed. And the green belts wrapped around our minds. And endless red tape to keep the truth confined. So come on. They will not force us. They will stop degrading us. They will not control us. We will be victorious. So come on!”

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Our struggle against settler colonialism.

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Politically motivated audits.

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Sandra Rambler 'Traditionally Speaking' Remembering Ned Anderson

Traditionally Speaking
By Sandra Rambler, San Carlos Apache
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Photo by Sandra Rambler: Former Tribal Chairman and ITCA President, Dr. Ned Anderson met with IHS Director, Michael Trujillo, on May 12, 1982 regarding the new hospital for the San Carlos Apaches.

What an honor it is to say that I worked for four different tribal leadership in my life.  Dr. Ned Anderson, Sr., Harrison Talgo, Sr. (Interim), Wendsler Nosie, Sr., and Raymond Stanley, Sr.  Each of these Tribal Chairman contributed through their leadership to the San Carlos Apache Tribe.  And having worked for them in various capacities as Tribal Secretary, Community Press Liaison and Cultural Advisor, I realize how fortunate I am to have gained their trust enough to employ me to work for them under their leadership.

Tribal politics can be rough.  It can get ugly.  But, it’s the leadership that that keeps the people together as one strong nation.

Not everyone will be pleased with what you try to do for them.  If someone is mad, someone else will be upset about something else, it never ends.  You have to stay focus on your job.  Smile, be courteous and above all, treat everyone equal as much as you can even though it might be hard and someone is ready to throw something at you because you didn’t vote for their choice.  

The most common advice that I received from these tribal leaders was always, “Remember to pray,” or “don’t forget to pray,” or “did you pray today?”

Each of the meetings always began with a prayer.  The respect was always there at the beginning of each meeting and gathering.  

It was during the time when Dr. Ned Anderson, Sr., was our Tribal Chairman, in 1988, be presented to the Tribal Council, the passing of the Robert’s Rules of Order.  He was a firm believer in true democracy and always instilled the importance of our right to vote in our tribal elections and after 1948, the right to vote in our state and federal elections.  

Our tribal voting was usually on the first Tuesday in April of each year until he presented a resolution to the Tribal Council around that time period and asked them to change the Tribal Election Day to the first Tuesday in November which would coincide with the state and federal elections.  He would say, “Kill three birds with one stone and go out there and exercise your right to vote!”

Through his expertise in the law field, he was able to establish law and order for us.  He was also an avid hunter and always went hunting for big game.  He helped bring tourism through the San Carlos Lake Development and also through our Recreation and Wildlife Department.  He helped incorporate the concept of Indian Gaming when no one thought that we would ever have the Apache Gold Casino and now the tribe is working on their second Apache Sky Casino.

He had a great sense of humor.  Often times, members of the Tribal Council would tease one another, chat in Apache and tease one another.  Of course, there were serious times when business was taken care of.

He had a great respect and deep love for his wife, Delphine Hinton Anderson.  She was the love of his life and together they had beautiful children whom he also loved very dearly.

He was a champion of Native American Indian Rights!  He believed in self-governance and promoted education, health and especially housing for many of our Apache People.

It was through his hard work and long tiring and endless hours with other members of the Tribal Council, that they had reached a decision one of their Tribal Council meetings in the early 1980’s and filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for accounting and land claims and water rights claims which were all later settled.  The San Carlos Apache Tribe was victorious!  And you should have seen his smile when all this came to fruition.

I remember when some of us received our per capita checks, this one lady from Navajo Point, the late Marion Kitcheyan said, “Thank you, Chairman Anderson!  I bought a washer and dryer with my money and now I am wearing clean clothes that I just washed!”

Another tribal member from out-of-state had written that she would be using her per capita check to pay for travel expenses to enroll her grandchildren because Chairman Anderson made her even more proud to be San Carlos Apache!  She had stayed away too long and wanted to come back to Apache land before she got any older.  There were other stories.

He was very well mannered and was very professional.  He was kind, compassionate and considerate of others.  He also had a open mind and was always listening to suggestions, but Chairman Anderson had to thoroughly think something out before be acted on it.  He was very intelligent and he was our first San Carlos Apache to graduate from law school and receive his Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson.  I remember how our whole family was so proud of him and my grandmother, Ada Rope Jordan would always refer to him as a role model to us and tell us to be like him.  He made everyone proud.  And I am proud today to call him my, “Uncle Neddy.”

The morning when we received word that he passed on (April 16), I sat and cried and asked Creator God to watch over his family and especially his sons, Sean and Ned, Jr., who now will fulfill his legacy of providing for his family all of his life with his knowledge and always being a working man.

He participated in our traditional ceremonies and had relatives from all over.  He had relatives from all four districts in Bylas, Seven Mile Wash, Gilson Wash and Peridot.  And many relatives from the White Mountain Apache Tribe and other tribes.

He helped put the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, San Carlos, Arizona, on the map.  He brought pride to us through his hard work and commitment to succeed as our tribal leader.

He firmly believed in protecting our Apache way of life and for that, I will always be grateful because that is what many of his relatives are doing today, protecting what is ours, like our ancestral lands as well.

To his wife, Delphine and family, our prayers and love goes out to you all.  Please know that we are very proud of Chairman Anderson for all that he has done for our San Carlos Apaches and Indian Country!  

May Creator God be with you all at this time.  Ahi’yihe! Ashoong!