O'odham Victory: Halting Hazardous Waste Dump at Sacred Quitovac

O'odham shut down Route 2 at Quitovac, shown above. Photo copyright Jason Jaacks. Below: O'odham  shut down the border crossing at Sonoyta/Lukeville in 2006 in their successful actions that halted a planned hazardous waste dump near their Ceremonial place of Quitovac, just south of the Arizona border. Ofelia Rivas, founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall, led the successful effort to halt the chemical waste dump. Photos copyright Ofelia Rivas.
The new website is: O'odham Rights
https://www.oodhamrights.org/

 

Protest at Mexican Consulate in Tucson. Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas.

Celebrating Victory: O'odham Shut Down Border and Halted Chemical Dump at Quitovac 

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Today we honor the victory of traditional O'odham who halted a hazardous waste dump near their Ceremonial place of Quitovac, on O'odham land in Sonora, just south of the Arizona border.

Navajo Nation receives $1.8 billion from U.S. American Rescue Plan Act

Navajo's future will be brighter and we will continue to coordinate with county, state and federal officials to monitor the evolving impacts of the coronavirus," said Speaker Seth Damon of the 24th Navajo Nation Council.

By Navajo Nation Office
of the President and the Vice President
and Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker

Navajo Nation receives initial $1.8 billion
allocation through the American Rescue Plan Act

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation received notice on Friday from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, acknowledging receipt of "complete and accurate" information and documentation that was submitted by the Navajo Nation Washington Office on May 21, which was used to calculate the allocation of funding through the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act that provides $20 billion for tribes to help recover from the devastating impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Following the notice, the Navajo Nation received its initial funding allocation totaling $1,861,554,458.43.

Thacker Pass preliminary injunction filed to halt lithium mine

Thacker Pass photo by Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson

Conservation and Public Accountability Groups Ask Court to Block Construction of the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine

by Great Basin Resource Watch

Chelsey Hand | May 27, 2021
Kelly Fuller, Western Watersheds Project,  kfuller@westernwatersheds.org
John Hadder, Great Basin Resource Watch john@gbrw.org
Kevin Emmerich, Basin and Range Watch Kemmerich@basinandrangewatch.org
Katie Fite, Wildlands Defense, katie@wildlandsdefense.org

RENO, Nevada — Today four conservation and public accountability groups filed for a preliminary injunction in the Federal District Court in Reno, asking the court to prohibit construction of the Thacker Pass lithium mine.

The fast-tracked mine was approved by the Bureau of Land Management in January 2021, only five days before President Biden took office and less than one year after the mine began its environmental review process. The four groups filed federal litigation challenging the mine’s approval in February 2021.

Treaty People Gathering June 5 -- 8: Stop Enbridge Line 3 in Northern Minnesota

Water Protectors Call to Action

https://welcomewaterprotectors.com/events/treatypeoplegathering-june

"We rise together for treaties. We rise together for climate. We rise together for our water. We rise together for one another. As Enbridge builds Line 3 through Anishinaabe treaty land and the Mississippi Headwaters, we continue to stand strong in our resistance.

"We will not stand by and watch a fossil fuel corporation line its pockets as so much is destroyed, producing oil we don't need.

"On June 5 -- 8, we will gather in Northern Minnesota to put our bodies on the line, to stop construction and tell the world that the days of tar sands pipelines are over.

"Only a major, nonviolent uprising - including direct action will propel this issue to the top of the nation's consciousness and force Biden to act. We are rising. Join us."