AIM Liberation Day, Wounded Knee, Feb. 27, 2021
Video on YouTube. https://youtu.be/X9RWIvt8UlE
In the news, Roque Madrid, the medic who flew supplies into Wounded Knee in 1973, and was shot, shares his story.
February 28, 2021
February 24, 2021
Midnight backroom deal threatens to wipe out Apache sacred site. Apache Stronghold makes emergency appeal to Ninth Circuit to save Oak Flat
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| Apache Stronghold in Globe, Arizona today. |
Midnight backroom deal threatens to wipe out Apache sacred site
Apache Stronghold makes emergency appeal to Ninth Circuit to save Oak Flat
Apache Stronghold, Becket Law Firm
Censored News
February 23, 2021
WASHINGTON – Apaches in Arizona filed an emergency appeal last night to save their spiritual lifeblood, a sacred site called Oak Flat, from being destroyed by a copper mine that would swallow their holy ground in a 2-mile wide crater deeper than Eiffel Tower. If the court doesn't intervene, the government will turn this historically protected land over to a mining company that can begin the destruction in as few as 15 days.
In Apache Stronghold v. United States, Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit community organization dedicated to the defense of Native American sacred sites, is pleading with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop a crooked land swap, which would completely destroy the sacred land and religious exercise of the region's first inhabitants. Becket is representing Apache Stronghold, arguing that the destruction of sacred sites is a flagrant violation of the free exercise of religion.
February 23, 2021
Womxn Act for Climate Justice -- Join WECAN online
By WECAN International
Register here
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9216136055559/WN_JWtw3YUOQci66IFWAghLZA
Womxn worldwide are continuing to call for a different path forward in 2021 and beyond as we reweave and forge a path onward in the midst of multiple crises, with global communities confronting the Covid-19 pandemic and intensified climate chaos, racism, gender and economic inequity, Indigenous rights violations, environmental degradation, and much more.
Please be welcome to join us on International Women’s Day, March 8th for "Womxn Act for Climate Justice", a dynamic international network-wide event highlighting the struggles and solutions of womxn climate leaders in the WECAN network. During the interactive gathering, we look forward to sharing inspiring updates from WECAN regional coordinators and allies, as well as exploring some of our plans and vision for 2021 and how you can be involved.
We are committed and steadfast in our collective and ceaseless fight for Indigenous rights, Black liberation, gender equity, rights of nature, true democracies, climate justice, and the protection of this planet we hold so dear. We are inspired by womxn and feminists who are leading resistance movements, building climate solutions, and re-imagining a future grounded in justice and care globally. The small window of opportunity for acting on the climate crisis is already upon us— now is the time for systemic change and building the just and healthy world we seek.
Speakers to date include: Neema Namadamu, WECAN Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Environmental Ambassador, WECAN Senior Project Lead/Board Member; Carmen Capriles, WECAN Coordinator for Latin America; Monique Verdin (Houma Nation), member of Another Gulf is Possible, Director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange, and WECAN Indigenous Food Security & Sovereignty Program Coordinator; Daiara Tukano, Tukano Indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon, Independent communicator and coordinator of Radio Yande; Karina Gonzalez, WECAN Women Speak Programs Coordinator; Rebekah Sawers (Yupik) and Kari Ames (Tlingit), WECAN Indigenous Representatives in the Tongass Forest, Alaska; and comments and analysis by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN Executive Director.
Why Womxn? for this event we chose to use the written word Womxn, which has roots in intersectional feminism, to uplift the varied and intersectional experiences of womxnhood globally. This is an inclusive space across identities and the gender spectrum.
February 20, 2021
Chili Yazzie: The Planet is in Trouble, Time for Conversations with Indigenous
By Duane Chili Yazzie
Shiprock, Navajo Nation
Censored News
The energy development interest is mired in a mindset that says there is nothing wrong with how they do business. The first impulse is to oppose any suggestions that energy development could be done in a different way. They bristle at the talk of addressing the climate crisis and of renewable energy. The automatic reaction to the Biden Administration's strategy on the climate issue has been to hit the trenches with contingency plans to hunker down for an all-out campaign to defend their domain.
February 18, 2021
APACHE APPEAL RULING ALLOWING SACRED OAK FLAT LAND GIVEAWAY. POWERHOUSE LAW FIRM BECKET JOINS APACHE STRONGHOLD LEGAL TEAM.
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| Wendsler Nosie and granddaughter Naelyn Pike. Photo by Steve Pavey |
APACHE APPEAL RULING ALLOWING SACRED OAK FLAT LAND GIVEAWAY
POWERHOUSE LAW FIRM BECKET JOINS APACHE STRONGHOLD LEGAL TEAM
PHOENIX – This afternoon Apache Stronghold filed an appeal of U.S. District Court Judge Steven Logan's February 12, 2021, ruling refusing to prevent the giveaway of sacred Oak Flat to Rio Tinto/Resolution Copper before the completion of litigation. The U.S. Government agreed earlier not to proceed with the land transfer "any sooner than" March 11, 2021; however, Judge Logan refused to stop the giveaway even though a trial will last far beyond that date and the giveaway will happen during the trial without an injunction to stop it.
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