onawah
13th December 2014, 06:33
Outrageous! There is a petition to go to the White House. US citizens, please sign and circulate.
The petition is here:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/san-carlos-apache-leader-seeks-senate-defeat-copper-mine-sacred-land-158181
Article from:
http://bluenationreview.com/house-votes-sell-sacred-apache-lands-international-mining-corporation/?ref=00328
House Votes to Sell Sacred Apache Lands to International Mining Corporation
John Paul Brammer
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The San Carlos Apache Tribe is fighting to preserve sites sacred to them after lawmakers slipped a clause in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would swap 2,400 acres of copper-containing land for 5,300 acres of substandard land, allowing the international corporation Resolution Mining Inc. to mine there.
The land in question is sacred to the Apache, including Oak Flat, Devil’s Canyon, and Apache Leap, where 75 Apache men, women, and children were massacred.
On top of that, the tribe says that the methods used to mine the area, a technique called block cave mining, poses a huge risk for cave-ins and landslides, potentially damaging the site and wildlife.
This is also land set aside by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who specifically said it should be protected from mining.
Can I just say this? We can all agree that if this were land sacred to Christians, destroying it wouldn’t even be a question, right? It just wouldn’t happen.
How hypocritical is it that conservatives are willing to defend the religious freedom of corporations, but we’re all supposed to be okay with a mining company destroying a place that the Apache deem sacred?
Native Americans have long been victims of corporate greed, as we saw with the Keystone XL Pipeline in which the Lakota barely managed to fight off the pipeline from bisecting their Sacred Treaty Lands.
Native San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler is trying to gather support to stop the land transfer:
“It may seem impossible but our elders have taught us not to lose faith in the power of prayer and of course prayer will be there to help guide us through, but as far as a strategy, we know it’s going to take a grassroots effort and a lot of awareness in the public eye to see our side of the story and that’s what we need to get out there.”
We need to tell the San Carlos Apache that they are not alone. One way you can help is to sign the White House petition, Stop the Apache Land Grab, which is already well on its way to the needed 100,000 signatures.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-apache-land-grab/rnMfH0WL
We owe it to the people who were here first.
H/T: Indian Country Today Media Network
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/san-carlos-apache-leader-seeks-senate-defeat-copper-mine-sacred-land-158181
John Paul Brammer is a Contributing Editor at BNR. His writing on LGBT and Latino issues has appeared in The Advocate and Huffington Post. Find him on twitter: @jpbrammer
The petition is here:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/san-carlos-apache-leader-seeks-senate-defeat-copper-mine-sacred-land-158181
Article from:
http://bluenationreview.com/house-votes-sell-sacred-apache-lands-international-mining-corporation/?ref=00328
House Votes to Sell Sacred Apache Lands to International Mining Corporation
John Paul Brammer
yiME3XWEPjU
The San Carlos Apache Tribe is fighting to preserve sites sacred to them after lawmakers slipped a clause in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would swap 2,400 acres of copper-containing land for 5,300 acres of substandard land, allowing the international corporation Resolution Mining Inc. to mine there.
The land in question is sacred to the Apache, including Oak Flat, Devil’s Canyon, and Apache Leap, where 75 Apache men, women, and children were massacred.
On top of that, the tribe says that the methods used to mine the area, a technique called block cave mining, poses a huge risk for cave-ins and landslides, potentially damaging the site and wildlife.
This is also land set aside by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who specifically said it should be protected from mining.
Can I just say this? We can all agree that if this were land sacred to Christians, destroying it wouldn’t even be a question, right? It just wouldn’t happen.
How hypocritical is it that conservatives are willing to defend the religious freedom of corporations, but we’re all supposed to be okay with a mining company destroying a place that the Apache deem sacred?
Native Americans have long been victims of corporate greed, as we saw with the Keystone XL Pipeline in which the Lakota barely managed to fight off the pipeline from bisecting their Sacred Treaty Lands.
Native San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler is trying to gather support to stop the land transfer:
“It may seem impossible but our elders have taught us not to lose faith in the power of prayer and of course prayer will be there to help guide us through, but as far as a strategy, we know it’s going to take a grassroots effort and a lot of awareness in the public eye to see our side of the story and that’s what we need to get out there.”
We need to tell the San Carlos Apache that they are not alone. One way you can help is to sign the White House petition, Stop the Apache Land Grab, which is already well on its way to the needed 100,000 signatures.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-apache-land-grab/rnMfH0WL
We owe it to the people who were here first.
H/T: Indian Country Today Media Network
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/san-carlos-apache-leader-seeks-senate-defeat-copper-mine-sacred-land-158181
John Paul Brammer is a Contributing Editor at BNR. His writing on LGBT and Latino issues has appeared in The Advocate and Huffington Post. Find him on twitter: @jpbrammer