[Thread] #Indigenous #SpiritualWalk in #Utah #Protests Last Conventional #UraniumMill

By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot November 1, 2024

#WhiteMesa, #Utah — "The #WhiteMesaMill was built in 1979 with plans to process #uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States.

"Participants met at the White Mesa Community Center in southern Utah at 11 a.m., then walked five miles north on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 191 to rally outside the mill. Throughout the hours-long walk, Unicorn Riot spoke with attendees about their opposition to the 45-year-old mill owned by Energy Fuels Inc."

Thread contains links to the four videos...

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/indigenous-spiritual-walk-in-utah-protests-last-conventional-uranium-mill/

#UnicornRiot #EnvironmentalRacism #Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons #UraniumMining #UraniumMills #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #RadioactiveDust #RadioactiveContamination #ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife #UteMountainUte #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMills

#Indigenous #SpiritualWalk to #WhiteMesa #Uranium Mill -- Unicorn Riot's Four Part Video Series

“I will always do this spiritual walk annually until I get my goal achieved of cleaning up the mill or closing the mill down.” -- Yolanda Badback, White Mesa #Ute walk organizer.

By Alex Binder, #UnicornRiot November 1, 2024
via #CensoredNews

White Mesa, #Utah — "The White Mesa Mill was built in 1979 with plans to process uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States.

"Participants met at the White Mesa Community Center in southern Utah at 11 a.m., then walked five miles north on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 191 to rally outside the mill. Throughout the hours-long walk, Unicorn Riot spoke with attendees about their opposition to the 45-year-old mill owned by #EnergyFuels Inc."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/indigenous-spiritual-walk-to-white-mesa.html

Watch the new four-part video series:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/indigenous-spiritual-walk-in-utah-protests-last-conventional-uranium-mill/

#WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesaMill #ReaderSupportedNews #UraniumMining #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoUraniumMining #HaulNo #NoNuclearWeapons #UteMountainUte #ShutDownWhiteMesa

via @UnicornRiot

"This video is Part One of our four-part series 'Voices from White Mesa.'

On Oct. 12, members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe held their annual spiritual walk opposing the White Mesa Uranium Mill in Southern Utah."

https://vimeo.com/1023001432

#WhiteMesa #WhiteMesaUraniumMill #Ute #SpiritualWalk #HaulNo #UteMountainUte #WhiteMesa #WaterIsLife #ProtectTheSacred #ShutDownWhiteMesaMill
#NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoUraniumMining #TohonoOodham

Photographs from the #WhiteMesaUte Community #SpiritualWalk and #Protest, Oct. 12, 2024

Photos by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham

"The Spiritual Walk began with a prayer song acknowledging the #Creator this morning, and the reminder that this is Indigenous land. Walkers were asked to respond if they were called on to stop the trucks bringing in #radioactive loads, with the reminder that the radioactive trucks are endangering everyone on the haul route."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/white-mesa-ute-community-spiritual-walk.html

#HaulNo #UteMountainUte #WhiteMesa #WhiteMesaUraniumMill #WaterIsLife #ProtectTheSacred #ShutDownWhiteMesaMill
#NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoUraniumMining #TohonoOodham

Now! #WhiteMesa #Ute Community #SpiritualWalk and #Protest, Oct. 12, 2024

"The #UteMountainUte community invites everyone to come out and a join in this spiritual walk!! Come out and support the community of #WhiteMesa Saturday, October 12, 2024!!

"Rally starts at 11AM MDT, followed by the spiritual and protest walk to the #WhiteMesaUraniumMill.

Sponsored By:
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and White Mesa Concerned Community

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/white-mesa-ute-community-spiritual-walk.html

For more information: protectwhitemesa.org

#WaterIsLife #ProtectTheSacred #ShutDownWhiteMesaMill #HaulNo
#NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoUraniumMining

#archaeology #landscape #visualization from #lidar - 16th in a series, and my 13th post on #ChacoanBeltRoads.

Like the last one, this belt road is on #UteMountainUte tribal lands in #Colorado. This one is a little unusual because while it is located in the center of a large cluster of smaller sites, there is no single large site directly associated with the feature itself.

Second observation: these are probably not "roads" in any utilitarian sense.

#ArchaeologyLandscapeVisualization

#archaeology #landscape #visualization from #lidar - 15th in a series, and my 12th post on #ChacoanBeltRoads.

This belt road is on #UteMountainUte tribal lands and as as far as I know has never been documented.

We're approaching the end of this series, so perhaps now it is time to ask the question - what are these things? The first observation we can make is that they are not pan-Chacoan. No belt roads have been found on sites in #ChacoCanyon itself.

#ArchaeologyLandscapeVisualization

#archaeology #landscape #visualization from #lidar - 14th in a series, and my 11th post on #ChacoanBeltRoads.

This belt road is also on #MesaVerde in #Colorado but not on the National Park. It is on #UteMountainUte tribal lands. Note the road leading to the southeast from the architectural block at the center of the loop. The loop is mostly in pinyon/juniper woodland and is not visible at all in aerial imagery.

#ArchaeologyLandscapeVisualization