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#NavajoNation Targeted Again for Sacrifice Zone: '#Energy Companies Preying on the People'

#Diné ask: Why is the Navajo Nation allowing energy companies to prey on communities and individuals?

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 23, 2024

"Dine' on the Navajo Nation are now targeted with a push to revitalize dirty coal energy, and a hydropower project that would pump precious water from their aquifer. Dine' question why the Navajo Nation government is allowing energy companies to prey on the communities and individuals.

"#LouiseBenally of #BigMountain [#KleeBenally's aunt] said the bottom line is greed. 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

"The new stampede of parasitic energy companies to the Navajo Nation comes at the same time that #radioactive #uranium trucks, covered only with tarps, are traveling across the Navajo Nation, from the #GrandCanyon uranium mine to the mill in the #WhiteMesaUte community in Utah.

"At the same time, more than 500 #UraniumMines, and scattered radioactive debris, remain on the Navajo Nation, and was never cleaned up by the U.S. government. Dirty coal mines and power plants left the legacy of death and #ForcedRelocation.

Navajo Council Plans Meeting on Revitalizing Coal Industry

"Citing #Trump's push for new #CoalMining, the #NavajoNationCouncil plans to hold a public hearing on
revitalizing the coal industry.

"The Navajo Nation Council announced the public hearing, stating that on April 8 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled, 'Reinvigorating America’s #BeautifulCleanCoal Industry
and Amending Executive Order 14241' aimed at reversing past federal policies, to boost the coal industry and to strengthen the country’s national energy security, according to the White House.

"The public hearing is scheduled in Forest Lake Chapter on Friday, May 30. Louise Benally and her family spent their lives battling #PeabodyCoal and resisting forced relocation at Big Mountain on #BlackMesa. She said what Trump is doing is another chapter in the assault on the land and people.

" 'Pl 93-531 is a law created by #BarryGoldwater to target our rights to water and land base to be taken away. He developed that law so, with what Trump is trying to do is no different.'

" 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

" 'The American political system is not our government as traditional people which is where all our modern day problems come from in the form of an endless greed to keep eating up the earth and the natural resources.'

"Louise questioned Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren's support of Trump and coal mining in Washington, and Nygren's agreement for uranium trucks to cross the Navajo Nation. 'The Navajo Nation government is at a crossroads. Buu has been taken by Trump, and the people he is supposed to be responsible for are in question.'

" 'He has been taken into the bag of greed -- uranium and coal yet, there is no water. We want accountability.' "

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#BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople
#WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #EnergyFuels
#Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo
#Havasupai #UraniumMines
#EnvironmentalRacism #WhiteMesaMill #NukingTheNavajo #NukingTheUte #Ute #Paiute #Hopi #BidiiRoots #DineCARE #Havasupai #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #UraniumTransport #RadioactiveDust #RememberKleeBenally #BigCoal #DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally
#HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent

Navajo Nation Targeted Again for Sacrifice Zone: 'Energy Companies Preying on the People'

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#Albuquerque, #NewMexico: SOULIDARITY OF NATIONS
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine
4-9pm

Performances
Open Mic
Live Art
Info Booths
Food
Speakers
Bike Clinic Giveaway

All Ages Free Community Event!

Film Screening of Big Mountain Legacy - Last Stories of the Dineh
Documentary made by #NaBaheKatenayKeediniihii

100% Proceeds go to #BlackMesa / #BigMountain Elders & #SaveNorthGaza

Donation Drive for Unsheltered ABQ Relatives
Items to bring: hygiene products, socks, tents, blankets, jackets, gatorade.

1002 Park Avenue
Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico

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#Resistance #BigMountainResistance #WaterIsLife #Solidarity #BigMountain #FreeGaza

Solidarity: From Big Mountain to Palestine, Albuquerque, April 23, 2025

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A few mountain scenes explored recently around Alpental, WA. Been trying to find more about the geology of this area, I heard a while back these peaks were once the top of a massive volcano mountain that sank becoming very steep and wild low elevation terrain. Washington apparently had 25 super volcanos that have come and gone but identifying the details has been challenging. I have been trying to find some good geology resources for Washington if you happen to know of any?

#mountains #geology #freeride #bigmountain #snowboarding #skiing #powder #backcountry #washington #cascades #cascadia

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From the #CensoredNews archives...

2002: #AmericanIndianMovement, #BigMountain Support Group, Sen. Abourezk -- targeted in Denver Police Spy Files, which spanned a decade

By Brenda Norrell Published in 2002

DENVER, Colo. – "The '#DenverSpyFiles,' given the name by the #ACLU in a federal lawsuit, reveals that the Denver Police Department Intelligence Bureau kept secret files on American Indian leaders and their allies, including #WilmaMankiller, #JohnEchohawk, and former South Dakota Sen. #JamesAbourezk."

Read more [scroll down page]: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/03/colorado-colorado-springs-cops-attempt.html

#FreeLeonardPeltier #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier
#BigMountainResistance
#FBI #ACAB #SpyingOnActivists
#WaterProtectors #CriminalizingDissent #ColoradoSprings

COLORADO -- Colorado Springs Cops Attempt to Entrap Activists: Denver Spy Files Revealed Police Spying for a Decade

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From 2022: #ColoradoSprings Cops Attempt to Entrap #Activists: Denver Spy Files Revealed Police Spying for a Decade

by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, March 10, 2022

"An undercover, pink-haired undercover cop in Colorado Springs, attempted to create crimes, and ensnare activists in illegal firearms purchases. Even a #MutualAid group was targeted. This current case in Colorado is a reminder of how Denver cops spied on everyone who supported #BigMountain, #Peltier and #AIM, in the 1990s. Even a grandmother with a Peltier bumper sticker and their attorneys were followed. The documents came out during discovery during a court case.

"The current Colorado Springs covert operation reveals how undercover cops target organizers, and attempt to entrap them, including those in #BlackLivesMatter, and shows that #COINTELPRO continues."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/03/colorado-colorado-springs-cops-attempt.html

#FreeLeonardPeltier #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #BigMountainResistance #AmericanIndianMovement #FBI #ACAB #SpyingOnActivists #WaterProtectors #CriminalizingDissent

COLORADO -- Colorado Springs Cops Attempt to Entrap Activists: Denver Spy Files Revealed Police Spying for a Decade

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"Baby, I Love Your Way" is a song written and performed by English singer Peter Frampton, released as a single in September 1975.The American reggae/pop band...

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O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024

"In the #GilaRiver Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to #NativeAmerican children who were victims of U.S. #BoardingSchools. His glory campaign was short-lived.

"As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: 'There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! #LandBack!'

"Calling out to Biden, she said, 'What about the people in #Gaza! What about the people in #Palestine?'

"'How can you apologize for a #genocide while actively committing a genocide in Palestine! #FreePalestine.'

"Security removed her."

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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html

#NoMiningWithoutConsent #TruthAndReconciliation #Hulapai #ProtectHaKamwe #ProtectThackerPass #SaveOakFlat #RioTinto #CulturalGenocide #DefendTheSacred #StolenChildren #MMIW #WhiteMesa #LosAlamos #BigMountain

O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

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