#PeaceWalkers to #Havasupai's Sacred #RedButte for A #NuclearFree World

#Buddhists Walking to Havasupai's Red Butte in Solidarity to Shut Down #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in Grand Canyon

"We don't know when the contamination is going to reach us, it's just a matter of time"

by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 3, 2024

FLAGSTAFF, #Arizona -- "Jones and Clayson Benally, #Dine', joined walkers as they began their journey from #Flagstaff City Hall to Havasupai's Sacred Red Butte on Wednesday, on the #SacredLands #PrayerWalk for a Nuclear Free World.
Jun San Yasuda, a Nipponzan Myohoji walker for peace, and additional Buddhist monks and nuns are walking over 66 miles from Flagstaff to Sacred Red Butte on Havasupai homelands in solidarity with the fight to stop the Pinyon Plain uranium mine. They plan to reach the sacred butte on Sunday."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/today-peace-walkers-to-havasuapis.html

#DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #PrayerWalk #JunSanAsuda #BuddhistMonks #SacredRedButte #Havasupai #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine #NipponzanMyohoji #FlagstaffArizona #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreMining
#NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons
#NoNuclearPowerPlants #RedButte #NoMining #NoUraniumMining

Sacred Land #PrayerWalk: Flagstaff to Red Butte

Havasupai Oct. 2 -- 6, 2024

via #CensoredNews, September 30, 2024

From October 2 to 6, 2024 #JunSanAsuda, a Nipponzan Myohoji walker for peace, and additional #BuddhistMonks and nuns will be walking over 66 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona to #SacredRedButte on #Havasupai homelands in solidarity with the fight to stop the #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine.

"As a #NipponzanMyohoji walker for peace, #JunSan has walked thousands of miles across Turtle Island over the past 46 years. All are invited to join this meditative prayer walk for a nuclear free world.

"This walk will start Wednesday, October 2, at 10 am outside Flagstaff City Hall."

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/sacred-land-prayer-walk-flagstaff-to.html

#FlagstaffArizona #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreMining
#NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons
#NoNuclearPowerPlants #RedButte #NoMining #NoUraniumMining

[Photo essay] 'We Want a Future! Shut Down #GrandCanyon #UraniumMine'

Scenes from the Rally

Photos by jetsonorama, #CensoredNews
August 24, 2024

"Scenes from the rally today at #RedButte on #Havasupai land opposing #PinyonPlainUraniumMine , in the recently designated Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Footprints of the Grand Canyon #NationalMonument. The action was organized by the #SierraClubArizona (Grand Canyon Chapter) which called upon #GovernorKatieHobbs to work with the #NavajoNation and Havasupai to close the mine. Meanwhile, a six-month moratorium on uranium ore hauling across the Navajo Nation is in effect until the beginning of 2025."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/we-want-future-shut-down-grand-canyon.html

#LeavItInTheGround #NoUranium #ProtectGrandCanyon #WaterIsLife #IndigenousActivism #NoUraniumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #HaulNo #ReaderSupportedNews

#Protests Against #GrandCanyon #UraniumMine Continue

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Coalition statement, via #CensoredNews

GRAND CANYON, #Arizona — "#Conservation advocates will join Tribal leaders and members Saturday, Aug. 24, to demand the closure of the #PinyonPlain uranium mine that threatens the waters of the Grand Canyon and the #Havasupai Tribe.

What: Protest near #RedButte and the Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine calling on #GovHobbs and federal officials to close the mine.

When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24.

Where: Junction of Highway 64 and Forest Service Road 320, 10.5 miles north of Grand Canyon Junction (Valle, Arizona). Here is a map.

Who: Staff and members of the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, #SierraClub, #ChispaArizona, #WildArizona, National Parks Conservation Association [#NPCA] and other groups will join Havasupai Tribal leaders and members of other Tribes in solidarity and will be available for interviews.

"The mine, which began extracting uranium ore on Jan. 8, is 7 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park, at the foot of sacred Red Butte (Wii'i Gdwiisa in Havasupai), and inside the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

"Saturday’s protest will come after weeks of recent actions opposing the mine and the hauling of radioactive #UraniumOre across the #NavajoNation, which has called the transportation of uranium across its land an infringement on Tribal sovereignty.

"Earlier this month Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren issued an executive order banning shipments of uranium from the mine across the Nation; hauling is now paused. Soon after Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called for an updated environmental study on the mine, warning of potential risks of allowing the mine to proceed under the authority of a nearly 40-year-old Environmental Impact Statement.

"In June, Tribal members and conservation groups delivered a petition with more than 17,000 signatures urging Gov. Hobbs to use her authority to close the mine. In January, 80 groups and scientists called on her to do the same. New research indicates that the best way to protect the waters of the region is to shut down the mine."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/protests-against-grand-canyon-uranium.html

#HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent #NavajoNation #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #ReaderSupportedNews #WaterIsLife #BlackMesa #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #ShutDownPinyonPlain #ProtectTheSacred #Diné #Dinébikeyah #dinetah #NoUraniumMiningWithoutConsent

#Biden Designates Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the #GrandCanyon #NationalMonument https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/biden-designates-baaj-nwaavjo-itah-kukveni-ancestral-footprints-of-the-grand-canyon-national-monument-2023-08-08/ #ConservationOptimism #Conservation

"It harbors sacred sites, like #RedButte, and its diverse ecology includes federally protected species like California #condors and many #plants found nowhere else on Earth."