Navajo Police Attempt To Dismantle Desert Rock Barricades
marco 22 Dec 2006 03:30 GMTSithe Global & DPA are proposing to build the Desert Rock power plant , a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Reservation. This is an area already polluted by 2 other major coal power plants ( Four Corners and San Juan power plants ). Local Navajo residence and community members oppose this project for many harmful reasons!! This Desert Rock power plant is still in the environmental review process and has NOT yet been permitted.
However, Desert Rock company trucks have began moving onto the backyard of Alice Gilmore, an elderly Navajo woman, and her family on Wednesday to begin drilling efforts. Desert Rock officials and police have not shown any documents or permits to the local residents stating their purpose or permission to be there. Dine supporters and community members have joined Alice and her family to blockade the road. They are elderly women and youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night since Tuesday! Desert Rock trucks have repeatedly rushed them and have almost run-over people a number of times as they attempt to get by. Desert Rock power company is violating the lease rights of the local Navajo residences and is harassing elderly Navajo women and youth! This is an urgent time and support is needed!!!
UPDATE: Navajo elderly served with restraining orders | More Updates from Desert-Rock-Blog.com | Initial AZ-IMC Newswire Story | Infoshop.Org Story | UN Observer Account |
Video: Making A Stand |
Audio From Firstvoicesradio.org
Sithe Global & DPA are proposing to build the Desert Rock power plant , a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Reservation. This is an area already polluted by 2 other major coal power plants ( Four Corners and San Juan power plants ). Local Navajo residence and community members oppose this project for many harmful reasons!! This Desert Rock power plant is still in the environmental review process and has NOT yet been permitted.
However, Desert Rock company trucks have began moving onto the backyard of Alice Gilmore, an elderly Navajo woman, and her family on Wednesday to begin drilling efforts. Desert Rock officials and police have not shown any documents or permits to the local residents stating their purpose or permission to be there. Dine supporters and community members have joined Alice and her family to blockade the road. They are elderly women and youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night since Tuesday! Desert Rock trucks have repeatedly rushed them and have almost run-over people a number of times as they attempt to get by. Desert Rock power company is violating the lease rights of the local Navajo residences and is harassing elderly Navajo women and youth! This is an urgent time and support is needed!!!
UPDATE: Navajo elderly served with restraining orders | More Updates from Desert-Rock-Blog.com | Initial AZ-IMC Newswire Story | Infoshop.Org Story | UN Observer Account | Video: Making A Stand | Audio From Firstvoicesradio.org Interview by First People's Radio
adresses utiles
morganix 22.Dec.2006 12:03
eILeS ont besoin de gens et de bois pour brûler la nuit quand y fait pas chaud dans le désert
thebrownmachine@hotmail.com
georgehardeen@opvp.org
une description de la route se trouve ici
sinon y a moyen d'envoyer des sous :
adressez à Elouise Brown
1015 Glade Lane 34
Farmington, NM 87401
Elouise can also be reached at:
puis faites circuler l'info, parce que le plus de personnes informéEs, le moins de chance que Desert Rock aura de s'en tirer impunément s'eILeS écrasent qqn ou continuent d'harceler les gens
pour contacter des officielLEs:
Shiprock Police Department
phone: (505) 368-1350
fax: (505) 368-1293
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley's Office
P.O. Box 9000 Window Rock, Arizona, 86515
phone #: (928) 871- 6352
aussi: George Hardeen, Navajo Nation Communications Director Office of the President
Office #: 928-871-7000
Cell #: 928-380-7688
e-mail:
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Gallup Office) qui conduisent l' Environmental Impact Statement. (Déclaration sur l'Impacte Environnemental)
Harrilene Yazzi, NEPA Coordinator Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo Regional Office
P.0. Box 1060 Gallup, New Mexico 87305
Phone: 505-863-8314
Fax: 505-863-8324
merci de votre soutien:
Enei Begaye
Executive Director
Black Mesa Water Coalition
408 E. Route 66, Suite #1
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Office #: (928) 213-9760
PRESS RELEASE
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Contacts:
Sarah Jane White, Doodá Desert Rock Committee (505) 860-6166
Dailan J. Long , Diné CARE, Doodá Desert Rock Committee (505) 801-0713
Elouise Brown, Doodá Desert Rock Committee (505) 974-6159
Lori Goodman, Diné CARE (970) 759-1908
No Arrests Some Brutality And Harrassment
marco 22.Dec.2006 13:19
There were no arrests, thanks to phone calls and emails. But there was brutality and harrassment. Please remain vigilant.
Update on Dine' Blockade - NO Arrests Made! Calls Worked!
by Klee Benally and Tom Goldtooth
The camp continues - Support is still needed!
~k
Update on Dine' Blockade - NO Arrests Made! Calls Worked!
Body: Update of the Navajo Nation Desert Rock Blockade (9:30 p.m. MST, 12/21/06)
Update posted by Tom Goldtooth, Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
All your calls to the Navajo Nation today have been working! As of this late evening, we heard from the people at the Blockade that the Navajo police have NOT made any arrests (yet).
All the supporters must understand that from late morning to early afternoon today, the elders and resisters at the Blockade, for all intensions and purposes, actually were thinking they were going to be arrested. Reports came in from the Blockade that there were up to 21 numerous types of police, ambulance and tribal ranger vehicles ascending on the site. According to Dailan Jake Long, the media contact at the Blockade, some of the tribal police came all the way from Tuba City, Arizona, in addition to local Shiprock, New Mexico police vehicles.
Dine’ CARE was trying to maintain constant contact with the Blockade resisters during this very tense and critical time today. During a time period, all cell phone contact was cut-off. In the best interest of the elder grandmothers, a decision was made to post a message that Dine’ grandmas were being arrested and for supporters to immediately call the Navajo Nation President’s office. The posting stated that if elders and supporters have been arrested, to ask the police to release them. At the time, the situation called for immediate action, and from sporadic reports from the Blockade, it appeared arrests were being made. That’s when an action was posted through electronic mail and other means.
After some time, cell phone connection was reestablished between Lori Goodman of Dine’ CARE and the Dooda resisters. According to Dine’ CARE, who talked with people at the Blockade, the elders were given five minutes to make a decision to leave or get arrested. The report was that many of the elders and resisters were being intimidated by the large police force. According to Dailan Jake Long, some of the grandmothers got scared.
The elders and resisters were doing a prayer ceremony when police finally drove up and disrupted the ceremony. According to Dailan Jake Long, the police dismantled the camp, tossing tents and everything into a huge truck and moved it across the road away from the blockade area. No one had any access to any of the supplies, nor the food. The elders and resisters were refused access to the portable toilets.
The police have posted police at the blockade entrance and two at the proposed drilling sites. The police now have 4 cops there, guarding east and west entrances.
Communication is very much needed. The area is remote, with no electricity nor running water. The Dooda resisters are doing the best they can to maintain communication with the outside world. Native support groups like Dine’ CARE, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Media, and others are trying as best as we can to provide support and information.
It has come to the attention of the Dooda resisters, Dine’ CARE, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Indigenous Environmental Network and our support groups that the director of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety has issued a statement today to correct misinformation being disseminated online that arrests of Navajo grandmothers are occurring at the Desert Rock Energy Project site. Like we explained above, we understand that after everything that took place earlier today, no arrests were made. However, it is our opinion that if people from throughout the country had not made calls to the Navajo Nation today, arrests could have taken place. Again, according to the reports directly from the people at the Blockade, the police were ready and equipped to make arrests. They had paddy wagons, which are vehicles to haul people to jail.
The director of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety further says that “the officers there are doing a good job and are providing the direct service that the elderly need out there. They've been helping with moving firewood provided by the Navajo Nation, and are employing 120 percent diplomacy in dealing with the situation."
The Dooda resisters and elders did NOT experience the police as providing help nor exercising diplomacy.
He said “online reports that there are 21 officers on the site are inaccurate. He said there are two Navajo Nation officers, one lieutenant and two Navajo rangers assisting the people.”
Again, this is not what the Dooda resisters have experienced. The resisters are the ones that witnessed the numerous police vehicles. They counted up to 21 vehicles today.
It is reported tonight the police had tossed their food and belongings all alongside the road and the Dooda members were just putting their new Camp back together. Students from Fort Lewis College have arrived to help out and will doing video taping. More people are to be coming from Save the Peaks from Flagstaff tonight and a man from Taos brought firewood.
some more photos
marco 22.Dec.2006 13:45
here are some photos Klee took.
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see many more at:
Tell Sithe To Pull Out
anonymous 22.Dec.2006 19:34
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Native American genocide
King Amdo 24.Dec.2006 04:06
..still ongoing, still the prusuit and love of money is killing beauty.
I see you (Black Mesa Elders) as my personnal friends.
Blessings.
United Nations Recognition
Me 27.Dec.2006 11:34
Just following a set of sims, but it is in international court in either den haag or through WTO as well possible for the Navajo to sue as an independent intaty, as the contract with the US gives them recognition as an independent nation, ie the land and coal are their property. Any negotiation, or removal via any company if it intails US passing or possing laws is illegal in international law, a UN or other lawyer would probably jump on the case. It also may allow for recognition of varied first nations within the United nations, giving them international voting and other power.
Me
Thats a great idea!
King Amdo 28.Dec.2006 10:44
...and is a route that has been pursued by opponents of both the mine and the genocide of traditional DFine'h and Hopi culture and people and elders. The official type native american tribal councils are USA instigated insitutions that were really part of a process of annailation of traditional tribal power structures, and as such tend to be money rape orientated (no offence there guys), as the 'Navaho Nation' is in this situation.
Get this book from the library:
Eating Fire Tasting blood, edited by Marijo Moore
The account of the trashing of the Cheerokee matriarchy, is, I have to warn, you rather distressing.
BUNCH OF WHITE SETTLER VERMIN
also get Unquite Grave by Steven Hendricks (very interesting info about the Wounded Knee case etc)