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Doodá Desert Rock presentation in Watsonville - Indigenous Resistance to Coal Development

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Date:
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Watsonville Brown Berets
Location Details:
At the Brown Berets office in downtown Watsonville: 555 Main St. (behind the old Chavez Furniture Store)

DOODÁ (Absolutely No) DESERT ROCK POWER PLANT!
Resistance to energy development on indigenous land

As part of a California-wide March tour, Elouise Brown will be speaking and showing films at the Watsonville Brown Berets office on the evening of Tuesday, March 23rd.

Elouise Brown is a Diné (Navajo) traditionalist and president of the Doodá Desert Rock committee. She will speak about dangers posed by the coal industry, the exploitation of indigenous land by energy companies, and the ongoing struggle to prevent the Desert Rock plant from ever existing.

Several short films will be screened:
Making a Stand at Desert Rock- by Klee Benally (8:00)
Killing Coal: Four Corners in the Crosshairs (7:10)
Our Native Roots – Inside the Dooda Desert Rock Camp

BACKGROUND
Since December of 2006, the community of Chaco Rio in the Navajo Nation (SW of Farmington, New Mexico) has been blockading entry to the site of a proposed 1,500 megawatt coal fired power plant. Desert Rock would be the third coal plant within a 20-mile radius in a region already suffering from extreme levels of toxic emissions.

Other Santa Cruz/Watsonville area presentations:
Elouise will also be doing a 7:00pm presentation at Subrosa Cafe in downtown Santa Cruz on March 22nd, and a 12:00 noon presentation at Cabrillo College on the 23rd.

For more information and tour details, visit:
http://doodadesertrock.com/
For booking inquiries: scsolidarity [at] riseup.net

"We believe economic development must not come at the expense of the health of our children, the air we breathe, our sacred land and water, and our way of life. As children of Mother Earth and Father Sky, we are honored and obligated to protect and preserve the natural state of Harmony and Beauty."
- Elouise Brown

Added to the calendar on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 9:40PM
§Dooda Desert Rock (Not now, not ever)
by Watsonville Brown Berets
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§Dooda Desert Rock
by Watsonville Brown Berets
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