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DESCRIPTION:San Jose, CA - Pit River Indian Tribe members and Indigenous and 
 environmental justice supporters will deliver an eviction notice to Calpine 
 Corporation in downtown San Jose on Monday, January 29, 2007 demanding they 
 drop their decades-long attempt to build polluting power plants in the 
 Medicine Lake Highlands near Mount Shasta.  Tribal members and supporters 
 will vow to nonviolently defend Medicine Lake from any attempts to build 
 power plants at this area that is profoundly sacred to area Native 
 peoples.\n\nThe protest will start with a 10 a.m. rally at Plaza de Cesar 
 Chavez Park and at 12 noon there will be a march to Calpine Headquarters, 
 50 West San Fernando Street, San Jose.\n\nThe protest comes at a critical 
 time in the long fight to protect the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands from 
 environmental and spiritual degradation. In November 2006, the 9th Circuit 
 Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision and indicated that the 
 federal agencies neglected their fiduciary responsibilities to the Pit 
 River Nation by violating the National Environmental Protection and the 
 National Historic Preservation Acts and that the agencies never took the 
 requisite "hard look" at whether the Highlands should be developed for 
 energy at all. As a result, the court rejected the extension of leases that 
 would have allowed Calpine to develop geothermal plants, and the district 
 court is now directed to enter summary judgment in favor of Pit River 
 consistent with this opinion.  Tribal members and supporters demand that 
 Calpine drop their plans once and for all and not appeal the court 
 decision.\n\nSponsors of the event include Advocates for the Protection of 
 Sacred Sites, Seventh Generation Fund, Greenaction for Health and 
 Environmental Justice, International Indian Treaty Council, Indigenous 
 Environmental Network, Citizens of the Pitt River Nation, Indian People 
 Organizing for Change, Vallejo Inter-tribal Council, Native American 
 Sisterhood Alliance of Mills College, Da'hu La'h As Sacred Sites Defense, 
 Redding Rancheria Cultural Department.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/22/18350682.php
SUMMARY:Protest Calpine's Proposed Power Plant on Native Lands!
LOCATION:Rally at 10 a.m. at Plaza De Cesar Chavez Park\nSouth Market Street and 50 
 W. San Fernando Street\n\nProtest at high noon at Calpine Headquarters\n50 
 W. San Fernando Street, San Jose
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/22/18350682.php
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