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DESCRIPTION:EMBARGOED UNTIL SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2009 AT NOON. Please do not leak out any 
 information about this event until the day/time that it occurs to ensure 
 that it can take place. On Sunday, March 8 at noon, Dry Creek Tribal 
 Members will gather at the River Rock Casino at 3250 Highway 128, Alexander 
 Valley CA 95441 to peacefully protest the dysfunction and corruption of the 
 current Dry Creek Tribal Board, led by Tribal Chairman Harvey Hopkins. 
 \n\nDry Creek Tribal Membership Demands:\n1. That two board members call a 
 General Membership Meeting in the next two weeks;\n2. That a Dry Creek 
 Board Election be held within the next two weeks;\n3. That a moratorium be 
 enacted on disenrollment proceedings until after the elections;\n4. That 
 the current Board’s salaries be suspended until Board Elections are 
 held.\n\nThe Reasons Behind Our Demands:\n\nTribal Chair Harvey Hopkins and 
 the current Dry Creek Board have not listened to their members’ requests 
 for the last two and a half years. Instead, the following events, decisions 
 and incidents have taken place without the consent of the Tribal 
 Council:\n\n-Harvey Hopkins made himself 10 percent owner of the Dry Creek 
 Development Corporation (DCDC), although he was never given approval to be 
 a stakeholder by the membership. This is not only a conflict of interest, 
 it is illegal and against SEC regulations. See the proof here: 
 http://www2.cslb.ca.gov/General-Information/interactive-tools/check-a-license/License+Detail.asp?LicNum=878518 
 \n\n-DCDC is responsible for constructing a $72 million “road to 
 nowhere,” just below the casino.\n\n-Harvey Hopkins has exploited his 
 position as Tribal Chairman to access tribal funds in order to pay for his 
 personal sexual harassment lawsuit in the amount of $900,000.\n\n-Dry Creek 
 Tribal Membership presented a recall to Hopkins at the 01/10/09 tribal 
 meeting. In response, Hopkins demanded the member presenting the recall be 
 forcibly removed by private security. (The member, Alexis Elgin, was later 
 terminated from her job at the River Rock Casino). This was the same day 
 that Hopkins entertained a motion to disenroll 73 members from the tribe. 
 Hopkins gave direct order to his private security to prevent tribal members 
 from entering or exiting the building while voting. Therefore, not all 
 members were allowed to vote.\n\n-The River Rock Entertainment Authority, 
 which is also the current Tribal Board of Directors, have discriminately 
 terminated several employees from River Rock Casino (as in the case above) 
 and the Tribal Office without following the proper termination procedures. 
 Those terminated were members who were also in opposition to Hopkins and 
 the Tribal Board.\n\n-The Tribal Board is using disenrollment as a tool of 
 intimidation not only to divide the tribe, but also to postpone our 
 elections by hiring an outside consultant to determine tribal members’ 
 eligibility for membership. So far, 73 voting tribal members (above the age 
 of 18) and 70 children and youth have been threatened with disenrollment 
 and are currently seeking appeal.\n#\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/08/18575569.php
SUMMARY:DRY CREEK TRIBAL MEMBERS TO PROTEST CORRUPTION, LACK OF DEMOCRACY & DISENROLLMENT
LOCATION:RIVER ROCK CASINO\n3250 Highway 128, Alexander Valley CA 95441 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/08/18575569.php
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