ACTION ALERT: Buy Nothing Day Supports Sacred Sites & Environmental Justice!

Indian People Organizing for Change(IPOC), invites all to the 5th Annual
Buy Nothing Day Action In Support of Indigenous Cultural Survival and
Environmental Justice

The earth, sacred sites, and ancestors are sacred, consumerism and money
are not!

When: November 24th 12:00PM - 4:00PM
Where: Bay Street Mall Emeryville Shellmound

On the day after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest days in the American
retail calendar and the unofficial start of the international
Christmas-shopping season, Indian People Organizing for Change
(IPOC),invites all to the 5th Annual Buy Nothing Day Demonstration.

The demonstration site is at the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville, CA, which
was recently built atop the Emeryville Shellmound over the objections of
Indian People Organizing for Change and supporters. The shell mound was
once 60 feet high and up to 600+ feet in diameter; it is older than the
pyramids in Egypt and formerly held at least four historical levels of
burial sites.

"Today these sites are threatened by developments that have no respect for
our way of life, and our spirituality, and our natural way of life. We
must continue to stand up for our beliefs. The spirit of the past will
rise to claim the future, that's what we are doing today" states Jimbo
Simmons of the San Francisco based International Indian Treaty Council.

Concerned citizens will come together at the Bay Street Mall (aka Dead
Street Mall) to expose the environmental and ethical consequences of
over-consumption and bring attention to the ongoing struggle for
environmental justice and protection of Sacred Shellmounds throughout the
Bay Area and sacred sites everywhere from further desecration. We will
meet together to remember our ancestors and to educate shoppers about the
3500 year old Ohlone burial site that was desecrated for consumers
shopping enjoyment.

Ohlone activist and organizer Corrina Gould states: "We do this
the day after Unthanksgiving even though the Shellmound, the land, has
been desecrated by this strip mall. We give out educational material
because it's a cemetery and ask people not to shop at the mall."

We envision moving away from a culture of rampant consumerism and to a
culture of protecting sacred sites all over the world that are now in
danger from being desecrated such as what the Bay Street Mall has done to
Emeryville Shellmound.

Buy Nothing Day isn't just about changing your habits for one day. It's
about starting a lasting lifestyle commitment to consuming less and
producing less waste. Consumerism is desecrating the earth and its
resources. Thousands of activists and concerned citizens everywhere will
take a 24-hour consumer detox as part of the 14th annual Buy Nothing Day,
a global phenomenon.

A die-in has been proposed!!


For more information Please Contact:

Indian People Organizing for Change

Corrina Gould 510.575.8408

Shellmoundwalk [at] yahoo.com

Morning Star Gali 510.827.6719