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Letter Writing Party for Black Mesa | |
Date | Monday January 29 |
Time | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
Oakland, CA 94609- try calling/emailing for more info | |
Event Type | Meeting |
Organizer/Author | BMIS |
JOIN US FOR AN EMERGENCY LETTER WRITING PARTY TO PROTECT BLACK MESA, AZ FROM PEABODY
COAL'S MASSIVE EXPANSION PLANS & MEDICINE LAKE FROM CALPINE ENERGY CORPORATION. ? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS 'CLEAN' COAL! Tapping America's coal reserves as proposed by the Bush Administration, would require obliterating Black Mesa, AZ, which is home to traditional indigenous communities for generations!! Please support a "NO ACTION" decision in solidarity with indigenous Dineh and Hopi communities. The deadline for our comments to be heard is approaching. We must use this window to voice our opposition! Join the Pitt River, Klamath, Modoc and other tribes in demanding that Calpine drop plans to build geothermal power plants in the Medicine Lake Highlands. Medicine Lake and the Highlands are very sacred to the area's Indigenous peoples, and a power plant would pollute, desecrate and destroy these sacred areas forever, as well as threaten the huge pure aquifer that feeds California?s largest spring system. (See link below for more info.) WHEN: MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2007, directly after the Action for Medicine Lake at Calpine headquarters in San Jose. 7 PM- 10 PM. WHERE: (A private residence located just off Telegraph, 4 blocks from McArthur BART.) Address removed by poster, since i'm not sure if it is ok to put it on indybay. call or email for location. Sample letters, pens, paper, stamps, and refreshments will be provided. Feel free to bring your laptop. WHO: Black Mesa Indigenous Support, Indigenous Action Media, & Native Coalition For Medicine Lake representatives will be available to provide information on the issues and be on hand to answer questions. See you soon! CONTACT INFO: blackmesais [at] riseup.net 510-390-5017 *If you're not familiar with these issues, we will have background information available. *SUMMARY OF THE BLACK MESA PROJECT: Massive mining plans are underway that have serious environmental, social, and human rights impacts. Peabody Western Coal, the world's largest coal company, is attempting to obtain a 'Life of Mine' permit from the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM): which means a lease extension application that would permit them to mine indefinitely, and dramatically increase the current rate of coal production to turn Black Mesa (where Big Mountain is located) into a massive energy center for domestic and international export. It is unacceptable that this proposal could further the termination of indigenous cultural existence. The U.S. government has previously passed laws that terminate indigenous ancestral ties to these lands by currently restricting access to their lands and enforcing relocation. The LOM permit calls for additional restricted access to ancestral lands and relocation. The LOM permit would allow the coal company the rights to billions of gallons of water a year from two major aquifers for their industrial coal production use. This proposal is not the solution to global warming or to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but instead, Peabody's BMP will only only add to the escalating greenhouse emissions. ----------- Join us January 29th Action in San Jose for Medicine Lake Native peoples and supporters will protest Calpine's plans for a power plant that would be built at Sacred Medicine Lake near Mt. Shasta. Organizers say, "The Sacred Medicine Lake Highlands is under direct threat of geothermal development from Calpine Energy Corporation." If passed, the geothermal projects would transform the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands into an industrial wasteland with multiple power plants, 24-hour drilling and lighting, landscape-fragmenting pipelines, toxic plumes exuding dangerous levels of arsenic, mercury and hydrogen sulfide. These projects clearly would constitute a major threat to the huge pure aquifer that feeds California?s largest spring system. More on IndyBay: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/22/18350777.php -------------------------------- *CALLING ALL SUPPORTERS/SHEEPHERDERS TO BLACK MESA: Families on Black Mesa who are living near Peabody's mining activities and/or resisting relocation and may face future mine expansion are requesting volunteer sheepherders to come stay with them. If you're interested we can discuss it in person at the letter writing party or visit http://www.blackmesais.org for more info and to contact us. *BIG MOUNTAIN CANNOT BE EXCLUDED FROM THE LEGACY OF THE FOUR CORNERS ENERGY WARS: Since the beginning of the Big Mountain resistance elders would say: "We are resisting relocation and the coal mining not only for ourselves but for the whole world. Black Mesa must not be desecrated because of its sacredness --it provides life to all living things including all the human races." Elder resisters of Big Mountain have referred to the coal as the Mother Earth's liver. We must not allow history to repeat itself by allowing the US government and mining interests to put profit over people, antiquity, and water resources. Thank you! ~Black Mesa Indigenous Support http://www.blackmesais.org |
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