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DoomsdaysCWFrom 2010: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajo</a> Commercial Farm Using <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneticallyModified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneticallyModified</a> Seeds, Despite Global ProtestsBy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendaNorrell</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CensoredNews</a>, June 16, 2010"While <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeoples</a> protest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monsanto</a>’s genetically modified seeds around the world, the Navajo Nation’s commercial farm, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustries</a>, continues to use these seeds for commercial crops. "Haitian farmers are now burning donated Monsanto seeds. In India, thousands of farmers committed suicide after switching from traditional seeds to genetically modified seeds. In Chiapas, Mayan farmers have refused to use the seeds which damaged heritage seed stock. Cross pollination from genetically modified seeds can endanger crops from ancient seed stock in the region."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajos</a> have long planted century-old corn using traditional <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DryFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DryFarming</a>. Navajos relied on the stars to know when to plant and sometimes planted in spirals, according to Navajo elders in Rock Point, Arizona.[...]"However today the Navajo commercial farm boasts on its website that it plants genetic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HybridCorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HybridCorn</a> seed purchased from '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PioneerSeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PioneerSeed</a> Company, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Syngenta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syngenta</a> Inc., and Monsanto companies." The commercial farm, NAPI, is located on the Navajo Nation near Farmington, N.M., and grows commercial food crops, including corn for potato chips, along with potatoes, wheat and other crops."Around the world, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monsanto</a> and genetically modified seeds have meant death for Indigenous Peoples and their crops."[...]"The area of northwest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMexico</a> has been known as a 'US Sacrifice Area,' since the 1970s. It is the Navajo people who have been sacrificed, by way of the US government working in collusion with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporations</a> and the elected Navajo Nation government. "While <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NAPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NAPI</a> continues to use genetically modified seeds on its commercial farm, NAPI also has a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RaytheonMissile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaytheonMissile</a> manufacturing plant located on the commercial farm where the crops are grown, a fact many would like kept secret. The fact that the Raytheon Missile factory is located on the Navajo farm was censored by Indian Country Today in 2006. At that time, Cuba was expressing interest in purchasing food products from NAPI and Indian Country Today editors demanded that no research be done on Raytheon's missile plant at the farm or any possible pollutants discharged from Raytheon."Read more: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/06/navajo-commercial-farm-using.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/06/navajo-commercial-farm-using.html</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GMOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GMOs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigAg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndCapitalism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Decolonize</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalFoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TraditionalFoods</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalGenocide</a>

DoomsdaysCWLive in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CameronArizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CameronArizona</a>: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajos</a> Protest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uranium</a> TrucksWalk to Cameron Chapter House, one-half mile walk today to oppose uranium trucks on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NavajoNation</a>. "The sacredness of life is no longer honored." Cora Maxx-PhilipsAugust 2, 2024 via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CensoredNews</a> "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dine</a>' Warrior <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a> remembered and honored for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HaulNo</a>! "Navajo <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> Commissioner Cora Maxx-Phillips said, 'We are in the sacrifice Zone my dear brothers and sisters, and that is why we are here today!'"'We will not be silenced!' She said the privileged white people say, 'Not in my backyard.'"'We are just as worthy. Stop using us <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeoples</a> to be in your sacrificial zone.'" "Describing 80 years of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cancer</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a>, toxic greed, she said, 'This is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> .'""'How many more people have to die.' she said. 'You don't fool us.'"She said the entire infrastructure is to help <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporations</a>. 'When it comes to push and shove, corporations will have their way. The sacredness of life is no longer honored.'"Source: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/today-in-cameron-arizona-navajo-nation.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/today-in-cameron-arizona-navajo-nation.html</a>Livestream: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PresidentNygren" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/PresidentNygren</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyFuels</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PinyonPlain</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReaderSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoUraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousResistance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendMotherEarth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EarthDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arizona</a>

💭 tinderness<a href="https://literatur.social/tags/Mondrausch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mondrausch</a> Das Mondgeschäft privater Unternehmen hat begonnen: der Mondlander <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/peregrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peregrine</a> ist heute früh gestartet. Warum er Asche Verstorbener mitgenommen hat, frage ich mich. Auch die <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/Navajos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajos</a> schütteln den Kopf, protestieren und sprechen von der Entweihung des Mondes. Die Betreiber meinen, es sei genau das Gegenteil. Auch Folgemissionnen, die dieses Jahr starten, nehmen Überreste Verstorbener mit. Über die eigenartige Symbolik sollte man genauer nachdenken.🌀 <a href="https://t1p.de/ncwiu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://t1p.de/ncwiu</a>

DoomsdaysCWThere is precedent for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThackerPass</a> resistance!Navajo and Hopi tribes campaign to remain on Black Mesa lands and protect it from coal mining, United States, 1993-1996"The land on the Big Mountain reservation has been disputed by the U.S. Government and the Navajo and Hopi tribes since 1882. This area in Black Mesa, Arizona, which was extremely rich in sulfur coal deposit, attracted mining companies and the government due to the potential profit. Mining began on the Navajo and Hopi land and started to increase greatly by the 1970s. Congress signed a relocation act in 1974, which would allow one company, Peabody Coal, to mine this area uninhibited. The reservation lands of Black Mesa were then to be used as strip mining sites for private U.S. mining companies."Since 1974, Navajo and Hopi peoples received a lot of pressure from the government and mining companies, Peabody Coal in particular, to relocate. The U.S. government issued laws reducing Navajo and Hopi ability to keep livestock on their land. They also offered $5000 to those who willingly gave up their homes and moved elsewhere. Despite all the government pressure, by the 1990s, there still remained about 300 Navajo and Hopi families who had refused to leave."Despite the government pressure, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajos</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hopis</a>, already sharing government protected land, lived amicably and struggled beside one another in order to protect the land their people shared. The struggle between the government and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indigenous</a> tribes continued through the '90s but escalated on 5 August 1993 when a federal judge ordered the remaining Navajo to either relocate or sign a lease that would give them squatter’s rights on the land for the next 75 years. The Navajo ignored the order and continued living on the land—neither relocating nor signing a lease."From 1993 to 1996, the 300 Navajo families stood their ground and occupied their land against government wishes. They also ignored the continued orders demanding that they either choose to relocate or to forfeit their rights to the land and become squatters. In response, in November of 1993, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) began daily raids of livestock in order to push out the remaining Navajo and charged increasingly large sums to release the livestock."In the meantime, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeabodyCoal</a> had <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mined</a> the area since 1968 and continued to do so as the tribes fought to stay on their land. To transport the coal, Peabody created a slurry pipeline that used natural reserves belonging to the natives. This act dried up fifty springs and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poisoned</a> water, killing livestock and threatening the lives of the Navajo. Navajo elders took actions in order to combat the advancing mining. El Elders Pauline Whitesinger and Roberta Blackgoat, in particular, were known for their decades of resistance, for tearing down fences, for confronting the BIA, and for ignoring official demands and turning away government workers who tried to persuade them off their lands."In 1993, Peabody bulldozed at least four Navajo <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/burial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#burial</a> grounds. The Navajo blocked bulldozers with their bodies, tore down fences, turned away government officials, wrote numerous letters and emails, lobbied for government attention, and raised awareness among the Navajo people using the internet and frequent meetings. It is unclear when several of these tactics were employed. In addition, Navajo peoples filed several lawsuits in response to unfair land use by Peabody, for water rights, and against Peabody’s violation of federal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> laws. Peabody carried on with their normal practices despite objections. Peabody Coal cited studies backed by their own funding that indicated that their mining practices were in no way damaging the environment."On 11 March 1996, a federal judge ruled the activity of Peabody as an infringement on human and environmental rights of local residents. Peabody’s pipeline was found guilty of violating the National Environmental Policy Act and the Surface Ming Control Act. Thus, the judge revoked Peabody's mining permit. He found that the tribal councils, the OSMRE, and BIA were disregarding the basic rights of the people in this area for profit's sake. Peabody appealed the decision and continued fighting for reestablishing mining access after this ruling."When the deadline, 1 April 1996, finally arrived most of the remaining families had not complied with the courts. The Navajo remained in their original homes, though as many as fifty families had accepted the proposal by the government. The courts took no action against the remaining families."On 26 September 1996, the U.S Congress passed the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act, which would require all Navajo to relocate by 2000. In 1996, a group of Hopi and Navajos travelled to the London Stockholders meeting of Hanson’s ltd. to protest Peabody Coal’s presence in Black Mesa. Lord Hanson ordered his security guards to throw out the tribe representatives. Before doing so, resistance leader, Roberta Blackgoat offered a prayer. Today, families still refuse to acknowledge the various land acts. In regard to Peabody Coal, the Department of Interior Office of Surface Mining (IOSM) granted a permit to Peabody Coal to allow the continuation of operations in Black Mesa on 22 December 2008. However, after reevaluation due to an appeal from Navajo and Hopi peoples, the Department of IOSM withdrew this permit granted to Peabody on 8 January 2010. This was a success for the tribal and environmental organizations." <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalGenocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a><a href="http://websites.umich.edu/~snre492/parker.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://websites.umich.edu/~snre492/parker.html</a>

DoomsdaysCWDiné elders resist eviction from Big MountainDebra O'Gara and Guerry Hoddersen, August 1986"Forced relocation. The words bring to mind the Trail of Tears, Nazi concentration camps, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Past atrocities, not present and future ones."But on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackMesa</a> surrounding Big Mountain in northeastern Arizona, over 11,000 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diné</a> (Navajo) are facing a new holocaust: removal by armed U.S. troops from their ancestral homelands in an area jointly held by the Navajo and Hopi nations."The U.S. media bills the government’s role as peacemaker in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hopi</a> vs. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajo</a> war. But the reality is very different at Big Mountain."For over 50 years, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> companies have sought to exploit the rich mineral resources that lie beneath the land now occupied by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajos</a>. To do this they first secured the assistance of the federal government, which in the 1920s and ’30s unilaterally replaced the traditional forms of government, based on clan elders, with malleable tribal councils. Over the years these councils have been only too willing to negotiate mineral leases, and the elite who run the councils have gotten rich doing it."Now, giant energy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporations</a> like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeabodyCoal</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KerrMcGee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KerrMcGee</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Exxon</a> want unhampered access to the estimated 44 billion tons of high-grade <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coal</a> and deposits of oil, natural gas, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uranium</a> found on and around <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigMountain</a>."There’s only one problem: the traditional Diné who live on the land will not move voluntarily."So once again the energy moguls have turned to their servants in the government and the Hopi council for help."Forced relocation, the holocaust hatched in corporate boardrooms, has in fact gathered formidable support: it is endorsed by Congress, covered up by the press, and sanctioned by a phony tribal leadership." <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalGenocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForcedRelocation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThackerPass</a> <a href="https://socialism.com/fs-article/dine-elders-resist-eviction-from-big-mountain/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialism.com/fs-article/dine-elders-resist-eviction-from-big-mountain/</a>

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