Hi, my name is Irma. I am a member of the Navajo tribe. A coal company wants our land and water. We need your support. What happens to Mother Earth effects us all. Thank you
-Irma
SAVE BLACK MESA! STOP PEABODY COAL!
**Please send far and wide**
Greetings Black Mesa Supporters & all who care about our planet,
IT IS URGENT THAT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE SEND IN A LETTER RIGHT AWAY TO
STOP PEABODY COAL'S BLACK MESA PROJECT(BMP)! A SAMPLE LETTER IS ACCESSIBLE
BELOW. PEABODY'S PLANS CALL FOR MORE RELOCATION, WATER DEPLETION, & GLOBAL
WARMING. The deadline to make your comments be heard, Feb. 6, is swiftly
approaching!!
Please support a "NO ACTION" decision in solidarity with indigenous Dineh
and Hopi communities. We must use this window to voice our opposition!
CLICK HERE TO SEND IN YOUR LETTER ELECTRONICALLY OR PRINT IT OUT AND MAIL
IT: http://www.stoppeabody.org
*SUMMARY:
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 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.
*ORGANIZE LETTER WRITING PARITIES:
Consider organizing a letter-writing party --one woman organized over 40
letters in one evening!
*JUST TRANSITION:
Visit: http://www.blackmesawatercoalition.org for updates and to
learn more about the Just Transition Campaign, "an innovative, proactive
plan to transition tribal economy, employment and energy off fossil fuel
extraction and into a sustainable renewable energy path." The BMP Draft
Environmental Impact Statement inadequately studies true alternatives for
the use of coal and solutions to Global Warming provided by the Just
Transition Campaign.
*CALLING ALL SUPPORTERS/SHEEPHERDERS:
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. Please 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
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