Honoring the Ancestors Prayer Relay Run: #OxSamCamp, #Nevada, September 12, 2023

Posted on #CensoredNews, September 5, 2023

"EVERYBODY IS WELCOME & INVITED:

DISCUSSIONS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING MOTHER EARTH & THE EFFECTS THAT THE #LITHIUM MINES WILL BRING TO OUR SMALL COMMUNITY AND SURROUNDING AREAS, TH
IMPORTANCE OF WHY WE STAND AGAINST THE MAN CAMPS.

PRAYERS FOR THE ANCESTORS THAT WERE MASSACRED ON SEPTEMBER 12 1865 WILL BE @5AM. PRAYERS WILL THEN BE CARRIED TO THE FT. MCDERMITT PAIUTE SHOSHONE RES. B
PRAYER RUNNERS WHERE THE DIRECT DESCENDANTS RESIDE.

THE ELDERS KINDLY ASK THAT YOU COME WITH GOOD THOUGHTS & PRAYERS.

NO ALCOHOL... NO DRUGS...

WWW.OXSAMCAMP.ORG

@OXSAMCAMP FOR MORE INFORMATION"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/honoring-ancestors-prayer-relay-run-ox.html

#LithiumMines #EnvironmentalRacism #PrayerRelayRun #OxSam #IndigenousNews #NativeAmericanNews

#ToxicAir Resulted in #Cancer for #Navajo, #Apache and #WesternShoshone

#Copper and Gold #Mining, and #Coal-Fired Power Plants, Resulted in Cancer for Navajo, Apache, and Western #Shoshone

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 4, 2023

"A copper smelter poisoning the air of Apaches, the coal-fired power plants on the #NavajoNation, and gold mining on Western Shoshone land, are among the top causes of cancer from #AirPollution in the United States, according to a new report, Poison in the Air, by #ProPublica.

"The #FreeportMcMoran copper smelter in #MiamiArizona -- located between the #SanCarlos #ApacheNation, and Apaches Sacred #OakFlat -- is the third in the United States for producing toxic air pollution causing cancer. The poison air means the central Arizona community of Miami has ten times the EPA's acceptable risk of cancer. Apaches are now in federal court battling both the mining industry, and the #BidenAdministration to stop another #CopperMine nearby at Oak Flat which would destroy their ceremonial place."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09/toxic-air-resulted-in-cancer-for-navajo.html

#EnvironmentalRacism #ToxicAir #Mining #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat #NativeAmericanNews

https://youtu.be/iWNC-bJFZxU

Tim Cywinski, organizer for the @VASierraClub , came to talk to us about the #toxic #pipeline that #TCEnergy and #ColumbiaGas intend to expand in the city of #PetersburgVA . The #SierraClub , this city's #NAACP , #PetersburgMutualAid , and other local organizations are about to begin a #grassroots campaign to fight against these #corporateinterests . More info to come!

Join us in this fight and tell a friend!

#nopipelines
#EnvironmentalRacism
#EnvironmentalJustice

'Threatened and vulnerable’: Cop City activists labeled as terrorists pay high price

"After hearing about the Cop City arrestees, journalist Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red, said it “feels like flashbacks”. Potter’s book details the federal government’s legal campaigns against animal rights and environmental groups such as Earth First and the Animal Liberation Front, in the 1990s and 2000s.

“From my reporting on the history of government tactics,” he said, “fear is always used to send a message to the larger movement – and also to tie up energy, momentum, money and time.”

The idea, Potter said, is to marginalize dissent; his research has led him to doubt “if the charges actually matter” to the state. “I’m not convinced … the plan is to solve a crime, or to protect the public,” he said. “It’s all political theater.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/copy-city-atlanta-protesters-lives-domestic-terrorist-label

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #PoliceState #democracy #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #copcity

#ThackerPass #protesters seek dismissal of lawsuit by #LithiumNevada on #freespeech grounds

By: Bob Conrad, August 23, 2023

"The Thacker Pass protesters who were hit with a lawsuit filed by Lithium Nevada are seeking to get the case dismissed. The defendants last week filed a motion to dismiss the case claiming they were exercising their right to free speech.

"Lithium Nevada, which is building the Thacker Pass lithium mine, sued the protesters in late June.

"The company said activists and members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute #Shoshone Tribe have attempted to block construction at the mine site.

"'Despite multiple warnings from law enforcement not to block public roads, Defendants have continued to do so,' the lawsuit alleges. 'Indeed, Defendants have proudly broadcasted their defiance of law enforcement on social media.

"The defendants disagreed with Lithium Nevada’s claims.

"'The Defendants opted to exercise their constitutional rights and went to the Mine site to pray for their ancestors as #LNC destroyed those ancestors’ final resting places, destroyed culturally significant lands formerly used for subsistence and self-preservation,' they wrote in their motion. 'It is appropriate to analyze whether LNC has established the elements of its claims for relief within the limitations imposed by the First Amendment.'

"They also disputed LNC’s claims of violence and vandalism.

"'As a #sacred site is being bulldozed, non-violent protesters are being criminalized by a foreign mining company,' said attorney Terry Lodge, representing the defendants. 'My clients were engaged in #protest that is clearly protected by the U.S. Constitution. This is #corporate greed and bullying.'"

https://thisisreno.com/2023/08/thacker-pass-protesters-seek-dismissal-of-lawsuit-by-lithium-nevada-on-free-speech-grounds/

#CorporateGreen #ProtectThackerPass #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #protesters #Pauite

A cute old lady #anarchist gave us this flyer today at the #farmersmarket while telling us about #EnvironmentalJustice and who #DorothyDay was. Now we're giving it to you!

#Virginia
#PetersburgVA
#Environment
#Environmental
#Environmentalism
#EnvironmentalRacism
#EnvironmentalHazard

#NationalizeFossilFuels #ParisAligned #CigaretteScience #regulatorycapture #environmentalracism #ClimateRefugees #FarRightWinningElections

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve: The solution to our predicament: We need to stop burning #fossilfuel. The only way forward is without the most #powerful and #destructive #companies in #history committed to #profiting from #pollution.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-21/editorial-its-not-enough-to-be-frenemies-with-fossil-fuel-companies-we-have-to-kick-them-to-the-curb

TY to @bojacobs for posting this news story.

#FirstNations raise alarm over impact of planned #nuclear-waste dump on #Ottawa drinking water

by Marie Wolf, Published August 9, 2023

"'This is not just a problem of the #AlgonquinNation but all people on the #OttawaRiver. Why are we trying to put a radioactive mountain adjacent to the drinking water of millions of people that are south of this NSDF site?'

"Verna McGregor, a Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg elder, plans to explain at the CNSC licensing hearing how the #Algonquins were bypassed in the establishment of the original #ChalkRiver nuclear site on their unceded territory in the 1940s, and regard the river as sacred to their culture."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-first-nations-ottawa-nuclear-waste-water/

#InformedConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #IndigenousNews #IndigenousRights #DrinkingWater

About five years ago, the #neighborhood started seeing major #flooding. The inundations began around the same time the Alabama Department of #Transportation—or ALDOT—finished widening a two-lane section of #Highway 84 at a higher elevation than before, and residents say the road’s drainage system funnels stormwater onto their properties.

#EnvironmentalRacism #/EnvironmentalJustice #SubsidizingFossilFuels #ExternalizingImpacts #DisposablePlaces #VampireCapitalism

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072023/elba-alabama-flooding-environmental-justice-robert-bullard/

On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City. #EnvironmentalRacism
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06082023/baltimore-harm-cityenvironmental-justice-neighborhoods/

Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/06/jef-goodell-heatwaves-racism-the-heat-will-kill-you-first-book

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #HealthJustice #EnvironmentalRacism

US and Canada Among Top Violators of #Indigenous Rights: #Mining, Militarization and #BoardingSchools

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 1, 2023

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/us-and-canada-among-top-violators-of.html

#ThackerPass #Mining #BlackHills #EnvironmentalRacism #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #UN #LithiumMining #RioTinto #HumanRights

(On the fourth anniversary of the 2019 blockades, Maile and a coalition of others are now asking the #UnitedNations to intervene in what they say are deliberate and ongoing violations of international and domestic #HumanRights laws by the #Canadian government, Canadian #astronomical associations and corporations.)

https://breachmedia.ca/native-hawai%ca%bbians-take-fight-against-canadian-backed-telescope-to-the-un

#NativeHawaiians #IndigenousRights #SupportNativeSovereignty #CanadaExploits #EnvironmentalRacism

#Winnipeg: #Canada's Systematic Genocide at the #BradyLandfill: Police Expected at Barricade

July 15, 2023 via #CensoredNews

"Saturday morning update: Waabishkaa Ma'iingan Apiichaa said, 'If something happens to the camp, from police aggression. All railways, highways, and bridges will be blocked.'"

#NativeAmericanNews #FirstNations #Genocide #EnvironmentalRacism

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/winnipeg-live-brady-landfill-police.html

"People deserve to know if they are being poisoned."

#Fossilfuels #EnvironmentalRacism #ClimateChange

https://youtu.be/CF8uKaPi8Es

How #PFAS are entering America's water supply

PFAS are chemicals used to make a variety of industrial and consumer products.

By Amanda Hernandez and Mark Nichols, April 21, 2023

"While #PFAS #contamination is widespread, #contaminated water sites are more prevalent in ZIP codes that are poorer and more racially diverse than the national average, the analysis also found."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pfas-entering-americas-water-supply/story?id=98479678

#EnvironmentalRacism #Pollution #WaterIsLife

#OilRefineries release lots of water pollution near communities of color, data show

by Rebecca Hersher, January 26, 20234:38 PM ET

Most of the pollution is happening near communities of color

"In the #USA, people with less power have consistently been exposed to more pollution, whether it's excess #AirPollution from #highways and #factories, drinking water #contamination, exposure to #lead paint or polluted #lakes and #rivers.

"That trend shows up clearly in the new report, which finds that the majority of the worst-#polluting refineries are located near communities that have lower-than-average #income and a higher-than-average proportion of #NonWhite residents.

"A further NPR analysis of the data finds even more stark inequities: some types of water pollution are concentrated overwhelmingly in communities where people of color live.

"For example, about three-quarters of the nitrogen, selenium and dissolved solid #pollution from #oil refineries came from facilities that are surrounded by neighborhoods that are home to people of color.

"The #EPA declined to comment on the report or on NPR's findings."

#BigOil #Exxon #AHexOnExxon #EnvironmentalRacism #EPAFail #WaterIsLife #PeopleOfColor

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151464514/oil-refineries-release-lots-of-water-pollution-near-communities-of-color-data-sh

With hundreds of explosive #chemical plants, #Louisiana could be a ticking time bomb this #hurricane season

by Russel Honoré, July 10, 2023

"The science is clear: the warmer the oceans, the stronger the storms. Heat is energy, and the more of it there is in the ocean, the more fuel for increasingly destructive storms. At the same time, rising sea levels, caused by the melting of the South Pole’s ice caps and Arctic glaciers, mean higher storm surges.

"I don’t have to tell you that storm surges are the deadliest part of a hurricane making landfall. They occur when a storm pushes a wall of seawater several feet high onto the land, causing lethal flooding and costly property damage. In #NewOrleans, I saw the city’s Lower 9th Ward all but razed by fierce ocean waters. Residents evacuated as far as other states; nearly two decades later, many have never returned.

"Tragically for Louisiana, the state has 740 #petrochemical plants that are vulnerable to tropical storms, according to a new report by The Times-Picayune and The Advocate. While most have weathered storms in the past, there’s no evidence to show they will be able to withstand the storm surges of the powerful #superstorms that are becoming the new norm.

"It’s outrageous that #chemical plant owners can put the health and safety of some 1.2 million Louisiana residents at risk. The rest of us understand we need to undertake additional precautionary measures now that hurricane season is becoming increasingly deadly. Petrochemical companies should not be able to put us in harm’s way by denying this reality."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-hundreds-of-explosive-chemical-plants-louisiana-could-be-a-ticking-time-bomb-this-hurricane-season/ar-AA1dG8dS?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=91a65af4d5f4419fe13f9641855524d3&ei=6

#ClimateChange #EnvironmentalRacism #ClimateCatastrophe #WaterIsLife

We know the truth about the #ClimateCrisis and about #EnvironmentalRacism and about greed. The problem is the greedy have plenty of money to amplify their lies. The only thing we have to amplify the truth is our united voices. Join the struggle.

(background in this link https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/04/cancer-alley-louisiana-environment-oil-industry-opposition )

The Tyee: Canada’s Cornerstone Environmental Law Gets an Update https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/07/Canada-Cornerstone-Environmental-Law-Gets-Update/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #Vancouver,VictoriaandEasternRailway #CanadianEnvironmentalProtectionAct #EnvironmentalDisputeResolutionFund #PFASpolyfluoroalkylsubstances #EnvironmentalManagementAct #EnvironmentalracismCanada #WestCoastEnvironmentalLaw #WestlakePipeandFittings #environmentalracism #Se:mathFirstNation #CEPAanimaltesting #CEPA