The San Carlos #Apache Tribe is asking the #UN to intervene to protect Chi’chil Bildagoteel, aka #OakFlat.

Chi’chil Bildagoteel is a holy site threatened by international copper mining companies. Copper is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles. The Obama and Biden administrations have supported industry.

San Carlos Apache say the US is failing to comply with international standards incumbent on them to protect human rights.

#Indigenous #GreenColonialism

https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-social-justice-san-carlos-apache-call-for-international-intervention-over-copper-mine-at-oak-flat/view

Happening at the UN:

#Apache on #OakFlat:
"The United States is failing to comply with international standards incumbent on them."

#Sámi on #GreenColonialism:
"A shift to sustainability is just Nordic colonialism hiding behind a new kind of mask.”

#Māori threatened by a changing landscape:
“#ClimateChange is accelerating the severity and frequency of major weather events."

Global #Indigenous Youth Caucus: "We are future bearers of knowledge."

Read more 👇

https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-climate-change-indigenous-leaders-indigenous-health-and-planetary-health-are-interdependent/

Every day is a great day to remember that #ResistBot exists. Please sign this petition to try to help protect #OakFlat

https://resist.bot/petitions/PPTMDV

Protect #ChichilBildagoteel (#OakFlat)

"The #ApacheStronghold with #Indigenous allies and US and international supporters have tirelessly been working to stop a nearly 8-year-long process to exchange Oak Flat, a 2,200-acre site in #TontoNationalForest, to #ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of #RioTinto and #BHP, which plans to construct one of the largest copper and ore #mining pits in the world."

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/protect-chichil-bildagoteel-oak-flat-the-50th-anniversary-wounded-knee-pt2

#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #CopperMining #OpenPitMining #extractivism

Protect #ChichilBildagoteel (#OakFlat)

"The #ApacheStronghold with #Indigenous allies and US and international supporters have tirelessly been working to stop a nearly 8-year-long process to exchange Oak Flat, a 2,200-acre site in #TontoNationalForest, to #ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of #RioTinto and #BHP, which plans to construct one of the largest copper and ore mining pits in the world."

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/protect-chichil-bildagoteel-oak-flat-the-50th-anniversary-wounded-knee-pt2

#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #mining #CopperMining #OpenPitMining

In a conversation about how electrification/ new climate funding, it came up that the only acceptable approach to address climate is via market supremacy. I remembered this:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/04/copper-oak-flat-apache-stronghold-sacred-run-electric-car-batteries-green-energy/

In looking into the follow-up on that #OakFlat situation, it seems that white supremacy and market supremacy are one in the same, but this, with a climate rationale (massive amounts of copper necessary for electrification/ greening the economy):
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/28/9th-circuit-court-denies-appeal-stop-copper-mine-oak-flat/7750393001/

Can things ever be different?

🇺🇸 “a destroyed Oak Flat would devastate the Western Apache much like an obliterated Vatican for Catholics, a demolished Kaaba (in Mecca) for Muslims, or a dismantled temple for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints” #RioTinto #OakFlat

https://religionnews.com/2023/01/18/jews-muslims-sikhs-and-christians-unite-in-support-for-apache-fight-to-save-oak-flat/

My latest article for Sierra magazine about the fight to protect sacred Native land from mining is up. #ApacheStronghold #OakFlat #Indigenous #mining #Arizona https://bit.ly/3H3gF1Q