DoomsdaysCW<p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gratefuldread.masto.host/@verdantsquare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>verdantsquare</span></a></span></p><p>Alaska Tribes Appeal to International Body to Pause “Reckless” Canadian <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a></p><p>Canada ordered the tribes be denied “participating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nation</span></a> status,” diminishing their say in the permitting process.</p><p>By Joaqlin Estus , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICT</span></a></p><p>August 8, 2024 </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Earthjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Earthjustice</span></a> and Re:wild join the 15 tribes that make up the commission in asking Canada to recognize the sovereign rights of Alaska tribes and consult them on all development decisions impacting their traditional territories.</p><p>Anchorage, Alaska — "A group of Southeast Alaska tribes requested on Aug. 1 that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights order a temporary pause on Canadian mining activity. They say 'reckless' mining activity violates their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>.</p><p>"That came after Canada’s Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship ordered on June 27 that the tribes be denied 'participating Nation status,'' which has the effect of diminishing their say in the permitting process.</p><p>"Lee Wagner, who is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Haida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haida</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tlingit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tlingit</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tsimshian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tsimshian</span></a>, and the assistant executive director of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Southeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Southeast</span></a> =Alaska <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> Transboundary Commission, said the 15 tribes in the commission did everything they could to prove their ties to Canadian lands where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GoldMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldMining</span></a> is proposed. They won a lawsuit at the Canadian Supreme Court saying tribes with traditional ties to territory within Canada qualify for participating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNation</span></a> status. That status would require agencies to consult with and accommodate them in the permitting process.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"[Lee Wagner] said the mines are for gold, a luxury, 'They’re not a necessity, but they’re going to be endangering a whole <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a> and biodiverse, cultural, old, traditional, beautiful area.'</p><p>"The commission said the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnukRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnukRiver</span></a> watershed, which supports <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/salmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>salmon</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eulachon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eulachon</span></a> runs, is at stake. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the eulachon run nearly disappeared and was shut down in 2005. In 2021 the fishery was opened again but harvest was restricted to one five-gallon bucket per household."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/alaska-tribes-appeal-to-international-body-to-pause-reckless-canadian-mining/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/alaska-t</span><span class="invisible">ribes-appeal-to-international-body-to-pause-reckless-canadian-mining/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReWild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReWild</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GoldMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningWithoutConsent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>[Film] The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a> defending <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> land from a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> </p><p>The Real News Network<br>May 21, 2024</p><p>"In the heart of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> high desert lies a battle for the soul of the land. The ancient, sacred grounds of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Native</span></a> territory are under threat from a looming giant — a massive copper mine that promises riches for the locals, and a pathway to the so-called green transition. But, as is often the case, it comes at a cost.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> tribe calls it Chi’chil Bildagoteel; English speakers call it Oak Flat. It sits on a mountainous plateau within a 17.3-kilometer oasis in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BHP</span></a>, two of the world’s biggest mining companies, have staked their claim here through a joint venture called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a>. For over 10 years they’ve been lobbying governments for the right to build a colossal mine that would cover roughly 7,000 acres of surface area, and extend more than a mile into the ground.</p><p>"The only thing that stands in their way is the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> of the Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit community organization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Natives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Natives</span></a> and non-Natives uniting to counter ongoing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a>, defend holy sites and protect freedom of religion, which was created to protect Chi’chil Bildagoteel.</p><p>"A short film by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrandiMorin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrandiMorin</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeordieDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeordieDay</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RicochetMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RicochetMedia</span></a>. Support for this journalism provided by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalSurvival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalSurvival</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCIGlv0xu_U" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=vCIGlv0xu_</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBildagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBildagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protectthesacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protectthesacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningWithoutConsent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>If <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> were a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> sacred site, we know how certain <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> judges would vote.</p><p>Solidarity with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a> all the way to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSupremeCourt</span></a></p><p>After several legal hurdles, the Apache Stronghold will file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in a final effort to protect the sacred land of Oak Flat</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CPT</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurtleIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurtleIsland</span></a> Solidarity Network<br>May 20, 2024 </p><p>"For nearly a decade, Apache Stronghold has been fighting in federal court to preserve the heart of their spiritual practices: Chi’chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat). The equivalent of Notre Dame or the Temple on the Mount, Oak Flat is a sacred site threatened with destruction by the bottomless hunger of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> in the guise of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a>, which promises to turn the vaulted arches of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oak</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/juniper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>juniper</span></a> into a two-mile sinkhole. </p><p>"On 14 May 2024, Apache Stronghold’s tireless march for justice via the legal system turned on to the final approach, when the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to re-hear the en banc arguments before the entire bench of 29 judges. The next and final stage will be filing an appeal before the United States Supreme Court later this summer. </p><p>"CPT stands with Apache Stronghold and the next leg in this quest to make the United States recognize the truth: that Oak Flat is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredLand</span></a>. As sacred land, Oak Flat is part of the delicate and resilient web of relationships between soil and stone, water and wind that make this biosphere a home for all our relations. For all our sakes, Oak Flat must be protected. </p><p>"Please continue your support for and solidarity with Apache Stronghold through prayer, and action including signing this petition [link below] and organizing groups to sign amicus briefs committing to support Oak Flat and all sacred sites.</p><p>"CPT has been accompanying Apache Stronghold since May 2023 in prayer and action to protect Oak Flat.</p><p>"Oak Flat is under threat from the mining corporation Resolution Copper (a wholly owned subsidiary of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BHP</span></a>). In 2014, legislation in the United States Congress laid out a plan for a land transfer to give the area to Resolution Copper. While the legislation requires an Environmental Impact Statement before the land transfer, it allows Resolution Copper to do whatever it wants and exempts them from environmental regulation.</p><p>Resolution Copper plans an underground mining technique (“block cave”) that would turn this sacred site into a two-mile wide 1,000-foot crater and destroy it. Even though the land transfer has not yet taken place, Resolution Copper has already begun '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dewatering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dewatering</span></a>' which removes the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a> from shafts they drilled into the earth from property they already own. This endangers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakTrees</span></a> and other plants that depend on groundwater to survive."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://cpt.org/2024/05/20/solidarity-with-apache-stronghold-all-the-way-to-the-supreme-court" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cpt.org/2024/05/20/solidarity-</span><span class="invisible">with-apache-stronghold-all-the-way-to-the-supreme-court</span></a><br> <br>Link to petition:<br><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-support-oak-flat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-</span><span class="invisible">support-oak-flat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a></p>
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