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URGENT! PLEASE ACT NOW!
JULY 7, 2008 DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS
Please Forward Widely to Everyone You Know!
On May 23, 2008 the Office Of Surface Mining (OSM) opened a 45 day public comment period concerning the proposed Black Mesa Project: Peabody Coal Company's massive coal-mining expansion plans on the sacred ancestral homelands of the Dine' (Navajo) & Hopi peoples of Black Mesa, AZ. Peabody Coal's plans would devastate whole communities & ecosystems and de-stabilize our planet's climate for their own personal gain. Your voices are urgently needed before the comment period closes July 7, 2008!
Big Mountain, Black Mesa Elder Faces Threat of her Ceremonial Lodge/Home being dismantled while Peabody Coal Company is pushing their massive coal-mining expansion plans on the sacred ancestral homelands of the Dine' (Navajo) & Hopi peoples of Black Mesa, AZ. Your voices are urgently needed before the deadline!
PEABODY COAL COMPANY'S PLANS UNDERMINES PLANETARY LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS BY ACCELERATING ECOLOGICAL & CULTURAL COLLAPSE! We cannot allow a small cartel of energy corporations and their financial backers to knowingly de-stabilize our planet's climate and devastate whole communities & ecosystems for their own personal gain. This may turn out to be the most devastating crime ever perpetrated against humanity, the planet and future generations. We are at a critical juncture. Indigenous and land-based people globally have maintained the understanding that our collective survival is deeply dependent on our relationship to the Earth.
Please, act now in support of the communities on the front lines of resistance! The Black Mesa Project Environmental Impact Statement (BMP-EIS) outlines harmful impacts to every level of the ecological and cultural systems on Black Mesa and has global repercussions. If we don't stop these plans, Peabody will have the green light to:
Lock in mining rights until the coal runs out or until 2025!
Substantially accelerate global warming and cause an ecological meltdown.
Destroy thousands of acres of canyon lands, vanishing indigenous vegetation and shrines or burials.
Blast the land for coal & deplete air quality, increasing the health risk of the local residents and their livestock.
Deplete an underground source of water that residents depend on to survive by pumping massive amounts of water.
Uproot & relocate families from their ancestral homelands where the coal mining expansion are.
Sacrifice human dignity and planetary health for elite profit! Peabody would cause many more problems than what is reflected here.
HERE'S HOW TO SEND YOUR COMMENTS: You can send as many comments as you want on different issues, as long is it's before the deadline on July 7, 2008. Your comments must directly address components of the EIS. Alternative C, (No Action), is our preferred alternative. Alternative B is Peabody Coal's preferred alternative. Find a sample letter here or write your own. At the top of your letter or in the subject line of your e-mail message, indicate: "BMP Draft EIS Comments.'' Include your name and return address in your letter or e-mail message.
The Draft Black Mesa Project Environmental Impact Statement for Peabody Coal's preferred Alternative B is available for review on OSM's Internet Web site at: http://www.wrcc.osmre.gov/WR/BlackMesaEIS.htm
EMAIL: BMKEIS@osmre.gov. You should receive a confirmation that OSM has received your e-mail comment, or contact (303) 293-5048.
Read more at link above.
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
where the Touchette/Paisner family lived in the
1980s just miles from beautiful Black Mesa in Navajo Nation.
URGENT! PLEASE ACT NOW!
JULY 7, 2008 DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS
Please Forward Widely to... more
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Unity Mural is a series of paintings of Woman Spirit and Man Spirit figures in the center of a circle that span the spectrum of divine energies embodied in jewel colored multi-layered and multi-media art by American Artist Charleen Touchette. Beginning with a life-size charcoal body print made in 1974 and 1975 in New York, Touchette's new paintings in 2007 and 2008 made in Santa Fe explore the multi-colored palette of human and spiritual manifestations. This series is current and ongoing and more paintings will be posted soon.
Click link to see slide show of Unity Mural.
http://flickr.com/photos/touchart/sets/72157604222281067/show/
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Take a break to join Charleen Touchette of Mixed Blood Radio, for a virtual cup of tea or coffee in historic Santa Fe to chat, reflect on the weather, art, raising children, living green, world politics and keeping creativity flowing in a challenging world.
Check One Earth Blog as the mood moves you for new thoughts, pictures, viewpoints, radio interviews, video, art and links several times each week.
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Check out One Earth Blog for news on Touchette's work with TouchArt Books, Russell Means and the Oppressionist Art Movement, Martin Luther King III and the Realizing the Dream Poverty in America Initiative and Bill Brown at New Mexico Global Warming.
With each decision, we each can be part of the solution.
We share one earth.
Like a stone dropped into a pool of water, every action has a ripple effect.
ONE EARTH - THINK ABOUT/ACT LIKE IT.
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June 12, 2008
Our sister Winona LaDuke appears on the Colbert Show in a segment on American Indians and the 2008 Presidential Political Race.
Anishinaabe Environmental Activist Winona LaDuke who ran for U.S. Vice-President in 1996 and 2000 on the Green Party Ticket with Ralph Nader is gracious when Stephen Colbert says "Migwetch" (Anishinaabe for Thank You) for electing George W. Bush.
Winona gifts Colbert with a flag souvenir from the White Earth Nation and $24.00, and jokes, "That should make us all set."
Watch the video to hear Winona LaDuke's Indian humor.
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
where Charleen Touchette has been friends with Winona LaDuke
and her mom Betty LaDuke since the mid-1970s when Winona
was studying at Harvard.June 12, 2008
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For Memorial Day 2008, TouchArt.net's Charleen Touchette
talks about war and its immeasurable costs to the world.
Touchette, a mother of 4 adult children asks us to stop war
and work for peace and justice.
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthblog.blogspot.comFor Memorial Day 2008, TouchArt.net's Charleen Touchette
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