Indigenous Peoples at US Social Forum: Stumbling the Bequest of Genocide
Speaking out on ecological genocide, Indigenous Peoples demonstrate the legacy of death and ruin from mining, power plants, toxic dumping and the nuclear industry, at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Indigenous Peoples are consulting and strategizing on energy and climate change, immigration, poverty, contract rights, valued sites, artistic preservation, and de-militarization.
Broadcast live on Earth cycles, Navajo Leona Morgan describes how new uranium mining targets Navajos living in Church Rock, N.M., where the nation’s deadliest radioactive spill occurred in 1979. In June of 2010, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Hydro Resources Inc. of Texas, which if it proceeds, will poison the water supply of Navajos with new in-situ uranium mining, by drilling on land beside Navajo land.
The Tewa Women United, on Earth cycles live, illustrate how the nuclear industry and Los Alamos National Laboratories have exposed Pueblos to generations of death and ailment in northern New Mexico. Open air burning, burial of nuclear waste and detonations have poisoned the land, air and water for today’s Pueblos and future generations.
Beata Tsosie Pena of Santa Clara Pueblo said, we live in the desert and our water supply is very valuable to us. Water is our life. I’m scared for my children. I’m scared for my grandchildren. I’m sacred for my elders.
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