STOP THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WAGED AGAINST THE TRADITIONAL DINEH ELDERS AND RESISTING FAMILIES OF BIG MOUNTAIN ARIZONA! The traditional Dineh who have not signed the 75 year accommodation agreement can no longer gather wood "legally" on their own property.
When Big Mountain residents went to apply for a wood permit the application was denied. They were then threatened by Hopi Tribal Rangers with arrest if caught gathering wood. They also were told that if wood was found at the homes of resisting families it would be confiscated and the residents would be arrested and taken to jail.
This is an OUTRAGE, the 20 degree and below climate is a death sentence to these resisting families. The resisters are primarily Elder Grandmothers and their families. Some elders are alone or with little support. People must take action!!!!
The call has been made for people to come and bear witness to the human rights violations occurring right now at Big Mountain, Arizona. Internationally people must defend the Dineh's rights to live on their ancestral lands. This is the latest act (of a long list) of forcibly depriving residents with basic human needs.
The multi-national corporations backed by the United States Government, Navajo, Hopi Tribal Governments are subjecting Elderly Women and Children to extreme injustice in order to secure the expansion of ecological devastation via strip mining coal. They are forcibly withholding vital life sustaining heat and cooking materials from these families. We must stop the harassment and forcible relocation, aka genocide of the traditional Dineh resisters.
Call Robert Caroline, Superintendent of the BIA and Hopi Tribal Rangers: (520) 738-2225 (His men are making threats and enforcing genocidal confiscation of materials)
For more information Contact: Olympia WA: LisaNa Red Bear (360) 866-6000 ext 6105, email: redbearl@elwha.evergreen.edu
Santa Barbara, CA: Wonono (805) 884-0824
Berkeley, CA: Arlene Hamilton (707) 823-6317
Oakland, CA: Paul Blumm (510) 834-7208
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