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Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples Council Statement on Fukushima
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Council Statement
This statement reflects the wisdom of the Spiritual People of the Earth, of North and South America, working in unity to restore peace, harmony and balance for our collective future and for all living beings. This statement is written in black and white with a foreign language that is not our own and does not convey the full depth of our concerns.
The Creator created the People of the Earth into the Land at the beginning of
Creation and gave us a way of life. This way of life has been passed down
generation-to-generation since the beginning. We have not honored this way of
life through our own actions and we must live these original instructions in order
to restore universal balance and harmony. We are a part of Creation;
thus, if we break the Laws of Creation, we destroy ourselves.
We, the Original Caretakers of Mother Earth, have no choice but to follow and uphold
the Original Instructions, which sustains the continuity of Life. We recognize our
umbilical connection to Mother Earth and understand that she is the source of life, not a
resource to be exploited. We speak on behalf of all Creation today, to communicate an
urgent message that man has gone too far, placing us in the state of survival. We warned
that one day you would not be able to control what you have created. That day is here.
Not heeding warnings from both Nature and the People of the Earth keeps us on the path
of self destruction. This self destructive path has led to the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Gulf
oil spill, tar sands devastation, pipeline failures, impacts of carbon dioxide emissions and
the destruction of ground water through hydraulic fracking, just to name a few. In
addition, these activities and development continue to cause the deterioration and
destruction of sacred places and sacred waters that are vital for Life.
Powerful technologies are out of control and are threatening the future of all life
The Fukushima nuclear crisis alone is a threat to the future of humanity. Yet, our concern
goes far beyond this single threat. Our concern is with the cumulative and
compounding devastation that is being wrought by the actions of human beings around
the world. It is the combination of resource extraction, genetically modified organisms,
moral failures, pollution, introduction of invasive species and much much more that are
threatening the future of life on Earth. The compounding of bad decisions and their
corresponding actions are extremely short-sighted. They do not consider the future
generations and they do not respect or honor the Creator’s Natural Law. We strongly
urge for the governmental authorities to respond with an open invitation to work and
consult with us to solve the world’s problems, without war. We must stop waging war
against Mother Earth, and ourselves.
We acknowledge that all of these devastating actions originated in human beings who are
living without regard for the Earth as the source of life. They have strayed from the
Original Instructions by casting aside the Creator’s Natural Law. It is now critical for
humanity to acknowledge that we have created a path to self destruction. We must restore
the Original Instructions in our lives to halt this devastation.
The sanctity of the Original Instructions has been violated. As a result, the Spiritual
People of the Earth were called ceremonially to come together at the home of the Sacred
White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle. These Spiritual Leaders and those that carry great
responsibility for their people from both North and South America came together with the
sacred fire for four days at the end of September 2013 to fulfill their sacred
responsibilities. During this time it was revealed that the spirit of destruction gained its’
strength by our spiritually disconnected actions. We are all responsible in varying
degrees for calling forth this spirit of destruction, thus we are all bound to begin
restoring what we have damaged by helping one another recover our sacred
responsibility to the Earth. We, the Original Caretakers of Mother Earth, offer our
spiritual insight, wisdom and vision to the global community to help guide the actions
needed to overcome the current threats to all life.
We only have to look at our own bodies to recognize the sacred purpose
of water on Mother Earth. We respect and honor our spiritual relationship
with the lifeblood of Mother Earth. One does not sell or contaminate their
mother’s blood. These capitalistic actions must stop and we must recover
our sacred relationship with the Spirit of Water
The People of the Earth understand that the Fukushima nuclear crisis continues to
threaten the future of all life. We understand the full implications of this crisis even with
the suppression of information and the filtering of truth by the corporate owned media
and Nation States. We strongly urge the media, corporations and Nation States to
acknowledge and convey the true facts that threaten us, so that the international
community may work together to resolve this crisis, based on the foundation of Truth.
We urge the international community, government of Japan and TEPCO to unify efforts
to stabilize and re-mediate the nuclear threat posed at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
power plant. To ensure that the Japanese government and TEPCO are supported with
qualified personnel and information, we urge the inclusion of today’s nuclear experts
from around the world to collaborate, advise and provide technical assistance to prevent
further radioactive contamination or worse, a nuclear explosion that may have
apocalyptic consequences.
The foundation for peace will be strengthened by restoring the Original Instructions in ourselves
Prophecies have been shared and sacred instructions were given. We, the People of the
Earth, were instructed that the original wisdom must be shared again when imbalance
and disharmony are upon Mother Earth. In 1994 the sacred white buffalo, the giver of
the sacred pipe, returned to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people bringing forth the
sacred message that the winds of change are here. Since that time many more
messengers in the form of white animals have come, telling us to wake up my children. It
is time. So listen for the sacred instruction.
All Life is sacred. We come into Life as sacred beings. When we abuse the
sacredness of Life we affect all Creation
We urge all Nations and human beings around the world to work with us, the Original
Caretakers of Mother Earth, to restore the Original Instructions and uphold the
Creator’s Natural Law as a foundation for all decision making, from this point forward.
Our collective future as human beings is in our hands, we must address the Fukushima
nuclear crisis and all actions that may violate the Creator’s Natural Law. We have
reached the crossroads of life and the end of our existence. We will avert this potentially
catastrophic nuclear disaster by coming together with good minds and prayer as a global
community of all faiths.
We are the People of the Earth united under the Creator’s Law with a sacred covenant to
protect and a responsibility to extend Life for all future generations. We are expressing
deep concern for our shared future and urge everyone to awaken spiritually. We must
work in unity to help Mother Earth heal so that she can bring back balance and harmony
for all her children.
Representatives of the Council
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Spiritual Leader
The Great Sioux Nation
Bobby C. Billie
Clan Leader and Spiritual Leader
Council of the Original Miccosukee
Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples
Faith Spotted Eagle, Tunkan Inajin Win
Brave Heart Society Grandmother/Headswoman & Ihanktonwan Treaty Council
Ihanktonwan Dakota from the Oceti Sakowin
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COVID-19, Resource Colonialism & Indigenous Resistance
Published
2 years agoon
April 22, 2021By
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Note: This was originally written May 2020 & published in part in Black Seed #8.
This version has been slightly revised & updated.
Klee Benally, IndigenousAction.org
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Diné Bikéyah (The Navajo Nation) has faced and endured the highest rate per-capita of COVID-19 cases than any settler colonial U.S. state.
Has this pandemic impacted our people so disproportionately simply because we merely lack power lines and plumbing? Is it just because there aren’t massive corporate stores on every corner of our reservation? Would we really be that much more immune from this disease if every member of our tribe just had a job?
Dehumanizing narratives have always been part of the scenery here in the arid Southwest. If you blink on your way to the Grand Canyon, it’s easy to miss the ongoing brutal context of colonization and the expansion of capitalism. We live here and we even don’t see it ourselves. We’re too busy putting up that “Nice Indians Behind You” sign.
As Navajo Nation politicians impose strict weekend curfews, prohibit ceremonial gatherings, and restrict independent mutual aid relief efforts. As notoriously racist so-called reservation “border towns” like “Gallup, New Mexico” dispose of infected unsheltered relatives and initiate “Riot Act Orders” to restrict the influx of Diné who rely on supplies held in their corporate stores, the specter of the reservation system’s historical purpose haunts like a neglected ghost, pulling at our every breath, clinging to our bones.
What is omitted from the fever-pitched spectacle of COVID-19 disaster tourism, is that these statistics are due to ongoing attacks on our cultural ways of life, autonomy, and by extension our self and collective sufficiency.
While economic deprivation and resource scarcity are realities we face, our story is much more complex and more powerful than that, it’s a story of the space between harmony and devastation. It’s the story of our ancestors and of coming generations. It’s a story of this moment of Indigenous mutuality and resistance.
The Navajo Resource Colony & COVID-19
Colonial violence and violence against the earth has made our people more susceptible to viruses such as COVID-19.
While the COVID-19 virus spreads unseen throughout our region, a 2,500-square-mile cloud of methane is also concealed, hovering over Diné lands here in the “Four Corners” area. NASA researchers have stated, “the source is likely from established gas, coal, and coalbed methane mining and processing.” Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the so-called “United States” and can be up to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Two massive coal fired power plants, the San Juan Generating Station and the Four Corners Power Plant operate in the area. If regarded as a single entity, the two plants are the second largest consumer of coal in the “U.S.” Most of the generated power is transmitted right over and passed reservation homes to power settler colonies in “Arizona, Nevada and California.”
It’s not news that over time, breathing pollution from sources such as coal fired power plants damages the lungs and weakens the body’s ability to fight respiratory infections. U.S. settler universities and news outlets have acknowledged that exposure to air pollution is correlated with increased death rates from COVID-19. At the same time, the EPA has relaxed environmental regulations on air polluters in response to the pandemic, opening the door for colonial imposed resource extraction projects on Diné lands to intensify their efforts.
According to a recent report titled, “Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States,” COVID-19 patients in areas impacted by high levels of air pollution before the pandemic are more likely to die from the virus than patients in other parts of the “U.S.”
The New York Times published an article on the report stating that, “A person exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter is 15 percent more likely to die from the coronavirus than someone in a region with just one unit less of the fine particulate pollution.”
The report further states that, “Although the epidemiology of COVID-19 is evolving, we have determined that there is a large overlap between causes of deaths of COVID-19 patients and the diseases that are affected by long-term exposure to fine particulate matter.” The report also noted that, “On March 26, 2020 the US [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] announced a sweeping relaxation of environmental rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing power plants, factories and other facilities to determine for themselves if they are able to meet legal requirements on reporting air and water pollution.”
According to Navajo Nation Oil and Gas Company’s (NNOGC) website, “In 1923, a Navajo tribal government was established primarily for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to approve lease agreements with American oil companies, who [sic] were eager to begin oil operations on Navajo lands.”
Arguably, nearly every economic decision that the tribal government has made since then (with few exceptions) has facilitated further exploitation of Mother Earth for profit.
For every attack on Mother Earth waged by colonial entities, Diné have organized fiercely to protect Nahasdzáán dóó Yádilhil Bits’áádéé Bee Nahaz’áanii or the Diné Natural Law.
Groups like Diné CARE have been mobilizing since the late 1980s to confront ecological and cultural devastation. Adella Begaye and her husband Leroy Jackson organized to protect the Chuska Mountains from logging by the Navajo Tribal government. They formed Diné CARE and challenged the operations. Jackson had reportedly obtained documents that showed Bureau of Indian Affairs officials were underhandedly working to get the tribe exempt from logging restrictions designed to protect endangered species in the area. He was found murdered shortly after.
In defiance of efforts by Diné environmental groups such as Diné CARE to stop coal mining and power plants in the face of global warming, former Navajo Nation Council Speaker Lorenzo Bates declared, “war on coal is a war on the Navajo economy and our ability to act as a sovereign Nation.” At the time, the coal industry was responsible for 60% of the Navajo Nation’s general revenues. Bates stated that “These revenues represent our ability to act as a sovereign nation and meet our own needs.”
At the cost of our health and destruction of Mother Earth, politicians on the Navajo Nation have perpetuated and profited from coal-fired power plants and strip mines that have caused forced relocation of more than 20,000 Diné from Black Mesa and severe environmental degradation.
For forty-one years Peabody coal, which operated two massive strip mines on Black Mesa, consumed 1.2 billion gallons a year of water from the Navajo aquifer beneath the area. Although the mines are now closed and the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) coal-fired power plant they fed is also shuttered, the impacts to health, the environment, and vital water sources in the area have been severe. The NGS project was initially established with the purpose of providing power to pump water to the massive metropolitan areas of Phoenix and Tucson. For decades, while powerlines criss-crossed over Diné family’s homes and water was pumped hundreds of miles away for swimming pools and golf courses, thousands of Diné went without running water and electricity.
Diné environmental groups such as Black Mesa Water Coalition and Tó Nizhóní Ání’, who have long resisted resource colonialism on Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), recently celebrated the shutdown of NGS while the Navajo Nation scrambled to keep the outdated power plant operating arguing that it was vital to the Navajo economy. What was ignored in the melee was that the owners and operators of the coal fired power plant were motivated to shift towards natural gas that has become cheaper due to fracking.
In 2019 the Navajo Nation further doubled down on coal by purchasing three coal mines in the Powder River Basin area located in so-called Wyoming and Montana. Approximately 40 percent of the so-called U.S.’s coal comes from the area, contributing to more than 14 percent of the total carbon pollution in the “U.S.” The deal also forced the Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) to waive its sovereign immunity as a condition to buy the mines from a company that had just declared bankruptcy.
Today there are currently more than 20,000 natural gas wells and thousands more proposed in and near the Navajo Nation in the San Juan Basin, a geological structure spanning approximately 7,500 square miles in the Four Corners. The US EPA identifies the San Juan Basin as “the most productive coalbed methane basin in North America.” In 2007 alone, corporations extracted 1.32 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from the area, making it the largest source in the United States. Halliburton, who “pioneered” hydraulic fracturing in 1947, has initiated “refracturing” of wells in the area. Fracking also wastes and pollutes an extreme amount of water. A single coalbed methane well can use up to 350,000 gallons, while a single horizontal shale well can use up to 10 million gallons of water. As I’ve mentioned previously, this is a region with approximately 30 percent of households without access to running water.
The San Juan Basin is also viewed as “the most prolific producer of uranium in the United States.” Uranium is a radioactive heavy metal used as fuel in nuclear reactors and weapons production. It is estimated that 25% of all the recoverable uranium remaining in the country is on Diné Bikéyah.
During the so-called “Cold War,” Diné lands were heavily exploited by the nuclear industry. From 1944 to 1986 some 30 million tons of uranium ore were extracted from mines. Diné workers were told little of the potential health risks with many not given any protective gear. As demand for uranium decreased the mines closed, leaving over a thousand contaminated sites. To this day none have been completely cleaned up.
Although uranium mining is now banned on the reservation due to advocacy from Diné anti-nuclear organizers, Navajo politicians recently sought to allow new mining in areas already contaminated by the industry’s toxic legacy.
In 2013 Navajo Nation Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie proposed a resolution to undermine the ban, his efforts were shut down by Diné No Nukes, a grassroots organization “dedicated to create a Navajo Nation that is free from the dangers of radioactive contamination and nuclear proliferation.” There are more than 2,000 estimated toxic abandoned uranium mines on and around the Navajo Nation. Twenty-two wells that provide water for more than 50,000 Diné have been closed by the EPA due to high levels of radioactive contamination. The recent push for nuclear power as “clean energy” has made the region more vulnerable to new uranium mining, including an in situ leach mine (which uses a process similar to fracking) right next to Mt. Taylor, one of the six Diné holy mountains.
Exposure to uranium can occur through the air, water, plants and animals and can be ingested, breathed in or absorbed through the skin. Although there has never been a comprehensive human health study on the impacts of uranium mining in the area, the EPA states that exposure to uranium can impair the immune system, cause high blood pressure, kidney disease, lung and bone cancer, and more. An ongoing effort called the Navajo Birth Cohort Study has also detected uranium in the urine of babies born to Diné women exposed to uranium.
In the book Bitter Water: Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, Roberta Blackgoat, my grandmother and a matriarch of Diné resistance to forced relocation on Black Mesa, stated, “The Coal they strip mine is the earth’s liver. The earth’s internal organs are dug up. Mother Earth must sit down. The uranium they dug up for energy was her lungs. Her heart and her organs are dug up because of greed. It is smog on the horizons. Her breath, her warmth, is polluted now and she is angry when Navajos talk of their sickness. The coal dust in winter blows in to blanket the land like a god down the canyons. It is very painful to the lungs when you catch a cold. The symptoms go away slowly when dry coal dust blows in from strip mining. The people say the uranium can dry up your heart. No compassion is left for the motherland. We’ve become her enemy.”
Diné elders who have resisted forced relocation on Black Mesa have faced constant attacks on their ways of life, particularly through confiscation of livestock. The systematic destruction of Indigenous subsistence lifeways throughout Diné Bikéyah has been a strategy waged since the beginning of colonial invasions on these lands. This devastation has been profitable to Navajo politicians who seek to maintain our role as a resource colony.
In 2015 the EPA accidentally released more than 3 million gallons of toxic waste from the Gold King Mine into the Animas River. The toxic spill flowed throughout Diné communities polluting the “San Juan” river which many Diné farmers rely on. Crops were spoiled that year. As a measure of relief for the water crisis, the EPA initially sent rinsed out fracking barrels. Chili Yazzie, the former Chapter President of Shiprock stated, “Disaster upon catastrophe in Shiprock. The water transport company that was hired by EPA to haul water from the non-contaminated San Juan River set up 11 large 16,000 gallon tanks throughout the farming areas in Shiprock and filled them up with water for the crops. As they started to take water from the tanks for their corn and melons, the farmers noticed the water from some of tanks was rust colored, smelled of petroleum and slick with oil.”
Resource colonialism specifically targets Indigenous women, two-spirit, and trans relatives, as we see connected though the mass killings addressed through the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans, & Two-Spirits (#MMIWGT2S). #MMIWGT2S is a campaign initiated in so-called “Canada” to address extremely disproportionate and unreported violence against Indigenous womxn. The movement has been extended to Missing and Murdered Girls, Trans and Two-Spirit relatives (MMIWGT2S) due to the alarming levels of gender-based violence that are invisibilized.
#MMIWGT2S initially focused on the link between resource colonialism and gender-based violence. The extractive industry’s “man camps” which are sites at large-scale extractive industry projects where male workers are clustered in temporary housing encampments in areas close to reservations. For years Indigenous communities have raised concerns regarding these issues and only very recently the #MMIWGT2S movement has been more broadly recognized.
Violence of resource colonialism is violence against the land, which is violence against our bodies.
Food Deserts: A Project of Colonial Violence
Our health has been broken by nutritionally-related illnesses imposed by colonial attacks on our cultural food systems. Diné Bikéyah wasn’t a “food desert” until colonization. According to the American Diabetes Association, “People with diabetes do face a higher chance of experiencing serious complications from COVID-19. In general, people with diabetes are more likely to experience severe symptoms and complications when infected with a virus.”
One in three Diné are diabetic or pre-diabetic, in some regions, health care workers have reported diagnosing diabetes in every other patient.
In 2014, Diné organizer Dana Eldrige published a powerful report on Diné Food Sovereignty through the Diné Policy Institute. In the report the concept of the Navajo Nation as a “food desert” was contextualized as a process of colonialism and capitalism.
The report identified a Food Desert as “an area, either urban or rural, without access to affordable fresh and healthy foods. While food deserts are devoid of accessible healthy food, unhealthy, heavily processed foods are often readily available… [Food Deserts] are linked with high rates of nutritionally-related illness. For rural communities, the United States Department of Agriculture has defined rural food desert as regions with low-income populations, the closest supermarket is further than twenty miles away and people have limited vehicle access….Diné people with limited or no income are limited in their food choices, and since
healthy, fresh foods are of greater cost, people with limited financial resources often have no
other option than to purchase low-cost, heavily processed, high calorie foods which lead to the
onset of nutritionally-related illnesses.”
The report found that a majority of participants from Diné communities who participated in the
study had to travel at least 155 miles round trip for groceries while others regularly drove up to 240 miles. There are 13 full service grocery stores in the Navajo Nation, according to the report one of the stores contained 80% processed foods.
The report further stated that “An examination of the Navajo Nation food system reveals that our current food system not only does not serve the needs of the Navajo Nation, but also negatively impacts the wellbeing of the Diné people. These issues include epidemic levels of nutritionally-related illness including diabetes and obesity, food insufficiency (high rates of hunger), significant leakage of Navajo dollars to border towns, disintegration of Diné lifeways and K’é (the ancient system of kinship observed between Diné people and all living things in existence), among other issues; all while the Navajo Nation grapples with extremely high rates of unemployment, dependence on Natural Resource extraction revenue and unstable federal funding.”
Our homelands didn’t become a “food desert” by accident or lack of economic infrastructure, the history of food scarcity in our communities is directly correlated with a history of violent colonial invasion.
After facing fierce Diné resistance in the mid-1800s, “U.S.” troops invaded and attacked Canyon De Chelly in the heart of Diné Bikéyah. They employed “scorched earth tactics” by burning homes along with every field and orchard they encountered. “U.S.” Colonel Kit Carson led a campaign of terror to drive Diné on what is called “The Long Walk” to a concentration camp called Fort Sumner hundreds of miles away in eastern “New Mexico.” The report states:
“Carson’s scorched earth campaign including the slaughtering of livestock, burning of fields and orchards, and the destruction of water sources. This scorched earth policy effectively starved many Diné people into surrender. Word reached those who had not been captured that food was being distributed at Fort Defiance. Many families chose to go to the fort to alleviate their hunger and discuss peace, unaware of Carleton’s plans for relocation. Upon arrival at the fort, the Diné found they could not return back to their homes and were captives of the United States military…Due to failure of crops, restrictions on hunting, and the unavailability of familiar native plants, the Diné had to depend on the United States military to feed them, marking a major turning point in the history of Diné food and self-sufficiency. Food rations were inadequate and extremely poor in nutritional content, consisting primarily of salted pork, cattle, flour, salt, sugar, coffee and lard.”
When colonizers established military forts while waging brutal wars against Indigenous Peoples, they would also provide rations as a means of pacification and assimilation.
The book Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and South Australia illustrates how food rationing programs were a tool of colonization and worked alongside assimilation policies to weaken Indigenous societies and bring Indigenous peoples under colonial control. Once Indigenous peoples became dependent on these food rations, government officials deliberately manipulated them, determining where and when the food would be distributed, restricting the kind and amount of foods that were distributed, and determining who the foods would be distributed to. Starvation was weaponized materially and politically.
The strategy of settler societies was to destroy the buffalo, sheep, corn fields, water sources, and anything that fed Indigenous Peoples to diminish our autonomy and create dependency.
As colonial military strategies increasingly focused on attacking Indigenous food systems, liberation and redistribution of resources was not unfamiliar to our ancestors, they effectively raided colonizer’s supplies and burned their forts to the ground. But clearly the scorched earth strategies were devastatingly effective.
Starting in the 1930’s the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) ordered a reduction of Diné livestock herds. BIA officials killed the herds “and left them to rot, all in front of Diné families. Some herds were even driven off cliffs, while others were doused with kerosene and burned alive.”
This mass killing of animals seriously impaired the self-sufficiency of Diné. Many had to rely on government rations and a growing trading post economy to feed their families. Although the political justification for the extreme reduction was to mitigate soil erosion, the report illustrates that other factors such as “desertification and deteriorating rangeland, such as climatic change, periodic drought, invasion of exotic vegetation, and a drop in water table,” were the primary issues.
In 1968 the first grocery store opened on the Navajo Nation in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, “Arizona”).
The report illustrates that:
“the impact of these grocery stores and the decline of Diné foods were documented in nutritional research. By the 1980’s, soda and sweetened drinks, store bought bread, and milk were commonplace in the Navajo Diet, while fry-bread and tortillas, potatoes, mutton, and coffee continued as staples. Although many Navajo families still farmed (corn, squash, and melon reported as the most cultivated crops), gardens were generally small and ‘no longer appeared to be a major source of food for many families…In addition to dietary changes, the shift in Diné life and society also include the breakdown of self-sufficiency, Diné knowledge, family and community, and detachment from land. These changes did not occur by chance, but were fostered by a series of American interventions and policies (the process of colonization); namely forced removal, the livestock reduction, boarding schools, relocation, and food distribution programs, along with the change from subsistence lifestyles to wage based society and integration into American capitalism….Prior to American efforts of colonization, Diné people operated in a food system that was not only integral to our culture, but one in which Diné people actively produced and collected the food needed to feed their communities. This meant that Diné people did not depend on outside governments and systems for food. Not only did the people ensure that quality and nutritious food was provided, but they did so without operating under the authority or governance of these outside entities.”
In the conclusion of the report, the Diné Policy Institute recommended, “revitalizing traditional foods and traditional food knowledge through the reestablishment of a self-sufficient food system for the Diné people.”
In typical fashion, the colonial government and Navajo politicians have deepened the assimilation process through their efforts to reform the food desert issue, by starting a farming initiative that purchases seed from Syngenta and Monsanto and that uses tax incentives to make healthy food more affordable, furthering Dine peoples dependence on commodified food.
Although the Navajo Tribal Council established a mass-scale farming initiative called “Navajo Agricultural Products Industry (NAPI),” the farm has stated on its website that it plants genetic hybrid corn seed purchased from “Pioneer Seed Company, Syngenta Inc., and Monsanto companies.” In 2014, in an attempt to “curb” the diabetes epidemic, the Navajo Nation Council created a law that raised the sales tax for cheap junk foods sold on Navajo Nation and another removing sales tax from fresh fruits and vegetables. Economic pressure on those already struggling while not addressing the root causes and environmental degradation is par for the course for the colonial government and Navajo politicians.
Instead of directly feeding ourselves and communities, we have become dependent on businesses and corporations that are more concerned with profits than our health and well-being. The boarding schools were replete with capitalist indoctrination to forcibly assimilate Diné children into colonial society. The curriculum was designed with a clear lesson: To feed our families we needed jobs. To have jobs we needed to be trained. To be trained we needed to obey. To not have a job means you’re poor. To employ other workers is to build wealth. To build wealth means success.
The process of destroying Indigenous self and collective sufficiency is an ongoing process of capitalist assimilation. Starvation is still weaponized against our people.
We cannot talk about economic deprivation and lack of resources without talking about history, we cannot address the COVID-19 crisis without addressing the crises of capitalism and colonialism. The disappearance & annihilation of Indigenous People has always been part of the project of resource extraction and colonialism.
A Virulent Faith
On March 7, 2020 in the small remote community of Chilchinbeto in Diné Bikéyah, a christian group held a rally and “Day of Prayer” in response to the coronavirus outbreak. According to one report a pastor was coughing during his sermon. On March 17th, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed on the reservation with Chilchinbeto as the epicenter of a growing outbreak. On the 18th the Nation closed itself to visitors. On March 20, as confirmed COVID-19 cases doubled then tripled, the Navajo Nation issued a shelter-in-place order for everyone living on the reservation and imposed a curfew 10 days later.
As schools were closed in response to the crisis, the Rocky Ridge Boarding School — located on Black Mesa just near lands partitioned in the so-called Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute — stayed open. Staff at the school had participated in the Chilchinbeto Christian rally and its roughly 100 students were exposed to the virus.
This is not the first time that Christians and boarding schools have exposed our lands and Indigenous Peoples to a pandemic. COVID-19 is not the first virus our people have faced.
From measles, smallpox infected blankets, to the influenza epidemic of 1918 (when an estimated 2,000 Diné perished), Indigenous Peoples have long been familiar with the colonial strategies of biological warfare. Some estimates state that approximately 20 million Indigenous People may have died in the years following the first wave of European invasion due to diseases brought by colonizers– up to 95% of the population of the so-called “Americas.” The colonization of the “Americas” was a christianizing strategy codified in the 1493 Papal Bull “Inter Caetera” to ensure “exclusive right” to enslave Indigenous Peoples and take their lands.
As documented heavily in 1763, during an ongoing siege on the colonial military outpost called “Fort Pitt” led by Obwandiyag (Odawa Nation, aka Pontiac), British invaders used smallpox infected blankets as a biological weapon. The British general, Jeffrey Amherst had written, “Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected Tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, use every stratagem in our power to reduce them.”
In 1845, John Louis O’Sullivan declared the “American” belief in the “God-given mission” of the so-called United States as “manifest destiny.” This idea accelerated the colonial violence of “American” expansion.
Under the so-called “Peace Policy” of “U.S.” President Grant, reservations were to be administered by Christian denominations which were allowed to forcibly convert Indigenous Peoples to Christianity. By 1872, 63 of 75 reservations were being managed by Christian religious groups. The “Peace Policy” also established that if Indigenous Peoples refused to move onto reservations, they would be forcibly removed from their ancestral lands by U.S. soldiers. These white supremacist christain policies led to laws passed by “U.S.” Congress in 1892 against Indigenous religions. Any Indigenous Person who advocated their cultural beliefs, held religious dances, and those involved in religious ceremonies were to be imprisoned.
Total assimilation was also the ultimate goal of the violently dehumanizing “U.S.” boarding school project. It was a religiously based white supremacist process to “kill the Indian and save the man,” with the goal of “civilizing” or compelling Indigenous people to be “productive” members of settler society. Every menial job skill of the subsequent assimilation era represented a rung on a ladder that our people were compelled to climb for their “higher” education took them farther away from our cultural knowledge systems and self/collective reliance further into a system of economic exploitation. It was also a strategy to fulfill land theft through erasure of Indigenous connections and reliance on our lands.
Capitalism is an economic and political system based on profit motive, competition, free market, and private property and is characterized by extreme individualism. It’s genealogy is rooted in slavery, genocide, and ecocide. Resource colonialism is the systematic domination and exploitation of Indigenous lands and lives to benefit the attacking non-Indigenous social order. This is different from settler colonialism, which is the invasion, dispossession, and/or eradication of Indigenous lands and lives with the purpose of establishing non-Indigenous occupation of those lands.
To this end, economic development models to address “poverty” in our communities only mean our people will continue to be dependent and ultimately solidify the arrangement that was established through colonial and capitalist domination of our lands and peoples. The process of “indigenizing” or “decolonizing” wealth in this context only makes us that much more complicit in our own genocide.
The colonial project is largely incomplete as our cultures are incompatible with capitalism. There is no duality of Indigenous and capitalist identity, they exist diametrically opposed as natural and unnatural enemies. Ultimately only one can exist while the other must perish.
In the midst of geopolitical battles for minerals, oil, and gas in the Navajo Nation resource colony, environmentalists have cried for a “just transition” into a “green economy.” By urging for “new deals” to make capitalism more eco-friendly and sustaining unsustainable ways of life through solar or wind energy, all while the underlying exploitative power relationships remain intact. This arrangement doesn’t seek to end colonial relations with resource extractive industries, it red/greenwashes and advances them.
In this way both Navajo Nation politicians and non-profit environmental groups (and even some proclaimed radical ones) are in the same business of fulfilling the expansion of capitalism on our lands.
Throughout our lands of painted deserts, our bleeding is obscured by red ochre sunsets kissing rough brown skin. This is where gods are still at war in the minds of those obsessed with words in books that are not our own. Everything is desecrated. Everything is for sale.
From Mother Earth to our bodies, in capitalism everything has been reduced to a commodity. As long as it can be sold, bought, or otherwise exploited, nothing is sacred. So long as the lands (and by extension our bodies) are viewed this way we will have conflict, as capitalism is the enemy of Mother Earth and all which we hold to be sacred.
Missionizing Charity & Allyship
Diné families in the remote region of Black Mesa on Diné Bikéyah — in particular those impacted by forced relocation — have long been the perpetually “impoverished” fascinations of aspiring white saviors. Self-appointed allies, ranging in political spectrum from anarchists to Christian missionaries have rushed to provide support through “food runs” and other forms of charity. They keep a tidy arrangement providing for some families and leaving others out, building long-term relationships that fill accounts somewhere, all the while providing maintenance to the very system of rationing and control that was set in place during the so-called “Indian Wars.”
This brand of “charity” continues to be a strategy of colonial societies to control Indigenous Peoples throughout the world. Non-profit industry operatives (allies and Indigenous non-profits) missionize capitalist and colonial dependency, all while starving our people of their autonomy. They functionally are the new forts of the old wars.
Settler and resource colonialism and capitalism have been and continue to be the crisis that has dispossessed Indigenous Peoples throughout the world from our very means of survival.
From scorched earth campaigns that intentionally destroyed our fields and livestock and forced us to rely on government and missionary rations, to the declarations of our communities as perpetually “impoverished” disaster zones by Christian groups, non-profit organizations, and even some radical support projects, our autonomy has consistently been under attack. This is exacerbated today by those who perpetuate and benefit from cycles of dependency veiled as acts of “charity.”
In its obscene theater, ally-politics have nearly become a characterization of Dances with Wolves. Whether it’s self-discovery and guilt-distancing decolonial projects or groups such as Showing Up for Racial Justice and the Catalyst Project parachuting to the frontlines of Indigenous struggles (from Big Mountain to Standing Rock), the fetishist settler gaze rarely sees beyond the periphery of its own interests and comfort. In endless workshops and zoom meetings, it centers understandings of resistance and liberation on its own terms. This is most obvious when these false friends chase another social justice paycheck or abandon us when things get hard. The ally-industrial complex is in the process of colonizing Indigenous resistance. “Allies” are the new missionaries.
Settler society is grappling with how to understand and respond to this crisis, but for that to fully occur they have to come to terms with how their ways and understanding of the world has been built on a linear timeline, and how that timeline is coming to an end. Instead of fetishizing this ending with fantasies of apocalyptic survival and savior scenarios, this is the time of dirty hands, it’s a time of direct action, meaningful solidarity and critical interventions. It’s a time of solidarity and ceremony. If we are to have true solidarity and not charity on stolen lands, we must establish reciprocal terms that have a deep understanding of ongoing legacies of colonial violence.
Indigenous Mutual Aid is Necessary
In early March 2020 mutual aid projects started mobilizing in Diné Bikéyah. As of this writing more than 30 groups are coordinating emergency relief in various forms of direct actions throughout our communities.
The idea of collective care and support, of ensuring the well-being of all our relations in non-hierarchical voluntary association, and taking direct action has always been something that translated easily into Diné Bizáad (Navajo language). T’áá ni’ínít’éego t’éiyá is a translation of this idea of autonomy. Many young people are still raised with the teaching of t’áá hwó’ ají t’éego, which means if it is going to be it is up to you. No one will do it for you. Ké’, or our familial relations, guides us so that no one would be left to fend for themselves. I’ve listened to many elders assert that this connection through our clan system, that established that we are all relatives in some way so we have to care for each other, was the key for survival of those who were imprisoned at Fort Sumner. It’s important to also understand that Ké’ does not exclude our non-human relatives or the land.
Indigenous Peoples have long established practices of caring for each other for our existence. As our communities have a deep history with organizing to support each other in times of crisis, we already have many existing models of mutual aid organizing to draw from.
This has looked like a small crew coordinating their relatives or friends to chop wood and distribute to elders. It has looked like traditional medicine herbal clinics and sexual health supply distribution. It has looked like community water hauling efforts or large scale supply runs to ensure elders have enough to make it through harsh winters. It has looked like unsheltered relative support through distribution of clothing, food, and more.
Any time individuals and groups in our communities have taken direct action (not by relying on politicians, non-profit organizations, or other indirect means) and supported others–not for their own self-interests but out of love for their people, the land, and other beings–this is what we know as “mutual aid.”
When we recognize that we’re all in this together, that no one is better than anyone else and we have to take care of each other to survive, this is what anarchists have come to call, “Mutual Aid.” It’s a practice that anarchist author Peter Kropotkin wrote about in his book published in 1902 called “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.” His analysis was established in large part by observing how Indigenous communities cooperated for survival in contrast to existing European notions that attempted to assert that competition and domination were “natural” human behaviors. Kropotkin understood mutual aid as a law of nature, that when you observe and listen to nature, you understand that life thrives not by struggling for existence or the shallow notion of survival of the fittest, but through mutual support, cooperation, and mutual defense. We never needed and still don’t need dead white men from Europe to instruct us on how to live.
Indigenous Mutual Aid organizing challenges “charity” models of organizing and relief support that historically have treated our communities as “victims” and only furthered dependency and stripped our autonomy from us. We organize counter to non-profit capitalists who maintain neo-colonial institutions and we reject the NGO-ization and non-profit commodification of mutual aid.
While solidarity means actively and meaningfully supporting each other, it also doesn’t mean blind illusions of “unity” or that we must flatten out the diverse cultural and political ways and views that each of us maintains. There are some necessary tensions and factions in our communities and in radical Indigenous politics. Some Indigenous non-profits such as the NDN “Collective” and Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund (NHFCRF) have made millions of dollars from relief efforts in response to this pandemic. Relief has become big business while root causes are reinforced and further entrenched. To illustrate the disconnect of analysis, the NHFCRF started distributing coal for Diné and Hopi families to burn to stay warm in the cold depths of winter. Others are proposing a “revolutionary Indigenous socialist” agenda in an academic vanguard charge to proletarianize Indigenous ways through redwashed Marxism. This re-contextualizing of Marx and Engles’ political reactions to European capitalism does nothing to forward Indigenous autonomy. The process inherently alienates diverse and complex Indigenous social compositions by compelling them to act as subjects of an authoritarian revolutionary framework based on class and industrial production. Indigenous collectivities and mutuality exists in ways that leftist political ideologues can’t and refuse to imagine. As to do so would conflict with the primary architecture their world is built on, and no matter how it’s re-visioned, the science of dialectical materialism isn’t a science produced by Indigenous thinking. Colonial politics from both the left and the right are still colonial politics.
As the pandemic of COVID-19 wreaks havoc on our communities and threatens those most vulnerable such as our elders, those with existing health conditions due to colonial diets, ecological devastation, and polluting industries, immunocompromised, unsheltered relatives, and others, there is a clear need for organized mutual aid. Considering the cultural contexts, needs, and especially the history of colonial violence and destruction of our means of self and collective sufficiency, a distinct formation of Indigenous Mutual Aid and Mutual Defense, is necessary.
Indigenous Mutual Aid is not just about redistributing resources, it’s about radical redistribution of power to restore our lifeways, heal our communities, and the land.
Prophecy & Medicine
Just two generations after The Long Walk & mass imprisonment at Fort Sumner, Diné Bikéyah was faced with the influenza epidemic of 1918. Before the outbreak of the flu, my grandmother Zonnie Benally, who was a medicine practitioner, was given a warning when a saddle spontaneously caught fire. After praying she understood that a sickness would come correlated with a meteor shower, and that by eating horse meat she could survive. Zonnie Benally spread the word and urged people to prepare by going into isolation. The sickness also came after a total solar eclipse, which medicine people warned would bring harm to our people.
When the initial proposal was made to desecrate the mountain, medicine practitioners testified in court that this extreme disturbance and poisoning of the mountain would have severe consequences for all peoples. Their testimony was prophetic.
Daniel Peaches, member of the Diné Medicine Men’s Association stated, “Once the tranquility and serenity of the Mountain is disturbed, the harmony that allows for life to exist is disrupted. The weather will misbehave, the ground will shift and tremble, the land will no longer be hospitable to life. The natural pattern of life will become erratic and the behaviors of animals and people will become unpredictable. Violence will become the norm and agitation will rule so peace and peacefulness will no longer be possible. The plants will not produce berries and droughts will be so severe as to threaten all existence.”
In 1996 two holy people visited an elder near Rocky Ridge where the Black Mesa outbreak occurred. They had been visiting and sharing messages for some time, & when Sarah Begay, the daughter of the elder came home one day, she saw the holy beings. All of the messages that had been shared were verified by Hataałiis (medicine practitioners). It became a situation because the family’s ancestral lands were claimed in a constructed “land-dispute” with the Hopi tribe. Albert Hale, then Navajo Nation president (who has recently passed due to COVID-19) even declared a “day of prayer.” Their message was prophecy. It spoke of the elders & times we live in now. There were conditions set & what they spoke has unfolded.
The Diné Policy Institute Food Sovereignty Report also found prophecy in their study, “‘…it is said that the Holy People shared with the Diné people the teachings of how to plant, nurture, prepare, eat and store our sacred cultivated crops, such as corn. The importance of these teachings to our well-being was made clear in that the Holy People shared that we would be safe and healthy until the day that we forgot our seeds, our farms, and our agriculture. It was said that when we forgot these things, we would be afflicted by disease and hardship again, which is what some elders point to as the onset of diabetes, obesity and other ills facing Diné people today.’”
In response to ongoing attempts to remove her from her land and confiscate her livestock, Roberta Blackgoat stated, “This land is a sacred land. The man’s law is not our law. Nature, food and the way we live is our law. The plans to disrupt and dig out sacred sites are against the Creator’s law. Our great ancestors are buried all over, they have become sand, they have become the mountains and their spiritual presence is still here to guide us… We resist in order to keep this sacred land in place. We are doing this for our children. ”
Pauline Whitesinger, a Diné matriarch in the resistance against forced relocation on Black Mesa once said, “Washington D.C., is the cause of a lot of hardship and disaster. It’s like a human virus with side effects.”
When I asked my father Jones Benally, a medicine practitioner, what he thought of this current crisis he said, “I’ve been telling you to prepare for this.” And he has, especially since another recent solar eclipse. He said, “The government won’t take care of us. They’re part of the reason nature is attacking.”
We have survived massacres and forced marches, we have endured reservations and boarding schools, we have faced forced sterilizations and national sacrifice zones. We have resisted attacks on Mother Earth as we have long held that the balance and harmony of creation is intrinsically tied to our wellbeing and the health of all living beings. Our immune systems are compromised due to colonial diets and ecocide. From abandoned uranium mines poisoning our lands and waters, to coal mining, fracking, oil pipelines, and desecration of our most sacred sites, we have become more susceptible to this and other diseases due to capitalism and colonialism.
Our prophecies warned of the consequences for violating Mother Earth. Our ways of being have guided us through the endings of worlds before. We listen now more than ever to our ancestors, the land, and our medicine carriers. In these times we care for each other more fiercely than ever. We are living the time of prophecy. The systems that precipitated this disharmony will not lead us through or out of it, they will only craft new chains and cages. As the sickness ravages our lands, we must ask ourselves, “will we continue to allow this empire to recuperate?”
I’ve grown up in a world of ruins. We have teachings and prophecies of the endings of cycles, but that’s always how it’s been here, in this world of harmony and disharmony and destruction. Diné teach this as Hózhóji and Anaaji.
An anti-colonial and anti-capitalist world already exists, but as my father says, “there aren’t two worlds, there is just one world with many paths.” Colonial and capitalist paths are linear by design. In this space between harmony and devastation, we listen to these cycles, we listen to the land, and we conspire. If the path of greed, domination, exploitation, and competition doesn’t accept that it’s reached its dead end, then it is up to us to make sure of it.
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Building Momentum in Resistance to Grand Canyon Uranium Mining & Transport
Originally posted at www.haulno.org
Photos by Dustin Wero | Instagram: darth_wero
In late 2016 Indigenous anti-nuke & sacred sites organizers decided something had to be done to confront the threat of radioactive uranium ore transport from the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa Mill. In December of 2016, volunteer-based Haul No! was formed to raise awareness, organize, and take action to protect sacred lands, water, and our health from this toxic threat. Haul No! got to work right away researching, creating outreach materials, exploring and advocating policy changes, and planning for direct action to stop the transport.
In March 2017, Energy Fuels Inc. (EFI), the owner of Canyon Mine and White Mesa Mill (the only commercially operating uranium processing plant in the US), announced that it could be ready to start mining uranium as early as June 2017. Haul No! kicked into gear and started organizing an awareness and action tour along the 300-mile planned haul route, coordinating with community hosts along the way.
BLUFF, UT – SHUT DOWN WHITE MESA MILL
Haul No! initiated the tour on June 13, 2017 in Bluff, Utah. Although we started the event a bit later than intended (our crew was converging from a range of different points in the Southwest), the Bluff Community Center had an energetic crowd of 35 people. Our tour presentation consisted of two parts: the first, on facts relating to Canyon Mine, the haul route, and White Mesa Mill; the second was Indigenous-rooted direct action training.
The White Mesa Mill is currently undergoing renewal of its Byproduct Radioactive Material License (RML UT1900479) and the Groundwater Quality Discharge Permit for the White Mesa Uranium Mill. Utah Department of Environmental Quality held 2 public meetings in June, in Salt Lake City and Blanding.
A dozen community members from the nearby Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa, Utah joined the Haul No! tour stop and shared their experiences. Ephraim
Bluff and White Mesa community members also expressed great concern that their drinking water will be contaminated by further milling operations. The Navajo Sandstone aquifer lies right beneath the mill site. Other comments included concerns about accidents, leaks, and the liners of the tailings impoundments (such as quality, maintenance, and replacement).



The following day, the Haul No! crew, comprising of Leona Morgan, Sarana Riggs, Klee Benally, Dustin Wero, and Bobby Mason, met up with Ute Mountain Ute organizers at the entrance to White Mesa Mill. Haul No! volunteer Leona Morgan, who also works with Diné No Nukes and Radiation Monitoring Project, donned her hazmat suit & mask to monitor radioactive pollution at the entrance of the mill. When mistaken for being simply a photo-op, Leona said, “I’m not just messing around guys…I’m really working here.”
In the past two years alone, two radioactive spills have occurred en route to the mill. Both involved haul trucks from the Cameco Resources uranium mine in Wyoming and spill in march that spread radioactive barium sulfate sludge along U.S. Highway 191.



After Dustin took some pictures with Haul No! crew & Ute Mountain Ute defenders, part of the crew went directly to the Mill site to bring the message that we want them to shut down. Yolanda Badback confronted EFI workers as law enforcement agents arrived. Apparently
We ate and slept well that night thanks to our gracious hosts in Bluff. We look forward to returning.
TAKE ACTION: Send your own comments regarding renewals of White Mesa Mill’s permits. Public comment period ends on July 31, 2017. Click here for more info & a form letter, you can also email your comments directly to: dwmrcpublic@utah.gov
OLJATO, UT/MONUMENT VALLEY/KAYENTA, AZ – A LEGACY OF ABANDONED URANIUM MINES
Our next stop on the tour took us to Oljato, Utah, which is located within the iconic Monument Valley.
In Oljato/Monument Valley, we did more one-on-one outreach and education regarding the issue, to the Navajo Utah Commission, market vendors, and the Chapter Vice President.
Throughout the Navajo Nation, Diné families have been subject to decades of radioactive contamination ranging from unsafe working conditions at mines and mills, to living in houses built from materials taken from uranium mines. Well water is documented by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as undrinkable in at least 22 communities such as Black Falls on the Dine’ Nation. According to EPA, there are more than 523 abandoned uranium mines located though the Navajo Nation. This prompted the Navajo Nation to take action and ban uranium mining and milling in 2005. The Nation banned transport of radioactive materials in 2012. Though this matter is one of conflict due to lack of jurisdiction over state-controlled highways such as the EFI’s Canyon Mine haul route. This point is a focus regarding policy work for Haul No!.
Sunrise at Monument Valley is unparalleled. We broke camp and ventured to a visitors center, where we cleaned up, drank coffee, passed out literature, and worked out logistics. We held our Haul No! banner for the requisite Monument Valley photo and got the attention of a Gallup Independent journalist doing a story on the Bears Ears National Monument.
After that, our crew had to split to cover more ground. Two folks headed to Blanding, Utah to testify at the White Mesa Mill re-licensing hearing that was being held that night; while the rest of the crew headed to Kayenta where we would be holding down that evening’s tour stop. Our ranks were reinforced by Leilani Clark, a fierce Indigenous organizer from Tucson by way of Las Vegas.
The Kayenta event was held at the Township, which is less than a 1/4 mile from the transport route. We
We heard first-hand accounts of the nuclear industry’s toxic legacy and in our conversations realized that everyone on our tour had family directly impacted by uranium mining and milling.
We re-grouped with the crew that went to the White Mesa Mill hearing at Amigo Cafe (shout out to Billy!), and heard that the Mill workers were out in force. Sarana had testified in support of Ute Mountain Ute and spoke to the harmful legacy that the Navajo Nation still faces with the 5 uranium mill sites still plaguing our lands.
We decided to head directly to Tuba City that evening, so we could set up an outreach table at the Flea Market first thing in the morning.
TUBA CITY, AZ – RARE METALS’ DEADLY LEGACY
More than anything we heard constant accounts of cancer and passing of relatives due to work at Rare Metals Tuba City uranium Mill.
To this date, a layer of soil and rock is the only covering over 2.3 million tons of hazardous waste. A rock
All those at the presentation expressed strong opposition to further
As there were long-time anti-nuke organizers in attendance, the discussion was insightfully powerful.
FLAGSTAFF, AZ – A CRITICAL POINT OF INTERVENTION
At several of the other stops, many communities have asked what Flagstaff was doing to stop transport, as they see the community as sort of “gatekeeper” in the transport route. This is where some of the Haul No! policy strategy has been focused.
The next evening our crew with more Flagstaff Community members delivered a petition to Flagstaff City Council calling for a resolution and ordinance to oppose uranium transport. Flagstaff has jurisdiction over a small part of the transport route and organizers see this as a possible stopping-point to ensure other communities down the line are safeguarded as well.
CAMERON, AZ – A LEGACY OF ABANDONED URANIUM MINES (CONTINUED)
There are more than 100 abandoned uranium mines (AUMs) in the Western region of the Navajo Nation with a majority of them located in the Cameron area. These AUMs are located along the Little Colorado River and Highway 89, and are in the Cameron,
Cameron officials have already expressed that they are willing to block uranium transport if it comes towards their community.
A big thank you again to everyone who contributed, supported, hosted, donated, organized, and attended along the way!
PART 2: RED BUTTE GATHERING
Coming soon!
Please sign our pledge or resistance (even if you have already as we had some website issues)!
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www.haulno.org/campaigns/support-haul-no-crowdfunding-campaign/
Outcomes and Impacts:
Overall Haul No! accomplished the goals we set out for along the tour:
- to raise awareness and educate communities along the Canyon Mine haul route about the threat.
- build a base of support for action and policy work.
- organize an action response network.
Additional outcomes:
- City of Flagstaff placed resolution/ordinance on agenda for July 5, 2017
- outreach at Flea Markets and other events extended our reach to more than 700 people
- social media presence increased and media coverage,
We also had a range of requests at each event that included:
- further community outreach including signs along the haul route
2. additional presentations in other venues or other communities
Next Steps:
You know that Haul No! has been planning ahead for months right. ?
Some of our next steps include:
1. Further regionally focused awareness and education.
2. Support Ute Mountain Ute in getting the word out about White Mesa relicensing.
3. building and deploying signs along haul route.
4. Havasupai & Hopi follow-up presentations
5. Continued work on Chapter resolutions
6. Continued work on Navajo Nation Council action
7. get more pledge’s of resistance
8. Additional direct action trainings in Flagstaff
Haul No! Tour Volunteer Crew:
Leona Morgan
Sarana Riggs
Klee Benally
Dustin Dwero
Bobby Mason
Leilani Clark
Roland Begay
Logan Tracy
Tour miles: 300
Tour stops: 7
Total event participants: 160
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MOAB & the Apocalyptic Specter of Mutually Assured Destruction
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“You can’t bomb the world to pieces if we fuck-up your machines.”
Regardless of justifications and legitimacy of targets (and fuck off if you think no civilians were harmed), let’s not remove the dropping of the largest non-nuclear bomb in history from the context of the capacity and capability for violence that constitutes the existence of the so-called US.
This “Mother Of All Bombs,” from the only country in the world that has dropped nuclear weapons in combat, both in Japan on populated cities as brutal punctuation to the end of World War 2, is not only a show of force but represents an apocalyptic narrative that threatens all life, and not just those ISIS scum-spawn of US Imperialism.
In December 2016, Trump tweeted that, “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” The MOAB detonation clearly demonstrates that the fascist-in-chief has no inhibitions of picking a bigger weapon.
Keep in mind that the potential for global state violence exists with whatever the ruling party, for example there were ten times more air strikes (primarily drones that took hundreds of civilian lives) during Obama’s presidency than under George W. Bush.
During the cold war, the US employed a military & national security strategy known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). From wiki, “MAD is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender…”
This was literally a doctrine of “annihilation.”
The theological, pop-cultural, and political imagining of total global annihilation has occupied the space between dreams and nightmares for generations, but it wasn’t until Nuclear weapons were invented that full-scale apocalypse was a technological possibility.
Corporations producing these weapons and the extractive industries fueling them, which comprise a significant motivating factor known as the Military Industrial Complex, all cashed in on the fervor.
Radical anti-war and anti-nuke advocates have long waged resistance and attacked these weapons of mass destruction, political systems that generate them, and the corporations that profit from their proliferation.
In the 1980s, the Plowshares Movement took actions which included breaking into military facilities, smashing nuclear warhead nose cones, and pouring blood onto documents and files.
From 1986 through 1994, Western Shoshone and a group called Nevada Desert Experience waged direct action at the Nevada Test Site, the primary site for nuclear weapons testing in the so-called US, nearly 16,000 arrests were made. More than a thousand detonation tests were perpetrated on Newe Segobia (Western Shoshone lands), and dozens in the Marshall Islands. Radioactive pollution from those tests resulted in cancer and contamination directly in the communities and downwind from the sites. Indigenous Peoples from the Marshall Islands refused to reproduce due to extreme birth defects as a result of these atrocious acts of nuclear colonialism.
In 2006, the US threatened to test the non-nuclear “Divine Strake,” a “bunker buster” weapon in the same class though much larger than MOAB, at the test site in occupied Newe Segobia. Both Shoshone and anti-nuke groups intervened and ultimately stopped the test, asserting that it was a precursor to using nuclear weapons.
Historically, militant liberation groups like the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, American Indian Movement, Women of All Red Nations, Weather Underground, and others all recognized that diverse, and more direct forms, of action were necessary in the face of global state violence.
Today, as hundreds of species go extinct every day, as the pathways of US imperialism are paved with legacies of ecocide and genocide, somehow we’ve found ways to fetishize the apocalypse with prepper-fantasies and zombie survival scenarios. In many ways it appears easier to imagine annihilation than creating solutions, organizing, and doing something about it.
Radical anti-war and anti-nuke advocates historically didn’t give a fuck about “respectability politics” and property destruction as “violence” in the face of this threat. They literally took a sledge hammer to the source of state violence thereby, both symbolically and materially, neutralizing it.
Just as there are points of intervention in all aspects of what is known as the nuclear chain (mining, transport, milling, energy, weapons, & waste), there are points to intervene in all facets of the military industrial complex; from the corporations that produce the electronic components for these weapons, to the military recruitment centers, to the transport of military machines on roadways and rails, to the military bases throughout these stolen lands.
While Michael Franti sings, “we can bomb the world to pieces but we can’t bomb it into peace,” perhaps our re-working of the chorus could be, “You can’t bomb the world to pieces if we fuck-up your machines.”
#powertotheanticolonial #powertotheantiimperial #nonukes #moab #fightwarnotwars
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d
October 31, 2013 at 10:54 PM
Thank you for posting this. Throughout the day I have been working on a holistic health resource list for collectively creating a healthy future together amidst radiation contamination (https://www.facebook.com/notes/dixie-pauline/creating-a-healthy-future-together-amidst-environmental-radiation-a-holistic-hea/10150109089498412).
I actually visited this site because I was watching GasLand II last night (must-see documentaries) and the film mentions how the BLM is rounding up wild horses because they’re in the way of resource extraction & fracking. I think the BLM was given orders (or paid off. or both.) to round them up and exterminate them. Sad. I recall seeing a post about the peril of wild horses and wanted to see what else was written about it. Thank you for keepn on, raising awareness.
Mad Love
November 1, 2013 at 5:34 PM
not quite wise enough, im afraid. i see this from the mainstream green tracts as well. yes the problem is ‘the cumulative andcompounding devastation that is being wrought by the actions of human beings around the world.’, but we need to also acknowledge that all this destruction is now primarily for the benefit of a tiny fraction of powerful humans who are socio/psychopaths who are the ones driving this train to the end of existence and who will not be reasoned with and who cannot be reformed, so deep is their spirit sickness. and so they must be stopped.
Joey Racano
November 5, 2013 at 7:20 PM
It is wise enough. However, your words are the truth. But remember the communards. The people were not yet united and some acted with unwise haste. The result was a crushed movement and mass burials in a common grave.
Joey Racano
Dana
November 6, 2013 at 9:47 AM
I don’t suppose it occurred to you that stopping the earth-damagers might be part of the Original Instructions discussed here?
Passive pacifism is a New Age thing. This is not New Age thinking here. At the same time, these elders cannot come out and explicitly exhort their people to fight in a public forum like this. They are already on the knife edge of extinction and in this age of terrorism can’t afford to attract that kind of bad attention to themselves.
In fact it is best not to discuss these matters in public at all. Look up Deep Green Resistance on Google if you have not heard of them already. They share some interesting ideas about this.
paula muller
November 8, 2013 at 3:59 PM
I agree with Mad Love. This small group will kill us all and there is no reasoning with them. So how do you handle that?
Eagle Woman
November 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM
prayers that the evil race that creates the earth’s destruction will be stopped and they too will awaken. Prayers that the reactors have been swallowed by the Mother to save us from further destruction. Prayers for more time to become sensitive to the laws and Original instructions that exist within each one of us… prayers these will awaken.
riaswift
November 12, 2013 at 7:20 PM
I think they said this…maybe not in the words you used but I got the message. I already had it and they are saying exactly what you said.
Kelly Leighton
November 13, 2013 at 4:27 AM
sure. However, regardless as to wether or not the ones leading, (driving “this” train, as you put it), all of us just stand back and LET it happen and than cry about it after it was done slamming fists on the table and talk about what a monstosity all of “this” is! So, leaders be damned, we the people need to find/create a way to show there is better choices that we can make. And IF, because we don’t -“know”- the heart of any man but our own, these “leaders” are that entrenced in wanting to be destructive than just take them out……of the offices. I don’t -“know”- , what I do know is I am dong my part and that if enough of us do OUR part than eventually it will come full circle and we will live in peace once more. Won’t that be nice?
Linda Littrell
November 1, 2013 at 6:41 PM
Great wisdom is here, not ego-driven, somehow simple yet profound in a world gone mad. Thank you brothers and sisters. You are our mentors, as we may become aligned with those who teach that exploitation, desecration of our Mother Earth, our home, threatens and harms all beings. Those who live and “prosper” in denial of these truths may yet bring upheaval and even greater destruction to this wonderful world that was given, that has evolved. Nevertheless, we join together, we continue to stand together in peace, determination and compassion. Perhaps our voices will prevail; may it be so. Whether they do or do not, we stand with you in gratitude for the beauty and bounty of this Earth.
horus sage
November 2, 2013 at 5:32 AM
http://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/photo.php?fbid=750797228270535&id=286163761400553&set=a.344023565614572.103593.286163761400553&comment_id=116497064&offset=0&total_comments=39¬if_t=photo_reply&ref=m_notif&__user=100001039915766
Susan Varsames
November 2, 2013 at 2:46 AM
Water is our healer. Water is our life source. Without action now, we face destruction. Thank you elders for your eloquent statement.
Caryn Jaetzold
November 3, 2013 at 2:11 PM
Yes so true .. Since we invaded and took the Indians land we have done nothing but waste and destroy the land
anne
November 2, 2013 at 12:02 PM
apparently we can heal the waters with gold according to Bashar we have our values wrong and hold the powerful gold in safes in our banks
daniel corinniwe
November 3, 2013 at 12:20 AM
Not knowing of the council that time I did a series of ceremonies with friends and participants the last part of october doing kind of what the counsil relates to… many thanks to the women present for their strong prayers for the Waterelement… many thanks for the strong prayers of the group and all that feel the sacredness of this planet and life.. daniel corinniwe
Jennifer Kreitzer
November 3, 2013 at 11:44 AM
I love Bashar’s wisdom! I believe this is possible too
the railer
November 2, 2013 at 10:03 PM
Thank you…these words resonate deeply into the sub-conscious mind and this is where the well of truth lies in all humans. I hope that many people will be able to see what is really going on, and act on an impulse to conserve and to heal, instead of continuing down the same path that keeps the war machine and greed in control of our small planet.
Marushka
November 3, 2013 at 3:16 AM
Cannot heal water with gold… gold standard does not back the $ any more.
Nothing will heal without unity of souls, Mother Earth, all the web of life. We must seek healing, open to profound change and priorities. Without clean water, clean food, we will not survive as a species; contamination from nuclear options cannot be put back in the poison bottle…
Thanks, horus sage, for the link to support Taro Yammamoto
Christine Prat
November 3, 2013 at 8:48 AM
Traduction française:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2017
vincent nanticoke
November 3, 2013 at 11:40 AM
indeed we are in the midst of a natural self destruction mode because of steering away from what has been given to us by the creator, much prayer is to be needed to get thru this one. each of us has the capacity to pray, why not use that to it’s fullest? when we all pray then we can make things become healthier for all.
Jennifer Kreitzer
November 3, 2013 at 3:18 PM
I have posted this on my Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/globalmeditationforfukushima , and I have boosted the post to 16,000 people so far. This needs to go far and wide. Already 140 or so people have liked the post, and people are starting share it.
Shaman'a Ital JahRoot
November 3, 2013 at 9:21 PM
Give thanks! I am humbly of service for my Heart is ready. Shaman Wolf with strong Water.
inugami.hete@gmail.com
November 4, 2013 at 3:11 AM
I am a Japanese.
I consent to the contents of this declaration.
I diffuse this information in Japan by many means.
And we have to share this thought. Now!
Dina
November 5, 2013 at 7:20 AM
The Japanese people are in my prayers. What is the general feeling in Japan about Fukushima? How is the health of the people? I live on the California coast. I wonder how much longer we will be able to swim in the ocean and eat the fish.
Robert Dasteel
November 8, 2013 at 5:22 AM
Best to stop eating all seafood from the Pacific as of now. The starfish are dissolving
and the tuna is testing radioactive. More on the way. There are some answers–go to
Youtube. Also no sushi or seaweed from the Pacific.
Sindy Sloan Fagen
November 5, 2013 at 6:11 PM
Thank you
Bruce Schuman
November 4, 2013 at 9:47 AM
Let’s explore the path of collaboration. This statement from the Elders was posted through the URI (United Religions Initiative) — and it should be possible to build a fundamental international alliance based on this primal call to “restore the original instructions”. As the Elders indicate — Fukushima is a critical thing — but only one thing among many that are also critical. Can we convene “one circle” — to form this “global community of all faiths” that is called for?
http://interspirit.net/dawn/index.cfm
http://interspirit.net/alliance/commentstream.cfm
Bruce Schuman, Santa Barbara
annie loyd, phoenix, az & black hills, sd
November 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM
thank you elders, grandfathers and grandmothers, uncles and aunts for your wise council and powerful guidance – we stand ready and willing let us mount our horses and ride gathering our relatives from the south and the north join at the mounds and then ride to the white house – together we stand united for clean water and restoration of Mother Earth – Count us in Bruce – well said –
Martin Zehr
November 4, 2013 at 7:57 PM
Resistance. There is no option for life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCxHsoiSrs
Dave Sansone
November 5, 2013 at 2:19 AM
I will present this statement at an upcoming conference about Fukushima in Hawai’i. Thank you for sharing the wisdom of the elders. You are the true leaders.
FYI I had the opportunity to listen to part of Andrew Big Smoke’s (“the rainbow prophet”) voice, vision, and dream as a result of a chance(fated) meeting which made me aware of the Hopi Rainbow prophecy. I want to share that part of it has come true in Hawai’i. Native Hawaiian “activists” and a mix of other “races” acted in unity to create a protest garden/ place of refuge on contested Hawaiian land to bring light to the illegal annexation of Hawai’i and consequential problems that occur when the native population is forcibly removed and prohibited from living traditionally.
What I realized is that the people working in the garden-malama aina, nurturing the land, were people of all races, colors, creeds, and classes. We all share a concern about the state of the island and the many inhabitants and are working to restore her and the rights and health of the native inhabitants AND newcomers.
As Uncle Albert Haa Jr, descendant of Kamehameha, King of Hawai’i told me, he has grandchildren with blond hair and green eyes, a free Hawai’i must include everyone here. The Hawaiians have married just about every culture that made it here, so Hawaii must include them. This inclusive, understanding and loving attitude–aloha, is part of the original instructions here that may help us reach those who could be percieved as enemies. They can be future allies if we realize it is a possibility.
Yes, the time to act is now. We are living during the 6th great extinction, largely caused by western civilization’s colonization. The best solution costs nothing, What we need is here. If you are idigenous to a place it is in your DNA. The rest of us can ask for assistance from the spirits in understanding how to interact with nature appropriately, answers can come quickly if we don’t limit ourselves. That is what I have been doing and have learned much. check out http://www.agroforestrydesign.net to learn about some of the traditional land management practices utilized in permaculture.as a means to restore the environment, our food sovereignty, and health.
Aloha
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Peggy LIndquist
November 7, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Thank you. I appreciate your comments and the direction of your work.
carl doolittle
November 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM
I AM YOU YOU ARE ME WE ARE ONE this came to me in a Spirit Dance (the old Ghost Dance).
what is shared here is very well said and can help us to let go of the spiritual and political differences so that we can come together bring our mother back into balance, she will come back into balance regardless of what we do but if we do not move toward balance she will have to let us go.
Frances
November 7, 2013 at 11:15 AM
I am reminded of the beautiful song “Spirit of One” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19g6JMT_1JA. There is a further reference to the Spirit of Destruction and a prophesy in the New Testament, see 2Thessalonians 2.3, describing the time of the Son of Destruction/Son of Perdition.
A special message of love to the people of Fukushima at this time. It is written that God said that He would have to intervene otherwise all flesh would be destroyed. That is our Hope.
Frances
November 7, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Is it possible to change the link? It should be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19g6JMT_1JA
SiriS Emanuel
November 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Namaskar,
Do your Yoga.
http://billtotten.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/the-global-corporatocracy-is-almost-fully-operational/
One Love…
Keep Dancing!
Julie
November 6, 2013 at 5:19 PM
I am with you!
Samuel Fariss
November 7, 2013 at 9:38 AM
The madness is upon humanity. Our leaders are acting like ill-behaved children. Our people refuse to look within and learn. Many are lost in the fog of fear and hatred, unwilling to seek the light of truth and balance. Those of us who see the truth and live in as a sacred way as we can must drum, dance, sing, chant and pray. Here in Asheville, North Carolina we rallied in what was called Mountain Moral Monday. An estimated 10,000 participated. We were Christian, Wiccan, Native American Shaman, Muslims, Buddhist and every other spirit path one can imagine. This is what is needed. We must see our similarities and set aside our differences. We must work together. I have long known that we are standing at a crossroads. Taking the wrong road will destroy life on this planet. We have work to do. Let us continue with renewed vigor.
Sydney Vilen
November 7, 2013 at 11:57 PM
The indigenous people of this American continent repeated spoke this wisdom to my ancestors. Sadly, my ancestors could not hear the wisdom. May it be that times have changed. May the drastic nature of our current condition allow us to hear now. Thanks to you who have kept this sacred truth and bring it to us again now.
gordyohliger
November 8, 2013 at 4:57 PM
Thank you.
Thank you for your focus
and speaking from deep inside.
I sing with you..
R. N. Mason
November 9, 2013 at 1:55 AM
Samuel Fariss has written well, but more needs to be recognized about our “leaders.” They have embraced the ultimate idolatry, for they have become lost in the belief that money is Creator and that human command is supreme. If you doubt this, read any modern text on economics or governance. As lost ones, they cannot be trusted to guide the People in a good way; they can, however, be expected to cling desperately to the blanket they themselves have woven, knowing no other shelter and seeing the oncoming storm. Because they have power, of a kind, their clinging must inevitably produce yet more damage to our Mother Earth and all Her children. If the world is to live, at some point soon we, the People, will have to say “I walk away!”
To “walk away” must mean, of course, to take up the Instructions, as they have been and are being given to each People, and to live them to the best of our ability. It means to return to Prayer – especially for guidance – and to Purification, to the opening of the Heart to the needs of all our Relations and to a determination to act, to live, to speak and to think in a good way.
I am Lue-tah/Rainbow Dreamer, and I have spoken.
R. N. Mason
November 9, 2013 at 10:34 PM
Repost from Nov. 8
Samuel Fariss has written well, but more needs to be recognized about our “leaders.” They have embraced the ultimate idolatry, for they have become lost in the belief that money is Creator and that human command is supreme. If you doubt this, read any modern text on economics or governance. As lost ones, they cannot be trusted to guide the People in a good way; they can, however, be expected to cling desperately to the blanket they themselves have woven, knowing no other shelter and seeing the oncoming storm. Because they have power, of a kind, their clinging must inevitably produce yet more damage to our Mother Earth and all Her children. If the world is to live, at some point soon we, the People, will have to say “I walk away!”
To “walk away” must mean, of course, to take up the Instructions, as they have been and are being given to each People, and to live them to the best of our ability. It means to return to Prayer – especially for guidance – and to Purification, to the opening of the Heart to the needs of all our Relations and to a determination to act, to live, to speak and to think in a good way.
I am Lue-tah/Rainbow Dreamer, and I have spoken.
Dublinsmick
November 11, 2013 at 1:28 AM
There have been many warnings.
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/6nations1.html#part1a
http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=4877
I personally think ison may well be the blue star kachina to be followed by the red kachina which is what is being referred to here as hercolubus. It goes by many names.
HERCOLUBUS is the hyperdimensional heavenly body.
The PHOENIX is the galactic messenger of Greek mythology.
BENNU is the “phoenix” of ancient Egyptian lore.
NIBIRU is the experience of the Sumerians.
QUETZALCOATL is the feathered serpent of the Aztecs.
KUKULCAN is the Mayan deity who causes earthquakes across the earth.
RED STAR KACHINA is the Hopi prophecy.
PLANET X is the question of modern doubt?
NEMESIS labels the cultural fear!
WORMWOOD names the biblical prophecy.
MARDUK is the misunderstood Comet-Planet of Babylon.
The DESTROYER is the historical reality.
The RED PLANET is the appearance in the heavens.
TYCHE is the giant stealth planet.
The RAJA SUN is the King Star.
Many different names for the same cosmic meme … for a universal archetype … for the quintessential omen.
Why has the meme been disseminated – so far and wide – over so many millennia?
Perhaps the time is nigh for us to seek an answer this question.
mysticmamma.com
November 11, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Thank you for posting and all that you do!
EVERYONE PLEASE SUPPORT THE ELDER’S STATEMENT with your signature here:
http://caretakersofmotherearth.com/
Susan Campoccio
November 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM
Thank you, Fathers and Mothers , for your words and Spirit.
Gary Requahillboy
November 14, 2013 at 10:27 AM
Would one recogonize_the feeling of the vibration_of a newer realm_the old_but new sounds_that we are now flowing with_as of departing from the 3rd Earth Age_to be of the 5th Earth Age_from the third dimension_on to the change_as of becoming_of the fifth dimension_from “MOTHER EARTH”_being re-born_as an older_wasted vibration_that may be a change_for those_that remain_with what is_of timess no more_so having to_taught_to be of life with_”MOTHER EARTH+in a good way_from experiencing_their feeling of being alone_from what is real_while traveling eternity_with the 4th earth age_to realize the 5th dimension_all that from creating a man made hell_therefore realizing_for a moment of illusion captured_while now living their intentions_where nothing is to be found_from shameful human behavior_after controlling and experiencing_what is of illusion_that controlled_nothing more then_what cannot be taken_into higher values_of change_we are the last_OF A DENSE_OVER RIDE_ATTEMPTING TO STOP_THE TRUTH_THAT WE WILL BE_”FOUND”_BY Love_by being of the vibration_that heals_from the universe_and all of the human drive_to be of conscious thought_via the crystal healing core_of “Mother Earth”and all that_came before_and after we_even if it was we_to be found_over and over again_seeking our way_back from_how and where we began__oh yes_we are made_to repeat_in its rhyme time_in what we use_as a brand_as of being_of life times_yes it is of time_that is known to move on_with all of the “Loving Spirit”_while understanding why_that this ride_of illusion_that is no more_then humanity allowed to be_will only leave and be left for_riddles of no light_that cannot at this way_breathe liter air_whom are of condition factors_that gave nothing_but themselves_ to realize nothing_only to understand_of how to catch up_fo we must move on_not to be found_lost in what _seems real_but alas_to be left_within their illusion_is what they found_by feeding upon times illusion_that has no time_even in the DNA_of memories_but yes_The Eternal_never dreams forever_for it will become real_within the truth_of realness_realized via ONENESS_within the human interpatation_from where we are now_from becoming_of never never realm_for we are in that time now_that dictates_to never give in_to hold on_for Creator_waits_for we are_ONE OF A KIND_from beginning too end_ALPHA AND OMEGA_for it is foretold_that we live and breathe “LOVE” that glows as light_from the four directioins_from within_that shones_ffrom the EYES_the HEART and the MIND_projecting time_if all left_want to join the flow_WITH “MOTHER EARTH” Home of the Sacred Spirits
Tadanori Shigeyuki
November 15, 2013 at 5:04 AM
I love the universe.
I love the earth.
I love me.
Thank you.
aripeka1
November 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM
We actually had the Honor of Meeting and spending the evening with Bobby C Billy last evening in Brooksville, Florida last evening. Many people are ill in the Gulf Region and we are the caretakers of the Gulf. Thanks to Bobby C Billy for taking the time and the hours to explain to the elderly and the young alike in his wonderful, quiet but courageous way that everything is changing. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
TimA
November 28, 2013 at 6:08 AM
Thankyou everyone for your beautiful intentions, indeed they help, however this is what I have seen….
I am one man that has been practicing dhamma for some time now. I have a very deep understandin/acceptance of the laws of nature, the laws of dhamma and the laws of kamma and a profound respect for all. I understand the nature of the mind/ego to be that of attachment or, addiction and Daily I practice non-attachment thru meditation, action, thought and intention while facing the challenges of coexisting and working with other mundane beings.
My livelihood has changed to be ‘right’ livlihood(that is ‘wholesome’ livlihood) I have stopped killing other beings intentionally(including fish and one of my previous favourite pastimes) I have become a vegitarian/vegan. I have drastically changed my social habits, quit the drink, drugs and tobacco. And indeed those that normally associate with these habits(unless I’m drawn to these people for a particular reason) We have become to immature to do most of these respectfully and for any real benefit as indeed some once where. I partake in men’s work, demonstrations, healing sites and connecting more and more to ‘country'(Aboriginal Australian term) and much more, which surprisingly came easy enough as I ‘knew’ I had to, indeed, we all have too…..
I tell you all this not for praise or glory but to say that even with all this effort and intention, I still harbour bitterness, anger, spite, ill will arrogance and many other defilements and I understand these to be driven largely by my huge Dutch/Sicilian Australian Leo ‘ego’ lol and I accept this(I also recognise my wholesome qualities and the big ones of compassion and gratitude which I witness evolving) But again I tell you all this as an example of the difficulties that I face as a mundane being on the path to enlightenment and that most are not even close to many of the ‘sacrifices’/self empowerments that I’ve just mentioned.This is because most do not understand the true nature of our mind/ego, that of craving and aversion and the insatiable appetite we all demonstrate to some degree. Most I have come across, wether spiritual, environmental or socially motivated very seldom consider, in any real depth, any of the other factors only worrying about ‘there’ problems. This has to change for any real change to manifest. We Must consider much, much more of our own influences and affects, the homeless indigenous, the polluting of our waters, the crippling capitalist system and indeed our moral and spiritual bankruptcy. The dying oceans(we have to stop eating fish now). The wars and violent crimes(we must cease killing all beings, wether for food, fun, territory, politics or religion, it has an affect and influence, even simply ‘thinking’it does)We have so much knowledge of super foods and plant based protein etc that we can now return to sharing this planet with our four legged, winged and crawling friends, without harming them. i know many that are willing to save a forrest(yes a knoble cause) but not willing to discuss there own anti social and morally flawed habits. This has to change If we want real change.
I thank the elders for there depth and wisdom and I ask everyone to consider all aspects of there words and to start making changes where before there were few.
And lastly I will say that I have seen too much and I know that if we as individuals don’t do much more, then our mother will simply start again. This of course would be a shame as this earthly realm is a good place to be for deep spiritual work and we have come so far consciously but have become very confused between our ‘wants’ and ‘needs’.
I see too few that really care, even in these unprecedented times, and too few that are doing enough to prevent the total catastrophe that is looming
I know that if we as individuals and communities work deeply on ourselves, many of the symptoms of this chronic dis-ease will dissolve and we as individuals may attain the ultimate liberation.
Love and peace to you all my brothers and sister in this earthly existence
TimA
TimA
November 28, 2013 at 7:20 PM
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-29/rio-to-suspend-gove-alumina-refinery-in-northern-territoy/5124570
I just had to share this bit of positive.
Here in Australia, as u may b aware, have been relatively immune to the 08 financial collapse. This has been changing over the past few years with large numbers of employees loosin there jobs, even in the mining sector.
Just now, in west Aus(Aus’ mining capital) 450 odd people lost there job from caterpillar….60 odd apprentices, just before chrissy….
Rio tinto(Australia’s biggest miner) has announced closing of its alumina plant in Arhnem land, Northern Territory, a remot, isolated and culturally rich part of northern australia.
This is big, it is a mining town and caused many problems to the Yolngu people who still maintain a large amount of culture but have undergone the inevitablel modern vices of drugs and alcohol, which has caused great harm.
Many of the towns inhabitants will inevitably leave,im sure, offering a relatively pristine environment with all facilities. This may offer a very positive change of direction.
It is clear to me that the ‘financial crisis’ Will be the deciding factor and not pure conscience, or universal morality. Therefore the changes will only be temporary, until we become comfortable again.
We must step up to this higher consciousness, (we can all recognise it in our conscience) and really feel what needs to be done and go for it.
Love and peace
TimA
roger
December 6, 2013 at 9:43 AM
Dear Anne,
Your comment leads me to believe you might be ‘the Anne’ who is alive and well at ENENEWS.COM
If you are the Anne who is active on enenews, I would like for you to meet a local Tribe Leader of the Cour de alene. She is just learning of Fukushimas dangers. Roger