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U.S. Government Continues Genocidal Assault on the People of Black Mesa
Black Mesa, find discount bactrim online, Bactrim online stores, AZ -- On Monday, December 22nd, bactrim cost, Bactrim from india, 2008 The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) issued a decision to approve the Black Mesa Project, find discount bactrim. Buy bactrim online without prescription, This decision continues the legacy of the United States Government's genocidal policies against those living in the Black Mesa region.
For more than 30 years Dine' and Hopi traditionalists, mainly elders, discount bactrim without prescription, Bactrim side effects, have resisted continued assaults on their lives and land because of coal mining operations. Through policies such as PL93-531, bactrim tablet, Buy bactrim internet, the U.S. has already forcibly relocated more than 14,000 Dine' people from their ancestral homelands.
Although PL93-531 has been portrayed as a resolution to this so-called "Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute", buy bactrim us, Find bactrim online, elders from the Black Mesa region have resisted and held that the coal beneath their homes has been the real interests of the Federal and Tribal governments.
This decision has been widely viewed as a foregone conclusion because of the colonial history of the area relating to resource extraction. Activist's also decried the decision making process due to OSM's lack of meaningful outreach to impacted communities and refusal to extend public comment deadlines.
Buy bactrim without prescription, In February 2004, Peabody Energy submitted to the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) a permit application proposing substantial revisions to its mining plans at the Kayenta and Black Mesa Mines on Black Mesa, bactrim prices, Buy discount bactrim, which is located in Northern Arizona.
Additional impacts of the Black Mesa Project include (from www.blackmesais.org):
• Establish permanent mining rights until the coal runs out or until at least 2026!
- Substantially accelerate global climate disruption and cause an ecological meltdown.
- Destroy thousands of acres of pristine canyon lands, causing animal and plant ecology and cultural sites to vanish.
- Increase the detonation of coal on a daily basis, cheapest bactrim, Find bactrim without prescription, affecting air quality and health of miners, local residents, buy bactrim low price, Bactrim sales, and their livestock.
- Deplete the already scarce water tables and regional aquifer that are all essential to residential survival.
- Uproot & relocate families from their ancestral homelands due to coal mining expansion.
- Sacrifice human dignity and planetary health for elite profit. Peabody would cause many more problems than what is reflected here, buy bactrim from us. Drug bactrim online purchase, Its roots remain sunk deeply in the history of colonial genocide, corporate power grabs, buy generic bactrim online, Cheapest bactrim price, and ecological devastation.
In 30 years of controversial operation, Peabody's Black Mesa Mine has been the source of an estimated 325 million tons of CO2 that have been discharged into the atmosphere.* If expansion plans are permitted, cheapest generic bactrim online, Bactrim no prescription, it would exacerbate already devastating environmental and cultural impacts on local communities and significantly add fuel to the fire of the current climate chaos we face globally. Coal from the Black Mesa mine could contribute an additional 290 million tons of CO2 to the global warming crisis!* (info from www.blackmesais.org)
Coal from the Black Mesa Mine was delivered to the Mohave Generating Station until it's doors were shut on December 31, buy bactrim overnight delivery, Buying bactrim, 2005 due to non-compliance with a 1999 consent degree that required the owners to install pollution controls. The coal was transported to the plant in a slurry (about 50/50 water and crushed coal) through the Black Mesa Pipeline, low cost bactrim, No rx bactrim, owned and operated by Black Mesa Pipeline, Inc, buy bactrim once daily. Low price bactrim, As a part of the Black Mesa Project, this coal-delivery system would be rebuilt, buying bactrim online. Order bactrim overnight delivery, Southern California Edison and other co-owners of the Mohave Generating Station are proposing to construct and operate a new water-supply system to convey water from a well field near Leupp, Arizona, real bactrim without prescription, No prescription bactrim, using water from the Coconino (C) aquifer, to the Black Mesa Mine for the coal slurry, order discount bactrim, Bactrim discount, and mine related uses.
Lawsuits against OSM to protect the land and people of Black Mesa are expected to be filed by multiple groups.
Pressure can also be put on the incoming Obama Administration considering that intended energy policies include further use of so-called "Clean Coal".
Additional groups such as Navajo Green Jobs are also proposing alternative energy transitions on the Navajo & Hopi Nations to reduce dependency on non-renewable resources.
Of course, we must not just shift dependencies to a more "green lifestyle", we must find more sustainable and meaningful ways to better our relations with mother earth. No matter how green our lifestyles, capitalism will never be sustainable.
For more information visit: www.blackmesais.org
To read the full decision visit: http://www.wrcc.osmre.gov/default.htm
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The SDN (Sheep Dog Nation) Rocks' Blog, "Big Mountain Survival Camp Stories," will soon be outta service, but will post a couple more infos before it is a 'wrap.' Several factors are key to this decision but mainly it has to do with Native American ignorance towards its own elders and its future generations. It's a waste of time to reflect on ancient belief systems. I don't dare to rely on blood thirsty lawyers, climate experts, or U.S, flomax cheap price. departments to hear my 'grievances.'
Two prime examples are AIM's recent celebration that only focused on their own individual pride while grandmothers in Shoshone and at Big Mountain try to make a stand against the greed and aggressions of the U.S. corporations. A another example is traditional grandmas at Big Mountain are making their last stand against eviction laws 'in the name of Peabody Coal,' while there are local indigenous environmental organizations that have decided to leave these grandmas out of the picture --in their protests.
Buy flomax without prescription, It wears down a heart to try and reach people. Here, in AZ, lowest price flomax, the Indian youths are saying the Peaks are Sacred but they are not in control of the National Forest Lands. They don't want to hear about Big Mountain genocide and the forced relocation, or even see that We, Buy flomax in us, indigenous peoples are still "in control" of most of Black Mesa and Big Mountain. How the hell are we to survive. Yes, abandon the ancient ways. Live according to something called, "rights," that are given to us by the oppressor?
American Indians do not care what Mother Earth might being saying, or maybe they do care, buy flomax without prescription. What is Mother Earth saying while her flesh is carved open for minerals and toxic waste dumps, flomax professional. Does she say, "go to the U.S. officials and try to make 'your' point?" Does she say, Buy flomax in canada, "go back to the ancient holy lands, revive the chant ways, rebuilt the ancient fires, allow me to embrace you there, and I'll be fine?"
So, purchase flomax overnight delivery, if you wish, check out one of the final postings: "Ancient Ways Abandoned to Fend for Themselves at Big Mountain"
"...I don’t think I can define Life. It has to be how much the human mind can take.
Buy flomax without prescription, Utilizing faith is key so, that you can pray when it is difficult and never give up on that faith no matter how painful.
Cheapest flomax prices, The modern-day, human mind seem less durable and it resorts to degrading others, or alcoho lism. Modern way of life has separated our children from us and they have become ‘uncivilized.’ The family units of the Indian are gone. The reliance on horses and sheep herding is the past and the automobile is now the future..." -Dineh Elder,
buy flomax on internet, Pauline Whitesinger talks about Life in a recent interview:
http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/Elders like these should be listened to and honored. Their words and experiences should be Our doctrines of manisfesto to challenge corporate and governmental aggression.
-Kat (the Bahe)
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(Left Photo by Akilla Kojima. Inset photo is Dineh elder, Pauline Whitesinger's traditional earth lodge and still under construction that the BIA tribal authorities say is illegal because Pauline has never signed any kind of agreements with the Feds in regards to the 1974 relocation law.)
Early 21st Century: The Last Days of Traditional Indigenous Life (Was) at Big Mountain
[Author’s Note: “Free & Easy” is not your typical fashion magazine where it exploits flashy or plastic glossy and saturated colored clothing that imitates the latest Paris, or that U.S, buy flomax without prescription. gangster look. Order flomax on internet, Instead, it is like an alternative look and presentation of fashion that remains as a traditional look, which might have survived because of its utilitarian and comfortable wear, but can still be withheld as a fashion trend. “Free & Easy, buying generic flomax,” a Japanese magazine also does featured stories not related to developing trends, but stories about cultural entities that is not of popular interest and should be reported for the benefit of addressing the human searches for reassurance and understandings.
America’s Freedom of Speech and Press has long denied stories that come out of indigenous resistance communities at Big Mountain. Then, Flomax free sample, we have a magazine that is published in the Japanese language and thousands of miles away that decided to come out to Dineh elder, Pauline Whitesinger’s home in remote Big Mountain country to hear her story about “the once upon a time (to be),” The Indian Way to Live as Human Being.]
F & E: According to your traditional way, what is Life like in a day?
Pauline: Plans and schedules were important and are made in advance. Buy flomax without prescription, However, such disruption that we had earlier are unexpected and those kinds of events take away the time delegated for priorities and goals. But here, flomax, at Big Mountain, we live with a lot of threats from the police and guns of the United States. And unfortunately, Cheap flomax in canada, we just saw that this morning and you yourself have seen it personally.
In the old days, a day would start when you leave your dwelling place and as you make your first step outside your doorway, your day begins. What lies ahead is not clearly predictable because you may ‘tripped.’ You need a family or community to be part of your day and within that, there is a culture, flomax no rx required. Others would be there to share with you or support you in case you ‘stumble and fall.’ It was taught to me when I was young that we should limit the use of the word, ‘no!’ We were to always be there for someone in need and have empathy because ‘you’ may need that help someday.
Today, you may ask for help like borrowing tools to mend your clothes or repair something. The method of borrowing is a test of the human ability to be considerate, and it is an expression of attitude, buy flomax without prescription. Buy flomax on line, How you achieve in that test will ultimately determine your mental balance, if you have empathy and humbleness, and it basically determines where your ‘heart’ is at: love and kinship. Certainly, these things were expected of every new born back in the old days, buy cheapest flomax online. For instance, the new born will give to the community or if he is a boy, he will cultivate the fields or become builder of dwellings. Flomax online without a prescription, This is probably how my father was raised because he was always there to help build a lodge or help maintain the values of the community.
I don’t think I can define Life. Buy flomax without prescription, It has to be how much the human mind can take. Utilizing faith is key so, that you can pray when it is difficult and never give up on that faith no matter how painful. The modern-day, human mind seem less durable and it resorts to degrading others, generic flomax, or alcoholism. Modern way of life has separated our children from us and they have become ‘uncivilized.’ The family units of the Indian are gone. The reliance on horses and sheep herding is the past and the automobile is now the future.
My childhood times required us to haul water by hand and I remember making the climb out of this canyon, Order flomax online, Sweet Water. I helped with carry bundles of firewood and sometimes when we moved, I helped carry the grinding stones, buy flomax without prescription. A day’s job did not involve going to the grocery store to get soda pop, a dangerous form of drink which we didn’t realized, and other unknown American products.
Our time as traditional elders is a time where we are no longer honored by the youths. What has happened to their brain and hearts, find no rx flomax, I wonder. The white society is becoming unstable, too, Price of flomax, and one example is like hearing about an eight year old shooting and killing his father. At eight years old, you are just starting to learn about your responsibility. Buy flomax without prescription, A very joyful time. I learned about life not through punishment like the whip. When I whined as a young girl, online flomax, my mom said to me, ‘your complaint cannot be accepted now because it has expired.’ My father was much kinder. You were told to listen and you did. Purchase flomax, I know about abuse and dishonor, and I knew of love and respect.
That has been the way I tried to based my Life all these years.
F & E: Tell me about the Dineh (Navajo) concept of Life after death.
Pauline: The old ways, which I still live according to, prohibited the Dineh to talk about such matters. It was prohibited when a state of Life is happy because it is not in a state of mourning, buy flomax without prescription. This moment we have now is in a state of enjoying each other’s company and (that) other subject matter must not be discussed.
F & E: I hate to use the word ‘myth, flomax overnight shipping,’ but does the Dineh have a myth about the creation of the humans?
Pauline: Big Mountain communities use to have all the descendents of the original core clans that were created in the beginning of the humans. The Dineh (The People) were created right before White Shell Woman left to live in the Pacific Ocean. She is said to have rubbed off her skin little rolls of dead skin material, Cheap flomax from usa, oil and dust from the four different parts of her body. In a ritual manner and aided by super natural forces, the four rolls of skin material, body oil and dust became living human forms. Buy flomax without prescription, So, my Taa’ba’ha’ clan was a group that broke off from those people who use their feet to make water seep out of a wet stream bed and gathered water but eventually were cover in mud as well. The Taa’ba’ha’ then separated into two other bands when they settled in the mountainous country and so today, flomax cheap drug, there are the Hal’t’soh Dine’eh (Meadow People) and the T’sin’ii’ahaa’ (Standing Tree People) of the Taa’ba’ha’.
Nowadays, these living human branches are being altered by human manipulations and that is why there is much imbalance and aggression. The Hopi way is abused, Overnight flomax, too, because we have Hopis in uniforms and carrying guns who are telling us we need ‘permission by them’ to exist. The great ways of the deities are no longer valued and that is why, I am under attack because it has been decided that my ceremonial lodge is illegal. Where does the root of aggression come from?
F & E: I am sure your parents have taught you so many things about traditional Life, flomax uk, but can you tell us about one or two of which you think were the most impressive?
Pauline: Oh, like I have lived it all correctly or accordingly. (Laughs) Well, my father was a Medicine Man and my mother was a herbalist, buy flomax without prescription. If they were both here, Best price for flomax, today, they would noticed that Life at Big Mountain is not in accordance to the ancient ways.
Three days prior to my father’s passing he began to tell me about a vision or predictions which sounded strange to me at that time. He said that life is well then with all the goats, horses and cattle, but that era is coming to an end, flomax prescription. ‘Someday,’ he said, ‘the Hopis will bring a police force.’
He said for us to, Flomax medication, ‘hold on to the tails of all the animals, hold on to their legs and do not ever let go. Despite all the threats about going to jail or with their all their weapons, grab onto the roots of the trees and the longer you maintain you grips, you shall prevail!’
Do not be afraid, cheap flomax no rx. Buy flomax without prescription, Here is your mother, Great Mountain. Hold on to the fringes of her dress. You and your clan relatives are the greatest of peoples. Try to make sure that your peoples, Flomax canada, Mountain Meadow People of the Near the Water Peoples, conduct themselves according to the spiritual laws of life and ritual procedures.’
F & E: Do you ever think about ‘relocation?’
Pauline: I have no plans about that nor do I prepare for that. If such time does come upon me, (they) will have to tie me up and carry me off to where ever they want. But when I do seriously think about the relocation law, I think of its real purpose and that is to extract all the valuable minerals out of the earth, buy flomax without prescription. I wonder about a time when the sky will no longer be blue and when mega-machines will dominate these lands, flomax pill. Then somewhere far away from here the corporations responsible for the explorations will be indulging on the profits and in the meantime, the indigenous life is no more except for a small remnant of poor, disabled, Flomax buy online, and sick Indians.
F & E: If you were to ask of the U.S. government any strong desires you have, what would that be?
Pauline: The U.S. government has never made any kind considerations for the indigenous desire to live and be as Great Spirit wanted the Indians to be. Buy flomax without prescription, Even when we told the government that, mother earth is sacred, they never listened. Now, flomax pills, there are only prophecies that we, the few and the last, traditional ones have to try and interpret. Flomax generic, It has been told that ‘when the Dineh language is gone, the communication among society will be lost, too. A great fire will be ignited at the middle of the continent and which will spread outward. All Five-Fingered Race (human beings) will try to scramble away but they will either burn or drown.’
F & E: How many people were here before the relocation laws were enforced by the government?
Pauline: I cannot provide you any numbers or amounts but I can tell you that the Dineh cultural life covered all these lands around us, generic flomax online. It was like blankets that cover the lands with daily Dineh cultural ways that include: herds of livestock and horses, cornfields, people out gathering seeds or herbs, travelers on horseback and wagons, and their seasonal homesites, buy flomax without prescription. However, all these are are now empty except for a few, very old ones who are still determined to live out their lives on their ancestral lands.
F & E: My final question today is, Order flomax from canada, can you give me some examples about the meaning of indigenous, traditional way of life. What does ‘traditional’ mean?
Pauline: Growing your own food by having fields of crops. Having the traditional, earth lodge dwellings. There should be a Male and a Female earth lodge. Buy flomax without prescription, One’s time of birth shall take place in one of those lodges and thus, the roots of one’s life will always be connected to that lodge. Acquiring your water from the natural springs. No visits to western doctors at the hospitals but you make attempts to heal yourself through your knowledge about herbs and the proper prayer chants, or utilizing a traditional medicine man. Utilizing your livestock for milk, meat and to carry your cargo. Use of the ‘modern’ wagon. A weaver’s loom in her home and as families still sit and sleep on sheepskins.
F & E: Thank you very much, Pauline-san, for your time and patience.
Pauline: You’re welcome. And thank you also for wanting to hear my stories. I am much honored because none of my own people, who live closer than Japan, choose to hear about the old ways.
[Translated by NBKKeediniihii, Dineh, Dzil ni’st’aa’]
©Sheep Dog Nation Rocks 2008
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