WHAT YOU CAN DO

  • Contact list of appropriate public officials Profiles, email addresses, phone numbers & addresses to write & call.

  • NEXT STEPS FOR STOPPING THE BLACK MESA PROJECT - PEABODY COAL'S MASSIVE COAL-MINING PLANS THAT CALL FOR MORE RELOCATION, WATER AQUIFER DEPLETION, DESTRUCTION OF SACRED ANCESTRAL HOME LANDS, & GLOBAL WARMING:

    1. Office Of Surface Mining (OSM) will review the comments and continue with the preparation of the final Environmental Impact Statement.

    2. OSM will issue a Final Environmental Impact Statement with a
    "Record of Decision" on the project. No new studies will be made.
    OSM states: EIS's are based on available data and information. After
    conducting a preliminary review of the comments received, we do not anticipate we will conduct additional studies.” OSM presently estimates that the timeline for the decision on the final EIS will be out late June '07.

    3. After the Record of Decision is made, there is a 45-day appeal
    process. If the decision is made in favor of the Black Mesa Project, this is when appeals can be made. Lawsuits could be filed to block the decision.


    ***Awareness is still needed! Please visit www.blackmesawatercoalition.org for further info about The Black Mesa Project, the Just Transition Coalition, and Black Mesa.

  • IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, PLEASE SEND A LETTER TO STOP PEABODY COAL'S BLACK MESA PROJECT!

  • Join our mailing list, email blackmesais@riseup.net (low traffic)
  • BMIS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
    BMIS has recently been donated an ailing but running small pickup truck and we would like to get it insured. Our volunteer group is not accustomed nor comfortable with petitioning donations, but we could greatly use a few hundred dollars to help us have a vehicle on the land to check in with families and supporters. We are also trying to get a cell phone for us to be in better communication while we are on the land. Any donations for this would be greatly appreciated and would be spent specificaly for these purposes. Please send to:
    Black Mesa Indigenous Support
    PO Box 23501
    Flagstaff, AZ 86002

    blackmesais@riseup.net
    928-773-8086 Voicemail

  • Stay with a family on Black Mesa. "We welcome people to come out and support our resistance in this way."-A resister grandmother. Guests of the families are encouraged to stay for a month, as it can require a lot of work for both the family and the guest to establish a routine. Come alone or pair up with others to stay for several weeks or longer (what's most needed) or check in about the possibility of organizing a work crew to stay a week. It is important to have good help out there, and not create more work for the families. Guests are expected to be adequately prepared prior to staying with families on Black Mesa, which is high desert and very remote. Read the Cultural Sensitivity & Preparedness Booklet and fill out the supporter application form prior to making arrangements for your stay. Supporters are expected to pay for gas and expenses when families provide their ride out to the land.Volunteer to give comfort and peace to these traditional elders by honoring them, herd sheep, work on projects, or provide other essential but appropriate skills such as holistic therapy and renewable energy technologies. All supporters must read and sign the Cultural Sensitivity Preparedness Packet. Contact BMIS in advance so that we can make arrangements for your stay, answer any questions, and help put you in touch with a family.

  • Organize Work Crews to Stay With Indigenous Resistance Communities on Black Mesa To Support Human Rights!  flier Click image to enlarge
    Work crews converged from across the western states and spent a week with families affected by mining  and relocation laws on Black Mesa. Hands-on projects demonstrated  how these communities are actively shaping their future and working  to assure cultural survival. Contact  BMIS well in advance for  planning & assistance. See how it's been done: Spring Caravan to Indigenous Resistance Communities.

 

  • Each spring Clan Dyken organizes a caravan to plant gardens on Black Mesa: "It's time to start thinking about a planting trip to the Big Mountain, Black Mesa, Sand Springs areas of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. If you don't know about our work on the rez check the Beauty Way page of the web site http://www.clandyken.com for some stories. There is a lot to do...." Mark Dyken

    ANNUAL FALL FOOD & SUPPLY RUN Sponsored By The Clandyken Beauty Way Tour: Black Mesa 'Giving Thanks' Food & Supply Run on Big Mountain area of Black Mesa, Thanksgiving week. No giving, no thanx!
    All are welcome to join the Annual Black Mesa Food & Supply Run. Each year supporters from the four directions visit (& some stay) with many families living on Black Mesa. A tremendous amount of energy is needed for the fall supply run. Please help procure food, gather supplies, & raise funds. Help is needed to distribute goods & chop wood. There is a need for at least some of the folks who come out to help to show up with a truck or other vehicle capable of traversing the sometimes very rough reservation back roads. Please be sure to read the cultural sensitivity packet. See Clan Dyken, The Beauty Way Page for more info and to see a listing of their benefit tour dates: www.clandyken.com

  • Urge your Congressional representatives or Parliamentarians to look into these matters of human rights violations and the alleged conflicts of interest by federal agencies and Peabody Coal. Demand oversight hearings for PL 93-531 and its amendments, and call for investigations. Ask local indigenous support organizations for contact information for policy-makers, and for area BIA and tribal headquarters. Federal and tribal agencies and multi-national corporations must be called to account. They must be required to enforce and to protect not only our natural resources, but also religious sites.
  • Sponsor an educational lecture series or a speaker's travel tour. Sponsor international diplomacy efforts (i.e., Human Rights and the European Union forums) by Dineh delegates or spokespersons.
  • Learn more and actively support the Dineh, Hopi people and various organizations who are trying to take control of their resources and dedicated to bringing clean, renewable energy to Northern Arizona, such as the production of bio-diesel, wind power and the development of. a 1,000-megawatt solar power plant on Hopi and Navajo land. The solar plant would provide power to Phoenix, Los Angeles and other metropolitan areas in the Southwest.
  • We need a rapid global transition to clean energy and to curb America's spiraling energy consumption. Make the connection with others in your community about what impacts are occuring in places such as Black Mesa so that we can turn on the lights, have heat, drive vehicles, etc. Knowing where these resources come from and what effect your lifestyle choices have are important steps in understanding how we can live more sustainably.          
  • International alliance calls for end to term "clean coal," calls for responsible transition. In Response to the growing and unfortunate trend among environmental and social justice groups use of the industry and government created term "clean coal," West Virginia Citizen's Action Group, Coal River Mountain Watch launched an internationally circulated sign-on letter calling for a unification of these groups against this sort of industry doublespeak which makes it so much harder for those working towards positive change to achieve it. Over 80 Organizations and prominent individuals have signed on at the time of the release. Please add your name too. www.crmw.net
  • Check out this flier: Ways to Support the Big Mountain Resistance


  • Unlearning Cultural Racism:
    • (Rez) racism ' a resistor/activist his perspective of racism coming from certain contemporary Indians.'
    A Dead End For Humanity Movement building and anti-racist organizing
    Shinin' the Lite on White Privilege
    Learning To Undermine Racism
    Maps of the Reservation and of Navajo Country Settlements, Landforms & Water Features
    Radio Frequencies used by various agencies
    English - Diné Dictionary with pronunciations
    Navajo Taboos http://www.navajocentral.org/taboos_menu.html
    Demand that Lehman stop financing private prisons! (Lehman is a main shareholder of Peabody Coal Co.)
    Students and Communities Stop Prisons-for-Profit. Community, Student Groups Ask Lehman to Divest from Prison Industry
    See this video of Crisis On Black Mesa, a brief and compelling documentary about the destruction and desecration of the Camp Anna Mae sacred Sundance grounds at Big Mountain, Arizona on August 17th 2001. real media video. Video by Indigenous Action Media.
    English - Diné Dictionary with pronunciations
    HR 104 Repeal the Bennett Freeze Check Bill Status (type in HR 104)thus ending a gross treaty violation with the Navajo Nation & allowing the Navajo Nation to live in habitable dwellings & raise their living conditions, and for other purposes.

"There can be no absolution, no redemption of past crimes unless the outcomes are changed. So long as the aggressors' posterity continues to reap the benefits of that aggression, the crimes are merely replicated in the present. In effect, the aggression remains ongoing and, in that, there can be no legitimacy. Not now, not ever. " ~Ward Churchill.

Black Mesa Indigenous Support
P.O. Box 23501, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002
 Message Voice Mail: 928.773.8086
Email:blackmesais@riseup.net