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Adrian Segar @[email protected] · 2026-03-24 · 23:30 UTC

I share my most important learning from the biggest consulting mistake I've made. You have probably made it too…

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2023/04/biggest-consulting-mistake

#consulting #wisdom #InformedConsent #ProjectManagement #learning #mistakes

#consulting #wisdom #informedconsent #projectmanagement #learning #mistakes

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-16 · 03:21 UTC

#Havasupai Tribe Deeply Disappointed in #NavajoNation for Failing to Consult Havasupai on #Radioactive Hauling

"Shame on Energy Fuels Resources and those who were not brave enough to do what is right and necessary." -- Havasupai Tribe.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 14, 2025

"The Havasupai Tribe said the Navajo Nation has disregarded the aboriginal people who live on the land, and failed to consult them before entering into a dangerous agreement for #radioactive #uranium hauling. There are two trucks now each weekday, traveling at high rates of speed, each carrying 24 tons of radioactive matter that is only covered with tie-down tarps from the Grand Canyon to the #UraniumMill in Utah.

"Havsuw' Baaja, Havasupai, are Guardians of the #GrandCanyon and have opposed #UraniumMining since time immemorial to protect their land and water for future generations, the Havasupai Tribe said today.

"We are deeply disappointed in #EnergyFuels Resources, Inc., and the Navajo Nation for not including us in their discussions that ultimately led to the dangerous decision to allow hauling of radioactive material across our aboriginal lands," the Havasupai Tribe said.

"The Navajo Tribe is not the only tribe or community affected by this activity."
"Our culture and traditions originate here and are knit together with who we are as individual tribal members and as a tribe."

#havasupai #navajonation #radioactive #uranium #uraniummill #grandcanyon

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-13 · 23:26 UTC

#Navajo Nation - Naabik'íyáti’ Committee Regular Meeting, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025

via #CensoredNews

"Who negotiated these terms?"

"Who came up with the amount of $1.2 million."

"We are still fighting the U.S. government for what happened to our people." The response from the federal government is, 'Well that happened a long time ago, that happened during World War II.'

"If we already know the effects of uranium, why are we allowing this?"

Navajo Council delegates are questioning Navajo Department of Justice, questioning the agreement by Navajo President Buu Nygren with Energy Fuels, without the Navajo Nation Council's approval.

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/live-navajo-council-committee-questions.html

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd73YnP9xBE
#Naabikíyáti #Dine #TubaCity #NavajoNationCouncil #ReaderSupportedNews #WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #PinyonPlain #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#navajo #censorednews #naabikiyati #dine #tubacity #navajonationcouncil

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-13 · 03:17 UTC

#HaulNo! and #Dine activists deserve #BadassActivist awards! They faced possible #ICE harassment and #Uranium exposure today while protesting uranium transportation!!!

CALL TO ACTION:

"We want to encourage VISIBILITY!
This can be done through autonomous actions:
• Posting signs up
• Putting up banners (along side the haul route)
• Voicing your concerns with your council delegates & chapters

Please stay safe and practice safety measures to protect yourself.

SAFETY:

"We do not encourage standing along the haul route due to safety risks such as possible exposure to radiation and high traffic activity.

"We encourage wearing masks (such as KN95s, N95s) in all areas contaminated by uranium and places of possible exposure.

"For folks protesting, we encourage everyone to know your rights and read available 'Know Your Rights' information, such as by ACLU and other legal resources."

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/radioactive-uranium-trucks-will-travel.html
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #PinyonPlain #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#haulno #badassactivist #ice #uranium #whitemesaute #energyfuels

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-13 · 01:20 UTC

🚨 Alert: #RadioactiveUranium Trucks on the #NavajoNation Today (2/12)

"A banner on the deadly haul route today, Wednesday, as two radioactive uranium transport trucks pass by Dine' homes in #TubaCity on the Navajo Nation. #Dine' families said they had no warning and the #NavajoGovernment sold them out."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 12, 2025
Live and Updating

TUBA CITY, Navajo Nation -- "#EnergyFuels #radioactive #UraniumWaste trucks passed through the Navajo Nation today, following a secretive agreement between the Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels.

"Two radioactive uranium waste trucks passed through #TubaCity headed to the uranium mill in the #WhiteMesaUte community, between 11 a.m. and noon today.

"In a region still strewn with #RadioactiveWaste from the #ColdWar, and gas and oil wells choking the people -- now uranium waste being transported by Dine' homes with only a tarp [!!!] covering tons of radioactive waste. The trucks are dumping their loads in the White Mesa #Ute community at the mill in southeastern #Utah.

"The secretive agreement between Energy Fuels and the Navajo Nation government, says there will be two to twelve trucks a day with radioactive waste from Energy Fuels #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, for the next three to four years.

"Navajo Utah Commission members voiced their opposition to the uranium transport during a meeting with Navajo Nation EPA Executive Director #StephenEtsitty in #WindowRock on Tuesday. This comes after Energy Fuels made a public announcement of the agreement with the tribe.

"The Navajo Utah Commission meeting revealed that Energy Fuels agreed to pay the Navajo Nation government $1.2 million during the negotiations. Dine' in Western Navajo said that Navajo President #BuuNygren showed them how much money their lives are worth: $1.2 million."

#radioactiveuranium #navajonation #tubacity #dine #navajogovernment #energyfuels

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-10 · 23:11 UTC

#NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025

"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.

"The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.

"Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.

"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,

"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

"Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"

#navajonation #kleebenally #uranium #navajo #brendanorrell #censorednews

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-10 · 16:05 UTC

#NavajoNation is 'Back Peddling' by Allowing #Uranium Transport through #Dine' Communities and More Dumping on #Utes

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 8, 2025

TUBA CITY -- "#LeonaMorgan, Dine' co-founder of #HaulNo!, said the Navajo Nation is now "back peddling" by allowing radioactive uranium waste to be transported through Dine' communities. This radioactive transport from the #GrandCanyon means even more deadly waste for another Native community -- the #WhiteMesaUte community in #Utah.

"Now, with little or no information along the haul route, the Navajo government expects the Dine' Chapters on the route to each have an emergency preparedness plan. Leona asked if the Dine' communities are aware of this and whether the Navajo Chapters are certified to deal with radioactive emergencies.

"'Who are their First Responders?' Ultimately, Dine' will have to confront the Navajo President and the Navajo Department of Justice, she said.
'We were not included in that agreement,' Leona said of the agreement between the Navajo Nation and #Energy Fuels.

"'There was no free, prior and informed consent,' Leona said, quoting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP]. 'The people in the communities were not consulted.'

"'How can they start transporting on February 12th, when there aren't even any checkpoints? We don't even have an #AirMonitoring system,' Leona said of the lack of preparation for radioactive
transport on the Navajo Nation.
Energy Fuels plans to pass through Navajo communities with six to ten trucks of radioactive waste,
beginning on Feb. 12, 2025.

"Leona urged communities to organize, and pointed out that Navajo Chapters can have their own checkpoints. With the new push for '#DrillBabyDrill,' by the U.S. President, the Navajo Nation faces an uncertain future, she said. The U.S. is investing money into the development of #CriticalEarthMinerals and investing in Energy Fuels mill at White Mesa Ute.

"'We need to push our government to do what we want -- not what the federal government wants.'

"'It's going to get worse because they think nuclear is clean energy,' Leona said of the push for alternative energy.

"The Navajo Nation's agreement with Energy Fuels means more dangerous radioactive dumping in the #WhiteMesaUte community. In the agreement, Energy Fuels states it will transport 10,000 tons of uranium-bearing cleanup materials from abandoned #UraniumMines within the Navajo Nation.

"Leona was recently voted by the Navajo Nation Council to serve on the Diné #UraniumRemediation Advisory Commission, in an advisory position to the Navajo President and Council.

"Speaking in #TubaCity on Saturday, Leona said Haul No! began in 2016 when it became known that the Pinyon Plain uranium mine would begin mining in the Grand Canyon. Now, there is the new battle as the Navajo Nation government has approved uranium transport through Navajo communities to the White Mesa Ute community.

"Energy Fuels #PinyonPlain Mine, and the mill in southern Utah, threaten Native communities throughout the region."

#navajonation #uranium #dine #utes #leonamorgan #haulno

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-06 · 22:47 UTC

Shut Down #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in #GrandCanyon: #AwarenessWalk

February 22, 2025

"Join residents who will be impacted by #EnergyFuels #uranium transport for a COMMUNITY WALK and gathering on February 22, 2025 in #TubaCityArizona. The event is organized and hosted by local Tuba City group #BiddyRoots with support from friends and family, #DinéCARE, #HaulNo!, #AntiUraniumMapping Project, and others. This walk is to provide information and discuss #UraniumTransport across #NavajoNation. We will walk together from the Junction of US-160 & Main Street to the Chapter House."

Follow our Facebook event page for UPDATES:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1127868852048943

More information is also available here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eetso-ei-dooda-no-to-uranium-awareness-walk-tuba-city-aztickets-1233002546809?aff=oddtdtcreator

Contact: [email protected]

Masks required. Masks will be provided.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/tuba-city-community-forum-and-walk-shut.html
#IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreMining
#NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons
#NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoMining #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent #NuclearColonialism
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#pinyonplain #uraniummine #grandcanyon #awarenesswalk #energyfuels #uranium

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-06 · 22:33 UTC

Community Forum in #TubaCity: #UraniumTransport on Feb. 8, 2025

via #CensoredNews

"Join us from 12 -- 2pm for a community dialogue on Saturday, February 8, 2025 in #TubaCityArizona regarding the transport of #uranium ore through our communities. #HaulNo! will help host and facilitate to uplift community concerns. On January 29, 2025, #EnergyFuels announced that it reached an agreement with #NavajoNation was regarding uranium ore transport regulations ending the temporary
transportation pause. The agreement includes Energy Fuels to take 10,000 tons of abandoned uranium mine (#AUM) waste from Navajo Nation to the #WhiteMesaMill, in #Utah impacting #Ute
relatives. On January 30, 2025, Energy Fuels announced transport of uranium from #PinyonPlainUraniumMine across Western Navajo Nation to #WhiteMesa Mill to begin on or around February 12, 2025."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/tuba-city-community-forum-and-walk-shut.html
#IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreMining
#NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons
#NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoMining #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#indigenousresistance #nuclearcolonialism #tubacity #uraniumtransport #censorednews #tubacityarizona

SleepyCatten (referred for ME/CFS, but it's probably P-HSD arc) @[email protected] · 2024-12-19 · 13:27 UTC

CW: PSA for trans+ adults in England, their friends or family, or folks who've worked at a gender clinic: there's a survey you may be able fill in to mitigate the effects of the upcoming Adult Services Review (aka the Levy Review) - boosts welcome and appreciated

Hey folks

We all know how shite the Cass Review was/is, and how it's been universally discredited and rejected :PleadingFace:

Alas, NHS England has now set its gaze firmly on a review of adult trans+ healthcare services 😞

We would love to believe that this is being done in good faith, but NHS England has never been on the side of trans people.¹ As such, we believe that the best we can realistically hope for at this stage is damage limitation :FaceExhaling:

To this end, we wish to highlight that the page linked above links to an Adult Gender Services Review survey, which is open to:

current, and recent, patients who have been seen at one, or more, of the [Gender Dysphoria Clinics] in the past five years
family and friends of patients who have used services in the past five years
current staff members, and those who have worked at one, or more, of the centres in the past five years

Even if it doesn't change a thing, we should make our voices heard loudly and defiantly ✊ :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart: :AgenderHeart: :BiGenderHeart: :GenderfluidHeart: :GenderqueerHeart: :DemiBoyHeart: :DemiGirlHeart:

So let's go all out and tell them what we actually want:

Depathologisation.
Desegregation.
Informed consent.

We don't want better gender clinics: we want them to be dismantled entirely, in favour of desegregated healthcare.

We don't want to be forced to get a formal medical diagnosis of being trans to access basic GAHT / HRT, to have the right to consent to gender-affirming surgeries, or to change our legal gender.

We want world leading gender-affirming healthcare, beyond the nonsense, unscientific biases that still exist even in WPATH SOC8.

They don't want to offer us this, and will do everything in their power to ignore us, but that doesn't mean that our voices shouldn't be heard.

Maybe trans liberation won't come today, but we need to fight for it at every stage :AnarchySymbol:

Boosts are very welcome and will be very much appreciated, by the by :BoostsOKPrideSymbol:

#trans #transgender #NonBinary #agender #bigender #DemiBoy #DemiGirl #genderfluid #genderqueer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+ #queer #TransLiberation #TransLiberationNow #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #NHS #CassReview #LevyReview #depathologisation #demedicalisation #desegregation #DesegregateTransHealthcare #InformedConsent #survey

¹ You can read all about the awful history of trans healthcare provided by NHS England in The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice by Shon Faye.

#trans #transgender #nonbinary #agender #bigender #demiboy

wasmormon @[email protected] · 2024-10-30 · 11:39 UTC

The Mortdale Stake (Sydney Australia) received an email informing them the area had been selected for a Pilot Program named Informed Consent. The email included links to church sites for sources for all the statements. Upon examination it becomes clear it's not an official church-sanctioned email, but a disillusioned member who had access to the stake email system. https://wasmormon.org/email-to-sydney-australia-mortdale-stake-pilot-program-informed-consent/

#Mormon #Mormonism #ldschurch #Sydney #Mortdale #pilotprogram #informedconsent #exmormon #exmo #iwasamormon

#iwasamormon #exmo #exmormon #informedconsent #pilotprogram #mortdale

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-10-08 · 23:00 UTC

#Ute at #Utah State Capitol Today: Stop the #UraniumMill Poisoning our People

By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 4, 2024

SALT LAKE, Utah -- "#WhiteMesaUte rallied at the Utah State Capitol on Friday, demanding that the deadly uranium mill in their community be shut down, as the legacy of #genocide, #ToxicDumping, and widespread #cancer continues.

"The #WhiteMesaMill in southeastern #Utah, owned by #EnergyFuels of Canada, is bringing in dangerous #RadioactiveWaste from the #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, and the countries of #Japan and #Estonia. #Radioactive waste too deadly to remain at the #NuclearTestSite in #Nevada was dumped at the mill.

"'Today members of the White Mesa Ute community and supporters are rallying at the Utah State Capitol against #UraniumTransport and processing on #IndigenousLands,' #UnicornRiot reports on Friday.

#WhiteMesa #Ute #HaulNo #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWeapons #ICANN #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #NoMoreHiroshimas #BanTheBomb #ReaderSupportedNews

#ute #utah #uraniummill #brenda #censorednews #whitemesaute

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-08-24 · 14:53 UTC

#Protests Against #GrandCanyon #UraniumMine Continue

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Coalition statement, via #CensoredNews

GRAND CANYON, #Arizona — "#Conservation advocates will join Tribal leaders and members Saturday, Aug. 24, to demand the closure of the #PinyonPlain uranium mine that threatens the waters of the Grand Canyon and the #Havasupai Tribe.

What: Protest near #RedButte and the Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine calling on #GovHobbs and federal officials to close the mine.

When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24.

Where: Junction of Highway 64 and Forest Service Road 320, 10.5 miles north of Grand Canyon Junction (Valle, Arizona). Here is a map.

Who: Staff and members of the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, #SierraClub, #ChispaArizona, #WildArizona, National Parks Conservation Association [#NPCA] and other groups will join Havasupai Tribal leaders and members of other Tribes in solidarity and will be available for interviews.

"The mine, which began extracting uranium ore on Jan. 8, is 7 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park, at the foot of sacred Red Butte (Wii'i Gdwiisa in Havasupai), and inside the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

"Saturday’s protest will come after weeks of recent actions opposing the mine and the hauling of radioactive #UraniumOre across the #NavajoNation, which has called the transportation of uranium across its land an infringement on Tribal sovereignty.

"Earlier this month Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren issued an executive order banning shipments of uranium from the mine across the Nation; hauling is now paused. Soon after Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called for an updated environmental study on the mine, warning of potential risks of allowing the mine to proceed under the authority of a nearly 40-year-old Environmental Impact Statement.

"In June, Tribal members and conservation groups delivered a petition with more than 17,000 signatures urging Gov. Hobbs to use her authority to close the mine. In January, 80 groups and scientists called on her to do the same. New research indicates that the best way to protect the waters of the region is to shut down the mine."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/protests-against-grand-canyon-uranium.html

#HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent #NavajoNation #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #ReaderSupportedNews #WaterIsLife #BlackMesa #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #ShutDownPinyonPlain #ProtectTheSacred #Diné #Dinébikeyah #dinetah #NoUraniumMiningWithoutConsent

#protests #grandcanyon #uraniummine #censorednews #arizona #conservation

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-08-10 · 15:00 UTC

Today! No Haul! Uprising! #Hopi and #Navajo Host #Music and #Resistance in Tuba City

August 10, 2024

"On Saturday, August 10th, 5 p.m. Hopi / #Arizona Time (6 pm Navajo Nation/Tuba City time), Cloud Mountain Arts will host a five hour rockout/community educational event in opposition to #EnergyFuel’s hauling of radioactive material through the lands of #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, and #Ute Nations. The show will be held at the Legacy Room at the #Moencopi Legacy Inn in Tuba City and will feature performances by Indigenous musicians: Nava-Hopi metal sensation #IcyWhisper Official, Dine/Apache singer/songwriter #SageBond, Hopi rockers #Descendant and a special performance from #ROADKILL made up of members of #ThaYoties and #Innastate.

"A history of the #PuebloRevolt of 1680 will be shared, as well education about #UraniumMining and transport on #NativeLands of the #ColoradoPlateau with admonitions to stand together against the desecration of #IndigenousLands. Special Guests: Bucky Preston, Alicyn Gitlin and Coconino County Supervisor Lena Fowler.

"UPRISING is a FREE event! $5 Suggested donation to thank speakers and performers. Many Thanks to @centerforbiodiv , #GrandCanyonTrust, #WildArizona, #SierraClub, Coconino County and the Hopi Village of Moencopi for their help with the event."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/today-no-haul-uprising-hopi-and-navajo.html

#HaulNo #ResistanceThroughMusic #NoMiningWithoutConsent #NavajoNation #PinyonPlain #WhiteMesaMill #ReaderSupportedNews #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #HaulNo #WaterIsLife #BlackMesa #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #ShutDownPinyonPlain #ProtectTheSacred #Diné #Dinébikeyah #dinetah

#hopi #navajo #music #resistance #arizona #energyfuel

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-08-03 · 00:23 UTC

So, apparently, aging #NuclearPowerPlants and #NuclearWeapons programs get TONS of cash, while people who lived #Downwind of #NuclearWeaponsTests and #UraniumMines (and #UraniumMills) get NOTHING?!! Wow...!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/reca-nuclear-radiation-congress.html

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/opinion-utah-must-reauthorize-the-radiation-exposure-compensation-act/ar-BB1qHmyj

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/the-advance-act-a-bipartisan-surrender-to-the-nuclear-lobby/

#Downwinders #NoNukes
#NoWar #BanTheBomb
#NoUraniumMining #RECA #NuclearWar #AdvanceAct #NuclearWeapons
#ICANN #Oppenheimer
#HaulNo #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#nuclearpowerplants #nuclearweapons #downwind #uraniummines #uraniummills #downwinders

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-08-03 · 00:15 UTC

#Navajo #uranium miners, people #downwind of atom bomb tests demand justice as Congress lets aid program lapse

by Keetra Bippus / Cronkite News
July 5, 2024

WASHINGTON – "A federal program to compensate people exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear testing expired June 10.

"The #Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has paid out $2.6 billion to over 41,000 people since 1992. In March, the U.S. Justice Department projected that another 1,070 claims would be approved by the end of September.

“'Why do we have to beg to pass #RECA?' said #MaggieBilliman, whose father, a #NavajoCodeTalker during World War II, died of stomach cancer she attributes to exposure to #fallout that affected their hometown in #Arizona. 'You don’t put a price tag on human life.'

"Starting with the #ManhattanProject’s Trinity test on July 16, 1945, weeks before bombs destroyed #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki, the U.S. government conducted 94 tests that produced radioactive mushroom clouds in remote areas of the West. Most were over #Nevada. One was over #NewMexico.

"People #downwind – including many in #Arizona – were exposed to dangerous #fallout, typically without warning.

"The Billimans’ hometown, #SawmillArizona, on #NavajoLand, is part of the large affected area where Congress made residents eligible for compensation.

"#Radioactive particles fell throughout Arizona, according to research from Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. The state’s population grew from about half a million just before World War II to over 1.3 million in the early 1960s.

"Congress adopted RECA in 1992 to address claims from downwinders and uranium miners.

"The program offers an apology, and lump sum compensation ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 to those who developed certain illnesses linked with radiation exposure, and who either lived in the #FalloutZones or worked at #UraniumMines and #UraniumMills.

"The law came in response to lawsuits from uranium workers who accused the government of failing to warn them about radiation hazards.

From 1944 to 1986, nearly 30 million tons of uranium ore was extracted from Navajo lands. The Manhattan Project itself, led by physicist #RobertOppenheimer, was disbanded in 1947, two years after Japan surrendered to end World War II.

"An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Navajo people worked in the mines. They and their families lived nearby.

“'The closer you live to mine waste, the higher your risk of chronic #metabolic disease,' said Chris Shuey, director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. 'People who live in these communities next to these wastes, they’re exposed through all of the pathways: air, water, land.'

"Claims from Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and #Colorado account for $1.8 billion of the payouts under RECA.

"Most of the #NavajoNation was covered due to potential fallout. About one in seven approved claims – 5,480 through the end of 2023 – have come from #NativeAmericans, 86% of them Navajo, totalling $372.6 million.

"The Environmental Protection Agency counts 523 abandoned uranium mines on or near the Navajo reservation that spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, an area bigger than Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont combined.

"The Senate voted 69-31 in March to extend the RECA filing period for five more years, with 46 Democrats and 20 Republicans in favor, along with Sen. #KrystenSinema of Arizona and two other independents. Sen. #MarkKelly, D-Ariz., also supported the bill.

The bill has stalled in the House, with no explanation from Speaker Mike Johnson or Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both Republicans from Louisiana.

"Their aides did not respond to multiple requests for comment."

#Downwinders #NoNukes #NoWar #BanTheBomb #NoUraniumMining #NuclearWar #NuclearWeapons #ICANN #Oppenheimer #HaulNo #InformedConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#navajo #uranium #downwind #radiation #reca #maggiebilliman

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-08-02 · 22:26 UTC

#NDN LIVE | Walk Against the Illegal Transportation of #Uranium on the #NavajoNation

"We are LIVE on Dinétah at #CameronArizona for the Walk Against the Illegal Transportation of Uranium on the Navajo Nation.

"On July 30, 2024 a uranium company named #EnergyFuels hauled its materials through the Navajo Nation and was stopped and escorted off Navajo lands by the Navajo Police Department by order of #NavajoNation President #BuuNygren.

"A call was made by Navajo Nation First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren and Diné organizers on August 1, 2024 to walk in opposition to the illegal transport of uranium on Navajo land at Cameron, AZ.

"The assertion of #sovereignty on #IndigenousLands by #IndigenousPeoples for the protection of land, water, life, and people is a major factor in this. The Energy Fuels’ #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine has affected the #Havasupai, #Navajo, #Ute, and #Hopi Nations by #contamination of land and water sources, illegal transport of uranium materials on tribal land, and existing without tribal consultation.

"The Pinyon Plain mine was built in 1990, but the legacy of US nuclear colonialism on Indigenous lands and communities goes back decades prior."

For more info on #nuclear #colonialism follow:

#HaulNo!
#DinéCARE
#Tewa Women United
#TheRedNation
#PuebloActionAlliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXalgmzMrKw

#NoUraniumMining
#IndigenousNews
#IndigenousResistance
#DefendTheSacred
#DefendMotherEarth
#EarthDefenders
#WaterIsLife
#EnvironmentalRacism
#InformedConsent

#ndn #uranium #navajonation #cameronarizona #energyfuels #buunygren

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-07-22 · 00:02 UTC

Violence and Repression: #Indigenous from #Russia, #Algeria and #Nicaragua Appeal to the #UnitedNations

#CulturalSurvival: "#LatinAmerica is one of the most dangerous regions to be an #IndigenousRights and #environmental defender. Three out of four assassinations of environmental defenders take place in Latin America. Indigenous defenders face a double threat: defending rights and being Indigenous."

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 17, 2024

GENEVA -- "The #coal and #GoldMining in Russia has driven #IndigenousPeoples from their homes and poisoned their rivers. In Nicaragua, the assassinations and imprisonment of #LandDefenders has fractured families and communities, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"In Algeria, the people have barely survived 3,000 years of violent #colonization and #genocide.
'Other people should not undergo what we have experienced – which is the case now in #Palestine,' said the representative from the Algeria Association, Learned Society of scientific research, religious and mystical bodies. Describing the genocide in Algeria, he said France has thousands of bones and craniums of the people in French museums.

"An Indigenous woman from #Khakassia Republic in Siberia described the coal and gold mining: 'Coal is mined, despite mass protests, the government used land, private property for this, and citizens were driven out of their homes.' Now, she said, the conditions are no longer good for livestock breeding, which is their way of life.

"'The government is only interested in the presence of natural resources -- but we are a resource ourselves,' she told the #UnitedNations.

"'Our language is disappearing, and we only have one school in the republic where the language is taught. We are #Khakas but we do not govern #Khakassia.'

"'Nothing has been done to protect our land. The main priority is the mining for materials.'

"'I also note the #Shors are suffering from gold mining, they have territory for traditional nature management created by the Republic of Khakassia, traditionally they are fishers and hunters and so on.'

"'However, companies are #polluting rivers, and this water should be used for vital needs. This water flows through villages, however it is polluted, but companies do not put an end to their activities."

#WaterIsLife #Indigenous #FirstPeoples #NativeRights
#HumanRights #Deforestation #GreedKills #StopEcocide
#StopIndigenousGenocide
#Environmental #ClimateCrisis
#StopKillingForests #IndigenousLand #NativeLand #EcoJustice #InformedConsent
#FirstNations #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism
#Mining #CulturalGenocide
#IndigenousSovereignty
#LandBack #WaterIsLife
#Canada #LandDefenders
#sovereignty

#indigenous #russia #algeria #nicaragua #unitednations #culturalsurvival