Court reverses decision protecting San Francisco Peaks

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Monday August 11, 2008 · 12:32 PM PDT

2008/08/11 · 12:32

crossposted from intercontinentalcry.org

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its long awaited ruling surrounding Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, and the religious freedoms of 13 Indigenous Nations who hold the Peaks sacred.

In a split decision, the court decided to reverse the previous March 2007 ruling that opposed the Arizona Snowbowl's plan to add fake snow made from treated sewage wastewater on to the Peaks so their resort can play host to an extended Ski season.

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Wednesday July 02, 2008 · 7:21 AM PDT

2008/07/02 · 07:21

crossposted from intercontinentalcry.org

After more than forty years, the U.S. government is finally moving to clean up the uranium waste on Navajo lands.

On June 13, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a five-year plan to start cleaning the radioactive waste left by more than 40 years of mining uranium on Navajo lands.

From 1944 to 1986, companies grabbed more than 40 million tons of uranium, producing 996 pounds of radioactive waste for every 4 pounds of uranium extracted. A great deal of that waste has never been cleaned up.

As a result, for three generations now the Navajo "have been breathing uranium-laden dust from mine tailings and drinking from wells tainted with minute traces of radioactive mining waste," explains tomdispatch.com

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Friday June 13, 2008 · 8:32 AM PDT

2008/06/13 · 08:32

A three-month long protest has brought hope to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster.

On May 29th, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed in principle to establish a commission that would carry out the victims' medical, social, economic, and environmental rehabilitation. He also promised that, by this year's end, Bhopali's will finally have safe and clean water...

"It was a day won by sheer single-minded, undaunted, persistence;" says the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, who's currently blogging the protest. "A day that was the motivation for every painful step over 38 gruelling days; a day that has sustained the tedium, discomfort, personal risk and self sacrifice borne over 62 days of roadside life; a day that vindicated the Bhopalis faith in their own unflagging strength: the day the Prime Minister of India could no longer ignore the tide of approbation heaped upon him these last 100 days."

The protest isn't going to end any time soon, however. Not as long as Justice in Bhopal remains a myth.

Olympics: Housing and Promises, Land and Justice.

Ahni

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Saturday June 09, 2007 · 5:55 AM PDT

2007/06/09 · 05:55

Greetings. As my first entry on Daily Kos, I thought I'd start with the following article, which I wrote on my website a couple days ago.

I think this will prove be a bit different from what we usually see here, but I hope it will be of no less interest and benefit to you.

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Court reverses decision protecting San Francisco Peaks

US Moves to Clean Up Uranium on Navajo Land

Commission Promised for Bhopal Victims

Olympics: Housing and Promises, Land and Justice.