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How YOU Can Help the Desert Rock Blockade
by rtcThe Navajo Nation President's office has been giving out a lot of misinformation, pretending that they're actually HELPING the protesters (President Joe Shirley told us a few hours ago that they were helping with wood hauling, which is not true at all). The police are not allowing press to the site and there is no independent monitoring of the situation.
Based on my conversations with some of those on the ground, it appears that police dismantled the camp site and dispersed the protesters' personal belongings along the road. They wouldn't let elders use the bathroom or eat or allow any wood hauling. They even threatened arrest if they left the site to use the bathroom and are refusing to let them use port-a-potties that they paid for (there are no convenient places to go to the bathroom). A local family was even told that they cannot return to their own land where they live and that their land belongs to BHP (a big coal company).
The protesters are still camped out in protest, across the road from their prior blockade site. Police have the road blocked off.
It's cold and windy during the day and the elders are out there at night as well. They still need your support. Calls to the President's Office are having an effect, showing that the world is watching. These calls may be the reason why no one was actually arrested today.
Please provide whatever support you can.
What they need:
* $ Money $
* Attention!
* Firewood
* More People Support
How YOU can Help!
* $$ Money! Resisters are in need of money for gas and food, and also for bail money if necessary. Please send donations to local resident and supporter:
Elouise Brown
1015 Glade Lane 34
Farmington, NM 87401
Elouise can also be reached at:
thebrownmachine@hotmail.com
* ATTENTION! The more media and observers are present the least likely Desert Rock is likely to run people over or harass them. Contact the media, tell them what is going on.
Contact Navajo Authorities, tell them you are extremely concerned. Be a legal observer. Spread this Alert!
Media Contact: Lori Goodman, cell #: 970-759-1908,
e-mail address:
kiyaani@frontier.net
Contact the Following Authorities! Tell them you have heard about Desert Rock's harassment of Navajo elders and youth.
Tell them you are extremely concerned! If enough people contact these offices they will know that the world is watching.
Shiprock Police Department
phone: (505) 368-1350
fax: (505) 368-1293
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley's Office
P.O. Box 9000 Window Rock, Arizona, 86515
phone #: 928-871-6352
also: George Hardeen, Navajo Nation Communications
Director Office of
the President
Office #: 928-871-7000
Cell #: 928-380-7688
e-mail: georgehardeen@opvp.org
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Gallup Office) they are conducting the Environmental Impact Statement.
Harrilene Yazzi, NEPA Coordinator Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo Regional Office
P.0. Box 1060 Gallup, New Mexico 87305
Phone: 505-863-8314
Fax: 505-863-8324
* Firewood! It is cold outside and many of the resisters are elderly women. If you can get firewood to the site it is very, very much needed! The directions to the site are below.
* More People! More people are needed to sit in support! All are welcome!
Directions to the area:
The site is between Gallup, NM and Shiprock, NM (northeastern, NM). Take the road between Gallup and Shiprock, the 491. at the Mustang Service Station (one of the only service stations between the two), turn East on road #5 towards Burnham Chapter.
From Burnham Chapter turn North onto gravel road #5082. About 10-12 miles up the road turn West until you see the encampment. There will be markers (balloons) out on the roads. (if you begin to see a dragline, you've gone too far).
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Dooda Desert Rock Committee Contacts:
Dailan Jake Long Mobile (Cell): 505-801-0713
Elouise Brown, 505-947-6159
Lucy Willie, 505-215-2644
Dine' CARE contact:
Lori Goodman, Dine CARE, 970-759-1908
Other Support Contacts:
Enei Begaye, Black Mesa Water Coalition, 928-213-9760
Jihan R. Gearon, Indigenous Environmental Network, 218-760-1370
Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, 218-760-0442
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http://www.desert-rock-blog.com