Indigenous to march for human rights

• On Saturday, March 25th a march for Sacred Sites and Immigrant Rights
  will be held in Flagstaff, Arizona.
  **Please forward this to organizations and people far and wide**
  Over a thousand people expected to converge in Flagstaff to march for
  Sacred Sites and Human Rights on March 25th.
  
  The March for Sacred Sites and Human Rights will be held in
  association with the National Conference of the Movimiento Estudiantil
  Chicano de Aztlan (Chicano/a Student Movement of Aztlan) (M.E.Ch.A.),
  which will be taking place at NAU during that week. The theme of the
  national M.E.Ch.A. conference is "Human Rights will not be Denied" and
  it is expected to bring over eight hundred high school and university
  students from throughout the US to NAU.
  
  You can add your name as a sponsor here: http://www.savethepeaks.org/
  youth/marchsponsor.html
  
  If you would like to get more involved with the event you can also:
  
  1) Do outreach locally - download flyers at www.nativemovement.org/march
  2) Place a link of our website to yours - a banner is available at
  our site
  3) Contribute financially - contact youth@savethepeaks.org to find
  out how
  4) Organize a caravan from your city to the march
  
  Thanks for helping to build the movement to protect sacred sites and
  human rights!
  
  NEWS RELEASE by Native Movement. For more information: www.nativemovement.org/march
  
  
• Work Party for Big Mountain Leaving April 8 th , returning April 15 th or so.
  Come to Arizona and be a part of work party who will repair homes, roads, water systems, and livestock areas for those Dineh(Navajo) elders and families who are resisting relocation.
  Please call to confirm you are coming. We will have a meeting beforehand to plan caravan, discuss cultural sensitivity, and organize. Please be prepared to be self-sufficient-with your own camp gear, food, water, etc. We will discuss this more at our meeting.
  Darlene at 530-265-8561 popeye859@yahoo.com
  
• Spring Caravan to Big Mountain Resistance Communities, Black Mesa, Arizona!
  May 26-June 6th. Workers, carpenters, gardeners, permaculture practioners, mechanics, sheepherders, holistic health practitioners, anybody willing to work: Support the remaining indigenous Dineh who are resisting forced removal or making alternative efforts to remain on ancestral lands. Work crews will be going to Black Mesa from the San Francisco Bay Area, Arizona, and other places this spring. This is not a "volunteer trip" in the conventional sense. We are not charity providers, and it is imperative that we not view ourselves as such. While our assistance will be appreciated, the opportunity to learn from traditional elders is an honor and a privilege that few will ever know. Contact BMIS for details, read the Cultural Sensitivity Packet and jump on the caravan! Caravan needs list. The dates are looking like May 26th - June 6th. This gives at least a week on the land.
• Each spring Clan Dyken organizes a caravan to plant gardens with families on Black Mesa/in Sand Springs: "It's also 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 alot to do...." Mark Dyken
  
• Come & Stay with a family any time of the year: What You Can Do
  
• Upcoming actions to Save the Peaks: The Arizona Snowbowl Ski resort, located on the San Francisco Peaks in Northern AZ, is attemping to expand its development, clear-cut 74 acres of wilderness, make artificial snow from contaminated wastewater and more. The Peaks are sacred to over 13 Native American Nations and home to threatened species. A coalition of tribes and environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the Coconino Forest Service to stop this proposed development. Dineh elder Pauline Whitesinger sais that she feels that the government is digging in her medicine bundle. "They're feeling around in there and they're pulling out certain things, they're pulling out the corn pollen, the most sacred offering thing that we have, and throwing it away, saying, 'That is useless anymore, in this century. You guys don't need it, there's a better belief for you.'" A critical and historic trial is underway.The Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Hualapai, Havasupai, Yavapai-Apache, White Mountain Apache, Sierra Club, Flagstaff Activist Network,
  Southwest Center for Biological Diversity, Dine' Medicine's Association, and a Hopi Traditionalist have filed a lawsuit against the Coconino Forest Service to protect the environment, our community and the Sacred San Francisco Peaks from Snowbowl's expansion and snowmaking with wastewater.
  
  This trial will determine the future of Native American Religious Freedom & the health of our communities. More actions to be announced, please visit www.savethepeaks.org
  
• ANNUAL: Clandyken Beauty Way Tour: Black Mesa 'Giving Thanks' Food & Supply Run on Big Mountain area of Black Mesa, Thanksgiving week. No giving, no thanx!
  
  
  "After all the work of getting the food and supplies up on the Mesa is done, there is at least one last task to complete the job. We deliver, personally, to every household we can find. So 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."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. In preparation for the approaching cold winter months, this is an important time of year to show your support for families. A tremendous amount of energy is needed to pull it off. Please help procure food, gather supplies, & raise funds for the Beauty Way Tour for food and supplies to be distributed to Big Mountain and surrounding communities on Black Mesa. Help is needed to distribute goods, chop wood, repair homes and vehicles, offer massage, herd sheep, listen, share & tell stories and play music over campfires. Contact Clandyken at mgp@cal.net before November 18th or if later, call BMIS voicemail at 928-773-8086 and we will call you back. Flagstaff is a great place to stock up on your groceries. Hotevilla, a village on Hopi lands and found on a map, is roughly about 20 miles from base camp of the food run. Please be sure to read the cultural sensitivity packet. See you on the land!​

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