[S-C] October 12 Protests to Support Tohono O'odham Indigenous Peoples Against Toxic Dump Plan

[Bradley Angel]

The Tohono O'odham Indigenous People need your help. The Mexican government
wants to build a hazardous waste dump near Quitovac, Sonora, Mexico.
Quitovac is a very sacred ceremony spot for the O'odham, and the dump would
also threaten their nearby villages.  Greenaction was asked by the O'odham
community and ceremony leaders to help them stop this dump, and we are
working with tribal members on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border and many
environmental justice and Indigenous allies to call on the Mexican
government to find a safer and more appropriate location for the project.

 

On Thursday, October 12th please join the O'odham Rights Coalition,
Greenaction, International Indian Treaty Council, Indigenous Environmental
Network and other allies in protests at the Mexican Consulates in San
Francisco, Tucson and Phoenix.  If you cannot attend please email or call
the Mexican government officials listed below to express your support for
the O'odham people in this urgent effort!

 

Please visit our website at http://www.greenaction.org
<http://www.greenaction.org/>  for more information.

 

For environmental health and justice,

Bradley Angel,

Executive Director, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice

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TAKE ACTION FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS & SACRED SITES

ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!

 

HELP TOHONO O'ODHAM PEOPLES OF SONORA, MEXICO AND THE U.S. 

STOP A HAZARDOUS WASTE DUMP FROM BEING BUILT NEAR THEIR 

SACRED SITE IN QUITOVAC!

 

JOIN THE PROTEST!!!  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006 --- 11:30 A.M.

In front of the Mexican Consulate, 532 Folsom Street, San Francisco 

(between 1st and 2nd Streets).

 

There will also be protests in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona:

Tucson: 12 noon, Mexican Consulate, 553 North Stone Avenue

Phoenix: 12 noon, Mexican Consulate,

 

The Mexican government and a company called CEGIR/Centro de Gestion Integral
de Residuos S.A. want to build a hazardous waste dump in O'odham territory,
close to the sacred site of Quitovac.  This project has been conducted with
no involvement of the Indigenous O'odham communities in decision-making
processes. 

 

The proposed dump would desecrate the sacred ceremonial grounds of Quitovac
and devastate the culture, traditions, sacred sites and spiritual well-being
of the O'odham Indigenous peoples in both Mexico and the U.S.. The dump
would also expose children and nearby communities to dangerous toxins
released in the land, air, and water, and could contaminate the underground
well water the communities depend on.

 

DON'T LET THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TURN TRADITIONAL O'ODHAM SACRED SITES AND
SONORA COMMUNITIES INTO A DUMPING GROUND FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE!

 

Alfonso Flores, Mexican Secretary of the Environment                  The
Mexican Embassy - Washington D.C.

Tel: +52 5556 243334 * Fax: +525556 243589
Tel: (202) 736-1000 * Fax: (202) 234-4498

E-mail: alfonsoflores at semarnat.gob.mx
E-mail: consulwas at aol.com

 

The Mexican Consulate in San Francisco
The Mexican Consulate in Tucson

Tel: (415) 354-1700 * Fax: (415) 495-3971
Tel: (520) 882-5595 * Fax: (520) 882-8959

 
E-mail: contucmx at mindspring.com

 

 

The October 12th Indigenous Peoples Day Actions are sponsored by: 

O'odham Rights Cultural and Environmental Justice Coalition, Greenaction for
Health and Environmental Justice, International Indian Treaty Council,
Indigenous Environmental Network, Gila River Alliance for a Clean
Environment 

 

Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice  (415)248-5010
greenaction at greenaction.org    www.greenaction.org          

                             

International Indian Treaty Council  (415) 641-4482   iitc at treatycouncil.org
www.treatycouncil.org   

 

O'odham Rights Cultural and Environmental Justice Coalition  (520) 471-3398
uyarivas at hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

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