Arizona

Save Oak Flat! Protest Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick Speech

October 26, 2015 Staff, www.leonardclark.wordpress.com Resist! Arizona, boycott, Indigenous Peoples, Mining

By Staff of Leonard Clark Blog - Update since this last article was written …“So the board of the Phoenix chapter of the DFA has just censored my post … We must be getting their attention … I just got censored from a so called Progressive Democratic group Phoenix for posting the truth about about Ann Kirkpatrick. Good … now we are getting the big wigs attention … we are starting to scare them. My apologies to those in DFA that don’t think (as their board does) that we should look the other way when a human rights crime is about to be committed by a Democrat congress lady Ann Kirkpatrick they have chosen to run for the U.S. Senate in Arizona …

San Carlos Apache Tribe Clashes With Rep. Gosar After Rally

July 24, 2015 Indianz, www.facebook.com Resist! Arizona, Congress, Indigenous People, Land Rights, Mining, Sacred, Save Oak Flat

By Indianz - Members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe declared victory in their campaign to protect one of their most sacred places at a rally at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday even as some were threatened with arrest by a Republican member of Congress. With almost no financial backing, the Apache Stronghold left Arizona earlier this month on a 2,000-mile journey to educate the nation about the threats facing Oak Flat, a sacred gathering, ceremonial and burial site in Arizona. The trip culminated in a rousing rally in the Washington, D.C., heat with calls to support a bill that will protect the land from a controversial mining development. "Nothing is going to stop us," elder Sandra Rambler stated to cheers. "No surrender." As a spiritual leader within the tribe, Manuel Cooley said it's not common for him to take political stands. But Oak Flat is so important to his people that he drove to the nation's capital to explain why the proposed Resolution Copper mine will destroy the site.

Questions Surround Private Prisons After AZ Riot

July 20, 2015 Donald Cohen, www.capitalandmain.com Educate! Arizona, Mass Incarceration, Prison Industrial Complex, Torture

By Donald Cohen in Capital and Main - By now, you have probably heard about the riot at the for-profit Kingman Prison in Arizona. Days of unrest at the prison, run by the privately-held Management Training Corporation, left 15 wounded and forced nearly 1,000 incarcerated people to be transferred to other facilities. The same facility also suffered from a major riot in 2010. Similarly, people detained at an MTC-run camp in Texas names Willacy rioted earlier this year, forcing that facility to close completely. The Kingman riots are focusing renewed attention on the Arizona legislature’s long, cozy relationship with the private prison industry.

Arizona Protesters Organize Against Border Patrol Checkpoints

May 30, 2015 Ashoko Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Arizona, Immigration, Patriarchy, Racial Justice, Wars and Militarism

Protesters from a small Arizona town staged a demonstration at a nearby border checkpoint early on May 27 to express their opposition to its presence as well as the discriminatory and racist practices of Border Patrol. “If I was with a ‘brown’ person, I’m stopped. If I’m by myself, I’m a honkey, and I go right through,” protester Susan Thorpe told News 4 Tucson. “That makes me very sad to see what’s happened to my country.” About 100 people from the town of Arivaca, Arizona made their way to the temporary Border Patrol checkpoint on Arivaca Road, about 50 miles southwest of Tucson, at around 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

Arizona School Officials Protest Ed Cuts, Protests Made Illegal

April 6, 2015 Maggie's Farm, www.dailykos.com Resist! Arizona, Education, Freedom of Expression, Law

Some of the most vocal critics of Ducey's education policy have been school board members, district superintendents and teachers, which does not please the governor. Early on, when his budget was being debated, 233 superintendents signed and sent a letter to the legislature asking them to stop their boneheaded budget slashing. After Ducey's draconian budget passed, Dr. Michael Cowan, superintendent of Mesa School District, the largest in the state, sent an email to teachers and parents that was critical of the governor's plan. Ducey's response was swift: his "dark money" backers (Koch of course), with the governor's knowledge, organized a robocall campaign to smear Dr. Cowan. The message to school employees was clear: shut up or we'll shut you up. Well, they did not shut up.

University Continues Appache Assault At Mount Graham

April 5, 2015 Robin Silver, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Apache, Arizona, Indigenous Rights, Navajo

Under smokescreen cover of a admirable petition to help the Navajo protect their sacred San Francisco Peaks against a ski resort, the University of Arizona and its partners have secretly renewed their Mount Graham telescope permit for another 20 years. On Mount Graham, in order to promote their astronomers, the University of Arizona has achieved several firsts, including securing two congressional exemptions from federal cultural, religious and environmental laws. In order to promote the Mt. Graham telescopes, the University of Arizona has become: the first University to fight against the listing of an Endangered Species ( July 21, 1986) the first University to secure a congressional legislative exemption from federal environmental, religious and cultural laws (1988) the first University to promote a project whose biological basis (1988 USFWS Biological Opinion on the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel) is acknowledged to be fraudulent the first University to litigate against the rights of Native Americans to practice their religion (1992)

Stop Theft Of Apache Land

February 28, 2015 Serene Fang, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Arizona, Energy, Land Rights, Mining

A place of great natural beauty, popular among rock climbers and campers, a part of Tonto National Forest known as Oak Flat has been under federal protection from mining since 1955, by special order of President Eisenhower. On the nearby San Carlos Apache reservation, many consider Oak Flat to be sacred, ancestral land – the home of one of their gods and the site of traditional Apache ceremonies. But Oak Flat also sits on top of one of the world’s largest deposits of copper ore. Resolution Copper Mining, a subsidiary of British-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, has sought ownership of the land for a decade, lobbying Congress to enact special legislation on its behalf more than a dozen times since 2005. Year after year the bills failed to pass. But in December, the legislation was was quietly passed into law as part of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act.

Black Mesa Communities Continue Stand Against Mine Expansion

December 16, 2014 Liza Minna Bloom, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Arizona, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Wars and Militarism

This October, as many Americans returned to work after their Columbus Day holiday, rural Dineh, or Navajo, communities in the Black Mesa region of Northeastern Arizona were rocked by an invasion. SWAT teams descended upon this remote region, navigating unpaved, washed out roads, while drones and armed helicopters flew overhead. For nearly two months, Hopi Rangers, with the backing of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, and the Department of the Interior, have been impounding the livestock of the Dineh residents of the area now known as the “Hopi Partition Lands,” or HPL. The official justification given is that residents’ herds exceed the size allowed to them in permits, and that they are, therefore, overgrazing and causing harm to the land in a period of prolonged drought.

Native Americans Demand Return Of Ancestors’ Bones

December 12, 2014 Leslie Macmillan, www.theguardian.com Resist! Arizona, Indigenous Rights

In 1967 the Peabody coal company came to the Navajo and Hopi reservations in northern Arizona and Utah to excavate a strip mine – but the land it leased from the tribes was on an ancient tribal burial ground. So, as required by law, it hired archeologists and for the next 17 years a dig known as the Black Mesa archeological project – the largest in North American history – unearthed more than one million artefacts, including the remains of 200 Native Americans. Now the bones and artefacts are at the centre of a debate between tribes people who say ancestral remains and archeological ruins have been desecrated, and a coal company and government officials who are planning a new dig.

Arizona Defenders Face Land Grab By Foreign Mining Companies

December 11, 2014 Tracy Barnett, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Arizona, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

Apache leaders and concerned citizens from Superior, Ariz., including a strong contingent of former miners, met on Sunday with touring members of the Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians film crew on the sacred ground near Superior, Arizona, where Rio Tinto and other foreign mining companies are planning a takeover of public lands for the installation of a massive copper mine. Congress is set to approve the giveaway of 2,400 acres of National Forest lands, including the burial, ceremonial and medicinal lands of the San Carlos Apaches, to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of British-Australian Rio Tinto Mining Corp., a company with a long history of environmental and human rights abuses in developing countries.

Promises Broken, Latino Voters Split On Election Day Strategy

October 3, 2014 Alice Ollstein, www.thinkprogress.com Organize! Arizona, Elections, Latinx

With the 2014 election just weeks away, and the Democratic control of Congress’ upper chamber in question, Latino voters in Arizona and around the country remain divided on the best strategy to build enough political pressure to achieve real action on immigration reform. The idea of a boycott has some traction in Phoenix and beyond. Carlos Garcia, the executive director of the organization Puente, recently released a statement saying, “Without affirmative relief for our families, we are calling for a boycott of the vote.” Other groups, including Los Angeles-based organizing group Presente, are urging a targeted boycott of certain political races — specifically, against the Democratic Senators in tight races who joined Republicans in a recent vote to repeal the temporary protections given to DREAMers, recipients of deportation deferrals.

Public Rallies To Reinstate Marijuana Scientist

July 16, 2014 Matt Ferner, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! Arizona, Education, health, Marijuana, Politics

A petition demanding that the University of Arizona reinstate a research scientist fired after she won federal approval to study marijuana for military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder has received more than 27,000 signatures. Dr. Suzanne Sisley, a Department of Psychiatry faculty member and researcher at the school, was suddenly terminated last week for reasons she maintains were related to her research. She won federal approval in April for the long-delayed veterans study, when the Department of Health and Human Services signed off on the project. Ricardo Pereyda, an Iraq war veteran with PTSD who said he's been treating his symptoms with marijuana since 2010, started the Change.org petition to reinstate Sisley, which had nearly 28,000 signatures Tuesday night. "The university must reinstate Dr. Sisley, providing her with the necessary space and resources she needs to conduct her research," Pereyda wrote in the petition. "Her study could mean life or death for many veterans.

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