Downwinder meetings

Please attend a DOWNWINDERS MEETING with North Country HealthCare at Cameron Chapter House at 10:00 AM DST on Thursday, August 18, 2011 and at 10:00 AM DST at Leupp Chapter House on Friday, August 26, 2011. North Country HealthCare Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (RESEP) will present and host questions and answers for uranium miners, millers, downwinders and ore transporters, medical Screenings for early detection of diseases, referrals for medical treatment, education and assistance with medical documentation for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) program. North Country’s presentation will be followed by other special presentations. Everyone is invited! Snacks will be served. Please bring food to share. For more information, please contact Forgotten People (928) 401-1777 or North Country Health Care: (928) 213-6180.

US EPA extends public comment period for critical air toxics and mercury protections by another month

The EPA has announced they are extending the public comment period for critical Air Toxics and Mercury protections by another month. Sierra Club volunteers have already sent in almost 100,000 comments but I guess the EPA wants more. Unfortunately, this gives corporate polluters more time to find crazy reasons why we shouldn't have a rule that prevents 100,000 asthma attacks and saves 17,000 lives a year. Major polluters, like American Electric Power, are ginning up to scare the public with wild mistruths.1 Well, we're not going to let them win this fight. We know that you're aware of the dangerous effects of coal pollution, but many of your friends and family might not be. Fight lies with truth. Forward our powerful new online coal quiz to five of your friends and family. Working together, we can invite thousands of new people to our fight for clean air. Within just a few weeks of Sierra Club's new online quiz, 'Coal In Your Life,' we have had tens of thousands of new visitors finding out how dangerous coal really is to their own health and their families' health and getting involved in the fight to stop pollution. We won't stand by while corporate polluters confuse the public! Clean air to breathe and safe water to drink is in everyone's best interest, except maybe wealthy corporate polluters. But Big Coal puts up ads every day attacking the EPA and our protections from pollution -- please use our quiz to educate the public and cut through the smoke screen! It is on all of us to build a bigger movement that can challenge Dirty Coal at every turn. Join the efforts by clicking here to get easy forwarding tools sent to your inbox and invite five of your friends and family to take part. Thanks for all you do for the environment. Sincerely, Mary Anne Hitt Beyond Coal Campaign Director Sierra Club P.S. After you take action, be sure to forward this alert to your friends then share it on Facebook and Twitter using our handy share buttons: Share this page on FacebookShare this page on TwitterShare this page with other services

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Western Companies Launch Sweeping Video-Surveillance Project in China

Western Companies Launch Sweeping Video-Surveillance Project in China

Censored News Special Edition: Navajos Forgotten People to UN: The Right to Safe Water 2011

Censored News Special Edition: Navajos Forgotten People to UN: The Right to Safe Water 2011

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Forgotten People made National news: 1. LA Times article and video-Front page news, Thursday, November 5, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bennett-freeze5-2009nov05,0,6964296.story?page=1 2. New York University articles and videos, October 16, 2009 http://pavementpieces.com/the-forgotten-navajo-people-in-need/ The Forgotten Navajo: People in need • October 16, 2009 17:10 • The Forgotten Navajo: Without the basics October 16, 2009 14:10 • The Forgotten Navajo: Living with uranium October 16, 2009 12:10 • The Forgotten Navajo: A family’s pain October 16, 2009 12:10 • The Forgotten Navajo: Keeping culture alive aOctober 16, 2009 11:10 3. LA Times-Archives May 4, 2008 |Article Uranium claims spring up along Grand Canyon rim By Judy Pasternak ,Los Angeles Times Staff Writer ...wildlife alike. Mining companies say the...environment, too: The uranium would feed nuclear...push to extract more uranium has caused controversy...New Mexico , a Navajo activist group is...east border. Uranium claims are also encroaching...you can't stop mining at the Grand Canyon... October 24, 2007 |Article Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination By Judy Pasternak ,Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Navajo tribal officials asked Congress...lingering contamination on the Navajo reservation in the American Southwest from Cold War-era uranium mining, an industry nurtured by...moratorium on new mining in Navajo country, which extends beyond... November 22, 2006 |Article Mining firms again eyeing Navajo land By Judy Pasternak ,Times Staff Writer ...last year passed a ban on mining or processing uranium in "Navajo Indian country," a term...opposition group, Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining. (Dine, pronounced dih-NEH, is Navajo for "people.") The organization... November 21, 2006 |Article Navajos' desert cleanup no more than a mirage By Judy Pasternak ,Times Staff Writer ...Most of the mining companies...blasted for uranium on the Navajo reservation...efforts The Navajos allowed intensive uranium mining by private...from coal mining companies...pushing the Navajos to use this...seal the uranium mines, too... November 20, 2006 |Article Oases in Navajo desert contained 'a witch's brew' By Judy Pasternak ,Times Staff Writer ...and mesas of the Navajo reservation, mining companies drilled...cliffs to extract uranium for the nation...radioactive waste at old uranium-processing mills...possible causes of Navajo neuropathy...possible role of uranium mining. Steve Helgerson... November 19, 2006 |Article A peril that dwelt among the Navajos By Judy Pasternak ,Times Staff Writer ...increase in Navajo cancer mortality...health effects of uranium mining on the reservation...power driving up uranium prices, the mining industry wants...still-vast Navajo reserve. Tribal...the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation... Please contact Forgotten People for more information via E-mail: forgottenpeoplecdc@gmail.com or by telephone at: (928) 401-1777. Thank you, On behalf of Forgotten People

Forgotten People Announce Suit to Produce Bennett Freeze Plan

Forgotten People Announces Suit to Produce Bennett Freeze Plan Today, July 8, 2009 marks the 43rd anniversary of a Bennett Freeze imposed on July 8, 1966 by U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert Bennett. The freeze made poverty mandatory for 10,000 people (with countless more displaced) living on 1.5 million acres in the western portion of the Navajo Nation. The freeze made it illegal for people to fix their homes, build new homes, have access to running water, electricity, any infrastructure and development. Elderly people whose wells ran dry could not drill a new well, were forced to drink uraium and arsenic contaminated water, denied the right to build a wheelchair ramp to their homes and repair leaking roofs and broken windows. No new housing, schools, waterlines, powerlines, community facilities. Nothing. The ban on construction and high unemployment rate forced the area's young people to work away from their homes and families. It also had a devastating effect on a traditional Navajo socio-economic system that is centered around raising livestock and farming. Compounded by livestock confiscation and barren fields, the people faced starvation or wage labor and federal aid. On May 8, 2009, President Obama signed legislation to end the freeze. However, no plan for rehabilitation has been made public. For this reason, Forgotten People by and through their attorney James W. Zion, Esq. filed a Notice of Suit requesting production and disclosure of a Bennett Freeze Recovery Plan to make the plan public amd see how it will or will not benefit the people of the Bennett Freeze. Please publish the text of this E-mail communication, Media Release and Notice of Suit. Thank you, Don Yellowman, President Billy Reese Kee, Chairman of the Board Lucy Knorr, Secretary-Treasurer Forgotten People Navajo Nation, AZ (928) 401-1777 TEXT FOLLOWS: Media Statement Dated: July 8, 2009 FORGOTTEN PEOPLE ANNOUNCE SUIT TO PRODUCE BENNETT FREEZE PLAN The Forgotten People Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit corporation, announced today that it will file suit against Scott House, the manager of the Former Bennett Freeze Recovery Plan Task Force, the Navajo Nation, and WHPacific, Inc. for production and public disclosure of the Former Bennett Freeze Recovery Plan. Despite WhPacific's broadside for a "Final All-Chapter Summit Meeting" in August 2008 and a promise that the "final project deadline" would be September 15, 2008, and despite President Joe Shirley, Jr.'s. January 26,2009 announcement he would produce the plan, it has not been made public so that it can be reviewed by the victims of the Bennett Freeze. President Shirley prematurely announced that the Bennett Freeze was "over" when the Navajo Nation signed a compact with the Hopi Tribe, and we now have legislation in place that formally terminated the freeze. What we do not have is either a plan or a program of rehabilitation to deal with the freeze, or effective involvement of the victims of the Freeze to address its severe impacts. The Forgotten People Community Development Corporation made a formal demand for a copy of the Former Bennett Freeze Area Recovery Plan under the Navajo Nation Privacy Act on March 31, 2009. Scott House, the manager of the task force that was to develop the plan, did not respond to the demand fo r more than three months, so the Forgotten People CDC is bringing a suit to produce a copy of the plan so it can be made public. Suit is initiated by a notice of intent made to the President and Attorney General of the Navajo Nation to give an additional period of time to produce a copy of the plan. The notice of suit states a claim under the Privacy Act and also states claims for access to public information under the free speech provisions of the Navajo Nation Bill of Rights and the "rule of law" and "communication with the people for guidance" provisions of The Fundamental Laws of the Dine. The Forgotten People intends to make the plan public when a copy is obtained, with information on how it will or will not benefit the people of the Bennett Freeze. For further information, contact: Lucy Knorr, Secretary-Treasurer (928) 401-1777 --END--

Benefit Social Song and Dance Success!

FORGOTTEN PEOPLE Dine' Be' Iina' na' hil naa Billy Reese Kee, Chairman of the Board Don Yellowman, President (928) 401-1777 FORGOTTEN PEOPLE BENEFIT SOCIAL SONG & DANCE Saturday, June 13, 2009 Toh Naneesdizi (Tuba City) Community Center MEDIA RELEASE June 13, 2009, Toh Naneesdizi, Navajo Nation (Arizona)- Forgotten People Dine' Be' Iina' na' hil naa (Dine’ Rebuilding Communities) hosted a Benefit Social Song & Dance to celebrate the lifting of the Bennett Freeze on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Toh Naneesdizi (Tuba City) Community Center. The Song & Dance was a great success! RAFFLE PRIZE WINNERS: Alana Lee Yazzie of Winslow won a Live Sheep dated by Mary & John Knight from Black Falls. Nick Alex of Brighton, MA won a Weaving by Zena Lane and a Camping tent, Black Mesa, Madeline Sloan of Tuba City won $100.00 cash donated by Clarence Raphael of Tuba City, Kee Crawford of Hidden Springs won a Rug dress woven by Caroline Tohannie of Black Mesa, Lee Canyon of Tuba City won a Sheepherder basket donated by Glenna Begay of Black Mesa, Rose Koiyaquaptewa of Kykotsmovi won a Quilt donated by LaDawn Yazzie of Tuba City, Daniel dejolie of Tuba City won Hay & Grain, Sarah Yellowhorse of Gap won a Sheepherder Basket donated by Jean Williams of Tuba City, Marie Tsosie of Tuba City won a Quilt donated by LaDawn Yazzie of Tuba City, Albert James won a Live Sheep donated by Mrytle & Hubert Yellowhorse of Gap, Rita Sebastian of Cape Cod, MA won a Sash Belt donated by Debbie Yazzie of Tuba City, Marsha Monestersky of Tonalea won a coral bracelet donated by Carol Colorado of Grey Mountain, Lorenzo Fowler of Tonalea won a live sheep donated by Elsie Tohannie of Black Falls, Marilyn Yellowman won a sheepherder basket donated by Shirley Morgan of Gap, Steven Yancey of Glenwood won a truck load of firewood donated by Teddy Begay, Jr. of Black Mesa, George Kee of Black Falls won a Mexican Shawl Blanket donated by Carlos Begay, Sr. of Black Mesa, Ronald Tohannie of Black Falls won 2 folding chairs donated by Valis Martinez of Cactus Valley and LG Pinto won a Mexican Shawl Blanket donated by Carlos Begay, Sr. of Black Mesa. Photos: Kee Crawford wins a rug dress AND George Kee, a veteran wins a Mexican shawl blanket Thank you Corporate sponsors: Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Harkins Movie Theater, Basha’s, Fabric Plus, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, 7-11. Thank you Veterans and Black Falls, Box Springs, Tuba City, Gap, Black Mesa and Cactus Valley residents for your help! The money raised will benefit projects in the former Bennett Freeze and Hopi Partition Land. If you want to find out more about Forgotten People, please attend a meeting every Monday night at 6:00 PM (DST) at Debbie Yazzie’s residence South of the Old airport in Tuba City or call: (928) 401-1777, E-mail: forgottenpeoplecdc@gmail.com. --End--

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