To everyone,
I just got a message that the BIA confiscated 30 sheep and
3 horses
belonging to elder and SDN leader Rena Babbitt Lane, and are holding
them
at Keams Canyon. Rena was also threatened by the BIA who told
her that if
she signs the "Accommodation Agreement" she'll get a
permit to keep some of
her animals, but if she doesn't sign, the BIA will confiscate
ALL her
livestock in 5 days. This is illegal even according to the ordinance
under
which the BIA is carrying out these so-called "impoundments,"
which are
really intended to starve and destroy the Dine' who resist expulsion.
It will cost $1,200 to ransom back these animals from the BIA.
We need to
raise the money as fast as possible. We also need to stop this
campaign of
terror and undo the legislation that is at its root.
Please spread the word...
If you are with the press, please contact the SDN in Arizona
and cover this
story, and come to the demonstration on Friday in Boston, where
Sen. McCain
will be appearing.
Sen. McCain, who's running for president, will be at the Borders
Bookstore,
10-24 School St. in Boston, MA, on Friday, 9/25, from 12:15 to
2 p.m., and
we are organizing a demonstration here. Anyone who's in the area,
please
come. We need your presence and your voices. More info is available
on
McCain's itinerary at his presidential campaign web site www.mccain2000.com
Sen. McCain was the main supporter and architect of the 1996
Accommodation
Agreement in Congress, and is the key person in the Congress to
whom
everyone else in Congress defers on this issue of what is being
done to the
people and the land of Black Mesa.
Please call me in Boston at 617-796-0396 tomorrow at work for
more
details,
or email me at carolsh@dragonsys.com (work) and copy me at home:
carol@migrations.com,
Ahe'hee'--thank you,
Carol
-- Carol S. Halberstadt, Migrations (carol@migrations.com)
Native American art and crafts
http://www.migrations.com
"A generation goes, and a generation comes, and the earth
abides forever."
(Ecclesiastes 1:4)
"...then weave for us a garment of brightness,
that we may walk fittingly where birds sing..."
(from a Tewa prayer)
"Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look on the earth
beneath,
for the heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth wear away
like a garment..."
(Isaiah 51:6)