NGOs MEET WITH TRADITIONAL DINE' AND HOPI ELDERS
On February 3, 1998, Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, the Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, visited Black Mesa. This was the only on-site visit with Indigenous peoples during his trip to the United States where, for the first time, the United States is being formally investigated by the United Nations for alleged Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief. This historic event was organized in cooperation with a circle of Dineh people, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the Office of the Special Rapporteur in Geneva, Switzerland and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, coordinating all the necessary protocols for NGO participation and media coverage.
NGO INTERFAITH DELEGATION that traveled to Black Mesa
Reverend Dr. Thom White Wolf Fasset:
General Secretary of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church;
Publisher of Christian Social Action; lead of the NGO delegation
Liberato C. Bautista:
Assistant General Secretary of the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church,
Main Representative to the United Nations
"A Counterinsurgency of a Different Kind: The Hopes and Struggles..." (Please link ..)
Gail Lerner:
World Council of Churches (WCC), Commission of the Churches on International Affairs
Representative to the United Nations
Marsha Monestersky:
Consultant to Sovereign Dineh Nation; Co-Chair, NGO Human Rights Caucus and Member
Organizing Committee of the International Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights and the Environment
Roberto Borrero:
Vice-Chairperson, NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Support Letters
Lee Ranck:
Assistant General Secretary, General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church
Editor of Christian Social Action
"United Methodists among interfaith delegation supporting Dineh (Navajo) human rights claims"
Sammy Toineeta:
Racial Justice Division, National Council of Churches of USA
Betsy Stang:
Wittenberg Center, NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples
NGO Values Caucus and organizer of the "Cry of the Earth" Prophecy Session held at the UN in 1993
Thank You Letter to the Dineh and Hopi Peoples
Pamela Kraft:
Tribal Link Foundation and Vice-Chairperson
NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Delois Blakely:
NGO Peace Caucus; National Council of Women; Harlem Women International
Chairperson, National African American Delegation and Community Mayor, Harlem, NY
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
Bishop William Dew:
Head of United Methodist Church's Phoenix Area
Reverend Thomas Butcher:
Director, Council On Ministries of the Desert Southwest Annual Conference
Audrey Martinez:
Observer, Council of Churches of New York
Council of Churches of New York Support Letter
Pamela Ax:
Sierra Club, Executive Committee New York City Group
Sierra Club, New York City Group Executive Committee Resolution
Sierra Club, Atlantic Chapter, Board of Governance Resolution
Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN) New York Support Group
Ed Marquez:
Representative, Humanist Movement
Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN) New York Support Group
The Humanist Movement Resolution
Rita Sebastion:
Press Outreach
Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN) New York Support Group
CONTRIBUTING ADVISORS
David Brugge:
Anthropologist and Author
Submission to Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance
Thayer Scudder:
Professor of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology
Letter to Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance
Dr. Clarence Dias:
President, International Center for Law and Development
Analysis of International Covenents, Declarations of Human Rights
Joseph Jorgensen:
Anthropologist, University of California at Irving
Richard Klemmer:
Professor of Anthropology, University of Denver
Lynn Robbins:
Anthropologist
Bill Sebastian:
Technical Consultant to Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN)
Stuart Leiderman:
Professor, Natural Resources Dept., University of New Hampshire
"PROPHECIES, DREAMS, STRUGGLES:THE CULTURE AND RELIGION OF THE DINEH"
"Environmental Refugees & Energy (" http://pubpages.unh.edu/~liedermn)