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From: Carol Halberstadt <carol@migrations.com> (by way
of Robert
Dorman <redorman@theofficenet.com>)
Bob,
Here's the web link and content of the EU resolution--please post.
thanks,
Carol
>Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:40:03 -0500
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>>To: Carol Halberstadt <carol@migrations.com>
>Subject: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopts BLACK MESA RESOLUTION.
Asks US to
>protect
> Native Americans.
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>
>ABOUT:
>EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopts BLACK MESA RESOLUTION. Asks US
to protect Native
>Americans' Human Rights and stop the mining. Date: Feb. 18,
2000.
>
>FOR ALL PARTIES INTERESTED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION'S OFFICIAL
POSITION
>ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES RAISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BLACK
MESA
>and BIG MOUNTAIN, ARIZONA DINEH (NAVAJO) and HOP...
>
>If you go to the following URL on the OFFICIAL WEBSITE of
the EUROPEAN UNION,
>you will find a notice in the Daily Notebook of the European
Parliament,
which
>reads:
>
>==== Start
>( Found at http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg3/sdp/journ/en/n0002172.htm#6
)
>
>Native Americans in the US
>
>Native Americans in the US
>
>Thursday 17 February - In adopting this resolution, MEPs called
on the US
>government's law enforcement officers to halt all harassment
of the Dineh
>(Navajo) native American Indians who are being forced to abandon
their land
>in New Mexico because of mining operations. The resolution
calls on
>Washington
>to respect the land rights of the Dineh people and to delay
further
>disruptive
>action until there has been a full re-assessment of the impact
of mining
>in the
>region.
>
>=== End
>
>The European Union / Parliaments Website is itself found at:
>
>http://www.europarl.eu.int/
>
>For those who do not know, the European Union is the recently
organized
>governing
>body endorsed by the Countries of Europe, who've created a
Parliamentary
>form of
>government whose deliberations and activities may be found
at the URLs above.
>
>To date, this is the largest body to express unilateral support
for the
>Native
>American Dineh (Navajo) of the Black Mesa and Big Mountain
of Arizona, asking
>the government of the US to stop Peabody Coal from continuing
to mine, and to
>restore the Human Rights of these very noble and very gentle
Native
>Americans.
>
>Please feel free to copy this email to those interested, asking
for further
>investigative assistance for our private inquiry into the
matter
found at
>
>http://www.cain2000.org .
>
>This site was organized to provide the GENERAL PUBLIC with
an Historical
>Background of facts now well known, relating to the scandal
laden history
>of this Human Rights Tragedy, including the political support
in the Senate
>from such as Senator John McCain who sponsored bills and sought
the support
>of the Department of Justice to evict the Native Americans
from their lands
>to allow Peabody Coal to mine the area, to deliver Slurry
which feeds the
>Casinos of Nevada and certain parts of Southern California.
>
>The ACSA has thrown its support behind both the European Resolution,
similar
>presentments to Congress and the Senate, to the Department
of the Interior,
>to the High Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations,
the World
Jewish
>Congress, the International Counsel of Christians and Jews,
The Simon
>Weisenthal
>Center and the US Commission on Human Rights, as well as in
writings
>presented
>to various world organizations and leaders.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Jack A. Shulman
>Chairman, ACSA
>http://acsa.net
>American Computer Science Foundation
>6 Commerce Drive
>Cranford, NJ 07016
>908-272-0016
>
>
>Carol Halberstadt wrote:
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>> >
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>> >
>> >Subj: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopts RESOLUTION
>> >Date: 00-02-17 16:09:16 EST
>> >From: rverjauw@mail.dma.be (Ria Verjauw)
>> >To: condor952@aol.com
>> >
>> >G O O D N E W S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> >
>> >Today Thursday the 17th February 2000 :
>> >
>> >during the plenary sessions in Strassbourg,
>> >the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted the URGENCY RESOLUTION,
>> >
>> >against the forced relocation, the ongoing violations
of human,
>>religious and
>> >landrights of the Dineh at Big Mountain.
>> >
>> >More will be send to you tomorrow (text, comments
......)
>> >
>> >
>> >for FOR MOTHER EARTH BELGIUM - Working Group on Indigenous
Peoples -
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>> >For more information on this on-going human rights
crisis in the United
>> >States, visit my web page at
>> >http://www.theofficenet.com/~redorman/pagea~1.htm
>> >
>>
>> -- 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)
>
-- 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)