Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 11:46:20 -0500 From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu> Subject: M-NEWS: Action Alert As we speak, activists are gathering at the Ward Valley Reservation, 22 miles west of Needles, California for a peaceful protest against turning this and other reservations into dump sites for radioactive toxic wastes. Of the 73 sites designated for toxic waste disposal, 72 are Indian Reservations. The Ward Valley Reservation represents the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance (Chemehevi, Cocopah, Quechan and Colorodo River Tribes) and activists there have begun peaceful protests and have been harassed by U.S. Air Force F-16s and Army helicopters attempting to intimidate them. This has the potential of turning into another Wounded Knee. Turning Indian Reservations into toxic dump sites is but another of many instruments of genocide and contempt for Indian Peoples and basic human rights; it is an extension of similiar machinations in the so-called "Third World"--turning them into garbage and toxic waste dumps for the garbage and waste of excessive conspicuous consumption in the so-called "developed" (Imperialist) countries. I hope that all progressive people will send letters of protest and any other forms of support to those protesting at Ward Valley the turning of Indian Reservations into dumps for the garbage of the non- Indian world. Jim Craven
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