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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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