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May The Farm be With You! |
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Dec 31, 2007 at 03:19 PM |
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May the farm be with you!
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Last Updated ( Dec 31, 2007 at 03:25 PM )
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AntiMall and AntiMall After Party - come out and support |
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Dec 13, 2007 at 09:58 PM |
AntiMall and AntiMall After Party - come out and support
"Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will lead some to
greed and others to hunger" - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
AntiMall, Winter 07
Dec. 16th from 11-4pm
La Culebra in Highland Park
240 Ave. 57th (crossing Figueroa)
Put your money to work by investing in Artivist and Small Businesses that
walk the walk towards a more just and fair society. Recycle your money at
the AntiMall.
FREE family event
Apoya a La Gente, Compra en El Puente
AntiMallers
Ana Guajardo, Los Switcheros
Araceli Silva
Becky Rodriguez, South Wind Designs
Cesar 'Jarochelo' Castro, Jaranas
Christy Burgos, Mayan Inspirations
Oman 'Cuetzalin' Rios
Daisy Tonantzin, Yerberia Mayahuel
Dalila Mendez
Eduardo 'Tocatzin' Sanchez
El Puente, Fair Trade Items from Latin America & Mobile Thrift Store
Emilia Garcia, Burnt Tortilla Creations
Emma Pintado
Flor Gomez
Guadalupe Custom Strings
Lisa Rocha, Ilaments
Imix Bookstore
Javier Orozco
Joseph 'Pepe' Galarza, Toltecayotl
Jose Ramirez
Kombucha Man
Maria Elena Esparza, Just Breath Healing
Lilia Ramirez, LiliFlor
Marisol Torres, Toltecayotl
Martha Hernandez, Cihuatl Poxteca
Melissa Gutierrez, Mama Bee Co.
Monica Delgado, J.u.i.c.e
Mujeres de Maiz
Nican Tlaca Wear
Raul Gonzalez, Mictlan Murals
RAWA, Fair Trade items from Afghanistan
Sergio Flores Designs
South Central Farmers
Timoi
and more.
Music
In Lak Ech
myspace.com/inlakech
Black Shakespeare, DJ
myspace.com/blackshakespearemusic
(Chocolate Bar & I&I Sound System)
Zocalo Zue
myspace.com/zocalozue
(members have worked with - Son de Madera, Mono Blanco, Stevie Wonder,
Quetzal, Joan Sebastian, Willie Nelson, Juan Gabriel & more)
Quincy McCrary
myspace.com/qemistrysoul
(Quetzal, Burning Star, Jupiter Rising, Sal Santana Band, & more)
Songo Electriko, DJ
(members have worked with - Burning Star, Yakshi & more)
Vampiro Fronterizo, DJ
Food
Familias Unidas, which always includes vegetarian & vegan options & supports
housing projects in Tijuana. - myspace.com/familiasunidas
South Central Farmers, helping bring healthy food into the hood. -
www.southcentralfarmers.org <http://www.southcentralfarmers.org/>
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Tribes & Environmental Groups Defend Religious Freedom & Human Health in Federal Court |
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Dec 13, 2007 at 09:53 PM |
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ATTN NEWS DESK – NEWS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 12 th, 2007
Contact:
Klee Benally, Save the Peaks Coalition
(928) 380-2629
Tribes & Environmental Groups Defend Religious Freedom & Human Health in Federal Court
Hundreds March for Protection of Sacred Sites & Human Rights
Pasadena, CA – On Tuesday December 11, 2007, a coalition of Native American Nations and environmental justice groups worked together to defend their precedent-setting victory for religious freedom and public health. The Federal Appeals Court in Pasadena, California, heard oral arguments concerning religious freedom violations, environmental destruction and human health dangers associated with the use of treated sewage effluent for snowmaking in proposed ski area development on Arizona's San Francisco Peaks.
The case was argued before 11 Judges with arguments focused on Forest Service violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and substantial burden placed upon Native American religious freedom. This case is viewed as precedent-setting in establishing an interpretation for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was passed in 1993.
"We are hopeful that we get a majority of the judges to understand that this an important religious rights issue," said Jack Trope of DNA Legal Services, representing the Hualapai Tribe, Navajo medicine practitioner Norris Nez and Hopi spiritual practitioner Bill Preston. "This law was enacted by Congress to protect religious freedoms and should apply to Native Americans who have land-based religions and sacred sites in the same way that it applies to everyone else," Trope said.
Howard Shanker, who argued the case on behalf of the Navajo Nation, the Yavapai-Apache Nation, the White Mountain Apache Tribe, the Havasupai Tribe, the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and others, urged the court to adopt legal principles that would help protect the San Francisco Peaks and other sacred/holy sites across the country. "The case is now in the hands of the court. The bigger question that needs to be addressed is why we are forced to go to court to stop the federal government from defiling holy sites in the first place." Shanker added, "This is an untenable situation that needs to be addressed in Congress."
"We hold the San Francisco Peaks very sacred and by allowing this small ski resort to expand and use the reclaimed water to make snow will have a detrimental and lasting impact on the sanctity of Nuva'tukiyaovi (The San Francisco Peaks) and on our ceremonies," stated Ben Nuvamsa, Chairman of the Hopi Tribe. "Our rights under RFRA need to be acknowledged as native people."
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