A Clearly Guest Post by Anthony Fleg SANTA ANA PUEBLO, NM – A week before the school year began, a group of American Indian youth in New Mexico were not only working hard, they were teaching the class! Earlier this month, the 39th annual conference of the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) featured nationally [...]
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This is a must read by Laura Paskus at the High Country News: This March, after seven years of planning and with millions of dollars poured into attorneys, consultants and travel junkets, Sithe Global not only delayed the (Desert Rock) project once again — beyond 2015 this time — but said it is considering changing [...]
Earlier this month a decision was made by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals over a license issued by the NRC for four uranium mines on the Navajo reservation. The four proposed in-situ leach (ISL) mines would purposefully and irreversibly contaminate the sole source of water for Navajo communities in Churchrock and Crownpoint. The decision [...]
A Clearly Guest post by Anthony Fleg of Native Health Initiative As American Indian Day is celebrated at the New Mexico Legislature on Friday, there is much to worry about amongst Tribal health leaders who fear drastic cuts in Medicaid will cripple an already under-funded health infrastructure. Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley recently wrote to [...]
One of ex-President Bush’s last second (or as they call it “11th Hour Decisions”) decisions was to grant Peabody Coal Company in Black Mesa, AZ a Life of Mine permit. The permit would have allowed the Peabody Coal Company to re-open the Black Mesa Coal Mine. It also would have allowed Peabody Energy to consolidate [...]
I first want to thank Barb Wold for making me aware of this. I just got through reading an article from Democracy for New Mexico entitled, “Recovery Act Funds go to NM Tribal Communities for Energy Efficiency, Transportation.” A quick excerpt from her blog: “Five pueblos and the County of San Juan will receive more [...]
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Great news comes today from Window Rock, AZ as the Council of the Great Navajo Nation passed legislation enacting a Green Economy Commission and Fund to support a transition to a healthier and more sustainable economy. I first heard of this initiative when a co-worker and I attended a Black Mesa Water Coalition meeting that [...]
Guest Post by Nadine Padilla. She is an organizer for the Sacred Alliance for Grassroots Equality (SAGE) Council. The New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee has unanimously decided to place Mt. Taylor permanently on the State Register of Traditional Cultural Properties. This designation follows a year-long battle between private landowners, who say the designation will [...]
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When President Barack Obama comes to New Mexico on Thursday, he’ll apply the considerable power of his presidency to the problem of credit card consumer abuse. In a speech at Rio Rancho High, Obama will endorse current federal legislation that would force the powerful credit card companies to outlaw sudden interest rate hikes, unfair penalties [...]
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