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get their hands uranium beneath the surface.
Big Mountain, at the the Colarado Plateau, is amongst the JUSt energy and mineralrich land in the world. A number of studies show that this land is also essential climatic balance which regulates global weather patterns.
Not only is the planned 'relocation an infringement of the rights of the oppressed Amenten Indian nations, but its results could have cussions on ecological balance.
trace their occupancy this area back for centuries. For that long, two peopics Have sharea Inese lands, peacefully, raising forcibly evict 10,000 Navajo and Hopi American Inministration is a result of lobbying by mining companies, most notably Peabody Coal, who want to - and their bank accounts — on the livestock.
They are in complete opposition to the eviction.
Since 1977, they have resisted 1 culuvale 111cluding by armed confrontation.
The main instrument for organising this eviction has been the Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation comwillch nas so lar spent $50 million in this at. tempt. Since not severa investigations have exposed the corruption of land dealers, implicating the Commission itself.
In an attempt to drive the Navajo Hopi peoples off Big Mountain, the government has confiscated their livestock over a long period. One example is the woman who applied for graze her sheep with a cow and a horse. She was granted grazing rights for one sheep. one horse and one cow 10 days to appeal within a complicated legal which little understanding and no lawyer acl her behalf.
For the American Indians Big. Mountain, "relocation' word for genocide. Intered for relocation there word for the Navajo language: the nearest aurillalul means to disappear never to be seen again.
Protest against this latest act of US barbarism …nOW beginning to spread. Big Mountain Campaign was launched recently in Britain, and has already held successful press conference Publicity, aculon urgently needed.
wake of Chernobyl, and given the clear has with the campaign has with issue nuclear power weapons, it is not surprising that Greenham women have been in the forefront ot raising Big Mountain in • Further information is available from: Big Mountain Support Committee, Shipton House, Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3ND (phone: 01-241 5626 or 01-485 1085) Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Day school and Rally Nelson Mandela Hall, Kings College Student Union, Surrey Street, London WC2 Speakers include: Nicaraguan embassy, FDR FMLN of El Salvador, ANC, SWAPO, CND, and more.
The day school will be folowed by films, videos and a disco Further details Ordon NSC, 23321 Compton Terrc,...
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Socialist Action 4 July 1986
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Anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution Saturday 19 July