We in the U.P. are coming to Lansing to hand deliver an Environmental Justice petition to our Governor and to talk to the Natural Resources Commission about the Eagle Mine Project. We will be talk about the use of state public lands for private gain. We will talk about Eagle Rock – a sacred site of the Anishinaabe. We will talk about Treaty Rights. We will talk about rights of communities that have been violated through the lack of engagment from permitting agencies in the permitting of the Eagle Mine on the Yellow Dog Plains in Marquette County.
We need you there. Period. We need you there. A contingency of U.P. residents, native and non-native, are coming to the Michigan Capitol steps on June 3rd – next Thursday – at 11:00 am. We will have music, speakers, banners, etc. – now we need you! We need folks from downstate to rally for us. Bring a sign – any sign will do. We need the color BLUE and you. Make a blue flag that stands for our water.
Schedule:
June 3rd
11:00 am Meet on Capitol Lawn
11:30 am Reading of the Environmental Justice Petition
Reading aTribal Rights Statement
Eagle Rock – sung by Drew Nelson
Other Voices Joining In
2:00 pm Deliver the petitions and Tribal Rights Statement
to the Governor’s office
3:00 pm Walk to Natural Resources Commission Meeting -
333 E. Michigan Ave – Lansing Center
Please distribute to all lists and notify all groups that could possibly attend. We need people, people, people! This may be the one chance for folks in lower Michigan to physically help this cause. Please, please come. Please come to honor those who are fighting for our water, our land and our rights to free expression.
My thanks to you – for all you have done,
Cynthia Pryor
Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
www.standfortheland.com www.savethewildup.org
Here is the link to Drew Nelson’s new song Eagle Rock which he will sing in person at the Stand for the Land Rally in Lansing on June 3rd – 11:00.
http://www.drewnelson.net/boozhoo/2010/05/20/please-read-2/
Our extreme thanks to Drew for his support and we look forward to hearing him sing this. Be there.
Cynthia
Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend due to several school groups coming in that morning. I will pass this on to other members in the hope that they will participate.
Anne Hodge
Education Director
Nokomis Learning Center
Wish we could be there with you to walk with you, but since we cannot, we will be with you in spirit. Thank you for your good work.
I am with you in spirit. i am SOOOOO glad you reverence for the land has held fast. Blessings and balance
LEAVE THESE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALONE! THEY HAVE BEEN RUN OFF THERE LAND FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. ITS TIME TO STOP. THEY HAVE JUST AS MUCH RIGHT TO BE HERE AS ANYBODY. REALLY MORE RIGHT TO BE HERE, THEY WHERE HERE FIRST.
NOTE TO EDITOR: Discard first post use this one with “off” instead of “of” after the word Mine.
Leave the Native People of the Upper Peninsula alone. Get the Eagle Rock Mine off the Yellow Dog Plains. Shame on you Kennecott, local government and the Michigan Natural Resources Commission from being so greedy and caving into corporate mining interests. Haven’t you learned anything from history?
Let the tribes have their land!
I regret that I will not be able to be in Lansing on the 3rd but I sent this email to Jennifer Granholm today:
“Dear Governor Granholm,
I am not a Native American but I have been following their stand at Eagle Rock in the Yellow Dog Plains where Rio Tinto is preparing to construct a very dangerous mine. I am saddened by the way our Native American neighbors have been treated and disrespected by Kennecott. They claim the tribe members are tresspassing, the tribe members who are trying to preserve their sacred ground and OUR clean water say they are rightfully there. From all I’ve read and researched, I have to side with the Native Americans. Kennecott is disrespecting their sacred places and practices, they are lying to them and because the Native Americans and their environmental supporters are classified as “tree huggers” with small pocketbooks, Kennecott with it’s huge wallet has stroked everyone, throwing money everywhere to get support and they come out smelling like a rose. I, and many others who support our First Nation people are getting very disgusted and frightened by how Kennecott is operating. Our environment – especially our water is the most precious resource on earth. Look at the disaster in the Gulf. I’m sure BP thought they had a ‘fail-safe’ process just like Kennecott. And how can the government allow a foreign corporation to just ‘decide’ they don’t need a permit anymore because they made a change in their process. Is it really THAT easy to bi-pass the government? I know that jobs are scares – but are a few temporary jobs worth a huge environmental risk? Can you please help us up here in the U.P. I know you love it up here. I met you at the UP200 a few years ago and I got the impression that you would step up to the plate if our beautiful peninsula or it’s people were mistreated.
Please Help Us Now. ”
I’ll be there in spirit and my prayers with go with you.
I’ll be there in spirit and my prayers go with you
The people of the U.P. should be glading that a new business is operating. The mine will put many unemployed individuals to work and put less stress on Michigan’s already distressed economy.