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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009 at 3 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO!!!
Take Action for Indigenous Rights and Sacred Sites!
No Toxic Waste Dump or Border Wall on O’odham Lands near the village and sacred site at Quitovac, Sonora, Mexico!
Assemble at the Mexican Consulate,
532 Folsom Street, between 1st and 2nd Streets, San Francisco.
Followed by a March to US EPA office.
The Mexican government and a company called CEGIR/Centro de Gestion Integral de Residuos S.A. want to build a toxic dump in O’odham territory in Sonora, Mexico, near the sacred site and village of Quitovac. The dump would dispose of industrial hazardous wastes. The permit process has been conducted with no involvement of the Indigenous O odham communities in decision-making processes. The proposed dump would desecrate the sacred ceremony site at Quitovac, and devastate the culture, traditions, sacred sites and spiritual well-being of the O’odham Indigenous peoples in both Mexico and the U.S.. The dump would also expose children and nearby communities to dangerous toxins released in the land, air, and water, and could contaminate water the communities depend on. The Tohono O’odham tribal government in Arizona has passed a resolution denouncing the dump project due to its impact on the sacred ceremonial grounds at Quitovac and on O’odham people, their culture and environment. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has failed to uphold its responsibility to protect the O’odham people who are U.S. citizens who visit Quitovac for ceremonies and family vis its. We call on the US EPA to strongly urge the Mexican government to reject the dump due to its impacts on O’odham who are US citizens.
“To the O'odham, Quitovac is the place that defines who we are as people of the desert. We are related to the earth from which we are made. Our Him'dag, our way of life, is based upon this principle. Quitovac holds the traditional knowledge that the O'odham tap into during ceremony, and when we sing our songs and vocalize the old sacred words, we communicate with the grounds when we dance the way the Creator and our helper Brother I'itoi taught us. When we talk about the land we mean the total environment, the plants and animals, the waters, ponds and seas and underground rivers, the mountains, the sky and all humanity. We cannot allow a toxic dump here.” Ofelia Rivas, O’odham Rights Cultural and Environmental Justice Coalition
CALL AND EMAIL THE MEXICAN & US GOVERNMENTS TODAY!
TELL THEM TO OBEY THEIR OWN LAWS &STOP THE TOXIC DUMP PROPOSED NEAR QUITOVAC
Alfonso Flores, Mexican Secretary of the Environment Tel: +52 5556 243342
E-mail: alfonso.flores@semarnat..gob.mx & nbsp; Lisa Jackson, US EPA Administrator jackson.lisa@epa.gov (202) 564-4700
Take Action for Indigenous Rights and Sacred Sites!
No Toxic Waste Dump or Border Wall on O’odham Lands near the village and sacred site at Quitovac, Sonora, Mexico!
Assemble at the Mexican Consulate,
532 Folsom Street, between 1st and 2nd Streets, San Francisco.
Followed by a March to US EPA office.
The Mexican government and a company called CEGIR/Centro de Gestion Integral de Residuos S.A. want to build a toxic dump in O’odham territory in Sonora, Mexico, near the sacred site and village of Quitovac. The dump would dispose of industrial hazardous wastes. The permit process has been conducted with no involvement of the Indigenous O odham communities in decision-making processes. The proposed dump would desecrate the sacred ceremony site at Quitovac, and devastate the culture, traditions, sacred sites and spiritual well-being of the O’odham Indigenous peoples in both Mexico and the U.S.. The dump would also expose children and nearby communities to dangerous toxins released in the land, air, and water, and could contaminate water the communities depend on. The Tohono O’odham tribal government in Arizona has passed a resolution denouncing the dump project due to its impact on the sacred ceremonial grounds at Quitovac and on O’odham people, their culture and environment. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has failed to uphold its responsibility to protect the O’odham people who are U.S. citizens who visit Quitovac for ceremonies and family vis its. We call on the US EPA to strongly urge the Mexican government to reject the dump due to its impacts on O’odham who are US citizens.
“To the O'odham, Quitovac is the place that defines who we are as people of the desert. We are related to the earth from which we are made. Our Him'dag, our way of life, is based upon this principle. Quitovac holds the traditional knowledge that the O'odham tap into during ceremony, and when we sing our songs and vocalize the old sacred words, we communicate with the grounds when we dance the way the Creator and our helper Brother I'itoi taught us. When we talk about the land we mean the total environment, the plants and animals, the waters, ponds and seas and underground rivers, the mountains, the sky and all humanity. We cannot allow a toxic dump here.” Ofelia Rivas, O’odham Rights Cultural and Environmental Justice Coalition
CALL AND EMAIL THE MEXICAN & US GOVERNMENTS TODAY!
TELL THEM TO OBEY THEIR OWN LAWS &STOP THE TOXIC DUMP PROPOSED NEAR QUITOVAC
Alfonso Flores, Mexican Secretary of the Environment Tel: +52 5556 243342
E-mail: alfonso.flores@semarnat..gob.mx & nbsp; Lisa Jackson, US EPA Administrator jackson.lisa@epa.gov (202) 564-4700
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