Beyond Nuclear - Human Rights What's New

Beyond Nuclear sent this action alert to southwest MI, where it is very engaged in nuclear power issues:

Dear Friends and Colleagues in/near Kalamazoo,

I just received this notification below from CredoAction, so thought I'd share it. I hope you can attend this Day of Action against the Dakota Access Pipeline, at the Arcus Center for Social Justice and Leadership, 205 Monroe St., Kalamazoo, tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 10:00 AM.

(If you don't live in Kalamazoo, please see the announcement here, and join the action nearest you -- or organize one of your own!)

Two of the groups on the front lines at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation and treaty lands in North Dakota -- Indigenous Environmental Network and Honor the Earth -- have long stood with the anti-nuclear power movement to oppose high-level radioactive waste dumps targeted at Native American lands (such as Western Shoshone Indian land at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, long targeted for a national dump by U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI); beginning in 1995, as a U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee member, Upton has done the nuclear power industry's dirty work, including leading industry's advocacy in favor of the Yucca dump on Capitol Hill; this only intensified when Upton became Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee; he has been handsomely rewarded with large-scale campaign contributions by the nuclear power industry ever since). As the Friends of the Earth action alert about tomorrow put it, "The Indigenous peoples’ centuries-long fight for cultural survival is at stake. As we contemplate four years of a Trump Administration, a few things are clear: we have to keep fighting. And we have to show up for each other." (Erich Pica, a Distinguished Alum of WMU from Watervliet, is President of Friends of the Earth.)

Marshall, Kalamazoo, and all communities downstream of the late July 2010 Enbridge tar sands oil spill into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River know all too well that oil pipelines can fail catastrophically, and that Enbridge's corporate character leaves a lot to be desired. Enbridge, yet again, is playing a big role in forcing the Dakota Access Pipeline through Standing Rock Sioux Tribe treaty lands, against the tribe's will.

For more info. on this issue, please see Democracy Now!'s comprehensive coverage, and also Beyond Nuclear's Human Rights website section.

Thanks.

---Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear & Don't Waste Michigan

CredoAction alert for Kalamazoo:

Tuesday in Kalamazoo: Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. #NoDAPL

Join a massive national day of action against the Dakota Access pipeline by attending a protest in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Donald Trump’s presidency will be be a disaster for many of the people and things we care about most – including indigenous rights and the climate. We will fight with everything we’ve got to stop Trump’s dangerous and reckless agenda, but right now we also have to keep the pressure on President Obama to do what’s right while he’s still in office and stop the Dakota Access pipeline.

In recent weeks, nearly 400,000 CREDO members have signed the petition urging President Obama to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, and thousands more have made calls. A decision on the pipeline’s final permit is expected to be made any day now. It’s time to disrupt business as usual and take this fight to the next level.

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, we’re joining our friends at Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, 350 and dozens of other indigenous rights, progressive and environmental groups for a massive #NoDAPL day of action. Thousands of people will join protests across the country to demand that the Army Corps of Engineers stop the Dakota Access pipeline – and there’s an event planned near you in Kalamazoo.

Can you join the event in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15?

What: Day of Action against the Dakota Access pipeline
Where: The Arcus Center for Social Justice and Leadership, 205 Monroe st., Kalamazoo
When: 10:00 AM

If you are planning to attend the event in Kalamazoo, please RSVP now so local organizers know how many people to expect and can follow up with you with any final details you need to know.

The Army Corps of Engineers fast-tracked the Dakota Access pipeline without proper consultation, and as a result, bulldozers are approaching Standing Rock as we speak. Now it’s time for them to take action to make it right. These coordinated, massive demonstrations across the country will make it clear that our movement will not allow indigenous rights, our water or our climate to be sacrificed. We will fight this pipeline until it is stopped for good.

Will you be at the action in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15? Click here to RSVP.

The fight against the Dakota Access pipeline is the biggest climate and indigenous rights fight happening in the country right now, and this movement is one of the most courageous stands against a fossil fuel project our country has ever seen. Together, our activism stopped the Keystone XL pipeline just over one year ago today. Now, we need to use our power to stop Dakota Access.

We will continue to fight until native sovereignty is honored, indigenous rights are protected and the federal government values our communities, water and climate over fossil fuel profits. Thank you for fighting with us.

Click the link below to RSVP for the action in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-day-of-action-and-solidarity

See you in the streets,

Josh Nelson, Deputy Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets

CLICK HERE TO RSVP