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Coal Mining Curbed on the Black Mesa, Paving Way for Navajo Green Economy

By yvonnegrapher | Published: February 9, 2010
A shorter version of this post first appeared on RaceWire. The indigenous environmental justice movement celebrated a victory, early January 2010, when a judge ruled that Peabody Energy cannot expand its coal mining operations on the Black Mesa in northern Arizona.  Former president Bush Jr. approved a permit for Peabody in the twilight of his outgoing [...]
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Green Jobs for Navajo Youth

By yvonnegrapher | Published: July 23, 2009
Nikke Alex, the youth organizer for the Navajo Green Jobs and the Black Mesa Water Coalition, talked with us for a few minutes while she was at the Navajo Nation Council Chamber in Window Rock, Arizona, celebrating the historic passage of the first green jobs legislation in American Indian country. The green jobs act establishes a [...]
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The Great Rehearsal

By yvonnegrapher | Published: September 7, 2008
The Great Rehearsal: A symposium and week of events on the World Revolution of ‘68 and its legacies September 17-25 www.greatrehearsal.org 1968 was a world revolution.  From Mexico City to Tokyo, Paris to Prague, Columbia University to Berkeley, it was a revolutionary event that at once failed and transformed the world. The process it put into place continues today.  1968, [...]
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