Resisting Desert Rock
Resisting Desert Rock
By Nathan Coe, gnn.tv
March 5, 2007
Indigenous resistance against the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant continues despite intimidation and harassment.
On the Navajo Reservation of New Mexico, indigenous elders and youth have been battling energy giants and their plan to construct a new coal-fired power plant on Navajo lands in an attempt to protect their lands and traditions. In December of 2006, resisters erected a barricade and engaged in a tense standoff with law enforcement. Though the barricade has since been removed, indigenous resisters remain on site to vigil and protest against the destruction of their sacred lands, while others seek to educate, organize, and rally their people, as well as the public at large.
In the deserts of the Southwestern United States-the area known as the Four Corners-energy and resource wars are nothing new. Locals say that there is nothing pettier than water politics in the Southwest.
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