The Lessons to Learn from Divine Strake Termination
By Stewart N. Thorpe
February 22, 2007

DIVINE STRAKE IS TERMINATED!

Not delayed. Not postponed. Not alternate locations being considered again. Not yet another environmental assessment. The madness of Divine Strake is over. The madness that started in December 2005 finally concludes in termination. The activist actions built up enough momentum and awareness through a frustrating battle of more than a year has succeeded.

We have won.

We won.

Some 10,000 Utahn and Nevadans expressed opposition against Divine Strake. The public input for Divine Strake’s environmental assessment by the Pentagon was higher than any environmental assessment in history conducted …

December 2, 2006 marked a historic day for activist working to stop the spread of nuclear proliferation it all its forms with a declaration that will stand the test of time. The Declaration of the World Uranium Summit has resonated to all four directions of the earth. Spread this message far and wide.

Here are the links for audio and video from the World Indigenous Uranium Summit held November 29, thru December 2, in Window Rock, AZ.

1 Manny Pino, a board member of the Indigenous Environmental Network reading the declaration (video version)

2. Speech by Joe Shirley

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Local residents return to their homes having reached an agreement over oil waste after a 15-day protest.

Protesters from the Achuar Indian communities in the northern Peru forest have won an agreement for an Argentine oil drilling firm to stop dumping toxic waste into the rainforest. The Native Federation of the Corrientes River brought jungle operations of Pluspetrol Norte to a standstill, demanding a clean-up of the harmful waste produced by 30 years of drilling in the area.

The group signed an agreement on Monday with Pluspetrol and the Peruvian government, promising to end all dumping of oil waste into the …

By Michelle Chen, Sept. 14 - After a long campaign by indigenous-rights and public-interest groups, the federal government has dismissed corporations’ plans to create a nuclear-waste dump on an Indian reservation in Utah.

The decision by the US Department of the Interior (DOI) all but ends a decade-long controversy that divided an indigenous community and threatened to turn native land into a repository for deadly radioactive waste.

Last Thursday, DOI’s Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs concluded that the plan to establish a major storage facility for irradiated nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation had failed to …

MNN. March 16, 2006. On March 10, 2006, the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination found that the United States was denying the Western Shoshone people “their rights to own, develop, control and use their land and resources”. They warned the U.S. to respect their obligations according to the Convention”. The U. S. was urged to “freeze”, “desist” and “stop” their actions against the Western Shoshone and abide by the Committee’s “Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure”.

The Western Shoshone land base covers approximately 60 million acres, stretching …