aggressica: patchworkurchin: marinashutup: miquiztli-mazatl: rtamerica: Congress gives Native Americ
aggressica:patchworkurchin:marinashutup:miquiztli-mazatl:rtamerica:Congress gives Native American lands to foreign mining company with new NDAACongress is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department.This week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China. ITS NOT YOURS TO GIVEwhat the FUCKWhitehouse.gov petition to sign is here. Do something.THIS IS BULLSHIT THIS IS BULLSHIT AND SO FUCKING GOD DAMN IMPORTANT. THERE ARE 58,000 SIGNATURES NEEDED BY JANUARY 3RD. COME ON, TUMBLR, WHERE ARE YOU??? -- source link