[imc-st.louis] STLC: Call for ACTION!

Tue Jan 8 13:14:25 PST 2008

Dear STLC,

CoLibri House meeting is open this Wednesday @ 9pm. January 9th, 2008
Location: 2725 Ann street

Please come and support the Health Collective and the future of the CoLibri House. We have collected signitures from most of you but now we are asking you to attend this meeting showing that the community does care and want to see a new future for the collective houses. 

Here are the issues that will be presented.
1) Please view the Health Collective proposal and funding attachments. This would be great for the st. louis community and these collective homes. 

2) CoLibri members social issues. 

3) Financal problems: We acknowledge that Vince has kept colibri out of foreclosure and paid double his rent, he asserts, for the past 18 months. We acknowledge that the members are all paying the full 400 per month and have paid off many over due utilities. There are still 9 months of past due mortgage payments, a $900 sewer bill, fines and overdue phone bills, and casa anita is going to the tax sale auction if its bill is not paid by March. This totals over $8,000 in debt. If they pay this off by Jan 28th we will support their plan.

Up to date: Certain members of our community have attended 5 months of meetings, and now have 20 pages of documents (mtg notes,bills, agendas, rehab to do lists), 60 hours of rehab on casa anita, all organized by outsiders, before the members become financially solvent? What does that really say about their motivation and ability to be responsibility for colibri?

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URGENT ACTION! YUCCA MOUNTAIN IN DANGER! DEADLINE NEAR!‏

Additional Information~Please Re-Send this alert to your lists! Please Forward Widely! URGENT ACTION ALERT!! DEADLINE IS NEAR!YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SACRED TO THE SHOSHONE & MAJOR FAULT ZONE, IN IMMINENT DANGER!DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY MOVES PLANS FORWARD TO TURN YUCCA MOUNTAIN INTO NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY.SEND YOUR LETTER IN TODAY! PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE JANUARY 10, 2008.SAMPLE LETTER & TALKING POINTS ARE LISTED BELOW. Public hearings have not been well attended, statements mostly in favor of the plan to put all of the nuclear waste in the country in this one sacred place.Activists were told that if we do not go on record with a statement, we will have no legal recourse later on. Local papers & media spin have recently statedthat opposition to the nuke dump had dropped off since the passing of Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone spiritual teacher who dedicated his life to protectingMother Earth, bringing people together, and stopping all nuclear contamination. The nuclear reps are confident to the point of acting like it's a done deal.WE KNOW THIS IS NOT TRUE! LETS PROVE THEM WRONG. MAKE YOUR COMMENT NOW & TAKE ACTION!! Yucca Mountain has been and continues to be a sacred and beloved site for thousands of years to the Native Shoshone tribes. It is an herb gathering site, forrituals, and as a part of their stories. Yucca Mountain is known in Shoshone language as Snake Mountain. It is said that the snake was headed north when itfroze where it is. Further more it is said that it will move again and "flip around". Geologists say that there are thirteen different fault lines runningthrough it. Using the Yucca Mountain site to 'dispose' of nuclear waste is a very risky and therefore an unexceptable choice as anuclear waste repository. There are serious risks associated with the 'disposing' and transportation of nuclear waste. One of the most deadly waste materialson earth, nuclear waste should be stored on-site, in retrievable casks, and not transported across the country. There is an extremely high liklihood thatthere will be adverse impacts to the drinking water supply, impacts from truck transport of nuclear waste, socio-economic impacts, impacts to culturalresources, and environmental justice issues. A nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain is illegal and in violation of human rights. There is ongoing litigation involving the United States’ violationof the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley with the Western Shoshone which clearly defines territorial borders for their nation of Newe Sogobia as well outside theproposed land withdrawal. This treaty was fully ratified by Congress, and is legally “the supreme law of the land”. In April of 2004, the United Nation’sCommittee to End Racial Discrimination upheld the Shoshone claim in a record decision, and their declaration clearly identifies the Yucca Mountain Repositoryas one of several ongoing serious human rights violations by the United States against the Western Shoshone Nation. Corbin Harney condemned the government'sactions, particularly the Department of Energy saying, "It is with blatant disrespect that the DOE continues to violate our Mother Earth as well as disregardthe Treaty of Ruby Valley." The truth "from the beginning," he once said, is that "the people are going to have to wake up to the problem and get a cleanersource of power, wind or solar, that doesn't have waste. "The eyes of the elders are on us. The fate of the unborn is rolling toward the cliff, the voice of Corbin Harney is ringing in my ears, "It's on yourshoulders now...". ~ B Dyken.  SAMPLE LETTER BELOW. Please! Consider adding into your letter the following well-researched points!Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth (HOME)* is a widely recognized organization that has participated in the Yucca Mountain hearing and comments process for manyyears. They have submitted the following major comments to the Department of Energy. These are section titles only, please refer to www.h-o-m-e.org for theback-up facts & additional info. Draft Repository Supplemental Environmental Impact StatementInadequate analysis of groundwater impacts to CaliforniaUnprecedented nomination of Death Valley Regional Water Groundwater Flow System for National Nuclear Sacrifice ZoneInadequate analysis of effects of groundwater pumping on groundwater migrationInadequate analysis of socio-economic impactsInadequate analysis of impacts to the Timbisha Shoshone TribeInadequate analysis of Land Ownership issuesTransportation, Aging, and Disposal (TAD) CanistersInadequate analysis of proposed repository capacityInadequate analysis of MRS-type storage for newer hotter irradiated nuclear fuelInadequate analysis of potential hazards from military overflights and airspace jurisdictionInadequate analysis of baseline soil and water data for future comparison Draft Rail Corridor/Alignment Supplemental Environmental Impact StatementsInadequate analysis of reasonable alternatives to the Caliente Rail CorridorPotential truck transportation of nuclear materials on California Highways 127 and 178Inadequate analysis of California impacts from the movement of construction equipmentInadequate analysis of severe accidents and acts of terrorismNo final federal Environmental Protection Agency compliance standardNEPA Procedural Concerns regarding availability of hearings and SEIS documentssection titles of HOME's* comments to the draft Yucca Mt. SupplementalEnvironmental Impact Statement (SEIS), available at www.h-o-m-e.org. It is a pdf file, 1.4 mgs with great pix of desert floods and Shoshone dancing girls.Please fell free to use any and all, and submit your own comments ASAP!! --------------------------------------------------- SAMPLE LETTER:   January 8, 2008 Jane R. SummersonM. Lee BishopEnvironmental Impact Statement OfficeU.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management1551 Hillshire DriveLas Vegas, NV 89134 Re: Comments on draft Repository Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement anddraft Nevada Rail Corridor/Alignment Environmental Impact Statement Dear Ms. Summerson and Mr. Bishop, In preparing my response to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) draft Repository SupplementalEnvironmental Impact Statement (SEIS) and draft Nevada Rail Corridor/Alignment EnvironmentalImpact Statement, I have identified several issues regarding both documents that should beaddressed by the DOE in the course of developing both Final Environmental Impact Statements(EIS). Using the Yucca Mountain site to 'dispose' of nuclear waste is a very risky and therefore an unexceptable choice as anuclear waste repository. Geological fault lines that run through and near the Yucca Mountain area. Yucca Mountain is extremely unstable to be used as a sitefor nuclear storage with the unpredictable weather and geological changes that are expected in that area. Yucca Mountain has been and continues to be a sacred and beloved site for thousands of years to the local Native American tribes. The Timbisha tribe and otherWestern Shoshone tribes have conducted spring renewal ceremonies on Yucca Mountain for an unknown time, and continue to do so into the present on thewestern portion they are still able to access. The SEIS also fails to mention the ongoing dispute and litigation involving the United States’ violation ofthe 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley with the Western Shoshone which clearly defines territorial borders for their nation of Newe Sogobia as well outside theproposed land withdrawal. This treaty was fully ratified by Congress, and is legally “the supreme law of the land”. In April of 2004, the United Nation’sCommittee to End Racial Discrimination upheld the Shoshone claim in a record decision, and their declaration clearly identifies the Yucca Mountain Repositoryas one of several ongoing serious human rights violations by the United States against the Western Shoshone Nation. There are serious risks associated with the 'disposing' and transportation of nuclear waste. One of the most deadly waste materials on earth, nuclear wasteshould be stored on-site, in retrievable casks, and not transported across the country. There is an extremely high liklihood that there will be adverseimpacts to the drinking water supply, impacts from truck transport of nuclear waste, socio-economic impacts, impacts to cultural resources, and environmentaljustice issues. A nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain creates a false sense of security for using nuclear energy while we should be focusing on alternative renewableenergy sources. Overall, the research on this site clearly shows that storing nuclear waste in this area is not safe or ethical and I do not wish tosee this project carried out. For these and other reasons, Yucca Mountain is unacceptable as a nuclearwaste repository.  Sincerely, (your name here) ----------- * HOME is a California §501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, founded in 2000 to conduct independent research and public education on issues of military andcivilian nuclear industries and their impacts on health and habitat, particularly in the Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain region. Also stay posted at Western Shoshone Defense Project: http://www.wsdp.org/   We are one people. We cannot separate ourselves now. ~Corbin Harney http://www.blackmesais.org******************************************************************************************The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and 
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