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Voices from the Earth: Current Issue

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Table of
Contents

Uranium...the problems continue
Voting: Why It Is So Important
Listening Sessions Highlight Environmental Justice
Just Say "NO!" (Again) to High-Level Waste at WIPP
Reclaiming the Land: History of Uranium Mill Tailings Clean-up
Mitchell Capitan & Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining Take Their Message to the International Stage
Karamken: An Abandoned Gold Facility Shows Need for Reclamation in Russia
Harris Arthur is SRIC's New Navajo Community Liason
Book Reviews
SRIC Extras

Some people in the community were behind mining, [they] thought, mining is good for money. Some Navajo families were compensated for [past] mining on their lands. They were rich for a while. But it seems like to Navajos or native people, it's not good for us. As of today, I've seen these families suffer; many are gone from alcoholism, and [many] didn't spend the money in the right way. There's nothing there, now they're suffering again. This is almost where we're headed again. In the long run, I think it's not made for the native people to be so rich off the Earth. Uranium mining, it's like it's an omen.

Mitchell Capitan, founder
Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining

 
Book Reviews

The following books were reviewed in this issue of Voices.
 
Blessed Pests of the Beloved West Blessed "Pests" of the Beloved West:
An Affectionate Collection on Insects and Their Kin
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb and Terril L. Shorb, Editors
Prescott, Arizona: Native West Press, 2003
Silent Invaders Silent Invaders:
Pesticides, Livelihoods and Women's Health
Miriam Jacobs & Barbara Dinham, Eds., forward by Clare Short
London, England: Zed Books, Ltd., 2002
Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities Transportation & Sustainable Campus Communities:
Issues, Examples, Solutions
Will Toor and Spenser W. Havlick
Washington: Island Press, 2004
A Balanced Energy Plan for the Interior West A Balanced Energy Plan for the Interior West
Western Resource Advocates
Boulder: Western Resource Advocates, 2004

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