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Greetings from Sierra Club Borderlands
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Destructive border walls are being built at an unprecedented scale, threatening to block two rivers in Arizona, pumping fragile springs and groundwater supplies, and desecrating Indigenous land. Greedy border militarization profiteers are making billions of dollars, while the rest of us struggle to survive the worst global pandemic in modern history.
We’re asking the Supreme Court to heed the findings of lower courts that these walls are illegal and unconstitutional. We’re supporting Indigenous-led resistance and direct action that has shut down border wall construction several times in recent weeks! And we’re demanding lawmakers speak up and demand that these monuments to white supremacy be stopped and destroyed.
Thank you for caring about the borderlands,
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Sierra Club and Partners ask Supreme Court to Stop Walls
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This week, the Sierra Club, American Civil Liberties Union, and Southern Border Communities Coalition asked the Supreme Court to halt construction of border walls that are being illegally funded. We’re asking the court to lift an earlier order that allowed the Trump administration to divert $2.5 billion from military pay and pension funds for border wall construction -- funds that Congress explicitly denied.
Watch and Share! Club legal team members Ana and Ankit break it down for us in this video.
The Trump administration has continued building hundreds of miles of border walls, despite lower court orders blocking the construction and ruling it illegal. While hospitals and clinics are overcrowded and medical workers under equipped due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a racist and environmentally devastating wall. We hope the Supreme Court will take swift action to halt the destruction and to restore equal protection under the law to border communities and landscapes.
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Quitobaquito Springs is drying up. photo credit Center for Biological Diversity
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Kiewit Construction Destroys Arizona Trail, Sacred Spring!
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Kiewit Construction is causing unprecedented damage to Arizona: Right now, they are building a wall across the San Pedro River, destroying and blocking the start/end point of the 800-mile Arizona National Scenic Trail, and pumping groundwater from beneath wetlands that harbor endangered species at the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge and Organ Pipe’s Quitobaquito Springs. The Trump administration is rewarding Kiewit with a $646 million border wall contract that has now swollen to $1.8 billion and growing.
If you live in Arizona, please take a moment to take action and write your Senators, who both claim to be champions of the Arizona Trail, but have said NOTHING to protest the demolition of the trail’s southern end.
Demand that Arizona Senators take action to save the Arizona National Scenic Trail and stop border wall construction through jaguar country in Arizona.
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Kumeyaay protesting the border wall photo by Carmina Ramirez
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Kumeyaay Defense Against the Barnard/Gonzaga Border Wall
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Another greedy border wall contractor that has already been awarded more than $1 billion in Trump walls is Barnard Corporation, whose namesake Tim Barnard is on the board of Gonzaga University. Barnard has been destroying the homelands of the Kumeyaay Indigenous people as part of the $569 million San Diego A border wall.
The Kumeyaay are leading an uprising against this desecration of their ancestral lands, shutting down border wall construction several times in the past few weeks! These brave protesters are an inspiration to all of us facing unprecedented destruction in the borderlands.
You can support Kumeyaay resistance against the wall here. |
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