Greetings from Sierra Club Borderlands
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More than 300 miles of new border walls have been imposed on Indigenous lands along the imaginary border during this presidential administration. These are not "replacement" of existing walls: 30-foot walls supplant 5-foot vehicle barriers, meaning wildlife and water flows are newly blocked, and viewsheds destroyed. The damage is permanent and ongoing, with dozens of wildlife areas, rivers, hundreds of sacred sites, now bulldozed, demolished and, walled to the tune of nearly $5,000 per linear foot.
Read below to see how Indigenous activists, Sierra Club members, and military veterans are resisting this atrocity -- against all odds, and at all costs.
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National Park Service Arrests, Shackles, and Imprisons Hia-Ced O'odham Womxn for Protecting Organ Pipe by Disrupting the Desecration of a Sacred Site
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Hia-Ced O'odham traditional lands, just west of Tohono O'odham territories, include A'al Vappia/Quitobaquito Springs on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Border walls are being imposed on this area by border militarization profiteers Kiewit Construction and Fisher Industries, and the sacred springs have been drying up as heavy equipment impacts the area.
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Nellie stops a tractor! Credit: O'odham Anti Border Collective.
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Nellie Jo David and Amber Ortega were set upon by bulldozers and construction trucks while praying at A'al Vappia on September 9. Nellie and Amber blocked the wall-builders, telling Fisher, Kiewit, and a small army of law enforcement that they had no right to be on O'odham sacred land. The National Park Service, whose job is to protect these lands, instead arrested and shackled Nellie and Amber, and sent them to a private prison nearly 200 miles away.
Please show your solidarity with Nellie, Amber, and all defenders of Indigenous land (jewed), water and rights. You can support via CashApp at $DEFENDOODHAMJEWED or via PAYPAL.ME/DEFENDOODHAMJEWED.
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Share: Veteran Who Built the Wall Now Works to Tear It Down!
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Sierra Club is proud to announce our first in a series of social media testimonials from frontlines border activists and community members!
Part one features veteran Phil Shea who helped build the wall during his time in the military, but now is an avid activist with our Borderlands Team— having seen the deep damage to communities and the environment.
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Please help us by sharing on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter using the hashtags: #TearDownTheWall and #BorderViews.
If you'd like to submit your own #TearDownTheWall video testimonial, please contact dan.millis@sierraclub.org for more information.
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Laredo Veterans Stop the "Trump Train," Protecting the #DefundTheWall Mural
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Laredo veterans protect the Defund the Wall mural from white supremacists.
Credit: Veterans United to Stop the Wall.
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A car parade of mostly-white outsiders descended on the 95% Latinx community of Laredo, Texas, intending to run over a community-painted "Defund The Wall" street mural. They were met by Veterans United to Stop the Wall, who blockaded the mural, touched up the paint, and erected a 30-foot tower/banner that reads "STAND WITH VETS, STOP THE WALL, DEFEND LAREDO."
Confederate flags and other fascist, white-supremacist propaganda were witnessed among the frustrated, motorized mob, who failed their racist mission.
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