Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Longest Walk Update-Northern Route

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March 24, 2008

For Immediate Release

Contacts:

Aislyn Colgan (831) 295-2555

Mano Cockrum (720) 276-7452

Morning Star Gali mstargali@gmail.com

www.longestwalk.org <http://www.longestwalk.org/>

Colorado Governor Declares March 2008 “Longest Walk Month”

Longest Walk 2 Stands in Solidarity with Western Shoshone People’s Rights
for Environmental Protection and Protection of Sacred Sites

Denver, CO- On Monday, March 24th, the Northern Route of the Longest Walk 2
arrived at the Colorado State Capitol and held a rally and press conference.
The press conference began with a proclamation from the Governor stating,
“The State of Colorado recognizes the participants of the Longest Walk 2,
welcomes them and encourages people around the state to take heed of their
message that promotes peace, justice, environmentally friendly practices,
and awareness of those in the Native American community that suffer.
Therefore I Bill Ritter, Governor of Colorado do proclaim March 2008 Longest
Walk Month in the state of Colorado.”

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Longest Walk Update-Southern Route

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 24th, 2008
Contact: Klee Benally
LW2FLG@gmail.com

Hundreds Welcome Indigenous Rights Walk to Flagstaff

Flagstaff, AZ – On Friday, March 21st, Indigenous spiritual leaders,
environmental groups, tribal officials and 250 community members welcomed
more than 100 participants of the Longest Walk 2.
The Longest Walk 2 marks the 30th anniversary of the original Longest Walk
of 1978 that resulted in historic changes for Native Americans.

The Longest Walk 2 is a five- month journey, beginning in San Francisco, CA
and finishing in Washington D.C., bringing attention to environmental
protection and Native American rights.

“We’ve crossed 18 mountain ranges. We have walked 980 miles to be here,â€?
said Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement and lead
coordinator for the Southern Route of the Longest Walk 2. “Thirty years ago
a walk took place across this country and one of the issues that we brought
before members of congress was the issue of the San Francisco Peaks, the
holy mountain. 30 years later we are still concerned about the destruction
and the violation of the holiness of this mountain.”

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Antarctic Ice Shelf ‘Hangs By a Thread’

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I didn’t expect to see things happen this quickly.
The ice shelf is hanging by a thread – we’ll know
in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be.”
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EurekAlert! — AAAS

Public release date: 25-Mar-2008
British Antarctic Survey

Contact: Athena Dinar
a.dinar@bas.ac.uk
44-122-322-1414

Antarctic Ice Shelf ‘Hangs By a Thread’

British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic
satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice
shelf that looks set to be the latest to break
out from the Antarctic Peninsula. A large part of
the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula
is now supported only by a thin strip of ice
hanging between two islands. It is another
identifiable impact of climate change on the
Antarctic environment.

Scientists monitoring satellite images of the
Wilkins Ice Shelf spotted that a huge (41 by 2.5
km) km2 berg the size of the Isle of Man appears
to have broken away in recent days – it is still
on the move.

Glaciologist Ted Scambos from the University of
Colorado alerted colleagues Professor David
Vaughan and Andrew Fleming of the British
Antarctic Survey (BAS) that the ice shelf looked
at risk. After checking daily satellite pictures,
BAS sent a Twin Otter aircraft on a
reconnaissance mission to check out the extent of
the breakout.

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Peruvian tribe battles oil giant over pollution

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Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution
By Dan Collyns
BBC News, Loreto, PeruAchuar’s spiritual leader, Tomas Maynas
Tomas Maynas says fish died and crops wilted
It is a familiar story. Big business moves into a pristine wilderness and starts destroying the environment and by turn the livelihoods of the indigenous people who live there.

But in a reversal of plot, there are now cases of people living traditional lifestyles who are now invading the territory of the big companies and taking them on at their own game. Continue reading