People vs Fossil Fuels
Indigenous Leaders to D.C: Demand Biden END the Fossil Fuel Era!
Join People vs Fossil Fuel in Washington, D.C. from October 11-15th and demand that Biden stand against fossil fuels.
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“This fight is more than just protecting our earth mother, protecting our water mothers, it's about protecting our cultural integrity, it’s about protecting cultural knowledge for future generations.”
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#ProtectGreaterChaco #Frackoffchaco#NoNewLeases #peoplevsfossilfuels
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Learn more at peoplevsfossilfuels.org
Over 91% of the Greater Chaco landscape is currently leased for fracking. For far too long Indigenous communities & their land have been sacrifice zones for the pollution caused by oil and gas companies. The impact of fossil fuel projects have already devastated their community's drinking water and soil. We need to #BuildBackFossilFree now.
We have joined the Build Back Fossil Free Coalition to amplify the issues relating to the Greater Chaco region, and to give our demands to the new Biden Administration and the Department of the Interior which have a historical legacy of colonizing Indigenous landscapes to exploit cultural resources.
Delegation from the Greater Chaco Coalition Heads to D.C. for White House Protest Against Fossil Fuels
Southern Tiwa Territory - A group from the Greater Chaco Coalition, Pueblo Action Alliance, Diné C.A.R.E, and Wildearth Guardians will be traveling to Washington, D.C….
Oct 12, 2021: People vs Fossil Fuels Testimony: #Youthtothefront
“As descendants of Pueblo Revolutionary Youth and the future leaders of our communities, we believe in standing in solidarity in the efforts to protect the Greater Chaco Region. It is our right of existence as we continue the resistance against extractive settler colonialism. Fracking in the Chaco Region, Jackpile Mine, Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia National labs, have all committed violence on the land which is the direct violence on us. Indigenous Peoples have the highest rates of MMIWG2S relatives. Part of the reason is due to the man camps participating in extractive industry in Indigenous territories. These industries are profiting off native lands and are exploiting our people with no regards and none of the repercussions of their actions. Black, Indigenous and people of color are subject to environmental racism and experience mass pollution that has impacted our communities in detrimental ways such as asthma, disease, premature birth, low birth weights, birth defects, lung cancer, liver damage, and I can go on and on. We are the future generations to flourish in a world that is free from environmental chaos. We want to live harmoniously with our relations. We grew up hearing our grandparents' stories; The Pueblo Revolt. They fought to protect our land, to protect our language. Protect our ways of life. We are here doing the same damn thing! Youth to the front, forever and always! Pueblo youth to the front, indigenous youth to the front, our LGBTQ+ youth to the front. We are all here. You better hear us Biden, because we are all here!” - Jaelynn Littlebear, Pueblo Action Alliance Youth Organizer
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Hear Pueblo Action Alliance Director Julia Bernal (Sandia Pueblo), speak on the Biden Administration continuing “business as usual.”
Many of us hear the words “free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC)” within Indigenous organizing spaces, but what does it actually mean?
Week of Action: Updates
“The Greater Chaco landscape, as well as many other Indigenous ancestral landscapes, have throughout history experienced the violence of extractive colonialism. When we say #BuildBackFossilFree, we actually mean building back from generations of colonial harm in the forms of federal fossil fuel leasing and the disregard for Indigenous Sovereignty and self-determination.”
— Julia Fay Bernal
Build Back Fossil Free
#BBFF Testimonies
Hear from frontline community leaders as they give updates and testimonies about the struggles and fights they are a part of. Hear from Julia Fay Bernal (Sandia Pueblo), as she speaks about the fight to Protect Greater Chaco.
"For too long tribal nations, Indigenous communities and our local ecosystems have been forced to bear the burden of the toxic waste created by the United States' dependency on fossil fuels. Our homelands are poisoned without our consent. President Biden must not just respect our treaties and strengthen Indigenous sovereignty but require that all federal projects that will impact our communities must secure Free, Informed, and Prior Consent."
– INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
Fossil fuel pollution and climate disasters are already disrupting millions of lives. We deserve a world beyond fossil fuels: a world in which workers’ rights, community health, and our shared climate come before corporate profits. That’s why we — dozens of groups representing millions of people across the country fighting for climate, racial, and economic justice — are coming together to ensure Biden becomes the climate president he promised to be.
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