Over
a Decade of Resistance - Dedicated to Breaking the Nuclear Chain Shundahai is a Newe (Western Shoshone) word meaning "Peace
and Harmony with all Creation"
Our
Founder, Corbin Harney
(March 24, 1920 - July 10, 2007), Western Shoshone Spiritual
Leader, last word's . "We are one people. We
cannot separate ourselves now. There are many good things
to be done for our people and for the world. It is important
to let things be good and it is important to teach the
younger generation, so that things are not lost."
This site is dedicated to Corbin Harney and his vision
for the Newe (Western Shoshone people)
Brothers
& Sisters of Shundahai Network,
Sept 26 - All links should work now, some data needs to
be up dated
Note Shundahai Network is currently a virtual office so
no phone numbers or addresses are correct. Email shundahai@shundahai.org
is active. Web errors should be sent to gregornot@gmail.org
With the New Hopes of
the President Obama administration, coming into office.
We need to keep the pressure on stop and development
on new Nuclear Weapons and Power Plants. Almost every
day there is a new leak found in nuclear reactors. Also
every day another Atomic Veteran passes with out any
government compensation.
Currently,
we are in the process of revising our Web site,under
the guidance of the Board of Directors (BOD)
Shundahai Network is ia virtual office to continue
to carry out Corbin Haney's visionto "Shut
the Test Site Down" and to have it cleaned up and returned
to the original caretakers, the Newe People, now called the
Western Shoshone People.
Remember
as Corbin said "We are all one People, let's put
our heads together to solve problems"
News
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You can use Pay Pal in left column, if you wish.
The
Nature Way by Corbin Harney is was released in September
2009.
To pre-order copies of the book or to look at The
UN Press web site for more info please check out:http://www.unpress.nevada.edu/books.asp?ID=2560
Intercontinental
Cry has posted a new item, 'Black Mesa Wins! Peabody's Coal
Mining Permit Revoked'
Peabody Coal's massive coal mine project, on the traditional
lands of the Hopi
and Dineh People in northeastern Arizona, was dealt another
major blow this
week by an administrative judge in Salt Lake City..
On January 5, 2010, Judge Robert G. Holt revoked Peabody's
coal mining permit
at Black Mesa, because the [...]
Yucca
Mountain Is Possibly More Seismically Active Than Once Believed,
Geologists Discover
Recent
geodetic measurements using Global Positioning System (GPS)
satellites show that the Yucca Mountain area in southern
Nevada is straining roughly 10 to 100 times faster than
expected on the basis of the geologic history of the area.
And for the moment at least, geologists are at a loss to
explain the anomaly.
Harried
Reid
And, after two decades of fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain
nuclear-waste dump, Barrack Obama, at Reid's urging, has
effectively terminated the project by ...
See all stories on this topic
Western
Shoshone Prevail at Ninth Circuit Court on Mt. Tenabo–
Court Issues Ruling Enjoining Cortez Hills Open Pit Gold
Mine Court Agrees with Western Shoshone and Allies that
the Interior Department’s Approval of the Mine Likely Violated
Federal Law December 3, 2009: San Francisco,CA and Crescent
Valley, NV – In a major ruling, the federal Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals today issued its ruling enjoining the construction
and operation of the Cortez Hills gold mine, proposed by
Barrick Gold Corporation. The Ninth Circuit reversed the
decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of
Nevada, which had denied the motion for preliminary injunction
filed by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs in the case are:
the South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone, the Te-Moak
Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians, the Timbisha Shoshone
Tribe, the Western Shoshone Defense Project, and Great Basin
Resource Watch (the “Plaintiffs”). The Plaintiffs challenged
the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management
(“BLM”) decision to approve the Cortez Hills Mine in November
of 2008. In overturning the District Court’s decision, the
Ninth Circuit ruled that the Plaintiffs were likely to succeed
on the merits of their legal arguments that BLM violated
federal environmental and public land law in approving the
Mine. The Ninth Circuit also found that enjoining the Mine
was in the public interest due to the “irreparable environmental
harm threatened by this massive project.” Among other issues,
the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Plaintiffs were likely
to succeed on their claims that BLM violated the National
Environmental Policy Act in failing to properly analyze
the environmental impacts from the Mine on groundwater,
air quality, and other resources. “Suspending a project
until that consideration has occurred thus comports with
the public interest.” The Cortez Hills Mine would be one
of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in
the United States. It would be located on the flank of Mount
Tenabo – an area well-known for its spiritual and cultural
importance to the Western Shoshone
Nearly
dead and buried
The publication, which covers the nuclear power industry,
reported last week that the only money the agency plans
to spend on Yucca Mountain in fiscal 2011 ...
Obama
pledges new US relations with Europe
He opened his appearance with a 25-minute prepared speech
in which he set a dramatic, long-term goal of "a world
without nuclear weapons.
Obama
Rejects
Nuclear Waste Site After 20-Year Fight,
President Barrack Obama won’t let nuclear
waste be stored at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, rejecting the
project after 20 years of planning at a cost of at least
$9 billion. Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu “have
been emphatic that nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain
is not an option, period,”
If
you are interested in a Gathering to renew acquaintances
formed around the
Shundahai Network, the American Peace Test, Healing Global
Wounds and/or Seeds of Peace, Linda Micciche floated the
idea of a reunion on Facebook (at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=106283917890&comments=)
to an enthusiastic response, so she has posted a survey
at http://snurl.com/nts_org_reunion_survey
which she's asking interested folks to take so she will
be able to follow up
more effectively.
Shundahai
Network was originally formed at the Nevada Nuclear Test
Site 10 years ago in 1994, by a council of long-term nuclear
disarmament activists, at the request of Corbin
Harney, a Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader. We have
evolved into an international network of activists and
organizations bridging the gap between the environmental,
peace and justice and indigenous land rights communities.
Our
staff and volunteers (volunteers
are always needed) work on a wide range of community
outreach, education and public action campaigns. Through
our events and campaigns, Shundahai Network helps train
activists in community organizing and the use of nonviolent
direct action to generate public awareness and apply political
pressure on nuclear and indigenous rights issues.
The
Shundahai Network is active in it's search for a temp
webmaster while our current one is under treatment for
Hep-C, which he obtained in the Navy. Email me at gregornot@gmail.com
if interested.
Our
Mission Statement "Shundahai Network is
a nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking the nuclear
chain by building alliances with indigenous communities
and environmental, peace and human rights movements. We
seek to abolish all nuclear weapons and an end to nuclear
testing. We advocate phasing out nuclear energy and ending
the transportation and dumping of nuclear waste. We promote
the principles of Environmental Justice and strive to
insure that indigenous voices are heard in the movement
to influence U.S. Nuclear and environmental policies.
All of our campaigns and events incorporate the values
of community building, education, spiritual ceremonies
and nonviolent direct action."
To
address these critical issues Shundahai Network has developed
three main Programs:
Environmental
Justice Now, supports Corbin Harney and assists
indigenous communities affected by nuclear issues in having
their voices heard on the national level. Nuclear
Free Great Basin, links the dumping and transportation
of nuclear waste in the Great Basin bio-region. This campaign
is dedicated to stopping the Skull Valley & Yucca Mountain
Nuclear Waste Projects.
Action
for Nuclear Abolition, working for complete nuclear
disarmament and closure of the Nevada Test Site. Along with
our ongoing work in building alliances with affected communities,
organizing and supporting conferences, workshops, speeches,
rallies, and direct actions, we also mobilize internationally
to bring activists to Shut Down the Nevada Test Site.
Shundahai
Network opposes all nuclear weapons research,
development, testing and production. We actively seek to
close down the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear weapons programs
except for radioactive contamination containment and cleanup.
Shundahai Network also opposes all nuclear waste dumping
on indigenous peoples lands. We are fighting to halt the
proposed high-level nuclear waste dumps at Yucca Mountain
and Skull Valley Reservation. We work to educate about the
dangers of radioactive waste transportation and promote
a safe and sane energy policy based on conservation and
renewable resources. To this end, Shundahai Network organizes
and participates in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations,
workshops and conferences.
.
We
are currently forming out own 501(c)3, so our needs for
financial support, can be met and we can get tax deductible
monies from the public and founders. If you wish to help
please donate
today. We are going to make possible the change that we
seek for Indigenous natives (Western Shoshone). They rightfully
own the land on which the Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain
(a very sacred space for the Newe people since before
recorded history, passed down through oral history) through
the "Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863". Any amount
is a lot at this point for us, please help, us help you.
Shundahai,
Shundahai Board of Directors, volunteers and the Western
Shoshone people (Newe- which means the people)
PS:
Here is a jolt of reality, a message from Corbin which
I just found the other day, Listen to what Corbin has
to say about the Radio station . Do you have time? If
you do considering help Shundahai Network as a volunteer.
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