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"
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)
Nevada
reached a milestone Friday in its 30-year war to defeat
the federal Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project by filing
229 challenges to the Department of Energy's license application
for the planned repository 100 miles northwest of Las
Vegas.
"Clearly
this is a seminal day for us," state Attorney General
Catherine Cortez Masto said at the Sawyer Building with
Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency Director Bob Loux at her
side. The state's petition was filed with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, which is expected to take at least
four years to review the application and contentions.
There
will be errors or photos missing, if you find one of them
could you please contact me, at this email
address (your email program will open when
you click the link) and please include the URL
(that's the web browser address at the top on the page
along with the error, Thanks
Currently,
we are in the process of revising our Web site. There will
be many new features, slowly added and old materials replaced
(under the guidance of the Board of Directors (BOD)
Please
be patience, I know you have all been waiting for a major
update. Shundahai Network is in the process of returning
to Las Vegas 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.
We
will still have our complete web site , with additional
features and menu changes, such as Videos of Past Shundahai
Actions, of Corbin Harney, a Goggle Earth Section (for those
of you who have Goggle Earth installed, with Nevada Test
Site Data from the beginning to the present. If you don't
have Goggle Earth, it is a free download (rather large)
So we may also just have photos of relevant data for viewing.
A Forum for constant readers to ask question and discuss
new idea for shutting down the test site. We want your input
and help in the New Shundahai Network.
There
is much more planned and it will be a little while till
it is all up and running. There may be a broken link or
a missing photo but we are fixing it as fast as we can.
Feel free to email
me, until we get the Shundahai emails re-established.
Some of the old emails still work and you can use those
ones. Unless you get a address unknown return email, we
got your email. But please report errors to me at the above
address until, things are straighten out,thanks. Be
sure to include the URL, the web page address at the top
of your browser( it will start out with http://shundahai.org/
and the rest of the address) Remember folks some people
are more web savvy than others, so I am explain this so
ALL can understand.
Remember
as Corbin said "We are all one People, let's put
our heads together to solve problems"
Be Sure to check the What's
New , where daily updates are shown, so you don't
have to explore the entire site, to see the latest new
article.
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.
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 Shonshone people (Newe- which means the people)
PS:
Here is a jolt of reality, a message from Corbin which
I just found the other day, Watch what he has to say and
what the Radio station says. Do you have time? If you
do considering help Shundahai Network as a volunteer.
