Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 27-29, 1979 marked a turning point in Indian resistance, and may even herald the beginning of the end for the source of the nuclear fuel cycle. On those dates, thousands of Navajo and Pueblo Indians--joined by Chicano and Anglo supporters--physically and spiritually protested uranium mining on native lands. The demonstration occurred at Mt. Taylor, N.M., a sacred mountain to local natives and the site of a Gulf Oil-owned underground uranium mine--the deepest of its kind in the world. Beyond the implications of bringing 100 million pounds of uranium from deep within the earth...
Speakers at the conference included local, national and international native American speakers, Chicano representatives who live near the mine site, and Anglo representatives Helen Caldicott, the Australian author of Nuclear Madness, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus. The gathering provided the basis for ongoing resistance to uranium and coal mining slated for Lakota, Spokane, Ojibwa, Dine and Navajo reservations, along with the land of many other native Americans. Local Chicano residents have been significantly affected by the national nuclear waste isolation pilot project located on a Chicano land grant in the southern part of the state. For these...
Both sides claimed victory. "I'm proud to have paved the way for other women who have relationships such as mine," declared Michelle, 46. Retorted Lee, 55: "We won on all counts...
...Girl. She is 20, with a smiling, seemingly untroubled face, a saleswoman in a Salisbury shop catering to whites. Five years ago, she was one of 86 students jammed aboard a school bus near the Mozambique border. The bus was blown apart by a mine; 80 died. The girl was hospitalized for two months with multiple fractures and a puncture wound near her heart. She had been back in her boarding school only a week when ZANIA guerrillas entered the dormitories one night as the pupils were undressing for bed. Three hundred children-some naked, others in nightdress-were marched...
...most boats, when they win by open water, there is wild celebration. There is none of the jubilation if we don't feel we've rowed well," Brown said. In fact, "the boat coming back sounded like an elevator coming up out of a coal mine"--just a log of coughing and silence...