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Oak Flat — a
4,300 acre area located just east of what is now known as
Phoenix, Arizona — is a sacred site to many Native American
tribes, including the Apache, Zuni, Yavapai, O'odham, and
Hopi. An ancient location that carries deep significance and
meaning, it's where the Apache tribe holds traditional
ceremonies, harvests healing herbs, and communicates with the
spirits of the land. Covered in rocky formations and
mountains, as well as saguaro cacti, yucca, and cedar trees,
it's also a breathtakingly beautiful sight to behold.
Now, mining companies want to ruin it all — just
so corporate executives can line their
pockets.
Oak Flat is also home to a huge
supply of copper ore, and as we all know, greedy natural
resource corporations only see dollar signs when faced with a
"possibility" like this. They don't care about environmental
destruction, wildlife and plant life, ecosystems — or Native
Americans' rights. Back in 2014, Senator John McCain helped
give away 2,400 of these acres to Resolution Copper. To
conduct its mining operations, it would create a huge
1,100-foot-deep, almost 2-miles-wide crater right in the heart
of this sacred spiritual place. This is blasphemy, and we
can't let it happen. Sign the petition to demand the Biden
administration take action to protect Oak Flat from mining
destruction and restore it to Native American control
now!
Thank you,
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Miranda
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S. U.S.
politicians talk a big game about supposedly caring about
religious liberty. Let's see them put their money where their
mouths are. Demand full protections for Oak Flat
now! |
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