Defenders of the Black Hills
January 2012, Newsletter - 1st Quarter
January, 2012 Newsletter - 1st Quarter
Hello Defenders!
In this Issue are offered a number of ways you can help the environment, and the health of all the people. Included are a couple of petitions and letters that were sent to you before, but we are still offering them as more and more people want to sign. We are hoping you would mail them yourself directly to President Obama, or to the Secretary of Health, or Mrs. Obama. By doing that, you will save all of us time, money and paper. If you wish, you could also personally write to the addressee on the petition or letters and bring your own point of view. The squeaky wheel gets the most grease, so we are hoping by sending more and more petitions and letters, if one of them catches the attention of the powers-that-be, then maybe something can get done and you will have been a part of that.
Meeting Notice - Nov 28, 2011Nov. 28, 2011 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Defenders of the Black Hills will be having a quarterly meeting on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, from 1:00 - 5:00 PM, at the St. Isaac Jogues Coffee room, next to the Mother Butler Center, 221 Knollwood Drive, Rapid City, SD.
Brian Brademeyer's live chat with the Rapid City JournalThe following link contains Brian Brademeyer's live chat with the Rapid City Journal. He explains some of our concerns about the Black Hills and what the logging is doing to wildlife. It's not long but gives some good information. |
"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
"The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima Nuclear disaster...." Nuclear Physics Professor Kimberly Kearfott, University of Michigan, in comparing the readings obtained in northwestern South Dakota at the Cave Hills open-pit, abandoned uranium mines.
"It must always be remembered that the various Indian tribes were once independent and sovereign nations, and that their claim to sovereignty long predates that of our own government."
Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice
(McClanahan v. Sate Tax Commission, 1973)