Help Protect Shoshone Lands

[400Years]

This came as one of the articles in the Solar Energy International newsletter:

Help Protect Shoshone Lands

In 2005, SEI provided hands-on solar PV training for the Western Shoshone in Nevada. The Western Shoshone have long maintained that the US government is violating their rights to ancestral lands — rights that hadd been recognized as belonging to this Native American Nation by the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. The government has allowed gold mining and military testing of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; all on Western Shoshone lands without their consent. Denied fair resolution in US courts, the Western Shoshone have appealed to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

The Western Shoshone have launched a nationwide petition calling CERD to act immediately to address the human rights violations the Western Shoshone have long endured. You can help support the Western Shoshone by signing the petition on Oxfam America's website.

For more information on the Western Shoshone struggle visit the Western Shoshone Defense Project website. http://www.wsdp.org/

Anybody interested in Solar Energy might want to check out SEI. They offer great workshops on renewable technologies. http://www.solarenergy.org/

[rodeodance]

1. didn't they bring to the UN court (rejected)?

[400Years]

2. I don't know there might be something about that on the website

[H2O Man]

3. Nominated.

That you.