This week’s Carnival of the Green is being hosted by Animal Broadcast Network.
I will be hosting next week’s COTG.
I have updated my post on the Stop the Divine Strake action to include three video clips. For convenience, there they are in this post:
See video clip of sunrise ceremony here.
See video clips of indigenous leaders taking the group to the test site gate here and to a Western Shoshone man crossing the line here.
Here are articles from local news sources on Utah’s Special Legislative Session:
Deseret News
Guv puts leaders in touchy position: Dental-care vote could hurt GOP legislators
Dental funding sidestepped: GOP lawmakers vote to keep issue in committee
Huntsman defends dental-care request: He had hoped for enough votes for dental proposal
Special session fought over ‘technical’ details
Pignanelli gets strong nod for tax commissioner
Trading fines irk brokerage houses: They’re ‘talking about not doing business in Utah’
Windfall for brainpower: U., USU using funds to recruit top researchers
Schools see funds shrink: Public education getting smaller piece of pie
Legislator vows to revive bill on drug overdoses: S.L. Demo to rework rendering-aid plan for 2007 session
Salt Lake Tribune
Guv: Dental aid checkup:
He revamps health bill for special session
Dental aid bill takes back seat to parking: Guv’s $2M pitch for needy fails; $15M Capitol garage gets nod
Talks with Mexico’s Fox were substantive, governor says
House strikes back at governor
Revenge? Angry at a PR loss, lawmakers demand a special session on taxes
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1538
First of Hernando de Soto’s conquistadors land on Florida coast.
1779
General Washington orders Iroquois suppressed. A scorched-earth policy, in which dozens of villages were burned,follows.
1921
The Tulsa Race Riot
1678
Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry, England
1955
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered (in a decision known as “Brown II”) that school integration be done “with all deliberate speed,” ordering the lower federal courts to require desegregation. Between 1955 and 1960, federal judges held more than 200 school desegregation hearings.
See links to photos below each heading. See link to Salt Lake solidarity vigil here.
As reported via phone post, the Stop the Divine Strake Action is over and is considered to have been a highly productive and successful event. People came from as far away as Pennsylvania to attend the action.
Govinda set up an operation from which he ran a radio station that could be heard in the area. He broadcast the entire weekend and those with radios could listen from anywhere in the camp. Govinda conducted interviews with people there, mostly Western Shoshone, and also played clips recorded from the previous weekend’s Western Shoshone Defense Project’s annual gathering. Govinda also played a lot of activist and indigenous music.
Word reached us Saturday morning that breaking news had been delivered as to the “indefinite” postponement of the Divine Strake test and that protestors were “celebrating”. This was misleading. Yes, while it could be considered a “victory” that the test has been postponed, it by no means is a “celebration”. A “battle” may have been won but the fight is not over. I find it quite interesting and strategic that the announcement of this “postponement” came just as the Stop the Divine Strake Action was beginning. And guess what: a significant number of folks who were supposed to be present at this action were not. On one hand, I can see that traveling a far distance to protest a postponed test might be seen as a waste of energy and resources to save for future actions, but on the other hand, this is precisely what I feel the government wanted: for people to be temporarily “satisfied” that the test was not happening – yet. In some small way, however, it is empowering to think that our action may have influenced this decision of postponement. Organizers and participants at the action agreed that we won’t stop the pressure until funding is cut and tests are is CANCELLED.
Now on to the events of the weekend.
Friday, May 26 – Arriving
See photos here.
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Monday
Tearing down, saying goodbye, surroundings and anti-nuclear art
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Sunday Action
Direct action at the gate to the Nevada Test Site
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Sunday Morning
Sunrise Ceremony; programs
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Saturday
Setting up the water and meeting tent; scenery; Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader, blesses the evening’s food.
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Friday, May 26
Arriving
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 