ALERTS - 2005

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Dec. 19, 2005
Update on Refuge Fight in DC: All hands on deck!

Just in from DC.....

Update on Refuge Fight in DC: All hands on deck!

Hey everyone,

Here is a quick snapshot of where things stand in DC for the future of the Arctic Refuge and what you can do to help.

As many of you know, Sen. Ted Stevens, desperate to get his oily claws on the Arctic Refuge, has convinced GOP leaders to attach Arctic drilling to the Defense Appropriations Bill -- a "must-pass" piece of legislation that will fund US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because it this Defense bill must pass and lawmakers are eager to go home, the bill is a popular vehicle for "Christmas-tree" legislation -- basically packing as many extraneous spending/legislative provisions (arctic refuge, avian flu, hurricane relief) into the bill as possible. In this case, Sen. Stevens has linked Arctic drilling revenues to hurricane relief for the Gulf.

The House passed the conferenced version of the bill early this morning by a vote of 308-106 and the bill will now go to the Senate. We do not know yet when there will be votes in the Senate. Basically, there will be two types of votes: procedural votes (on whether the Arctic provision violates Senate rules -- 51 needed) and a vote on cloture (ending debate -- 60 needed). Both types of votes are extremely important and could happen tomorrow or Wednesday. There won't be any votes today.

What you can do to help:

Organizations: Please send out alerts to all of your members!

In Lower 48 & Hawaii: Call your senators and representative and tell them to express their strongest outrage and opposition to Sen. Stevens trying to hold up such an important bill by attaching highly controversial -- not to mention unrelated -- Arctic drilling.

In Alaska: Call these Senate offices and tell them Alaskans don't support this effort and to filibuster or block any legislation that allows Arctic drilling:

John McCain (R-AZ) (202) 224-2235
John Warner (R-VA) (202) 224-2023
Gordon Smith (R-OR) (202) 224-3753
Norm Coleman (R-MN) (202) 224-5641
George Voinovich (R-OH) (202) 224-3353

To call your senators, click here:
http://capwiz.com/awc/callalert/index.tt?alertid=8319681

To send emails: http://capwiz.com/awc/issues/alert/?alertid=8319586

Urgent! To Senator Hatch: no nuclear dumping on Indian Land!

Dear friends,

Please tell Senator Orrin Hatch that if Utah and Nevada do not hang to gether on Nuclear waste, they will hang seperately!

The following letter gives background and instructions on dealing with an unnecessary conflict between Utah and Nevada over high-level nuclear waste. We feel that this conflict is being egged on by Senator Hatch, and could be resolved if the Senator would join the rest of Utah's leading political leaders and those from the State of Nevada to oppose the faulty and unjust nuclear dump at Yucca Mountain, Nevada- near the center of Western Shoshone territory.

We also feel that this action is critical to stopping the related high-level nuclear waste dump proposed for the land of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians in Utah

This is an urgent action. It would also be appreciated, when you contact the Senator's office, if you drop us a line by replying to this alert.

Thank you for your dedication to environmental justice on Native lands!

Sincerely,
Shundahai Network

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Urge U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch to protect Utah by protecting Nevada

Only by working together can Nevada and Utah stop both the Yucca and PFS dumps that threaten both states

To contact Sen. Hatch's Washington DC office, call 202.224.5251, fax a short letter to 202.224.6331, or fill out Sen. Hatch's internet web form at http://hatch.senate.gov/email_form.htm. Urge Sen. Hatch to oppose the Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at Nevada, so that Nevada's U.S. Senators will help block the Private Fuel Storage high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at Utah.

Dear Friends and Colleagues in Utah,

The proposed Yucca Mountain, NV and Private Fuel Storage (PFS), UT radioactive waste dumps are joined at the hip. They are a package deal. Even if just Yucca opens but PFS doesn't, Utah would still get hurt by Yucca-bound "Mobile Chernobyl" waste shipments. As the old saying goes, Utah and Nevada can either hang together, or hang separately. The time has come to hang together.

Utah's U.S. Representative Rob Bishop has come very close to delivering a bad blow to the PFS dump. With the support of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Rep. Bishop has proposed legislation that would create a Cedar Mountains Wilderness Area near Skull Valley, Utah and block the railway needed by PFS to deliver high-level radioactive waste to its proposed parking lot on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation. The proposed wilderness bill is attached to the Fiscal Year 2006 Defense Authorization Bill, which is currently in the final stages of conference committee negotiation.

Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, however, is opposing Rep. Bishop's wilderness bill. Sen. Ensign hopes to pressure Sen. Hatch to abandon his long-time support of the Yucca dump targeted at Nevada. Both Sen. Ensign and Sen. Hatch should look to the healing actions of Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada and Sen. Robert Bennett of Utah. Just last week, Sen. Reid sent letters to key decision makers urging support for Rep. Bishop's wilderness proposal to block the PFS railway. And just three months ago, Sen. Bennett abandoned his long-time support for the Yucca Mountain dump, publicly admitting the dangerous mistake it represents. The governors of Nevada and Utah have long worked together to oppose both dumps simultaneously, a healthy, smart, and effective path that Sen. Hatch should follow. The nuclear industry has long tried to divide and conquer Utah and Nevada, pitting the two states against each other, in hopes of opening both Yucca and PFS. Utah and Nevada could most effectively stop both dumps by standing together.

Very significantly, Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, the strongest supporter of the Yucca dump in the U.S. Senate, recently said that the Yucca dump's science and economics are flawed. The U.S. Department of Energy has admitted it is performing a major overhaul of its Yucca plan, a change guaranteed to cause very significant delays and cost increases. Sen. Hatch should review his position on Yucca based upon these recent developments. Sen. Hatch's opposition to Yucca would very likely end Sen. Ensign's opposition to the creation of the Cedar Mountains wilderness.

Sen. Hatch has other good reasons to oppose Yucca. If Yucca opens, 90% of the waste shipments bound for Nevada would pass through Utah. Thus, even if PFS never opens, Utah could still face the dangers of many thousands of "Mobile Chernobyl" truck and train shipments, vulnerable to severe accidents or terrorist attacks releasing catastrophic amounts of radioactivity. Also, even if Yucca opens, its capability to accept commercial irradiated nuclear fuel is limited by law to 63,000 metric tons. By 2010, that much will already exist in the U.S. PFS, which received its construction and operating license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission last September, could very well still serve as the overflow storage for Yucca Mountain. In fact, the nuclear power establishment plans on generating enough irradiated fuel to fill both
Yucca and PFS, and still have more stuck back at reactor sites. Thus, Yucca must be stopped, or else PFS is all the more likely to happen.

Phone calls into Sen. Hatch's office are crucial right now, as key decisions could be made at any time. Urge Sen. Hatch to join with Utah Governor Huntsman and Utah's junior U.S. Sen. Bennett in opposition to the Yucca dump. This olive branch extended to Nevada's Sen. Ensign could help secure the creation of the Cedar Mountains wilderness to block PFS's radioactive railway.

To contact Sen. Hatch's Washington DC office, call 202.224.5251, fax a short letter to 202.224.2849, or fill out Sen. Hatch's internet web form at http://hatch.senate.gov/email_form.htm. Urge Sen. Hatch to oppose the Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at Nevada, so that Nevada's U.S. Senators will help block the Private Fuel Storage high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at Utah.

If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 202.328.0002 ext. 14.
Thanks!

---Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Washington, D.C., 202.328.0002 ext. 14, kevin@nirs.org, www.nirs.org

Please read the following alert that was sent to us by some folks who desperately need our help -

NOTE: many of the immigrants and asylum seekers that would be affected by Congress' action are indigenous peoples who need our support, not government detention cells.

Here's some info on HR 4437. It is HORRIBLE and threatens asylum seekers' ability to even access the asylum process, let alone numerous other provisions attacking immigrants. Please call your member of Congress now to urge them to vote against this bill and seek comprehensive immigration reform. There are talking points below. This cannot pass!

Dear DWN members,

The latest news is that the Republicans are fighting amongst themselves about potential amendments to The "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 H.R. 4437. With dissension among their ranks it may be possible to stop the bill!

Please help put the brakes on this bill by:

** 1. Circulate this action alert to your supporters, community members and allies. **

** 2. Take five minutes to call your representative AGAIN (especially Republicans; call-in information below) and tell them:**

* I urge you to oppose H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005.

* H.R. 4437's approach to immigration is misguided and goes against fundamental American principles, such as the right to a day in court, checks and balances, and freedom from unjust and arbitrary detention.

* America has tried an enforcement-only approach for decades and the facts show that it doesn't work. Yet this bill proposes more of the same misguided approach.

* I urge the U.S. House of Representatives to oppose H.R. 4437.

You can find the contact information for your representatives by typing in your zip code on this page:
http://capwiz.com/aila2/dbq/officials/ or http://www.house.gov

** Congressional staffers tell us that they hear from anti-immigration advocates ten times more than they hear from immigrant rights advocates. Please, make sure your voice is heard!**

** 3. Contact your local paper to pitch a story or editorial on how this bill would impact your community/clients.**

Thanks for your attention and action on this urgent issue.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Andrea Black at the Detention Watch Network, at 202-339-9354 or ablack@detentionwatchnetwork.org.

***** More info from the US Catholic Conference of Bishops:

H.R. 4437 would deny basic due process protections to legal immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. Several provisions in H.R. 4437 would deny basic due process protections to legal immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. The expansion of expedited removal to within 100 miles of U.S. land borders could result in the return of bona fide asylum-seekers to their persecutors without providing them access to a qualified adjudicator. Imposing expedited removal on all persons apprehended at or between all land borders will eviscerate due process protections for thousands of people each year. No longer will asylum-seekers, victims of trafficking, battered women and children, or other vulnerable groups have access to judicial review or regular immigration proceedings. Rather, their fate will be determined by an immediate decision by an immigration enforcement officer with little experience or training in immigration law. We find this policy unjust and contrary to American values of due process and fairness.

Other provisions unfairly impact asylum seekers. Section 804 would require persons who are eligible for withholding of removal to prove that a "central reason" for their fear of persecution is one of the five statutory grounds enumerated in U.S. law, as opposed to current law, where they need only to demonstrate that it is more likely than not they will be persecuted upon their return. Section 605 would bar refugees and asylum seekers from legal permanent residence and citizenship if they commit a minor offense, such as petty larceny.

H.R. 4437 adversely impacts other legal immigrants, as well. For example, Sections 609 and 612 of the measure would make it more difficult for long term residents to obtain citizenship and even restrict their ability to seek review of DHS actions in District Court relative to their application for citizenship. These provisions, like many in H.R. 4437, have nothing to do with illegal immigration. They could lead to wrongful denial of citizenship to long term residents without any recourse for the resident. In addition, the legislation requires non-immigrants, such as students, professional workers, or religious workers, to waive any right to judicial review in removal proceedings as a condition of receiving their visa.

Section 602 of H.R. 4437 would permit DHS to circumvent the finding of the Supreme Court in Zadvydas v. Davis, which requires the release of indefinite detainees who have served their sentences and cannot be returned to their home countries. The exclusion of "inadmissible" aliens from any review for release under the section contradicts the Court's finding in Clark v. Martinez, which extended the protections outlined in Zadvydas to Cubans. It is inhumane to indefinitely incarcerate persons who have served their sentences.

H.R. 4437 separates families. Several troubling provisions in H.R. 4437 would separate migrant families for indefinite periods. This could have a severe impact on children. The requirement under Section 401 that all immigrants who are apprehended at a U.S. port of entry or along an international or maritime border of the United States while attempting to enter the United States illegally be mandatorily detained would lead to the separation of U.S.-citizen children from their parents. Even for families are detained, our service programs have noted that DHS often separates children from their parents. Moreover, because of the lack of appropriate detention facilities, this provision would pose a grave risk that immigrants, particularly vulnerable children and women, will be housed in prisons or prison-like facilities and commingled with violent offenders. In addition, we are fearful that DHS would interpret Section 401 to mean that asylum-seekers, as well, who are fleeing persecution and have committed no crime, must be detained under this provision, even if they have met a credible fear finding.

In addition, Sections 201 and 203, taken together, would make "unlawful presence" a crime, rather than a civil violation, as it is under current law. This could have far-reaching practical and moral consequences, since it would bar persons from immigration relief and future legal entry or legal status. It is our strongly-held view that the overwhelming majority of migrants who are in the United States without legal status are not criminals but are trying to contribute to our country through their hard work. This provision would needlessly clog our courts and other law enforcement systems with needless litigation and adjudication; foreclose the option that many might have to legalize their status; and cause great harm to migrants who did not come to the United States illegally by their own choice, such as children who were brought here by adults, women who are trafficking victims, or other aliens who are subjected to exploitation.

H.R. 4437 would jeopardize humanitarian organizations, including church programs, and U.S. citizens. Section 202 would expand the reach of offenses relating to assisting persons who are unlawfully present in the United States and subject persons and entities to severe criminal and civil penalties. Under current law, humanitarian groups, including faith-based organizations, are not required to ascertain the legal status of an individual in order to offer basic needs assistance. Section 202 could lead to the imprisonment of members of humanitarian groups, including church personnel, for providing such basic needs assistance, including life-sustaining assistance. This provision could also apply to other professionals, such as health-care workers, lawyers, physicians, or nurses.

H.R. 4437 would disrupt immigrant and local communities by giving local law enforcement the authority to arrest undocumented immigrants. By criminalizing "unlawful presence," the legislation would give local law enforcement personnel, who are charged to help enforce federal criminal law, the authority to arrest migrants without legal status, striking fear in immigrant communities and undermining the relationship between those communities and law enforcement. This could foster distrust in these communities and could make immigrants more reluctant to report dangerous circumstances and criminal behavior they observe in their communities.

H.R. 4437 would impose penalties on immigrants who have not committed an offense. Section 608 of the legislation would make deportable and inadmissible an immigrant who is a member of a criminal street gang, as designated by the Attorney General. It would deny such benefits as temporary protected status and asylum relief based on an administrative determination that a person participated in a designated gang. This provision would harm minors and others who are coerced into such gangs but have not engaged in any criminal activity.

These are only a few of the many provisions included in H.R. 4437 that we believe would cause undue harm and would not necessarily make our nation safer.

Finally, H.R. 4437 does not contain provisions necessary to solve our immigration crisis, including an earned legalization program, a temporary worker program, or family-based immigration reform. It also does not address some of the root causes of migration, including economic inequities in sending nations. In short, the enforcement-only focus of this legislation will only drive migrants and their families further underground, into the shadows, and will not prevent migrants from attempting to enter the United States to find employment.

In summary, H.R. 4437 undermines our country's heritage as a nation of immigrants. I ask that you oppose this measure when it comes before the U.S. House of Representatives.

Anchorage Daily News
House Budget Package -- read on for reference to " Great Mining Land Claim Giveaway of 2005" -
December 01, 2005 12:57 PM

For those of you who haven't seen this Pombo-related editorial from the Anchorage Daily News

"... This blatant giveaway would open up a land rush in scenic spots on national forests and other federal lands..."

No ANWR, no go
Anchorage Daily News
Published: November 16, 2005
www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/7210460p-7123012c.html

Now that the U.S. House has dropped ANWR drilling from the omnibus budget bill, Alaskans have no reason to root for its passage. The House budget bill is irresponsible with the nation's finances. It is grossly unfair to the nation's less fortunate. And it is overloaded with controversial new laws that should be considered and decided with separate up-or-down votes.

The budget bill does nothing to close the multihundredbillion-dollar deficits that are beginning to sap the nation's economic strength. Its $50 billion or so in spending cutbacks would be given right back to wealthy Americans, as President Bush and Republican congressional leaders are seeking $70 billion worth of tax cuts in separate legislation.

Instead of asking Americans to pay today for the Iraq war and hurricane relief and reconstruction, the budget bill puts those worthy expenses on the national credit card. Passing the measure will shove the nation's children and grandchildren further into hock to Chinese and Japanese financiers. And while plunging the nation deeper into debt, the bill would push the nation's less fortunate deeper into poverty.

Some 300,000 people will have to go without food stamps. The House bill authorizes new fees on low-income children when they get sick and seek medical care or buy prescription drugs. It also slashes federal funding for child support enforcement -- making it more likely that more families will fall into poverty. It ratchets up welfare-to-work requirements while shrinking funds for the child care that clients need to get off and stay off public assistance.

All those cuts don't add up to the $21 billion of tax breaks now in the works for those collecting dividends and capital gains. More than half of those tax breaks will go to households making more than $1 million a year, according to the Tax Policy Center. Ninety percent of the benefits from the capital gains and dividends tax cut will go to those making at least $100,000 a year.

The final strike against the bill is all the nonfinancial legislative mischief buried within it. Drilling in Alaska's Arctic refuge wasn't the only case where a financial rationale was used to put controversial legislation into the budget bill.

It creates a new federal appeals court for the western states. That's clearly a judicial matter, not a budgetary question.

The most notorious new law buried in the bill is what might be called the Great Mining Land Claim Giveaway of 2005. Today, when mining companies find valuable minerals on federal land, they are only allowed to lease the property. The House bill allows companies to buy the public's land outright, at nominal prices that take no account of the mineral values. New claims could be staked and the full title purchased even if there aren't any mineral deposits. This blatant giveaway would open up a land rush in scenic spots on national forests and other federal lands.

Republican House leaders had to delay action on the budget bill because too many in their own ranks rebelled against the many excesses within it. Meanwhile, other Republicans have threatened to withhold their votes now that the ANWR drilling provision has been dropped.

With the ANWR provision included, the bill would have been a bitter pill for Alaskans. Without it, Alaskans can join responsible voices in the rest of the country and hope that the bill collapses under its own controversial weight.

BOTTOM LINE: There's a good reason U.S. House leaders don't have the votes to pass the budget bill: It's a turkey.

Scott Brennan, Campaign Director
Alaskans for Responsible Mining
P.O. Box 100286
Anchorage, AK 99510
(P) 907-277-0005
(F) 907-929-1562
scott@reformakmines.org
www.reformakmines.org

Alaskans for Responsible Mining (ARM) is a voluntary association of non-governmental organizations working together to raise public awareness of the impacts of the mining industry to Alaska's watersheds, wildlife, fisheries, communities and public health and to reform Alaska's inadequate mining laws.

ALERT -- Sent by Indigenous Environmental Network.
Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
(775) 468-0230 Fax: (775) 468-0237

From: Robert Shimek rshimek@ienearth.org
Dec. 07, 2005

Sign on letter opposing sale of Indigenous/Tribal Lands and Rights All

Below and attached is the final version of the sign on letter to the US Senate to stop the sale of federal lands. The deadline for signing on for the first letter drop is Dec. 8th. The deadline for signing on for the second letter drop is Dec. 12th. The Senate will return that day and may vote as soon as Dec. 14th. Many of you signed onto a similar letter to the house of Representatives last month. I am requesting your support once again to stop the sale of public lands that will encumber numerous aspects of Tribal land rights and cultural practices. When you respond, do let me know your proper name and/or Tribe/organization and home town and which of the three categories you wish to be listed under. Also, feel free to use the letter as a template to send your Senators. It can be edited to fit your needs and concerns. If you are comfortable with the language and wish to be signators, either e-mail me at ienmining@igc.org or call 1-877-436-2121 and leave me a message. If I am out, I can be reached on cell at 218-760-0284 to answer questions about the letter. Thanks so much for your past support and I look forward to hearing from you again. Peace With Earth.

Bob Shimek
Indigenous Environmental Network
Mining Projects Coordinator

PRINTABLE VERSION OF THE LETTER

Could come up for vote by Senate/House Conference Committee as early as week of Dec. 12 - we'll keep you posted.

"Nothing Positive in Mining Bill"

Editorial by Bob Abbey,
Former US Bureau of Land Management Nevada State Director

RGJ.com: Nothing positive in mining land bill
Posted: 12/1/2005

John Marvel is a fine man, but he is wrong in his assessment of the Pombo/Gibbons' legislation, which will allow the privatization of mining lands [Your Turn, Nov. 22]. There is nothing positive about this bill unless you happen to have ownership in a mining company.

Having spent half my life managing the public's land and being a proponent of responsible mining, I assure you this legislation is bad for American taxpayers. I support amending the antiquated 1872 Mining Law, but the Pombo/Gibbons proposal is a step backward. Rather than addressing real issues related to mineral development on our nation's public land, their legislation would lead to greater environmental impacts and fraudulent claims.

Mr. Marvel stated the Pombo bill "offers rural communities the hope that we will be able to attract new businesses by allowing mining companies to privatize their mining claims and keep the valuable infrastructure on the land so these facilities can be re-used for something else." He wrote that opponents of this bill "apparently do not understand the plight of rural Western communities surrounded by miles and miles of public land. We can't use this land for anything. We can't build schools, hospitals, houses, or even campgrounds on this land."

This is just not true as most of the public land Mr. Marvel refers to could be used for public purposes if there were legitimate demand and financing for new facilities. The infrastructure at mine sites could remain if communities or businesses identified a legitimate need for leaving them in place and then worked with the mining industry and the BLM to reclaim these sites accordingly.

The Pombo/Gibbons legislation will allow mining companies and other creative entrepreneurs to acquire public lands for less than market value wherever these interests have claims and can defend a mineral discovery. Many selected parcels would be adjacent to fast-growing communities or contiguous to national parks, forests and pristine wilderness where lands would have the greatest resale value. Such entrepreneurs could acquire public land for around $1,000 per acre, block public access and then sell these lands to the highest bidder. In some cases, it would be the taxpayers buying back these very same lands to prevent actions deemed incompatible with the public good.

All public lands should be managed in a manner as to maintain or improve upon the quality of life that most of us in the West now enjoy. One could start by lobbying for a true reform of the 1872 Mining Law and require mining companies to pay royalties on revenues generated from the public's land. These royalties could be shared with state and local governments to augment their tax base. While I believe that most of the 48 million acres managed by the BLM in Nevada should remain in public ownership, I also believe that some public lands could be sold to the private sector or transferred to local governmental entities where justified. Nearly one million acres in Nevada have been identified as available for disposal in existing federal plans or through recently enacted legislation. Many of these parcels are located near communities and in areas where disposal might help diversify local economies.

The legacy of the proposed Pombo/Gibbons legislation would be catastrophic, both environmentally and economically. Mandating the wholesale transfer of public lands might play well with some constituencies but it is poor public policy.

Bob Abbey is Nevada state director of the Bureau of Land Management.

FORWARD FROM Indigenous Environmental Network for Congressional Sign on Letter (We have also attached original Western Shoshone National Council Statement):

ALERT! Please sign onto the attached letter in opposition to the Public Land Sale to Mining Companies' language in the House Budget Package - this letter will be delivered to the Senate - different from the letter that was delivered to the House last month. The deadline for signing on for the first letter drop is Dec. 8th. The deadline for signing on for the second letter drop is Dec. 12th. The Senate will return that day and may vote on Dec. 14th.

Also, people should feel free to use the letter as a template to send to their Senators. (see below for contact info) They should edit it to fit their needs and concerns. Those that are comfortable with the language and wish to be signators should either e-mail Bob at ienmining@igc.orgor call him at 1-877-436-2121 to let him know. He's available to answer any questions about the letter as well.

Also - Forwarded Alert from Western Lands Project:

Please go to this link http://westernlands.org/html/alert.html for an informative alert on stopping the Pombo mining land grab as it proceeds toward the Senate. We include a summary of the bill, plus contact info for three key senators who could keep the public land sell-off out of the budget. PLEASE make these contacts and circulate the link freely.

Dec. 1, 2005

Call or email both your senators. For contact info, go to www.senate.gov.

Call these critical Republican members of the Senate who have the power to yank this provision. Tell them that the mining company/public lands giveaway must be kept out of the final budget.

(You must call-most accept emails only from constituents).

Judd Gregg (R- NH), Budget Chair, 202-224-3324

Pete Domenici (R-NM) Energy & Nat. Resources Chair, 202-224-6621

Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Finance Chair, 202-224-3744

* Thank Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) for his strong opposition to the sell-off: 202-224- 5521.

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Western Lands Project
P.O. Box 95545 Seattle, WA 98145-2545
Phone 206.325-3503 / Fax 206.325-3515

Janine Blaeloch

Please go to this link URGENT ALERT! STOP THE PUBLIC LAND CLEARANCE SALE!! for an informative alert on stopping the Pombo mining land grab as it proceeds toward the Senate.

We include a summary of the bill, plus contact info for three key senators who could keep the public land sell-off out of the budget.

PLEASE make these contacts and circulate the link freely.

Janine Blaeloch, Director Western Lands Project PO Box 95545 Seattle, WA 98145 ph 206.325.3503 fx 206.325.3515 www.westernlands.org Western Land Exchange Project is now Western Lands Project research, outreach, advocacy Please go to this link http://westernlands.org/html/alert.html for an informative alert on stopping the Pombo mining land grab as it proceeds toward the Senate. We include a summary of the bill, plus contact info for three key senators who could keep the public land sell-off out of the budget. PLEASE make these contacts and circulate the link freely.

Janine Blaeloch, Director
Western Lands Project
PO Box 95545
Seattle, WA 98145
ph 206.325.3503
fx 206.325.3515
www.westernlands.org
Western Land Exchange Project is now Western Lands Project

Congressional Sign on Letter       Western Shoshone National Council Statement