Megaload shipper Omega Morgan is defying regulators to ship massive tar sands equipment through national forests and the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho. The Nez Perce Tribe executive committee passed an emergency resolution on Sunday, August 4, formally disputing these shipments through its reservation and homeland, as it challenged the Forest Service to use all legal avenues, including the courts, to stop them. Our friends with Wild Idaho Rising Tide will be joining the Nez Perce tonight to stand with tribal allies in earnest solidarity against the genocide and ecocide wrought by this megaload’s impending tar sands extraction in Canada. The tribal executive chairman asserted that the “tribe will not interfere with its members’ constitutional rights to lawfully assemble in opposition to the immediate threat of the transport of these two megaloads” and that it “would not prevent its own members from blocking the load,…[when] actions beyond mere words may be necessary, in order to have the Nez Perce Tribe’s voice heard.” Read more at: wildidahorisingtide.org/2013/08/05/no-tar-sands-omega-loads-shall-pass/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 03:27:33 +0000
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