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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/border-wall-cactuses-arizona.htmlLUKEVILLE, Ariz. Cut down a saguaro cactus in Arizona and you can face years in prison. But over the past several weeks, work crews have been destroying dozens of the protected cactuses, which can live for 200 years, to build a new wall on the southwestern border.
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Dynamite blasts are now echoing throughout lands assigned the highest degree of permanent protection by Congress as workers lay the foundation for the wall. To mix concrete, crews are drawing water from a spring near where ancient bone fragments were unearthed last year.
The work is occurring at sites inside the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt established by proclamation in 1937. The area has been designated by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, as an internationally protected biosphere reserve.
To state it clearly, we are enduring crimes against humanity, said Verlon M. José, the governor of the Tohono Oodham in northern Mexico and a former vice chairman of the tribal nation on the American side of the border.
Tell me where your grandparents are buried and let me dynamite their graves, said Mr. José, emphasizing how visceral an issue the blasting has become among Oodham-speaking peoples. This wall is already putting a scar across our heart.
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Dynamite blasts are now echoing throughout lands assigned the highest degree of permanent protection by Congress as workers lay the foundation for the wall. To mix concrete, crews are drawing water from a spring near where ancient bone fragments were unearthed last year.
The work is occurring at sites inside the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt established by proclamation in 1937. The area has been designated by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, as an internationally protected biosphere reserve.
To state it clearly, we are enduring crimes against humanity, said Verlon M. José, the governor of the Tohono Oodham in northern Mexico and a former vice chairman of the tribal nation on the American side of the border.
Tell me where your grandparents are buried and let me dynamite their graves, said Mr. José, emphasizing how visceral an issue the blasting has become among Oodham-speaking peoples. This wall is already putting a scar across our heart.
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This is heartless. To completely destroy the sacred sites of indigenous communities for a pointless border wall is beyond disgraceful. These communities will never be able to recover what was lost in this destruction.
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This is heartless. (Original Post)
CousinIT
Mar 2020
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wishstar
(5,271 posts)1. All done only to help prop up the power of one malignant racist
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)4. +1000000
Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)2. Totally disgusting.
I cant possibly hate Chump and his odious sycophants any more.
klook
(12,165 posts)3. This is so deeply offensive.
I can't even express how heartsick this makes me, for the native peoples of that area and for the ecosystem.
In another 200 years, I hope the wall has turned to dust, the cacti have returned, and the indigenous communities are thriving.
dweller
(23,661 posts)6. i'd like to think in the more immediate future
that fatnixon, and his spawn and numerous other members of his criminal organization are in cages behind insurmountable walls for the rest of their worthless lives ...
hopefully soon,
✌🏼
stillcool
(32,626 posts)5. sick.
Rhiannon12866
(206,009 posts)7. It will take generations to repair all that Trump has destroyed
spanone
(135,873 posts)8. flush the turd november third
we need him gone
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)9. It brings the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyam to mind
dchill
(38,532 posts)10. "Eminent Domain."