Local Indigenous Environmental and Sacred Sites Issues

PUBLIC FORUM

Saturday, November 17

1-3:30 pm

University of Arizona College of Law

Room 140

The Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras (Indigenous Alliance Without Borders)

invites the UA community and general public to a free public forum on local

indigenous environmental and sacred sites issues to be held at the University

of Arizona College of Law on November 17. Invited speakers include

representatives of the Chiracahua Apache Alliance and Western Mining Action

Network addressing mining issues in the San Carlos Apache community, the Gila

River Alliance for a Clean Environment (GRACE), the Baboquivari Defense

Project, and the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Questions and open discussion will follow presentations by panelists.

Refreshments will be served. Please contact the Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras

(alianza@indigenasinfronteras.org) or Christina Leza (leza@email.arizona.edu)

for additional information.

For more information on participating organizations, please visit

Indigenous Environmental Network at http://www.ienearth.org/

Baboquivari Defense Project at http://www.7genfund.org/aff-bab-def-pro.html

GRACE at http://www.7genfund.org/aff-gil-riv-all.html

Chiracahua Apache Alliance at http://www.chiricahuaapache.org/

Western Mining Action Network at http://www.wman-info.org/

The Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras is an affiliate of the Seventh Generation

Fund for Indian Development (SGF). Based in Tucson, the Alianza is a grassroots

indigenous organization committed to promoting respect and protection of

indigenous rights, including indigenous sovereignty and self-determination,

indigenous workers' rights and environmental protection of Native lands and

sacred sites.