Stand in solidarity to support Native People
NOTE: This Rewilding blog is presently transitioning into REWILDING EARTH.
This article is from Terry Tempest Williams who today put this article on Facebook in collaboration with photographer Fazal Sheikh.
Today, the Citizen’s Rally on behalf of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument at the Utah State Capital is happening in Salt Lake City. Thousands of citizens gathering in solidarity to support the Native People of the Four Corners Region whose sacred lands are about to be violated by the Trump Administration.
Twelve oil platforms and nine fracking evaporation ponds in less than .75 square miles beside Fantasy Canyon, Uinta Basin, south of Vernal, Utah, October 2017
© Fazal Sheikh
In times like these, we wonder what we can do. Each of us holds our gifts. We can give them up in the name of community for the common good. The photographer Fazal Sheikh and I made an offering called “EXPOSURE” in the name of solidarity to support the Tribes and conservation community on behalf of these monument under siege..
Here is the link to the PDF of Exposure
/www.fazalsheikh.org/fileadmin/user_upload/projects/Exposure/Exposure.pdf
Please feel free to share with your circle of friends, wide and far. With love, TTW
http://www.fazalsheikh.org/fileadmin/user_upload/projects/Exposure/Exposure.pdf
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