Monday, April 13, 2015

POST 66

Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Fellowship,   April 13, 2015  Brainerd/Pine River MN


Greetings! At our Earth Day service yesterday, Pat Scott shared information from Honor the Earth and their plans for continuing the pipeline protests this summer against Enbridge's development in the MN watershed. One thing people could do is email or write to the Environmental Quality Board to express opinions on the violations of Native Treaty Rights, destruction of wild rice beds, and lack of consultation with the Tribal Governments on their proposals. The email address is: pipeline.EQB@state.mn.usar; the snail mail address is: Environmental Quality Board, 520 Lafayette Road N., St. Paul, 55155. Maybe you could do both!  We will be sharing information as it becomes available, and will be helping Honor the Earth in whatever way seem feasible.


Our new website on Goodbye Columbus Minnesota is coming right along. Text is nearly ready, just some more technical work needs to be completed. As you may be aware, the House still has the current bill in committee, after passage by the Senate, to consider naming the second Monday in October as American Indian and Indigenous Peoples Day. If one looks at the number of bills up for consideration, this is one of many; hopefully we can bring together enough strength to encourage passage this term. If it is not acted on, it will need to be reintroduced at the second session of the biennium, is my understanding, and if not acted on then, would need to be started at the beginning of the legislative process.


Upcoming is planning for a Webinar to discuss the Columbus Day issue, sometime over the summer, and we hope to engage other denominations with similar goals in participation.


Stay tuned!


Respectfully submitted, Mary DeYoung News Director NUUF   218-587-2543


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