[NukeNet] Declaration of the Indigenous World Uranium Summit

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DECLARATION OF THE
  INDIGENOUS WORLD URANIUM SUMMIT
  Window Rock, Navajo Nation, USA
  December 2, 2006
   
  We, the Peoples gathered at the Indigenous World Uranium Summit, at this critical time of intensifying nuclear threats to Mother Earth and all life, demand a worldwide ban on uranium mining, processing, enrichment, fuel use, and weapons testing and deployment, and nuclear waste dumping on Native Lands.
   
  Past, present and future generations of Indigenous Peoples have been disproportionately affected by the international nuclear weapons and power industry. The nuclear fuel chain poisons our people, land, air and waters and threatens our very existence and our future generations. Nuclear power is not a solution to global warming. Uranium mining, nuclear energy development and international agreements (e.g., the recent U.S.-India nuclear cooperation treaty) that foster the nuclear fuel chain violate our basic human rights and fundamental natural laws of Mother Earth, endangering our traditional cultures and spiritual well-being. 
   
  We reaffirm the Declaration of the World Uranium Hearing in Salzburg, Austria, in 1992, that “uranium and other radioactive minerals must remain in their natural location.”  Further, we stand in solidarity with the Navajo Nation for enacting the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005, which bans uranium mining and processing and is based on the Fundamental Laws of the Dine. And we dedicate ourselves to a nuclear-free future.  
   
  Indigenous Peoples are connected spiritually and culturally to our Mother, the Earth. Accordingly, we endorse and encourage development of renewable energy sources that sustain — not destroy — Indigenous lands and the Earth’s ecosystems.
   
  In tribute to our ancestors, we continue centuries of resistance against colonialism.  We recognize the work, courage, dedication and sacrifice of those individuals from Indigenous Nations and from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, the United States, and Vanuatu, who participated in the Summit.  We further recognize the invaluable work of those who were honored at the Nuclear-Free Future Awards ceremony on December 1, 2006.  And we will continue to support activists worldwide in their nonviolent efforts to stop uranium development.  
   
  We are determined to share the knowledge we have gained at this Summit with the world.  In the weeks and months ahead, we will summarize and disseminate the testimonies, traditional Indigenous knowledge, and medical and scientific evidence that justify a worldwide ban on uranium development.  We will enunciate specific plans of action at the tribal, local, national and international levels to support Native resistance to the nuclear fuel chain.  And we will pursue legal and political redress for all past, current and future impacts of the nuclear fuel chain on Indigenous Peoples and their resources.


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Molly Johnson 
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San Miguel, CA  93451
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