[News] Ohlone Sacred Site in Immediate Danger

[Anti-Imperialist News]

FREE LAND PROJECT
luckeylyric productions
April 2011

Family and Friends,

Today as I stood in a light drizzle of rain 
overlooking the Bay from a cliff at Glen Cove, 
one of the most beautiful and contested Ohlone 
sacred burial sites, I tried to imagine a city 
government proposing to develop the land in a 
cemetery where white people are buried. Can you imagine the response?

And yet this is exactly what is happening to the 
Ohlone community. The city of Vallejo and the 
Greater Vallejo Recreation District are poised to 
bulldoze significant parts of Glen Cove. But the 
Ohlone community and its allies are taking a stand!

Since last Thursday hundreds of people have 
protested at Glen Cove and dozens are camped out 
in an ongoing prayer camp to protect the sacred site!

I urge everyone to learn about what's going on 
and how you can support, including going to Glen 
Cove and participating in the action.

Here is an overview:


Native Americans Occupy Glen Cove Sacred Site

http://thevoiceoftheindigenous.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/native-americans-occupy-glen-cove-sacred-site/

In 
<http://en.wordpress.com/tag/native-rights-and-issues/>Native 
Rights and Issues on April 15, 2011 at 2:20 am
Subject: Native Americans Occupy Glen Cove Sacred 
Site (Pass the Word & Show Support)
Sacred Site Protection & Rights of Indigenous 
Tribes (SSP&RIT)For Immediate Release:

As Bulldozers May Arrive Any Day at Ancient Burial Site,
Native Americans To Occupy Sacred Land at Glen Cove in Vallejo
Spiritual Ceremony and Occupation Beginning Friday, April 15, 2011 at 8 am

Vallejo, California (April 14, 2011) – Faced with 
the imminent arrival of bulldozers at the Native 
American sacred burial site at Glen Cove, 
Vallejo, members of the local Native American 
community will hold a religious ceremony to 
commence an occupation of Sogorea Te, otherwise 
known as Glen Cove, in the City of Vallejo 
beginning at 8 am on Friday, April 15, 2011. 
Native Americans and their supporters have vowed 
to physically block bulldozers or any other work 
that would desecrate the burial site.

Native American activists consider this to be the 
last stand in a struggle that has been going on 
for over a decade, since the Greater Vallejo 
Recreation District (GVRD) first proposed plans 
for a “fully featured public park” including 
construction of a paved parking lot, paved hiking 
trails, 1000 pound picnic tables and a public 
restroom on top of the 3500 year old burial site.

On Wednesday, April 13th, Sacred Site Protection 
and Rights of Indigenous Tribes (SSP&RIT), a 
Vallejo-based community organization, filed an 
administrative civil rights complaint to the 
State of California alleging that the City and 
GVRD are discriminating on the basis of race in 
threatening to destroy and desecrate significant 
parts of the Glen Cove Shellmound and burial 
site, for harming Native Americans’ religious and 
spiritual well-being, and effectively excluding 
Native Americans from their right to full 
participation in decision-making regarding the site.

The history and cultural value of the site has 
never been disputed. Human remains have been 
consistently unearthed as the area around the 
site has been developed. Native Americans 
continue to hold ceremonies at Sogorea Te just as 
they have for thousands of years. The Glen Cove 
Shell Mound spans fifteen acres along the 
Carquinez Strait. It is the final resting place 
of many Indigenous People dating back more than 
3,500 years, and has served as a traditional 
meeting place for dozens of California Indian tribes.

The site continues to be spiritually important to 
California tribes. The Glen Cove site is 
acknowledged by GVRD and the City to have many 
burials and to be an important cultural site, yet 
they are moving forward as early as Friday with 
plans to build a toilet and parking lot on this 
sacred site and to grade a hill that likely 
contains human remains and important cultural artifacts.

SSP&RIT have asked GVRD to reconsider their plans 
to grade the hill and build toilets and a parking lot at the site.

Glen Cove is located near the intersection of 
South Regatta and Whitesides Drive in Vallejo.

For more information and directions: 
<http://www.facebook.com/l/cbae1e0GjgBwtqbO_K4YmU8_mCA/www.protectglencove.org>http://www.facebook.com/l/cbae1e0GjgBwtqbO_K4YmU8_mCA/www.protectglencove.org

Contact:
Norman “Wounded Knee” Deocampo 707-373-7195
Corrina Gould (510) 575-8408
Mark Anquoe (415) 680 0110
Morning Star Gali (510) 827 6719

And here is the latest update: 
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=wqwj7dcab&et=1105209963202&s=1245&e=001yc-mWRSCdoDioGmW-93wYBMh5KZZW8cFpY7zSwhfAgoFCx_4qepOgzVD1zz-F3u_XGeOVHCN2IA5WtcDXNhupPr_Jqdlr_gWKSFkae57BrblApkXNCPI1yytGWQaMELn4_Jm8yiJlUYZ9DxrbR1POw==>KTVU 
Story

Take Action: Call Osby Davis, Mayor of the City 
of Vallejo, at 707-648-4377 and Shane McAffee, 
General Manager of the Greater Vallejo Recreation 
District at 707-648-4600 and voice your support to Protect Glen Cove!

Ariel Luckey



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