Update on Oak Flat, Arizona

Mary Goering, RPC member, has been updating our church of Apache Stronghold in Arizona and their journey to protect sacred land from a mining operation. After the difficult news that a judge did NOT grant an injunction last Friday, the group is relieved to share that a 60-day emergency injunction WAS granted on Monday in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. You can read more at the following links:

• Press Release from Center for Biological Diversity

• News coverage

• Apache Stronghold Facebook post
  

"On Monday morning, folks gathered together online to pray for a miracle, to hold hope -- in spite of all odds -- that God might open a way. You are invited to pray in gratitude to the Creator and the Spirit of Life for this miracle, to express our hope and lament, to take a deeper breath, to center in our love of Mother Earth, and to pray for the continued protection of Oak Flat." ~Doe Hoyer, Repair Network Organizer with the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery 

Photo by Steve Pavey