Direct Action - Pandos

Stand in Solidarity and Protect Gwandaii Goodlit

Dec 10, 2018 | Defend The Sacred, Direct Action, Solidarity

On December 10 & 11 Carl Moore (Chairman) and Dave John (Treasurer) Headed to Washington DC to stand in solidarity with the Gwich’In Nation, Their Ancestral lands, including the coastal plain ( “Iizhik Gwats’ an Gwandaii Goodlit” / “the sacred place where life begins” of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Northeast Alaska. The coastal plain provides a sheltered calving grounds for the Porcupine caribou herd that has sustained the Gwich’In people since time immemorial. The Trump Administration is launching an aggressive oil and gas leasing schedule to attempt to auction off the fragile coastal plain for destructive drilling.

Read the story as The Tour Heads to Utah.

The Gwich’In Nation are among many Indigenous leaders fighting this Administration’s reckless “energy dominance” agenda.
This agenda furthers the destructive legacy of colonization in the United States. When our fights are picked off one at a time, we are discounted. We are stronger together. Tribes and our allies nationwide are standing together to unite against the Trump Administration’s attack on our human rights.

Other Nations and Organizations that stood in solidarity with the Gwich’In Nation that attended.

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Navajo Nation, Lummi Nation, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Muisca Tribe, Pokanoket Tribe, Senrca Nation, Corrizo/ Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, Oglala Lakota, Ponka Nation, Ahtna Dene, Native Nations, FANG, Utah Dine Bikeya, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders, Society of Native Nations, L’eau est la vie camp and of course Pandos.
For more info: www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org

Prayerful Resistance for White Mesa

Jun 8, 2017 | Direct Action, Prayer

Join us for the White Mesa Spiritual Walk, fighting against uranium pollution that is affecting the health and wellbeing of the Ute people in White Mesa.

Attend June 7th from 6-8pm at Kafeneio Coffeehouse to hear from members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe that live in the White Mesa area. They will be discussing the impact of the Uranium Mill on their communities. We will also be making posters to hold during the White Mesa Public Hearing which will take place on June 8th. Please bring potser boards, markers, old signs to be reused if you have any. No paint please. For more info go to HaulNo.org

There will be a public hearing on June 8th to discuss concerns regarding the White Mesa Uranium Mill and how the pollution from it affects the surrounding Native sacred lands, Drinking water, and air purity. Please come out to show your support for the White Mesa community and for the Environment.

The public hearing is scheduled on June 8, 2017 at the
DEQ Computer Training Room, Room 2125
Utah Department of Environmental Quality
195 North 1950 West
Salt Lake City Utah

12:30pm-1pm: Join Pandos outside of the Utah Dept of Environmental Quality to Hold Signs against the White Mesa Uranium Mill and to have Prayerful Resistance
1-5pm: Public Hearing

To submit questions for the public hearing, they must be sent in by May 29th, 2017. Please email the questions to Director Scott Anderson at standerson@utah.gov
go to https://www.haulno.org/ for more information

Protect Sacred Land White Mesa

May 2, 2017 | Defend The Sacred, Direct Action, Sovereignty

If you were moved by the struggle at Standing Rock and now want to help a similar fight for justice right here in our Utah lands, come learn about the White Mesa Mill and Canyon Mine and how it will impact the First Nations communities living around it as well as how it will pollute our sacred sites.

Join PANDOS on Tuesday May 2nd from 6:30-8pm at the Downtown SLC Library in Conference Room #4 on the 4th floor. We are honored to be able to have Yolanda Bad Back joining us from the White Mesa Ute Tribe to inform the SLC community about the risks of uranium pollution to the White Mesa and surrounding areas. Please support Native Sovereignty and Environmental Protection. For more information go to https://www.haulno.org/

March for Climate Justice

Apr 29, 2017 | Direct Action, Solidarity

Saturday, April 29, in Salt Lake City its time to March for climate, justice, and clean energy jobs.
#UTclimatemarch #PeoplesClimate #ClimateMarch
Climate change is being ignored by this administration. Utah People’s Climate March stands with the worldwide march happening April 29, 2017, marking the 100th day of the Trump administration, whose policies have already targeted:

-Shrinking public lands / monuments
-EPA dissolution, Scott Pruitt appointment grant freezes, etc.
-Climate data being pulled from
government websites
-Climate change committee dissolution

We stand with the voices that aren’t often heard when climate change is brought up, specifically indigenous and minority communities and peoples all over the world that more closely depend on the environment for drinking water, agriculture, spiritual practices, and their overall way of life.

Come show your support for real climate reform and demanding change as we march from the Salt Lake City Public Library to the Governor’s Mansion to demand that Governor Herbert take climate change seriously. We will deliver to him the student-written Resolution on Climate Change that was summarily IGNORED by the Utah Legislature this session. We will demand action.

Womxn Warriors

Jan 23, 2017 | Direct Action, Solidarity

PANDOS marched in solidarity with Utah Women Unite and thousands or women on the first day of the Utah legislative session! The foyer, halls on all three levels, and the steps out in front of the capital were packed with supporters of women’s rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the rights of those in marginalized communities. The message the crowd had was loud enough to shut down the senate and lawmakers left early because they couldn’t hear each other. It was an incredible day. PANDOS is grateful to have had the opportunity to be surrounded by so many warriors.

Earth2Trump Roadshow of Resistance

Jan 8, 2017 | Direct Action, Solidarity

PANDOS was thrilled to host the national Earth 2 Trump tour at Ember in Salt Lake City. We had speakers from all over Utah coming together to speak for concerns of the Trump platform and to stand together in solidarity for minority communities around the U.S.