{"id":1948,"date":"2012-06-03T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T11:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2012-06-03T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T12:00:32","slug":"the-navajo-nation-and-the-uranium-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-navajo-nation-and-the-uranium-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navajo Nation and the Uranium Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There appears no salvation<br \/>\nFor the Navajo Nation<br \/>\nWhy must they wrestle<br \/>\nwith fear all their days<br \/>\nIts American brothers<br \/>\nand probably others<br \/>\ndeny to them all of the ways<br \/>\nThey came with their corporate dogma<br \/>\nUranium then was their prize<br \/>\nUsing the Navajo people<br \/>\nto gather, but telling them lies<br \/>\nUnthinkingly it has polluted<br \/>\nThe Navajo lands and of course<br \/>\nThe corporates crept<br \/>\nthey are very adept<br \/>\naway in the darkness<br \/>\na source<br \/>\nof conjecture<br \/>\nnow threatens the water<br \/>\nall of it was there&#8217;s by right<br \/>\nand what can be done<br \/>\nhow the corporates run<br \/>\nfor the Navajo its far from bright<\/p>\n<p>It was clear from the onset that<br \/>\npeople would suffer<br \/>\nthis was as clear as the sky<br \/>\nIt was money and profit<br \/>\nand corporate wealth<br \/>\nthat drove them to mine here<br \/>\nthats why<br \/>\nthey cleaned up a bit<br \/>\nbut they knew it would surface<br \/>\nanxiety came to the fore<br \/>\nThe Church Rock Disaster<br \/>\nmoved things on, much faster<br \/>\na tailing dam burst<br \/>\nand what&#8217;s more<br \/>\nThe half life for this sickly science<br \/>\nis measured in millions of years<br \/>\nThe Navajo Nation will see no<br \/>\nSalvation<br \/>\nexcept in the worst of their fears<br \/>\nThe US must now help them quickly<br \/>\nfor otherwise it will be seen<br \/>\nas a nation that knowingly harms<br \/>\nits own people<br \/>\nLike The Navajo clearly have been<br \/>\nExploited and put down<br \/>\nand ravaged<br \/>\nTheir land and their water supply<br \/>\nUranium Mining and Corporate profit<br \/>\nhas been terrifically high<br \/>\nFor the Navajo nation<br \/>\nwere guardians who<br \/>\nhave all of the right on their side<br \/>\nWhilst Corporate America<br \/>\nbulldozes its way<br \/>\nand the Navajo have been denied<\/p>\n<p>I have to tell them<br \/>\nthat time&#8217;s running out<br \/>\nThe Navajo don&#8217;t have a choice<br \/>\nThey can&#8217;t stay around drinking<br \/>\npolluted water<br \/>\nSomeone must now use their voice<br \/>\nTo cry out aloud to the world<br \/>\nout there who<br \/>\nmust listen to what is pure sin<br \/>\nCorporate profit has really messed up<br \/>\nthis is fact, this is now, its not spin<br \/>\nWe have to come up with a solution here<br \/>\nThe Navajo must now be heard<br \/>\nOr America&#8217;s influence  out in the world<br \/>\nwill just be, another swearword. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise the Navajo Nation for its patience for its sensitivity and for its love and lets help them together get justice for the corporate pollution of their sacred land <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-navajo-nation-and-the-uranium-mining\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}