We know we are a people (a “vibration”) who had come from the Infinite Void, from zero, from one’s sense that we did not exist. We were made of appearing and disappearing light that came from the inhalation and exhalation of Creation’s breath. We were from the very Heart of the center of non-existence of infinity.” Joseph Rael - Picuris Pueblo
To Promote Healthy Indigenous Communities
Oil Refineries and Hazardous Waste Earth Justice takes its case against EPA to court In Brief: As a favor to U.S. oil refineries, the EPA has exempted hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous wastes produced at refineries (over 300,000 tons annually) from stringent federal regulation. With a sweep of the pen, these wastes are no longer considered "hazardous" if converted into gas and burned at the refineries. The waste, however, is known to be toxic, carcinogenic and prone to combust spontaneously and thus poses grave hazards to our air, water, and the communities in which it is stored, transported and burned.
The Elders say everything has a purpose and everything has a will. We should never interfere with purpose or the will of everything. Every plant, creature, animal, insect, human being has a purpose to be here on the Earth. Each has a special medicine to contribute for the good of all things. Each person also has good medicine, a special talent, a special gift. These medicines are to help others or to help make us healthy. What is your special medicine?
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