Poor People's Campaign

Apache healer Cranston Hoffman offers a closing prayer and song at tonight's prayer rally to #ProtectOakFlat. #PoorPeoplesCampaign Learn more & join the fight: http://apache-stronghold.com pic.twitter.com/R04ixyeMzW

We are fighting the greatest evil in the world. The only way we will do that is if people stand together in a religious way. – Wendsler Nosie Sr., Apache Stronghold #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaign Learn more here: http://apache-stronghold.com/ pic.twitter.com/cqgoDq9Gm1

Wendsler Nosie Sr. of the Apache Stronghold, offers @liztheo a basket, an offering that represents the efforts to #ProtectOakFlat and the #PoorPeoplesCampaign.pic.twitter.com/3PSBQJcNdA

The U.S. government was founded on the dead bodies of my ancestors. I remember that history because it runs through my veins. – Naelyn Pike, Chiricahua Apache #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ProtectOakFlatpic.twitter.com/HJBwmnEwRh

#ProtectOakFlat from copper-coated vampires! –Raymond Nat Turner, cultural worker & poet #PoorPeoplesCampaign @CaliforniaPPCpic.twitter.com/8SzWhmqih4

It's so important to listen to the Apache and to all indigenous people, who know what we're up against. It's a fight for all of us. This system is grinding us all down and destroying us. – @stevepavey, #HopeInFocus #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaignpic.twitter.com/zU60SWCnwT

The audacity of one company to think their profits go before people! We cry out and lift up our prayers in song! We are one prayer, on drum, one circle, and we will keep going. – Rev. Kazimir Brown, @CaliforniaPPC #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaignpic.twitter.com/soUNh7ESBs

The healing rain is falling down, and we are not afraid. We are connected with the web of life, the spirit of life, to all there is. – Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson, @CaliforniaPPC #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ProtectOakFlat Tune in: http://poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream pic.twitter.com/HPWqvYR6aT

We need to dismantle capitalism. It does not work. It is killing this earth. – Corrina Gould, Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaignpic.twitter.com/4H6IT3Z2Du

We have been praying on this journey for over a week. But prayer is not just something that you say and don't live. Prayer means both resistance and resilience. – Rev. Dr. John Mendez #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ProtectOakFlat Tune in here: http://poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream pic.twitter.com/IvZ0ROQFPr

We know that water is sacred. We know that the elements of the earth come from the first people of this nation. We know that before the struggles of African slavery came the struggles of the indigenous people. – Brother Carter, @CaliforniaPPC #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaignpic.twitter.com/3sfj2qNlSl

I am the granddaughter of survivors of the Armenian genocide, I am the daughter of freedom fighters, I am the mother of folks who only have a future because of the fight of the people here. – @liztheo #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaign Tune in: http://poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream pic.twitter.com/MfJ2i8Jmvp

The destruction of a sacred site is a threat to all religions everywhere. Stopping the Resolution Copper Mine is a fight for religious freedom. – Vernelda Grant, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the San Carlos Apache Tribe #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaignpic.twitter.com/Mtastyd26K

This is a struggle for our religion, this a struggle for our holy sites, this is a struggle for those yet to be born. – Vanessa Nosie, Apache Stronghold #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ProtectOakFlat Tune in now: http://poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream pic.twitter.com/kugNurSbD6

In Oak Flat they are taking all the water out so they can start getting the copper from the earth. After the fires came and the rain came there was so much growing there, it was the earth renewing itself. – Dr. BigHorse, Apache Stronghold #ProtectOakFlat #PoorPeoplesCampaignpic.twitter.com/gH6nPtMsl0

Carla Muñoz, Ohlone Rumsen Tribal Councilwoman, offers an opening song to welcome the prayer rally. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ProtectOakFlatpic.twitter.com/auQler4cs2

We pray for mother earth and all the things she gives us. We pray we come together as human beings to stop what is being done to her. – Corrina Gould, Shoshone #PoorPeoplesCampaign #ProtectOakFlat Tune in: http://poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/ pic.twitter.com/6itjPfBR2Z