Prescott: Black Mesa Spring Work Weekend : AZ IMC

Greetings all,

After a cold and wet winter, a lot of land on the reservation is torn up
and needs some help before planting can happen in May. I have been talking
with Tree about planning a work weekend in April to help with these land
tasks, as well as whatever other help and support we can provide to
families and elders. She and Owen know that we have a very short time to
work with because many people are in school, AND they are super amped and
supportive about figuring out how to most effectively plan a weekend. The
weekend that seems to be best for everyone is THURSDAY, APRL 17 - MONDAY,
APRIL 21. This happens to be Earth Day weekend, as well as Passover, the
Jewish holiday celebrating the Exodus and freedom from
captivity...Tremendous earth and liberation energy welling up. We are
looking at sending up two waves of people according to vehicles and
personal schedules.

There is a Black Mesa benefit concert in Flagstaff on
April 19 - Becky White (a Prescott College alum) & The Secret Mission
(CD's available at the Catalyst) that Tree suggested she could meet a
second wave of people at.

SO...what we need is....PEOPLE! TOOLS! SUPPLIES! (fence rolls, barbed
wire, fence posts, shovels, maddox, etc) There are many ways you can
support the weekend - through being there, making and posting a flyer to
advertise, gathering tools (this is a huge one). The Thanksgiving Food Run
was a beautiful, powerful and educational experience for so many people.
Let's continue to strengthen this relationship with elders and sacred
land. Clearly, few others are doing the heart and hard work.

If you do not want to be included in these emails, pipe up so we can take
you off. Otherwise, let's get the conversation and rallying going.

Food Not Bombs on Sunday at 1:00 at the Catalyst to cook, 3:00 in the
Square to dine and converse. Informal Black Mesa Work Weekend meeting at
the Square at 3:15.

Thank you all so much for being awake and offering yourselves to your
community. I hope we can make this Work Weekend a BANG.

A note from the Catalyst. Whoever posted this did not leave the contact info. There is a listserver at lists.riseup.net called bmisprescott. The listserver is not affiliated with Black Mesa Indigenous Support as the name suggests. It's a collection of folks who organize work parties from Prescott and other areas to help at Black Mesa. You can still contact the Catalyst if you can't reach the listserver. We'll have the scoop, though we're not too involved in the project. Thanks.