Environmental Campaign:

Arizona Mining Reform Coalition

The Arizona Mining Reform Coalition is a collective of groups and individuals who work to protect Arizona from mining and to insure the responsibilities that mining does not affect the communities health and environment.
One of the on going issues that is occurring in Arizona is the destruction of the Oak Flat Campground.
In the later part of 2014, the Oak Flat sacred land of the San Carlos Apache Tribe was traded to a foreign mining company, disregarding the opposition from the tribe. This beautiful land is currently used to complete various ceremonies like the Sunrise Ceremony by the Apache tribe, and others by different Native American tribes. However, in the time to come the foreign mining company will tear up a scared land disregarding the importance of which it holds.

Issues like these have occurred in the past and are continuing to happen. For example, the Black Hills in South Dakota. In August 2012 and the later part of 2014, different portions of the Black Hills were put up for auction and sold. Thanks to the Save the Black Hills campaign both parts of the Black Hills were able to be bought back just months after the sale. The land belongs to the great Sioux Nations, and to them, this land is their home. 
It is not easy to just pick up and leave a sacred land or a home. We are and all humans and we have a connection between the land and us. The land we live on is used for our ceremonies and mean so much to us. The generations after us will learn to love the land as much as we do, and truly see the importance the land holds to the tribe as a whole. I am afraid that the generations to come will not be able to enjoy sacred lands or live in a world with mother earth if these sales continue to happen. 

The Social Campaign to #SaveOakFlat started at the beginning of the year and now many people have joined into the movement to save Oak Flat.