Please, share the twitter links below to show support of this morning's this Morning's Border Wall Protest: Akimel O’odham, Hia-Ced O’odham, Tohono O’odham, & Allies Against Stinger, Bridge, & Iron - Fisher Industries.
COOLIDGE, ARIZONA - On August 26, 2020 Akimel O’odham, Hia-Ced O’odham, Tohono O’odham, & Allies will gather at Stinger Bridge and Iron, a bridge manufacturing company that is owned by Fisher Industries, to protest its production of panels for the border wall extension. Fisher Industries prides itself in building “unbuildable’ walls”, using their patented bollard hanging system, allowing them to build one-mile of border wall per day. Located in Akimel O’odham territory in so-called Coolidge, Arizona, Stinger Bridge & Iron loads panels of steel slabs to be transported to Hia-Ced O’odham traditional territory - known to settlers as Organ Pipe National Monument, Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge, and the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range.
Tax fraud, environmental harms, underhanded dealings, and corruption were well documented in the Fisher family business long before Bannon’s ‘We Build the Wall” illicit dealings made headlines. Legal issues with the Fisher family range from tax fraud, to child pornography, to multiple infractions with the Environmental Protection Agency. These types of behaviors are unacceptable on O’odham jeved.
Current harms perpetuated by Fisher Sand and Gravel and its subsidiary companies includes the destruction of sacred sites, burial sites, and environment in unceded O’odham territory. The border wall’s impact is permanent. Depletion of vital water sources for the mixture of concrete and paving of roads has already caused irreversible damage. In the interest of protecting the water, our culture, and the future of our people we must stand together and against this attack on our traditional territory.
We demand that Fisher Industries, the United States Government, and all other occupying entities cease and desist building the wall. We demand that Stinger Bridge and Iron stop assembling panels for transport. We demand that Fisher stop abusing our sacred ecosystem, and stop using groundwater for their destructive projects.
-Dan Millis of the Sierra Club
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