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UPDATE & OVERVIEW of Prayer March/Run – Actions for Oak Flat

Name: UPDATE & OVERVIEW of Prayer March/Run – Actions for Oak Flat
Start: 2025-05-01T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-07T23:59:59-07:00
Location: Join in Prayer & Advocacy

May 1 - May 7

Action for Oak Flat – Poster HERE

The federal government on Thursday, April 17, 2025, announced that it plans as early as June 16, 2025 to publish a final environmental impact statement (EIS) and begin moving forward with the transfer and destruction of Oak Flat.

On Friday, April 18, Becket Law filed a letter with the Supreme Court explaining that this makes it even more urgent for the Court to hear our case. The Court has not yet decided whether to hear the case.

On April 24, 2025, Apache Stronghold requested that the district court in AZ grant “a narrow, temporary injunction prohibiting Federal Defendants from transferring Oak Flat… during the pendency of Apache Stronghold’s Supreme Court appeal.” A hearing date for this request is set for May 7, 2025 in Phoenix at 9:30AM.

Leading up to the hearing, Apache Stronghold is holding a Prayer Run & March from Sunday May 4 – Wed. May 7th. The group will journey from Oak Flat to the District Court in Phoenix.

If you can be there in person, please join in one of these ways:

Join the entire Prayer March/Run from Sunday May 4 – Wed May 7th (details below)
- Join as a runner or join to march and pray
- Let us know you are coming by emailing cofa@dismantlediscovery.org
Join Pray for our Mother event on Sunday, May 4th (Flyer HERE)
Join the March and Prayer vigil in Phoenix on May 6th (Flyer HERE)
Join the Prayer Vigil and Press Conference on May 7th in front of the District Courthouse
Join Oak Flat vigil in Tucson May 11 from 3:30-5:30pm (more details to come)

If you cannot be there in person, please:

Continue praying for Apache Stronghold, Oak Flat, the runners, and the judges for the hearing in Phoenix
Organize in your community! Use this toolkit to learn about actions and organize events in solidarity, specifically:
- Pray and organize prayer in your community
- We need you (and your community) to write letters to your representatives and the Trump administration in support of protecting Oak Flat

We continue to pray

A blessing for the Supreme Court, District Court, and all those with decision-power,
from a lover of Oak Flat

May you be blessed with the yearning to know,
In the marrow of your bones,
In the tenderness of your flesh
What it means to be an extension of the Earth, our Mother,
To know the sense-fullness of being surrounded by
Our relatives: Grandmother Oak, Sibling Cedar, and the Angels.
To feel the exhilaration of right relationship with them,
To offer attention, tending, and ceremony
To welcome gifts of shade and acorn
The invitation to belong as members of all creation,
And not destroyers of it.

Amen

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Start:: May 1
End:: May 7
Event Categories:: Action, Community, Education, Spiritual Reflection
Event Tags:: advocating, Education, growing community assets, Indigenous Concerns, Interfaith, Partner, Prayer
Website:: http://apache-stronghold.com/news.html

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: Join in Prayer & Advocacy

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: Apache Stronghold

UPDATE & OVERVIEW of Prayer March/Run – Actions for Oak Flat

May 1 - May 7

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