{"id":79,"date":"2020-09-09T15:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/w\/?p=79"},"modified":"2020-09-24T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:41:21","slug":"oodham-activists-arrested-for-protesting-border-wall-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/09\/oodham-activists-arrested-for-protesting-border-wall-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;odham activists arrested for protesting border wall construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 854px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-79-1\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/OodhamAntiBorderCollective.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/OodhamAntiBorderCollective.m4v\">https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/OodhamAntiBorderCollective.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Video courtesy Leilani Clark<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">O&#8217;odham Water &amp; Land Defenders Arrested Halting Border Wall<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Construction Threatening Sacred Site<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">September 9, 2020<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Press release from O&#8217;odham Anti Border Collective<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Quitobaquito Springs, Arizona \u2014 This morning two members of the O&#8217;odham Anti Border Collective &amp; Defend O&#8217;odham Jewed took direct action and halted construction of the border wall threatening A&#8217;al Vappia\/Quitobaquito Springs in Hia-Ced O&#8217;odham jeved (O&#8217;odham Lands)&nbsp;near Ajo, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is an O&#8217;odham u&#8217;uwi (women) led direct action. The springs, one of the only desert water sources, are located in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument right on the US and Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the land defenders occupied a bulldozer they stated, &#8220;You do not have permission to be here, this is O&#8217;odham Land. This is a sacred area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As armed Border Patrol and sheriffs arrested the two land defenders they stated, &#8220;This land means so much more than a wall.&#8221;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the O&#8217;odham Anti Border Collective &#038; Defend O&#8217;odham Jewed took direct action and halted construction of the border wall threatening O&#8217;odham lands\u00a0near Ajo, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,13,1,31,23],"tags":[42,45,43,41,44],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-law","category-national","category-press-release","category-world","tag-arizona","tag-borders","tag-sacred-sites","tag-tohono-oodham","tag-women","wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/oodhamantibordercollective3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}