Pray For The Land This Weekend

"it is impossible to imagine a natural world more beautiful than our Earth..." In Ontario Canada, this weekend, there's an initiative asking everyone to pray for the preservation of natural land.

This comes from the year-long protest, which went international, over global mining companies who are using laws from the 1800's to violate property rights and set up mining wherever they want, without also setting up environmental clean up. Mining for nickel, uranium, coal and other resources leaves "dead zones" and destruction all over the planet, and has in places infiltrated drinking water, and killed all life in entire lakes.

If you remember Robert Loveless, the professor who went to high security prison in  Canada for his peaceful protest of the mining company at Robertsville...he was released by a higher court some months later...he is now asking that everyone pray, in your way, that the complex, amazing, essential natural world we live in is shielded from this recent onslaught.

Pray that the circle of people who are willing to pray, and to stand up, will force a change in the laws, force environmental responsibility, and protect the property rights and claims of those the mining companies violate.  Pray that those who are willing to stand up against wrong are not arrested, put into prison, or harmed in any way. 

Mining companies are on a world-wide grab for resources, and moving into areas they may have left alone until now.  In fact, right now the US administration is trying to pass a bill that allows companies to continue to blow the entire cap off mountains, in Tennessee, to access coal. You can imagine the beautiful Smokies blown to bits. In South America groups are protesting mining companies who moved onto their property without permission, and began mining activities, the same as they did in Ontario Canada. 

More good reason for a move into new, environmentally cheaper and safer technological advances.  But for now, this weekend, what you can do, if you feel to join the circle, is send out your prayers. 

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