Tuscarora Environment

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Gov. Hochul calls herself New York’s first mom governor. Rene Rickard-Printup is also a mother and a delegate to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force who has lived her whole life on the homelands of the Tuscarora Nation.

In a powerful new op-ed, she reminds the governor that Mother Earth is the first mother. She writes about aging nuclear facilities that were built without Haudenosaunee consent and run well past their intended lifespan, and about contaminated sites like West Valley that already poison Seneca waters today. As she puts it, these are not risks. They are lived realities.

She also offers a piece of history worth remembering. The suffragists at Seneca Falls in 1848 saw what equality could look like because Haudenosaunee women were already living it. Hochul stands where she stands, in part, because of that example. The least she can do is consult the people whose homelands are at stake and listen to their warnings about nuclear.

Her message to New Yorkers is: No new nuclear in New York. Not on Haudenosaunee homelands. Not on anyone’s.

Read Rene’s full op-ed in The Buffalo News: bit.ly/MomNoNukes

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