============================================================ Get your free credit report online, by fax or mail. Always private and always secure, click here to get yours FOR FREE at ConsumerInfo.Com! http://click.topica.com/caaacMtb1ddNBb2HgmNa/ConsumerInfo ============================================================ Subj: FWD message: DEVASTATING!/BLACK CREEK SITE Date: 07/27/2001 9:15:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: FM 6115 To: FM 6115 Subj: DEVASTATING!/BLACK CREEK SITE Date: 07/27/2001 1:51:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jessica Paladini) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEVASTATING NEWS, FOLKS! Please forward this message to all of your groups for their support as well. Please, we need your help more than ever now!So many of you have been so wonderful to help this cause, write letters, attend meetings, and watch over the Lenape land in Vernon known as the Black Creek Site. We cannot quit. We need team effort more than ever now! The Vernon Township Council shockingly voted last night to approve yet another proposal to dig up the Black Creek site. AND I MEAN DIG! The firm that had proposed digging the site last month and was approved by the court seems to have backed out of the study--THANKS TO ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS! If you remember, only two firms in the entire state of New Jersey was willing to do the dig. The first was Cultural Resource Consulting Group. The second is not an archaeologist but a geologist. They did not take his proposal seriously, but now that the other firm has backed out, this firm--LaPorta & Associates--was awarded a contract last night to do a totally invasive dig on the site! Philip LaPorta plans to dig holes on the Black Creek Site with a backhoe--not even a trowel as archaeology requires! The backhoe will dig holes that are 20 feet wide by 20 feet long by 12 feet deep! Essentially, they will desecrate and destroy this most sensitive, most significant land. Can you imagine what a 20X20X12 foot hole will do to anything that is in the way? We are shocked. We are appalled at the evil of this township council. It seems to stop at nothing in its thirst for malice. WE MUST APPEAL TO PHILIP LAPORTA TO NOT DISTURB THE BLACK CREEK SITE. The township must first get approval from the court for this dig. Know that we will surely oppose this measure. Please help us by writing letters to LaPorta, sending him e-mail, and, yes, we're back to writing to the judge and PLEADING with him not to allow such a devastation. Please, in all you do be courteous and civil. Don't give anyone reason to find fault with us other than for our passion to save this significant site from destruction. The township attorney has said that he will send his request for approval of this study to the judge tomorrow morning (July 27). Please write the judge within the next 48 hours and mail him the letters asking him not to allow such a devastating and destructive study. The judge's address is as follows: Honorable Kenneth MacKenzie, J.S.C. Superior Court of New Jersey Morris County Courthouse P.O. Box 910 Morristown, NJ 07963 Philip LaPorta's address is: 116 Bellvale Lakes Road Warwick. N.Y. 10990 ALSO SEND HIM E-MAIL AT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another thing we learned is that the township manager has written to New Jersey legislators and asked them to intervene to POSTPONE THE NATIONAL REGISTER LISTING of the site that is supposed to take place on Sept. 12. The state is on our side! Please consider writing to these legislators as well, telling them not to push for a postponement. These politicians know one thing--votes! Please send them a message and tell them we want their support. Appeal to them to get involved to preserve the site--not help destroy it as the township has asked them. These legislators are: Marge Roukema U.S. Representative 5th Congressional District 1500 Route 517, Suite 105 Hackettstown, NJ 07840 Commissioner Robert C. Shinn, Jr. State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection 401 East State Street P.O. Box 402 Trenton, NJ 08625-0402 We know there is a group in Vernon that is also writing letters to these people asking them NOT TO SUPPORT the preservation of the Black Creek Site. PLease let our voices also be heard to overpower theirs! As I write this letter at 1:35 a.m. and I can only expect about four hours sleep tonight before I get up again for work tomorrow, I am very weary. The fight has been a difficult one and a long one. My strength is wearing thin as day after day there is a letter to write, a document to research, another battle to be fought. I come close to saying "I will fight no more forever." If you will give me the strength by encouraging me with our team effort, I promise to pursue this to the end. It is right to preserve the Black Creek Site. It is right to give respect to the Native American ancestors of this country. It is right to once again recognize the homeland of the Lenape and the other cultures who walked this land before we did. I humbly ask you--please help us once again and write the letters. One day this will be over, and we will celebrate and give thanks to God for giving us the strength to fight for what is right. Jessica Paladini ============================================================ Whether you're digging out bugs, working around roadblocks, Or testing new software, you'll find developerWorks to be A timeless resource. Get the developerWorks newsletter. http://click.topica.com/caaacCNb1ddNBb2HgmNf/developerWorks ============================================================ Visit and show your support for the Grass Roots Oyate http://members.tripod.com/GrassRootsOyate Clemency for Leonard Peltier. 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