Navajos fight renewed uranium mining on their land http://tinyurl.com/5l93za

In These Times (6/23/08) — “Canaries in the Uranium Mine.”

Thousands of Navajo have developed lung cancer, kidney disease and other serious illnesses linked to uranium mining — which has supplied the U.S. government with material for nuclear weapons and power plants from the 1940s through the ’80s. (Agencies such as the World Health Organization have documented the severe health effects of uranium exposure.)