Social Justice movie for March 12, 2025
Broken Rainbow can be viewed on YouTube and is approximately 1 hour long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5z8OgMfXXc&t=2794s
The SUUF Social Justice team will host a discussion to explore the ongoing struggles of the Navajo community – particularly 55 Navajo families that live without electricity or running water on the Hopi reservation at Black Mesa. A Navajo community leader will join us along with the founder of the Broken Rainbow Foundation.
This discussion is a chance to learn, reflect, and stand in solidarity with the Navajo people, engage with Navajo community leaders, ask questions, and deepen our understanding of the Navajo Nation’s story.
Before you come, view the powerful PBS documentary Broken Rainbow that sheds light on the devastating impact of the Navajo Nation’s forced relocation from Black Mesa after the 1974 Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act. This followed the discovery of massive amounts of oil, natural gas, uranium and coal under Indian land. Federal policy allowed mining operations to come in and extract the minerals. The operations depleted and contaminated land and water resources permanently.
The meeting will be on Wednesday, March 12, 10:30 AM – 12:00 at the Church of the Red Rocks social hall at 54 Bowstring Dr. Sedona AZ. 86336