Apaches ask lower court to stop government’s imminent transfer of sacred site https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/apaches-ask-lower-court-to-stop.html #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Apache
Protect Apache holy site from Resolution Copper
We demand #Congress use their powers to intervene and stop the destruction of #OakFlat. We demand Congress return the full rights and religious protections to the #Apache of Oak Flat in recognition of their religious freedom.
Why is this important?
My name is #WendslerNosie Sr. I'm the former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe and a member of Apache-Stronghold.
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Written by: Debra Utacia Krol 
| Photos by: Provided by Becket Law, Michael Chow, Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic, Cheryl Evans/The Republic 
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This #GoToSocial account has become a step-by-step tutorial in how to self-host the publishing platform #Ghost (and troubleshoot issues) 
If you're not interested in my messages on the subject, I will be using a new hashtag #EleSelfHostsGhost so you can just mute it.
I'm a little late to the party because everything is now set-up and running smoothly:
I manually installed Ghost on my Ubuntu VPS I imported all the old posts and media: https://news.elenarossini.com I installed #Apache to use #Varnish cache and changed the cache's maxAge so that a bit of traffic wouldn't overwhelm my VPS I published and shared on Mastodon a new blog post: https://news.elenarossini.com/what-im-up-to-march-april-2025-edition/ Thanks to Varnish and the maxAge cache tweak, the VPS withstood the "Mastodon stampede" (the post had made it to Explore!)
So far so good.
but when I tried to send that blog post as a newsletter to just 210 people, #Mailgun immediately flagged me as a spammer and froze my account 
It took about 48 hours of back-and-forth emails with the Mailgun team to convince them I'm not a spammer and to get my account reinstated.
Now, why am I sharing all this?
In case you are also tempted to self-host Ghost, I found that the official Ghost - Mailgun documentation has little information available. But I discovered this super helpful post in the Ghost Forums and I will be trying this tweak to see if it makes a difference:
https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-send-newsletter-with-correct-mailgun-api-keys/34186/6
And yes, I'm aware that if you sign up for my newsletter you will get an email with a warning "this message failed the domain authentication" (or something along these lines). Problem is, when I implemented a tweak, changing config settings, the alert went away but I saw a spike in activity in my Dashboard, as if I had sent 600 emails (I did not). For now I can live with the warning.
I appreciate Ghost's new implementation of a spam filter because around the same time I got really suspicious signups originating from the same domain.
Anyway after I change all this I will try to send once again my blog post as a newsletter.
Special thanks to my parents for looking after my little one so I can do all this while she's on a school vacation 
Da #NeoOffice (#macOS) eingestellt wurde, #Apache #OpenOffice das letzte Mal 2024 im Blog stehen hatte und #Microsoft zu viel #Holz für sein #Office365 haben möchte, bin ich tatsächlich nun als #OpenOffice.org-#Vetaran [https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Jsi] #privat auf @libreoffice umgestiegen. Als wäre ich nie weg gewesen 
my adventures in #selfhosting - day 104 (pride edition) 
Good morning Fedi friends!
Aw pride is a powerful thing.
I'd like to think that I'm pretty zen and detached and successfully suppressing my ego... but when it comes to things I'm passionate about (read: tech, self-hosting) I cannot let things go.
I had a very very sweet shout-out on a Fediverse podcast last week... but said shout-out mentioned my self-hosting issues and that maybe self-hosting isn't for everyone. I felt that I had to correct the record (even if the mention came with the nicest intention)... because I have ZERO issues self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Friendica and #Pixelfed (thanks to the magic of #YunoHost). All my troubles had to do with #Ghost. (And Ghost is wonderful, it's not related to it, just external circumstances).
So, determined to defend my honor (ha!) on Friday I achieved the impossible: all by myself, following guides I found online, I managed to install #Apache and #Varnish on my VPS and connected Varnish to Ghost. My site was already fast, now it's BLAZING fast.
So I'm giving it another go, moving from Ghost (Pro) to my self-hosted Ghost installation. I turned off subscriptions on https://blog.elenarossini.com... next step is disconnecting the subdomain DNS (a CNAME record) from Ghost... and redirecting traffic to my new blog (https://news.elenarossini.com).
I know how to code things in NGINX for the redirect to work (I think, via guides I found online).
My big question is: how do I tweak my old DNS records for https://blog.elenarossini.com so that NGINX on my self-hosted site https://news.elenarossini.com will correctly pick up the traffic requests? Do I need to set up A and AAAA records for the subdomain blog to point to my VPS with the self-hosted Ghost blog? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 
Oh and I learned my lesson and - unlike last time - I am making big changes on a Monday morning, when I have the whole workweek ahead of me (instead of a Friday afternoon 1 hour before picking up my child from nursery school). You live and learn! 
#MySoCalledSudoLife
This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement
“Israel is gunning down children with Apache helicopters: They just keep unleashing new horrors...”
by Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media on Substack
“Last night in Gaza, we operated on a 15 year old girl who was riding her bike when she was shredded by an #Apache #helicopter. She will be lucky if she keeps 2 of her limbs after 12 hours of collective surgery” - Dr Mark #Perlmutter
#ApacheStronghold: U.S. Give-Away would Destroy Spiritual Home of #Apache
By Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold, March 13, 2025, via #CensoredNews
"In the heart of #TontoNationalForest in #Arizona lies a place that my people, the #WesternApache, still hold above all others. This place is Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat. To us, it is more than a stretch of land; it is sacred and holy. It is where our ancestors walked, where we gather to pray, to carry out ceremonies passed down through generations, and to speak to our Creator.
"This land is part of who we are as a people, and its spirit is bound to our own.
Now, the federal government plans to give our sacred Oak Flat to a multinational #mining #corporation owned by the Chinese Communist Party. This will not just scar the land; it will destroy it, poisoning the environment and trampling on our tribal rights. But the deepest wound will be the loss of our spiritual home, a place our people cannot exist without. We are fighting this in the courts, all the way to the #USSupremeCourt. But this is about more than law and policy—this is about survival of our way of life and the spirit of this sacred land.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/apache-stronghold-us-give-away-would.html
#SaveOakFlat #ChichilBiłdagoteel #CorporateColonialism #ProtectOakFlat #ReaderSupportedNews #SCOTUS #DefendTheSacred #CopperMine
#WaterIsLife #ResolutionCopper #RioTinto #RecycleCopper #CulturalGenocide #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleCopper
#EmilyPike from the San Carlos #Apache tribe was murdered. She was only 14. The young girl was reported missing on Jan 27, 2025. Her dismembered remains were discovered on Feb 14, 2025 off Highway 60 near #Globe , Arizona.
My heart goes out to Emily’s loved ones - her mother, family and friends. No one should ever loose their child this way.
Share this post to spread the awareness. And let us honour her memory
#JusticeForEmilyPike #JusticeForEmily
#NoMoreStolenSisters #MMIWG
@oatmeal so stop the fight please.
#FOSS software is international. For anyone to use. #Linux, #KDE, #Gnome, #apache, #libreoffice, all the rest, have contributions from all parts of the world, including US, Russia, China, India and in fact most countries out there. It provides #technology and #freedom for anyone who wants it. Freedom of #choice, freedom for #privacy, freedom of #thought, #free of cost. And so it should be.
Worked a bit more on the #Apache hardening profile for #systemd service unit. This should simplify system hardening efforts of common software components. Took me some hours to get it really tight.
https://linux-audit.com/systemd/hardening-profiles/apache/
If you have Apache running and can test, love to hear how things are working for you. Not running Apache, then a gentle boost would also be great 
Hopefully more people start to use the profiles, improving #linux systems and making the web a little bit more secure.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀?
Permissive free #software licenses never require forks to be licensed under the same #license as the original software. The terms can be propagated to derivative works if you wish so, but this is not required.
The #Expat and #Apache licenses fall in this category.
These licenses are often simpler and allow for more flexibility in how the software is used and distributed.
The 1.14.4 release of #Apache #Subversion (#SVN) is now available, with a security fix for #Windows platforms. Unix-like platforms are not affected.
CVE-2024-45720
"Subversion command line argument injection on Windows platform"
Release announcement:
https://marc.info/?l=subversion-users&m=172837775414354&w=2
Long shot but, if there's any keycloak expert: sometimes the session for federated uses doesn't include email although it's in scope. Any idea where I should look to investigate and ideally fix the problem?
(I can't find anything on GitHub and Google, of course)
#ApacheStronghold Asks #SupremeCourt to #SaveOakFlat
By Becket Law, via #CensoredNews
Sept. 11, 2024
WASHINGTON – "A coalition of #WesternApaches, other #Native peoples, and non-Native #allies asked the #SupremeCourt today to protect their sacred site at #OakFlat from destruction by a multinational mining giant. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to #ResolutionCopper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending #Apache religious practices forever (Watch video linked below to learn more).
"The Apaches and their allies hosted a day of prayer outside the Court as they asked the Justices to save the spiritual lifeblood of their people.
Since time immemorial, Western Apaches and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day Superior, Arizona, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other harmful practices for decades. These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was inserted into a must- pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company. Resolution Copper is a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater. The majority owner of Resolution Copper, #RioTinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old #Indigenous rock shelters at one of #Australia’s most significant cultural sites.
“'Oak Flat is our Mt. Sinai—the most sacred place where generations of Apache have come to connect with our Creator, our faith, and our land,' said Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold. 'We pray the Justices will protect Oak Flat and ensure that our place of worship is not treated differently simply because it lacks four walls and a steeple.”
Apache Stronghold—a coalition of Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies—filed this lawsuit in January 2021 seeking to halt the proposed mine at Oak Flat. The mine is opposed by 21 of 22 federally recognized tribal nations in Arizona and by the National Congress of American Indians. Meanwhile, national polling indicates that 74% of Americans support protecting Oak Flat. The Ninth Circuit ruled earlier this year that the land transfer is not subject to federal laws protecting religious freedom. But five judges dissented, writing that the court 'tragically err[ed]' by refusing to protect Oak Flat. After unsuccessfully asking all 29 judges on the Ninth Circuit to rehear the case, Apache Stronghold has filed their appeal to the Supreme Court.
"'Blasting the birthplace of Apache religion into oblivion would be an egregious violation of our nation’s promise of religious freedom for people of all faiths,' said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. 'The Court should uphold its strong record of defending #ReligiousFreedom by ensuring that the Apaches can continue worshiping at Oak Flat as they have for centuries.'
"In addition to Becket, Apache Stronghold is represented by Erin Murphy of Clement & Murphy PLLC, Professor Stephanie Barclay of Georgetown Law School, and attorneys Michael V. Nixon and Clifford Levenson.
For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Ryan Colby at media@becketlaw.org or 202-349-7219."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/apache-stronghold-asks-supreme-court-to.html
Legal document:
https://www.becketlaw.org/media/breaking-apache-stronghold-asks-supreme-court-to-save-oak-flat/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh68xOn0B_8
#SCOTUS #CopperMine
#ProtectOakFlat
#ProtectTheSacred
#DefendTheSacred
#IndigenousActivism
#SaveOakFlat
#WaterIsLife
#SacredSite
#CopperMining
#RecycleCopper
#NoMiningWithoutConsent
#CulturalGenocide
#Ecocide #NativeAmericanNews
#CorporateColonialism
#WashingtonDC
#PrayerRide
#PeacefulProtest
#FightForReligiousRights
#ChichilBildagoteel
