Raven Hawk, an Apache-Mohawk man, checks out the Gathering.
Julia Moon Sparrow first became an activist during the 1989 Redwood Summer. For the past six years,, she has helped organize the Shundahai Network, a Nevada-based group seeking to end both U.S. nuclear testing and the dumping of radioactive wastes on the land of the Western Shoshone people. She has been arrested several times, most recently for chaining herself to an international press bus on the day the government was scheduled to detonate a "sub-critical" atomic blast. She received a torn rotator cuff while being arrested. "The police were furious with us," she said in a calm, serene voice.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
--The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America
Julia Moon Sparrow first became an activist during the 1989 Redwood Summer. For the past six years,, she has helped organize the 
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
--The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America