Group protests border wall outside Coolidge plant
by Jeff Jackson | Coolidge Examiner
About 15 people held a peaceful demonstration early Wednesday outside a Coolidge company they say is making components for the border wall between Arizona and Mexico.
The protesters assembled outside Stinger Bridge & Iron starting at about 6 a.m. and claimed the wall is violating sacred tribal land of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
The approximately 90-minute protest emphasized general issues area Native people deal with and their ancestral ties to the land. The protesters did not answer questions asked by PinalCentral and refused to identify themselves by personal names. One woman said she and others were from the Gila River Akimel O’odham territory, while another woman said the tribes represented included Gila River, Tohono O’odham and the Hia C-ed near Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
