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30 Minutes- No More Deaths Requests Meeting
No More Deaths Press (27:27) 2009-06-21
30 Minutes- No More Deaths Requests Meeting
No More Deaths requests a meeting with officials from the Buenos Aires Wildlife refuge in an attempt to reduce migrant deaths on the refuge. No More Deaths held a press conference on June 17 to call attention to a their request to meet with Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge and other government officials to establish an effective way to provide humanitarian assistance on the wildlife refuge that also respects the environment.

In June, No More Deaths volunteer Walt Staton was convicted by a federal jury for "knowingly littering" when he placed sealed gallon jugs of water on the wildlife refuge along heavily traversed migrant trails.

30 Minutes features excerpts from this press conference held at the Southside Presbyterian Church.

Speakers include: No More Deaths volunteer Maryada Vallet, Humane Borders Co-Founder Robin Hoover, Green Valley Samaritan Volunteer Shura Wallin, Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign manager and convicted litterer Dan Millis, Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson pastor Rev. Diane Dowgiert, and Tohono O'Odham member Mike Wilson.