Who We Are & Contact

MASE is your hub for any community resources you might need to oppose or learn more about uranium mining. If there’s a resource we’re missing or you still have questions, please contact us.

MASE Vision

The Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment envisions respectful, peaceful communities cherishing a healthy environment.

MASE Mission

MASE is rooted in the experiences of uranium-impacted communities of the southwestern U.S.  We are communities working to restore and protect the natural and cultural environment through respectfully promoting intercultural engagement among communities and institutions for the benefit of all life and future generations.

MASE works by

  • Developing and strengthening the relationships among the people of this community and region.
  • Understanding the complex and rich ecosystem that sustains and includes us.
  • Initiating and supporting sustainable ways of working and living that promote the health and well-being among the people and the environment
  • Engaging with government and industry to re-mediate and stop harm to our people and the environment.

Our Organizers

Nadine Padilla — MASE Coordinator

Nadine is Navajo and Pueblo from Bluewater Lake, NM. Nadine first began working as a community organizer in 2006 with the Sacred Alliances for Grassroots Equality (SAGE) Council. In addition to working on health and environmental justice issues with SAGE she works with MASE to stop new uranium development in order to protect sacred sites, water, and the health of our communities. Nadine served as a Field Organizer for the Navajo Nation, McKinley County, and Zuni Pueblo during the 2008 Obama Campaign.  She graduated from Fort Lewis College with degrees in Political Science and Sociology and has a graduate degree in communications through Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.

Our Core Group of Alliances

Bluewater Valley Downstream Alliance, A grassroots group made up largely of residents and property owners directly affected by groundwater pollution and radiation releases form the Homestake/Barrick Gold Mining Company uranium mill and tailings pile near Milan, NM and by the historic discharges of mining and milling waste from dozens of mines and two other uranium mills in the Ambrosia Lake Mining District northwest of Grants, NM.   Visit  http://bvdownstreamalliance.org/

Dineh Bidziil Coalition, Navajo Nation-a coalition of Diné grassroots groups dedicated to protecting water resources and traditional cultural practices and areas from resource development and extraction on the Navajo Nation.

Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM), A grassroots group opposing construction of the Crownpoint Uranium Project, a uranium in situ leach (ISL) mining operation proposed for two sites in Churchrock Chapter and two in Crownpoint Chapter of the Navajo Nation.

Laguna-Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment, Acoma and Laguna Pueblos, a grassroots group of residents of Laguna and Acoma pueblos dedicated to assessing community and environmental health from impacts of past uranium development and protecting sacred cultural sites and areas, including Mt. Taylor, a mountain sacred to Indigenous peoples of New Mexico.

Post-71 Uranium Workers Committee, Grants, NM. a group of former uranium miners , millers, ore haulers, and drillers who aim to document health conditions among people who worked in the uranium industry after 1971 and to secure compensation for post 1971 uranium workers under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) as amended.

MASE Affiliated Groups and Allies

Contact MASE


Multicultural Alliance For A Safe Environment

P.O. Box 4254

Albuquerque, NM 87196

Office: 505-262-1862

Fax: 505-262-1864

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