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Environmental Lawyer Explains Standing Rock Legal Issues TYT - 27 OCT 2016
This is an older video, but it explains some of the legalese of the
militarization of the Morton County Sheriff's Department and their
violation of Constitutional, civil, and human rights of the Water
Protectors.
Activists demonstrate near a
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign fundraiser with President
Barack Obama to call for a halt to the Dakota Access Pipeline
project on Oct. 24, 2016 in Beverly Hills.
(Credit: David McNew/AFP/Getty Images)
Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Shut Down New York’s Grand Central
Station KTLA News - 01 NOV 2016
Dozens of demonstrators aiming to raise awareness of the
ongoing pipeline protest in North Dakota disrupted the morning
commute at New York’s Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday before
marching on the offices of major U.S. banks to question their
decision to fund the pipeline.
The protesters, who oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline,
gathered in the station’s lobby floor at 8 a.m. to express
solidarity with the demonstrations at Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation in North Dakota, they said. They then marched from Grand
Central to the offices of Bank of America and JP Morgan to protest
the big banks’ funding of the project.
Some chanted, “It is always a political fight.” Others waved
signs that read, “Water is life” and, “Respect the Earth.” One large
banner read, “Indigenous sovereignty protects the land and
water.”...
The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cannot Legally Issue the Final DAPL
Permit!
by Thane Maxwell, Honor the Earth - 21 OCT 2016
On October 10, 2016, Honor the Earth, the Sierra Club and the
Indigenous Environmental Network submitted a 30-page letter to the
US Army Corps of Engineers. The letter explains why the USACE is
prohibited by federal law from issuing DAPL any more permits,
including the final outstanding easement for the Missouri River
crossing at Standing Rock, and why they are required by federal law
to conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement on the Dakota
Access pipeline.
A clause in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation
Act states that if a company is caught intentionally destroying
archaeological or cultural sites in the path of the project, the US
government cannot legally give them any more permits. This is
exactly what DAPL did on September 3. On Friday, September 2, the
day before Labor Day weekend, Standing Rock submitted to the court
detailed findings of rare cultural sites, which include 27 graves,
stone prayer rings, and other sacred artifacts directly in the path
of the proposed pipeline. Early the next morning, a Saturday, DAPL
brought in construction crews and bulldozed the specific areas
described by Standing Rock in their filing. When protectors of the
site entered the construction area, private security guards attacked
them with dogs and pepper spray.
Also, the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) requires
the US Army Corps to conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement
on this project. In order to avoid doing a full EIS with public
participation, the Corps...
Did #DAPL Security Worker Wielding an AR-15 Rifle Try to Infiltrate
Native Water Protectors? Democracy Now! - 31 OCT 2016
On Friday, Amnesty International dispatched human rights
observers to North Dakota to monitor the ongoing repression of the
thousands of Native Americans resisting the $3.8 billion Dakota
Access pipeline. Amnesty’s move came one day after hundreds of
police with military equipment arrested over 140 people, after
attacking them with pepper spray, Tasers, sound cannons, bean bag
rounds and rubber bullets. More details are emerging from Thursday,
including video footage of a man who appears to be a Dakota Access
security contractor holding a rifle, with his face covered by a
bandana, apparently attempting to infiltrate a group of water
protectors. A Standing Rock Sioux tribal member says he saw the man
driving down Highway 1806 toward the main resistance camp with an
AR-15 rifle on the passenger side of his truck. Protectors chased
down his truck and then pursued him on foot in efforts to disarm
him. In the video, the man can be seen pointing the rifle at the
protectors as he attempts to flee into the water.
He was ultimately arrested by Bureau of Indian Affairs
police. Protectors say inside the man’s truck they found a DAPL
security ID card and insurance papers listing his vehicle as insured
by DAPL. For more, we speak with Dallas Goldtooth, organizer with
the Indigenous Environmental Network....
After Two Wars, Standing Rock is the First Time I Served the
American People
'I’ve been on the wrong side of history'
by Will Griffin, Common Dreams - 30 OCT 2016
I was in Iraq when President Bush announced the “surge” in
January 2007. I was in Afghanistan when President Obama announced
the “surge” in December 2009. But it wasn’t until I visited Standing
Rock in October 2016 when I actually served the American people.
This time, instead of fighting for corporate interests, I was
fighting for the people.
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), or Bakken Pipeline, is a
1,172-mile oil pipeline project that will transfer crude oil across
four states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. From the
Bakken fields of North Dakota, the pipeline will carry in excess of
450,000 barrels per day of crude oil to Patoka, Illinois, and
possibly on to Texas and near the Gulf Coast areas for refinement or
export. The project will cost $3.7 billion, while creating
8,000-12,000 temporary construction jobs and only 40 permanent
operating jobs....
Why Police From 7 Different States Invaded a Standing Rock Camp—and
Other Questions
by Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, Yes! Magazine - 31 OCT
2016
To clear the way for a pipeline, North Dakota invoked a
measure reserved for state emergencies like natural disasters.
That’s one answer.
On Thursday, scores of law enforcement officers from seven
different states showed up with riot gear, armored vehicles, and
military weaponry to clear away Standing Rock’s newest camp, the
“1851 Treaty Camp.” The camp stands directly in the path of the
Dakota Access pipeline. Tipis and sweat lodges were destroyed.
Vehicles were set ablaze. More than 140 protesters were arrested.
The county sheriff is claiming the water protectors were
violent and that police were stopping a riot. But hours of live
video feed from people caught in the confrontation showed instead a
military-style assault on unarmed people: police beating people with
batons, police with assault rifles, chemical mace, guns firing
rubber bullets and beanbag rounds, tasers.
Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux
tribe, has maintained that its citizens and supporters are engaging
in peaceful, nonviolent expressions of their opposition to the
pipeline.
Tara Houska, national campaigns director for the Native
environmental group Honor the Earth, and Thane Maxwell, an organizer
with Honor the Earth, have been at the camp for months. They
describe what is happening:...
How to Contact the People Who Sent Militarized Police to Standing
Rock
by Emily Fuller, Yes! Magazine - 31 OCT 2016
Have a question about the militarization of policing near
Dakota Access pipeline construction? Here’s who to call, starting
with Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier.
There have been a lot of questions surrounding the influx of
military style troops and equipment to the Standing Rock Sioux
tribal area in North Dakota. In August, North Dakota Gov. Jack
Dalrymple declared a state of emergency in response to the growing
Dakota Access pipeline protests, and Morton County Sheriff Kyle
Kirchmeier has invoked the Emergency Management Assistance Compact,
calling on police resources from six surrounding states.
On Thursday, police executed a particularly violent sweep of
a camp that left structures destroyed, more than 140 people
arrested, cars impounded and others burning on the side of the road.
The highly militarized response—armored vehicles and heavy
weaponry—was recorded by many people caught in the assault....
Quote of the Day
- The Last Word - MSNBC
31 OCT 2016
Standing Rock: Dallas Goldtooth on Suspicious Fire Near Resistance
Camp & Repression of Movement Democracy Now! - 31 OCT 2016
Overnight on Saturday in North Dakota, Native Americans
resisting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline reported a brush
fire near their main resistance camp. They say they called 911, but
no emergency teams responded. They also say the surveillance planes
and helicopters, which have been flying almost constantly over the
region in recent weeks, stopped flying about two hours before the
fire began. Protectors believe the fire was intentionally lit by
people working for Dakota Access. For more, we speak with Dallas
Goldtooth, organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network....
Indigenous Grandmother Confronts MCSD
Native Momma, YouTube - 28 OCT 2016
Watch as an Indigenous grandmother confronts Morton County
Sheriff's Department at the frontlines during a standoff between
water protectors and law enforcement on Sioux land covered under the
US treaty of 1851.
Witness the illegal harassment, intimidation, and excessive
force used by MCSD on Sioux land as North Dakota's tax dollars blow
away in the wind to support big oil company owned by Energy Transfer
Partners (DAPL).
Elder
Tells About Arrest by Morton County Sheriff's Department
WBAI Rado, YouTube - 28 OCT 2016
Earth Mum talks with Joanna, elder water protector, who was
arrested yesterday for trying to keep DAPL off the treaty land where
DAPL is planning to lay down pipe to the Missouri River....
Quote of the Day
- MSNBC's "The Last Word"
ShaileneWoodley
Like a ‘Concentration Camp’ Police Mark DAPL Protesters with Numbers
& Lock Them in Dog Kennels The Free Thought Project - 29 OCT 2016
Cannon Ball, N.D. — On Thursday, police from no less than
five states sporting full riot gear and armed with heavy lethal and
nonlethal weaponry, pepper spray, mace, a number of ATVs, five
tanks, two helicopters, and military-equipped humvees showed up to
tear down an encampment of Standing Rock Sioux water protectors and
supporters armed with … nothing.
Under orders from the now-notorious Morton County Sheriff’s
Office, this ridiculously heavy-handed standing army came better
prepared to do battle than some actual military units fighting
overseas.
But the target of their operation — a group of slightly more
than 200 Native American water protectors and supporters opposing
construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline — never intended to do
battle with the armed, taxpayer-funded, corporate-backed,
state-sponsored aggressors....
Justice Dept Reaffirms It Will Not Grant DAPL River-Crossing Permits
Anytime Soon
ICTMN Staff Indian Country Today - 25 OCT 2016
While Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access oil pipeline
advances toward the resistance camp now directly in its path, it
faces perhaps an even bigger obstacle than several hundred water
protectors hunkered down for the winter: a lack of final permits for
its Missouri River crossing.
And those permits do not seem imminent. The U.S. Department
of Justice confirmed that the Army will not issue permits for the
crossing under Lake Oahe, a half-mile from the Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation and the source of its drinking water, until it has
reviewed the issues raised by the tribe, according to a report on
KFYR-TV.
“While the Army continues to review issues raised by the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their
members, it will not authorize constructing the Dakota Access
Pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe,” Justice
Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle told the news station in an
e-mail on Tuesday October 25. Earlier in the day, Standing Rock
Sioux...
War Crimes on the Northern Plains: #NoDAPL People's World - 28 OCT 2016
War crimes are being committed against Native Americans by
the Morton County Sheriff’s department in North Dakota. President
Obama must take action. I am receiving word that demonstrators are
being hooded; there are reports of waterboarding; there are reports
of young Native females arrested without cause and strip searched.
These are human rights violations that are reminiscent of the
atrocities committed by U.S. military forces in Iraq at Abu Ghraib
prison in 2003.
Even as I write this column I am receiving information that
the Standing Rock water protectors are under a vicious, brutal
attack by county law enforcement. (Editors’ note: part of the
encampment at Standing Rock was cleared by law enforcement Oct. 27,
with over 140 people arrested.)
The water protectors are standing their ground in this face
of this hideous, racist assault by these police. This can only end
in tragedy....
MCSD Just Before
Destruction of the Oceti Sakowin Camp
Hennepin County Sheriff's Deputies Leave Standing Rock Protest
by Brandt Williams, MPR News - 31 OCT 2016
Hundreds of people protested last week, calling on the
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office to bring back its staff and
equipment from the Standing Rock pipeline protest.
Now, the sheriff's deputies and equipment are on their way
back to Minnesota from the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline
protest in North Dakota....
PRESS RELEASE:
Amnesty International USA to Monitor to North Dakota Pipeline
Protests
Amnesty International - 28 OCT 2016
As tensions escalate at the site of a disputed pipeline close
to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, Amnesty
International USA (AIUSA) has sent a delegation of human rights
observers to monitor the response of law enforcement to protests by
Indigenous communities.
AIUSA also has sent a letter to the Morton County Sheriff’s
Department expressing concern about the degree of force used against
the protests. The organization will also call on the Department of
Justice to investigate police practices.
Arrests of protesters, who call themselves water protectors,
have increased in recent weeks and law enforcement has employed a
more militarized response to protests and encampments near the
construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The local
Indigenous communities say the pipeline endangers their water supply
and desecrates sacred land. This week, arrests have occurred at a
camp that was recently established on federally-recognized private
land near the construction site.
AIUSA sent a delegation of observers to the area in August
and has stayed in contact both with the Indigenous community and
those policing the protests since then. Letters had previously been
sent to the North Dakota Highway Patrol and the Morton County
Sheriff’s office calling for law enforcement officers to respect
international human rights standards on the policing of protests.
“Our observers are here to ensure that everyone’s human
rights are protected,” said Eric Ferrero, director of communications
for AIUSA. “We’re deeply concerned about what we heard during our
previous visit to Standing Rock and what has been reported to us
since.”
In some instances, police have responded to protesters with
pepper spray and bean bags, and in one instance, private security
staff used guard dogs. Those recently arrested have reported being
strip searched and forced to pay bail for minor offenses. Members of
the media and legal observers have also been arrested or charged
with minor offenses.
“People here just want to stand up for the rights of
Indigenous people and protect their natural resources. These people
should not be treated like the enemy,” said Ferrero “Police must
keep the peace using minimal force appropriate to the situation.
Confronting men, women, and children while outfitted in gear more
suited for the battlefield is a disproportionate response.”
Under International law and standards, arrests should not be
used to intimidate or prevent people from participating in peaceful
assembly. If individuals are arrested, they should not be restrained
for prolonged periods of time, and should be treated humanely.
Invasive searches should only be carried out if absolutely necessary
and not in a manner that could be considered cruel or humiliating
treatment. Authorities are encouraged to develop and use appropriate
alternatives to invasive searches.
Amnesty International has a history of monitoring protests
and police conduct to ensure adherence to international human rights
standards. In addition to North Dakota, AIUSA has deployed
delegations of observers to Ferguson, MO, and Baltimore, MD, to
monitor protests in the wake of police killings, as well as to
Cleveland and Philadelphia to monitor the protests outside the
Republican and Democratic National Conventions earlier this year.
Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp Unicorn Riot - 27 OCT 2016
Morton County, ND – Over two hundred multi-state law
enforcement and National Guard personnel attacked water protectors
gathered on unceded 1851 Oceti Sakowin treaty land just north of the
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the late morning of Thursday,
October 27th.
For hours, the water protectors attempted to hold back the
authorities sent to remove them from the path of the Dakota Access
Pipeline towards the Missouri River.
High Mobility Military Vehicle (HMMV) trucks driven by the
North Dakota National Guard flanked Highway 1806 on the hills as
fires burned at barricades set to slow the authorities’ march.
At close range, law enforcement personnel repeatedly fired a
Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) sound cannon at water protectors
in an attempt to drive them out. LRAD attacks were expected and many
water protectors had earplugs to mitigate likely permanent damage.
Tasers, beanbag shotgun rounds, concussion grenades and
batons with sniper rifle overwatch from MRAP and Bearcat armored
vehicles, surrounded with HMMVs were depolyed against the Oceti
Sakowin (Sioux) people and their supporters. One Unicorn Riot
reporter was struck with a baton by a Hennepin County (MN) deputy
acting in a force unit.
In a continuing pattern of foregoing transparency, law
enforcement from multiple states concealed their identities by
hiding nameplates and badge numbers, which can prevent individual
officers from being named and deposed in lawsuits around police
brutality and abuse....
When You're a Protester, the Color of Your Skin Is All That Matters
The difference between Oregon and North Dakota.
by Charles P. Pierce, Esquire - 28 OCT 2016
Yes, there is a cruel, stupid irony about living in a country
when, on the same day, a bunch of gun-toting rubes who have less
understanding of the Constitution than a wombat does of nuclear
fusion get acquitted after an armed takeover of federal property in
Oregon while, half a country away, peaceful protesters doing nothing
but praying on land to which they have a right guaranteed by treaty
get rousted, roughed up, and hauled away by a militarized police
force acting largely at the behest of a private company. For those
of you who are sorry you missed the last Gilded Age, hang in there.
You're going to get your wish fairly soon.
The white privilege embedded in the two competing narratives
is almost too garish to contemplate, and it is beyond argument. In
Oregon, people with a history of armed sedition were the
beneficiaries of a clear case of jury nullification. Even the
counsels for the defense had sharply smacked gobs on them when the
verdicts were read. From
The Washington Post:...
I Am A White Person Who Went To Standing Rock. This Is What I
Learned
I decided to experience Standing Rock first as a
human being, not as a member of the press.
by Katie Scarlett Brandt, The Huffington Post -
28 OCT 2016
I’m home now in Chicago, but I was at Standing Rock just a
few days ago. I know how it feels to sleep outside in two sleeping
bags and a winter coat in below-freezing weather, and wake up to the
sounds of people coughing from tents surrounding you. I remember
feeling the ground shake as horses stampeded past on the way to the
front lines. I can hear the elders on the microphone—the voice of
the camp at the sacred fire—urging non-violence, keeping everything
grounded in prayer and ceremony....
Sheriff's Spin on
27 OCT 2016 Oceti Sakowin Camp Raid
STANDING ROCK: Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses
to Clear Treaty Camp
by Camp of the Sacred Stones, Censored News - 28
OCT 2016
CANNONBALL, North Dakota -- Over 300 police officers in riot
gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous
military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline
camp just east of Highway 1806. The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this
past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently
purchased by DAPL. Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Dakota
territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the
Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851, was violently cleared. Both blockades
established this past weekend to enable that occupation were also
cleared.
In addition to pepper spray and percussion grenades, shotguns
were fired into the crowd with less lethal ammunition and a sound
cannon was used (see images below). At least one person was tased
and the barbed hook lodged in his face, just outside his eye.
Another was hit in the face by a rubber bullet.
A prayer circle of elders, including several women, was
interrupted and all were arrested for standing peacefully on the
public road. A tipi was erected in the road and was recklessly
dismantled, despite promises from law enforcement that they would
merely mark the tipi with a yellow ribbon and ask its owners to
retrieve it. A group of water protectors was also dragged out of a
ceremony in a sweat lodge erected in the path of the pipeline,
wearing minimal clothing, thrown to the ground, and arrested....
Sheriff's Spin on
27 OCT 2016 Oceti Sakowin Camp Raid
Standing Rock Medics Shot by Police and Arrested Censored News - 27 OCT 2016
Update: Law enforcement are targeting medics. We had two medics
arrested and nearly two more arrested.
Medics were at the frontline trying to move their car out as
police advanced. Two medics were sitting on the trunk. Police
approached and hit them both with batons, knocking them both to the
ground. Water Protectors helped those medics before law enforcement
could grab them.
In the meantime, police surrounded the CLEARLY LABELED car
(big Red Cross in the hood as well as on all medic personnel) and
grabbed the driver (one medic) while the car was in motion. The
other medic was in front of the car and nearly hit by the car as the
police took out the driver medic. This is a clear safety risk that
the police caused. Both of those medics were arrested....
Water Protectors
Attacked on Tribal Land by Police
YouTube - 27 OCT 20
Watch: Shots Reportedly Fired, 141 Arrested at Dakota Access
Pipeline Protests
The Seattle Times - 27 OCT 2016
Hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux
tribe in their effort to block construction of the pipeline they say
threatens water supplies and sacred sites. About 200 law enforcement
officers launched an operation midday Thursday to force out the
protesters from land owned by the pipeline developer. Follow our
live coverage.
Here’s what’s happening:
Seattle Times environment reporter Lynda Mapes and Times
photographer Alan Berner are on the ground through the end of the
week to report on protests of the
Dakota Access Pipeline near Bismarck, N.D....
Bakken Oil Companies Declare Bankruptcy
by JESSICA HOLDMAN, Bismarck Tribune - 26 OCT 2015
As crude oil prices hang low, about $43 per barrel Monday,
some North Dakota operators are trying to divest interests in the
Bakken.
Two debt-heavy operators in the state, Tulsa, Okla.-based
Samson Resources and Denver-based American Eagle Energy, filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy, planning to sell off Bakken assets to pay
back what they owe....
North Dakota Failed to Inform the Public of 100s of Oil Spills over
Last Two Years RT-Question More - 25 OCT 2016
North Dakota, which ranks second in the US in terms of oil
production, endured almost 300 oil spills in under two years and yet
managed to avoid reporting a single one of them to the public,
according to a new report.
Documents viewed by the Associated Press indicate that, since
January 2012, as many as 750 “oil field incidents” were recorded in
North Dakota. The distinction between spills and incidents was not
immediately clear but presumably was related to the magnitude of the
accident.
North Dakota, which borders Canada and has an estimated
population of under 700,000 people, is like many other states
heavily involved in oil production in that it is not required by law
to inform the public about oil spills. Yet with the potentially
devastating consequences a spill could have in a state that relies
on farming and water resources, citizens have begun lobbying for
greater access to information....
Morton County Lies about Weapon: It Is a Prayer Stick Censored News - 27 OCT 2016
Here is the lady Morton County Sheriffs Department said
pulled a .38 Caliber Revolver on law enforcement.
Well by the looks of it we'd say she's holding a prayer staff and if
you think otherwise please comment below.
Any more lies Morton County?
Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp
Unicorn Riot - 27 OCT 2016
UPDATE Oct 28th 1:20am CDT New video below shows police
attacking Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp with pepper spray, less-lethal
rounds used at close range, batons, LRAD, and tazers....
Morton County, ND – Over two hundred multi-state law
enforcement and National Guard personnel attacked water protectors
gathered on unceded 1851 Oceti Sakowin treaty land just north of the
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the late morning of Thursday,
October 27th.
For hours, the water protectors attempted to hold back the
authorities sent to remove them from the path of the Dakota Access
Pipeline towards the Missouri River.
High Mobility Military Vehicle (HMMV) trucks driven by the
North Dakota National Guard flanked Highway 1806 on the hills as
fires burned at barricades set to slow the authorities’ march.
At close range, law enforcement personnel repeatedly fired a
Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) sound cannon at water protectors
in an attempt to drive them out. LRAD attacks were expected and many
water protectors had earplugs to mitigate likely permanent damage.
Tasers, beanbag shotgun rounds, concussion grenades and
batons with sniper rifle overwatch from MRAP and Bearcat armored
vehicles, surrounded with HMMVs were depolyed against the Oceti
Sakowin (Sioux) people and their supporters. One Unicorn Riot
reporter was struck with a baton by a Hennepin County (MN) deputy
acting in a force unit.
In a continuing pattern of foregoing transparency, law
enforcement from multiple states concealed their identities by
hiding nameplates and badge numbers, which can prevent individual
officers from being named and deposed in lawsuits around police
brutality and abuse.... Video:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/189249968
Militarized Police Attack Standing Rock Treaty Camp: Rubber Bullets,
Tear Gas, Arrests of Elders Censored News - 27 OCtober 2016
"Today we stood strong against this Nazi oil bought police force.
They set off LRAD on us, hit us, maced us, arrested our
grandmothers, uncles, they shot at our horse relatives, they set off
concussion grenades, rubber bullets into the unarmed crowd. They
desecrated sacred land and destroyed our homes on tribal land. We
had snipers scoping me out with an assault rifle pointed at me and
my relative. Our hearts were wounded but we will regroup and keep
our minds in high vibrations because it is not over.
We will stop the pipeline." Cepoalli...
Dallas Goldtooth
Video On the Front Line
Dallas Goldtooth, Facebook - 27 OCT 2016
"We will not hurt you..." said the cop with the megaphone.
The truth of the matter was just the opposite, as other
videos by numerous sources clearly show.
-- SENAA International
Water Protectors
Being Shot at by Sheriff's Deputies
Indigenous Life Movement - 27 OCT 2016
High Alert! Standing Rock Thursday, 27 OCT 2016 Censored News - 27 OCT 2016
Vic Camp, "We need help. We are surrounded. The government is
moving us out." Camps said his Aunt Casey Camp, his mother and many
relatives were arrested. "Hundreds of people have been arrested."
"We need help my relatives."
OYATE MEDIA NETWORK: Percussion grenades used on large
crowds. Ambulances are running full force here at Oceti Sakowin
camp. Rubber bullets fired at protectors, elders pepper sprayed and
arrested.
Ponca grandmother Casey Camp arrested. Police fire bean bags,
pepper spray. Horse rider shot 4 times with rubber bullets. Elders
arrested in ceremony. One person tasered in face. Cuny Dog has
called all AIM Chapters to the front line. Just now, a herd of
buffalo has come and cheers went out....
A Native-Owned Solar Company Donated These
Solar Panels to Standing Rock
with the Help of Mark Ruffalo! Shout out to the Dine community.
Indigenous Environmental Network, Facebook, and Native
Renewables - 27 OCT 2016
Iowa Woman
Arrested for Trespassing on Her Own Property
DAPL Gained control of her property without her
knowledge or consent We Are the Media - 21 OCT 2016
Question and Answer Session About the DAPL Protests
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Facebook - 27 OCT 2016
Front line with
Jesse Jackson and Mark Ruffalo at Oceti Sakowin Camp
on the front line.
Oceti Sakowin Camp,
Facebook - 26 OCT 2016
Mark Ruffalo in Standing Rock; Leo DiCaprio, Jesse Jackson Head to
Standing Rock
by Vincent Schilling, Indian Country Today - 26 OCT 2016
Actor Mark Ruffalo arrived in North Dakota yesterday to show
his support of the Standing Rock tribe’s opposition to the Dakota
Access Pipeline. In addition to Ruffalo’s support, actor and
activist Leonardo DiCaprio says he is on his way to North Dakota.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson is in North Dakota today.
Ruffalo, who is the co-founder of The Solutions Project, a
non-profit that promotes clean and renewable energy, told the AP he
plans to deliver a pair of Navajo-made solar trailers to assist in
power needs of water protector encampments. Ruffalo’s latest role
will be as Bruce Banner, aka The Hulk, in the upcoming Thor Ragnarok,
which happens to be helmed by indigenous director Taika Waititi....
Ruffalo, who is an outspoken activist and proudly asserts
“water is life,” confirmed Tuesday night during a press conference
in Ft. Yates that DiCaprio will also be coming to North Dakota to
join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in opposition of the Dakota
Access Pipeline....
Oceti
Sakowin Camp Evening of 26 OCT 2016
Oceti Sakowin Camp, Facebook - 26 OCT 2016
Standing 100% with Standing Rock Panel!! Indigenous Environmental Network - 26 OCT 2016
Statement by Former Vice President Al Gore in Support of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Al Gore, algore.com - 25 OCT 2016
“I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their
opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We have witnessed
inspiring and brave acts by Native Americans and their allies who
are defending and trying to protect their sacred sites and the
safety of their sole source of water.
The fossil fuel industry – and the owners of the Dakota
Access Pipeline in particular – have been proceeding with what
appears to be a dangerous project in blatant disregard of obvious
risks to the Missouri River and with disrespect to the Standing Rock
Sioux.
In the process, those trying to force completion of this
pipeline have – according to independent news reports – been using
oppressive practices against this community. In response, Standing
Rock Chairman David Archambault has requested that the Justice
Department deploy observers to ensure that the First Amendment
rights of those peacefully opposing this pipeline are protected. I
hope his request is honored....
On the Front Line
with Mark Ruffalo and Jesse Jackson
Indigenous Environmental Network, Facebook - 26 OCT 2016
Live
with Mark Ruffalo, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Dallas Goldtooth,
Kandi Mossett
Indigenous Environmental Network, Facebook - 26 OCT 2016
Human Blockade Crosses Highway 1806
by Lauren Donovan and Caroline Grueskin, Bismarck Tribune
- 26 OCT 2016
Police appear to be squaring off and moving in closer to a
human blockade on Highway 1806 that has been enforced with horses
and hay bales. Protesters have put on masks and indicated they are
ready to be arrested.
"We've got to make our bodies a living sacrifice," said John
Perko, a protester from South Dakota.
"The preference is not be arrested. The preference is to be
heard, and honored and understood," protester Kellie Berns said.
Protester Andy Kilchrist, 71, who had been arrested Saturday
in the biggest one-day roundup by law enforcement, was carrying a
bag with fleece pajamas in preparation for being cuffed again and
taken to jail.
"So what? What am I going to do with the rest of my life?"
she said.
Another activist walked up and down the roadway reciting a
lawyer's phone number.
"Write it on your body," he advised, and one man rolled up
his pants and put the number on his calf.
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman said the pipeline protest
is "in a corner" and wishes Dakota Access would slow down and give
the process more time.
While Jesse Jackson led prayers for hope and strength in the
chill of a foggy morning on Highway 1806 asphalt, a member of the
encampment announced that police have pledged to clear the pipeline
route and anyone in the way would be subject to arrest. Jackson led
prayer inside a deep circle near where the Dakota Access Pipeline
protesters have set up their stand.
Jackson made connections between the troubles of black
Americans and Native Americans with such past situations as
stop-and-frisk procedures and voting rights.
"We will hold out one day longer," he said....
Sacred Ground Camp Braces as Police Convoy Lurks; Wed. 26 Oct 2016 Red Warrior Camp Alert: 12:30
pm Censored News - 26 OCT 2016 ATTENTION RELATIVES:
The water protectors were given an hour notice to disperse.
That hour is now over. It is being reported that the protectors are
being slowly surrounded by highly militarized law enforcement.
Our elders and spiritual leaders have put up alters the protect the
water and our People. The prayers are strong and our warriors'
hearts will not back down. We are asking for prayers and support!
The time is now! Please come to the frontlines!
Rev. Jesse Jackson and actor Mark Ruffalo are on the front
line....
Protesters Decry Use of Hennepin Co. Sheriff's Equipment, Staff at
Pipeline Demonstrations MPR News - 26 OCT 2016
Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday
afternoon, calling for Minnesota authorities to withdraw law
enforcement help for police forces at the Dakota Access Pipeline
protest.
The gathering came after protesters spotted equipment with
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office markings headed for a protest by
pipeline opponents in North Dakota. • Earlier: At Standing Rock, protest camp becomes a
movement
"If the sheriff has the money to send people to North Dakota,
we can take that money back and reinvest it in our communities,"
said Minneapolis city council member Alondra Cano. "We need to be
doing the work here at home, not intervening in other projects in
other states."
A statement from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office on
Monday confirmed that the agency was sending equipment and personnel
to Morton County, North Dakota, in response to a request by that
state, and approved by the state of Minnesota. The request came
under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a national mutual
aid agreement among law enforcement and public safety agencies....
An Urgent Plea: Dangerous Human Rights Crisis Taking Place Now at
Standing Rock
by Rebecca Kemble, Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative - 25
OCT 2016
A few days ago, I received an email from a First Nation’s
woman, a member of the Hunkpapa and Mnicoujou bands of the Lakota.
She had heard I had been arrested at Standing Rock, and was writing
to send me prayers and beg for help. With her permission I am
publishing the emails and the photos she forwarded of the Dakota
Access Pipeline workers (DAPL) who have set up their own camp,
complete with barbed wire and police protection.
She mentions that members of the Standing Rock Sioux took a
walk on October 21 with various members of the Army Corp of
Engineers, elected officials, archeological officers, and others,
pointing out the sacred sites in this area. She is concerned that
the same thing that happened on September 3 will happen again—that
once DAPL is made aware of just where the sacred sites are, they
will deliberately destroy them....
Dane County Sheriff Recalls Deputies from North Dakota Pipeline
Protests
Madison alder describes 'hostile' experience with law
enforcement
by Nicole Ki, The Badger Herald - 25 OCT 2016
After sending 10 deputies to North Dakota Oct. 9 to aid with
crowd control at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Dane County
Sheriff David Mahoney has already recalled the deputies earlier than
planned because of concerns from Madison residents.
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office does not typically send
deputies across county or state lines unless they are specifically
requested to do so. But after the Morton County Sheriff’s office in
North Dakota contacted the U.S. Department of Justice requesting
assistance for large scale crowd control, Mahoney answered the call
to send trained officers to help assist in overseeing the protests.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is a project that proposes to
transport crude oil from the North Dakota into Illinois. It is
approximately 1,172 miles long and would span four states.
Opposition toward the North Dakota pipeline includes concerns
over constructing and destroying tribal lands belonging to Native
Americans and health issues, such as contaminating the water supply
and limiting resources, that could negatively affect neighboring
inhabitants, especially those of the Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation, Richard Monette, professor of law at the University of
Wisconsin, said.
Along with highlighting the plight of Native Americans, the
protests have also brought attention to law enforcement’s methods on
mitigating and controlling protests.
Dakota Access Says Trespassers Will Be ‘Removed from the Land’ as
Law Officers Mobilize Bismarck Tribune - 26 OCT 2016
MORTON COUNTY – As actor Mark Ruffalo arrived to support
their cause, protesters camping in the path of the Dakota Access
Pipeline braced Tuesday for action by a growing police and military
force to the north after the pipeline company issued a foreboding
statement saying trespassers will be prosecuted and “removed from
the land.”
“We believe they are going to try to take us,” Vanessa Dundon
of White Cone, Ariz., said as she manned a traffic checkpoint near
the new “front-line” camp established Sunday to stop pipeline
construction from crossing N.D. Highway 1806 and reaching the
Missouri River.
About five miles away, a law enforcement staging area had
grown considerably from the day before, with several buses and
National Guard Humvees parked among military-style tents and
emergency trailers. Officers from at least six states have answered
Morton County’s call for help in dealing with protest activities
that started 11 weeks ago....
Nearly $6 Million Spent in Response to Protest Movement
by Nick Smith, Bismarck Tribune - 26 OCT 2016
About $5.75 million has been spent by the North Dakota
Department of Emergency Services in its response to the Dakota
Access Pipeline protests in Morton County, according to DES
spokeswoman Cecily Fong.
A request to increase the line of credit beyond the $6
million already approved by the state is expected to be submitted in
the near future.
Fong indicated she was unsure when the request would be
submitted nor how much more money was needed.
The dollars, borrowed from the Bank of North Dakota, will
have to be repaid with interest. DES will be asking for a deficiency
appropriation during the 2017 session.
The agency has never had to deal with a response to members
of a protest who have been camping on land near the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe reservation in recent months. Numerous demonstrations at
construction sites in the region have led to 269 arrests since Aug.
10....
WAR CRIME: Morton County Engaged in Torture -- Hooded Water
Protector
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 25 OCT 2016 Morton Country Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier displayed proof
that law enforcement is engaged in torture at Standing Rock. This
photo posted by the Sheriff's Department is at the site of a
lockdown on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, by a Standing Rock water
protector. The water protector's goal was to halt the construction
of the Dakota Access Pipeline which is rapidly approaching the
Missouri River, and threatening to poison the river with an
underwater crude oil pipeline.
Morton County engaged in a second act of torture when it
forced the daughter of LaDonna Brave Bull Allard to remain naked in
a jail cell. Her daughter was arrested for no credible cause,
strip-searched and forced to remain naked in a jail cell all
night....
NOTE: Seven additional counts of torture--this time of a
minor--allegedly occurred when the underage daughter of the Cheyenne
River Sioux Tribe was arrested on misdemeanor charges and strip
searched a total of SEVEN times, as she was allegedly passed from
one department to another.
-- SENAA International
Attorney General Reviewing Dakota Access' Claim It Bought Ranch to
Ensure Worker Safety
by Lauren Donovan, Bismarck Tribune - 26 OCT 2016
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is reviewing a justification
by Dakota Access LLC for its recent purchase of Cannonball Ranch,
where it is advancing pipeline construction toward the Missouri
River in the face of protests.
Stenehjem had asked the company to explain how its Sept. 22
purchase of the 6,000-acre Cannonball Ranch from David Meyer fits
with the state’s anti-corporate farming law, which prohibits
corporations from owning agricultural land, except under very narrow
restrictions.
Attorney Lawrence Bender says the company purchased the land
to provide for the safety of its workers and to manage people going
on and off the pipeline right of way. He said the attorney general’s
office has interpreted a corporation’s right to own agricultural
land when it’s necessary for commercial or industrial purposes to
mean "needed to achieve its business or industrial purposes on a
case-by-case basis.”
Bender told the attorney general’s office that after the
pipeline is complete, Dakota Access will transfer ownership of the
property or use it for some purpose that complies with North Dakota
law.
Stenehjem spokeswoman Liz Brocker said the office has no
comment on the company's response while the case is under review.
Former Agriculture Department commissioner Sarah Vogel, a
defender of the anti-corporate farming law, says the purchase
violates the law, since Dakota Access already had the necessary
easement for pipeline construction. Stenehjem could take the matter
to court if he finds the company in violation.
Unicorn Riot
Short Video of the New Camp Set Up On Treaty Land,
Where the Sioux Nation Has Declared Eminent Domain Against DAPL
Unicorn Riot, Facebook - 23 OCT 2016
Water Protectors
in Iowa, 19 October 2016
Unicorn Riot, Facebook - 19 OCT 2016
Shots
Fired: Morton County Deputies Shooting Media Drone
Morton County Deputies, apparently unaware that they
are committing a felony crime, recklessly endanger lives of Water
Protectors and fellow deputies by shooting into the air at a media
drone.
Dr0ne2bwild Photography, Facebook -
23 OCT 2016
THE BURNING QUESTION: Why is the Morton County Sheriff's
Deparment and its deputies so averse to having media present to
document their actions if they are being honest and truthful with
the public?
Meanwhile, the Water Protectors, the more than 200 Indigenous
Nations, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe WELCOME the media and
urge them to be present to document everything that happens, both on
the front lines and at the camps.
Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Reacts to Weekend Arrests KFYR-TV - 23 OCT 2016
CANNON BALL, N.D. - In response to the 127 people arrested
this weekend during protest actions against the Dakota Access
Pipeline, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II
released the following statement.
The militarization of local law enforcement and enlistment of
multiple law enforcements agencies from neighboring states is
needlessly escalating violence and unlawful arrests against peaceful
protestors at Standing Rock. We do not condone reports of illegal
actions, but believe the majority of peaceful protestors are
reacting to strong-arm tactics and abuses by law enforcement.
Thousands of water protectors have joined the Tribe in
solidarity against DAPL, without incident or serious injury. Yet,
North Dakota law enforcement have proceeded with a disproportionate
response to their nonviolent exercise of their First Amendment
rights, even going as far as labeling them rioters and calling their
every action illegal....
Red Warrior Camp
Press Release
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2016
141
Water Protectors Arrested as Police Escalate Violent Militarized
Response
On Saturday, hundreds of water protectors from different nations
were met with violence by militarized police in riot gear, and
approximately 141 were arrested. Four protectors locked themselves
to a disabled car at an active construction site, stopping
construction for approximately 7 hours. Then a peaceful procession
of hundreds walked to the sacred sites intentionally destroyed by
Dakota Access LLC on September 3rd.
The lit sage and songs of hundreds of Native men, women, children,
and elders were peaceful and prayerful despite Morton County Sheriff
Kirchmeier’s allegations of violence and lawlessness. After
receiving a dispersal notice, a large group of protectors, including
elders and children, attempted to leave but were surrounded by
police. Law enforcement began to spray mace and throw people to the
ground without provocation. One young woman of the International
Indigenous Youth Council was injured when a police officer hit her
wrist with a baton. Two members of the press were targeted for
arrest and had their equipment was confiscated.
Due to a lack of space to hold the 141 arrested, Morton
County sent protectors to several county jails, including Mercer,
Cass, Stutsman, Lake Region, Stark, and McLean counties. Arrestees
continue to report being strip searched for misdemeanor charges.
One of those protectors, longtime land defender and justice
advocate Michael Bowersox stated,
“I am taking this action to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from
plowing up sacred sites that are here, near the Missouri River. I'm
also taking this action to protect the water and for the future
generations in alliance with and an accomplice to the first people
of this nation.” Bowersox went on to call for more protectors, “I
hope other people will step up to stop this pipeline from being
built; we can't be dependent on fossil fuels if we expect the
children seven generations from now to have a healthy earth,
environment, and clean water to drink.”
Another protector, Chepa Cubias, said,
“I engaged in this action as part of my responsibility to my mother.
If you see your mother violently attacked you run to put your body
between her and the violent perpetrator. [Dakota Access was] right
on burial grounds sacred to my Lakota relatives. As Native folks we
understand more than the right to clean water, we have the
responsibility to keep water clean. That's why we need to listen to
the caretakers of the land that are here to protect it. It is our
responsibility!”
LaDonna Allard, a Standing Rock Sioux tribal member who founded
the Sacred Stone Camp, spoke of the sacred sites people are trying
to protect,
“There are sacred sites, cultural sites, traditional cultural
properties, and burial sites that the State Historical Society knew
of they should've followed the law and must protect these sites.
But they are pushing the sites under the rug and no one is talking
about it. There's the executive order protecting sacred places E.O.
130007, NAGPRA, ARPA, and the NHPA that are supposed to protect
these sites. AIRFA is supposed to give Natives the right to visit
these places. To the North Dakota SHPO: just because you accepted
the money from the oil company does not mean you have the right to
violate our rights. No one has the right to take our footprint off
the earth."
NORTH DAKOTA'S PEACE OFFICER CODE OF CONDUCT AND OATH by Al Swilling, SENAA International
- 24 OCT 2016
North Dakota Law Contains a Detailed Code of Conduct and Oath of
Office That Its Peace Officers Must Vow to Uphold--That Applies to
the Morton County, ND, Sheriff, His Deputies, and Reinforcements
from Other Sheriff's Departments Who Are Working Temporarily for the
Morton County Sheriff, or for any other Law Enforcement entity in
the state of North Dakota....
Chief
Arvol Looking Horse: The Dark Spirit and Disease of the Mind
by Arvol Looking Horse, Censored News - 22 OCT 2016 Protecting the Sacred
Mitakuyape (are now up against dangerous decisions that are
coming from the disease of the mind. We are dealing with minds that
hold no values of respect and honor toward another Nation’s Burials
and Sacred Sites. Money has contaminated their minds to want the
power to desecrate the sacredness of Mother Earth and allow my
People’s burial places to be destroyed in order to continue to erase
our culture.
As Keeper of this Spirit Bundle of my People, we as the
Buffalo People - Pte Oyate, have been able to keep our ceremonies
and way of life for 19 generations in tact, which every generation
is 100 years. This Bundle has been with us for over 2000 years,
which has guided us through massacres and hard times, even when it
was hidden until the 1978 Freedom of Religion Act.
Tim Mentz –Tatanka Duta (Red Bull) and his family lineal
knowledge are bound by this same woope – Creator’s Law....
October 23, 2016: Citing 1851 Treaty, Water Protectors Establish
Road Blockade and Expand Frontline #NoDAPL Camp Camp of the Sacred Stones - 23 OCT 2016
Cannon Ball, ND - This morning, at approximately 8am central,
water protectors took back unceded territory affirmed in the 1851
Treaty of Ft. Laramie as sovereign land under the control of the
Oceti Sakowin, erecting a frontline camp of several structures and
tipis on Dakota Access property, just east of ND state highway 1806.
This new established camp is 2.5 miles north of the Cannon Ball
River, directly on the proposed path of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
This site is directly across the road from where DAPL security dogs
attacked water protectors on September 3rd....
To ensure the protection of this new camp from overtly
militarized law enforcement, water protectors have established three
road blockades:
1. North of the Frontline Camp, on Highway 1806
2. South of the Cannon Ball River, on Highway 1806
3. Immediately west of Highway 1806, on county road 134
Police have discharged weapons, using rubber bullets to shoot
down drones being used to document the police activity and
actions....
BREAKING NEWS! Standing Rock Water Protectors Defend Sacred Water
Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 Censored News - 23 OCT 2016
Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier speaking to
water protectors today. Frazier said he is asking lawyers to file
for eminent domain of the land here. Frazier also said Cheyenne
River Lakotas will be arriving on Monday. Our numbers are needed
now, he said.
Sunday 1:00 pm: Approximately four hundred (400) of our
people have blocked Highway 1806 at Standing Rock. This is almost
the entire encampment. They've used their vehicles and are gathering
(Our people). The police are starting to make arrests.
Cell reception has always been spotty there. So, someone will
be uploading videos soon.
Those who are near are asked to gather for another
non-violent demonstration tomorrow, Monday. Expect to get pepper
spray used on you. Do not resist. Expect to go to jail. Do not
resist.
If your heart and mind are set on violence, then stay home,
this is a non-violent protest. My Elders have spoken. Respect their,
our, wishes....
Minneapolis Third City to Pass Resolution Supporting Standing Rock
Sioux Nation
Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Seattle pass resolutions
supporting Standing Rock Sioux Nation and halt of Dakota Access
Pipeline
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - Originally Published on 02
SEP 2016
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minneapolis is now the third city to pass a
resolution in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation's fight to
halt the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Cities of Seattle and St. Paul previously passed
resolutions in support of halting the pipeline that threatens the
water source, the Missouri River, of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota
peoples.
Members of the Minneapolis City Council and St. Paul City
Council will deliver the resolutions in person to the camp, where
thousands are camping, on on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, at 10:00 a.m.
Over 180 resolutions have been received from around the world
supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and halting the pipeline.
Minneapolis said in its resolution, "The Dakota Access
pipeline – a project also financially supported by the Enbridge
company – has received weeks of resistance from the Oceti Sakowin,
or the Seven Council Fires comprised of the Lakota, Dakota, and
Nakota Nations."
"The Oceti Sakowin established the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp
in Cannon Ball, North Dakota to halt the project due to its lack of
environmental review and consultation with Tribal leaders."
"If built, this line would carry as many as 570,000 barrels
of fracked crude oil per day for more than 1,100 miles from the
Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to Illinois," Minneapolis said.
(See resolution below.)...
Indigenous Resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline Resolution
Passage of Resolution expressing solidarity with
Indigenous resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline Minneapolis City Council - 19 AUG 2016
Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved:
By the Mayor and City Council of the City of Minneapolis,
that we stand in support of the Indigenous opposition to the Dakota
Access Pipeline and we call on all residents of Minneapolis to raise
awareness about this important struggle for Indigenous sovereignty
and environmental justice and to support the Sacred Stones Camp
efforts in any way they can....
Adopted by Council this Nineteenth Day of August 2016 A.D.
VIDEO:
Dakota Excess Pipeline - Oil Is Life
(LANGUAGE - May not be suitable for younger or sensitive viewers) The Juice Media - 22 OCT 2016
Wes Studi Shares #NoDAPL Experience with the Traveling NDN
by Cary Rosenbaum, Tribal Tribune - 22 OCT 2016
The term "sugarcoat" is one sparingly utilized in the thought
process of Wes Studi, Indian country's renowned actor. This
68-year-old Cherokee man tells it like it is. He's a guy who has
genuine concerns not only for the well-being of Native Americans,
but the state of the world.
Just a couple years back, during an interview in Santa Clara,
California, I asked Studi if he had any fears. He told me he was
worried about what's going on in the cradle of civilization between
Israel and Palestine.
The item he's lending his thoughts—and, now, time—to today is
the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's peaceful protest of the $3.8
billion, 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline. Thousands have come from
across the world to stand in solidarity over the protection of clean
water at the Cannon Ball, North Dakota encampment, which sits on the
confluence of the Missouri and Cannon Ball rivers.
Studi spent five days at the protest site to demonstrate his
agreement. He was active on social media. Every update to Facebook
received thousands of combined likes, shares and comments on his
posts, raising the profile for the cause—a historic one which has
united the seven Sioux nations for the first time since the Battle
of the Little Bighorn in 1876 and attracted solidarity from more
than 300 tribes.
"It was a matter of being a part of something I've always
been a part of," Studi said. "It's a reiteration of my commitment to
being part of the American Indian community. I do my part as much as
I possibly can."...
Dallas
Goldtooth Update
Dallas Goldtooth, Facebook - 22 OCT 2016
Tipiziwin 'Warriors Come Back! They are Chasing our People to the
River'
Videos reveal unprovoked police brutality today,
water protectors beaten with police batons, pepper sprayed, large
number arrested
by Tipiziwin Tolman, Censored News - 22 OCT 2016
Please watch the video posted by Wiyaka Eagle Man, the
police, the military, armored vehicles, assault rifles, they are
chasing our people, surrounded our people, chasing them into the
river. I started crying, holding my baby daughter, because we come
from so much people who were chased down, hunted down and gunned
down by the military and the police. History is repeating itself.
All those stories we were raised with, that we carry in our hearts,
of our people, fleeing, running, racing, for our lives, just to
live. We are the grandchildren and great grandchildren of those who
survived the US Government federally mandated massacres on our
people.
Ikíčhize wičháša épi na Ikíčhize Wíŋyaŋ nitȟáwapi kiŋ
uwíčhaša yo! SEND YOUR MEN AND WOMEN WARRIORS HERE!!
Come back to Standing Rock's northern border, all Ocheti
Sakowin, all nations, all people. Come be a witness for the water
and for the world. Come stand and protect our people and our water
and our future.
Please. Remember all those caravans from Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River,
Lower Brule, etc., come back, and come now.
Even if you have to walk....
North
Dakota Police ‘Out Of Control’ In Crackdown On Dakota Access
Pipeline Protests
Police have beaten, harassed, and strip-searched
activists and even confiscated sacred Native American drums, a civil
liberties group reports.
by Kit O'Connell, Mint Press News - 22 OCT 2016
STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, North Dakota — As reports of
police abuse at Dakota Access Pipeline protests accumulate, a civil
liberties NGO warns that activists’ constitutional rights are under
attack.
“In Standing Rock, the cops are out of control,” warned
Cooper Brinson, staff attorney at Civil Liberties Defense Center, in
a report published on Thursday.
Citing reports of humiliation, beatings by police, and
unnecessary strip-searches of arrestees, Brinson wrote:
“The actions of police against the land and water protectors
at Standing Rock are depraved, abusive, and disgraceful. They are
exceedingly disrespectful and radically humiliating to the people
who have occupied this land since time immemorial.”
Brinson reported that police have confiscated sacred tribal
drums and tools used by Native American journalists....
Police Beat Water Protectors with Batons, Pepper Spray Them During
Prayer
Police beat Native American Water Protectors with
batons and pepper spray them in unprovoked attack
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 22 OCT 2016
STANDING ROCK, North Dakota -- The Morton County Sheriff and
police carried out a brutal attack on Native Americans as they
gathered for prayer today. Native Americans and supporters defending
the water of the Missouri River from the Dakota Access Pipeline were
beaten with batons by police, pepper sprayed and thrown to the
ground.
More than 80 water protectors were arrested today during the
unprovoked attack by police on peaceful water protectors. The police
are defending a private pipeline.
Tipiwizin, a young mother at Standing Rock, called out for
help, urging all those who came and camped at Standing Rock to
return.
"The police, the military, armored vehicles, assault rifles,
they are chasing our people, surrounded our people, chasing them
into the river."
Watching the live stream today, she said, "I started crying,
holding my baby daughter, because we come from people who were
chased down, hunted down and gunned down by the military and the
police. History is repeating itself. All those stories we were
raised with, that we carry in our hearts, of our people, fleeing,
running, racing, for our lives, just to live. We are the
grandchildren and great grandchildren of those who survived the US
Government federally mandated massacres on our people."
NOW! Standing Rock: Water Protectors Running, Surrounded, Arrests
Underway Sat. Oct. 22, 2016
Standing Rock Water Protectors Beaten with Batons,
Pepper Sprayed During Prayer
Watch video above now!
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 22 OCT 2016
Message from water protector: "Sitting at the hospital in
Fort Yates because today at the action the police maced, and hit
innocent people with their batons. Our fellow youth council members
were hit with a baton multiple times because they tried to protect
the children. One of us got arrested and another is in the hospital.
This is what they are doing to us. Police brutality at its finest
people. We are unarmed. We are peaceful & prayerful. Come stand with
standing rock. Pray for us please!"
STANDING ROCK CAMP -- Water protectors were pepper sprayed
and thrown to the ground by police. About 200 water protectors
carried out a prayer walk on Saturday morning, where one lock down
was underway at sunrise.
Eighty by heavily armed Morton County Sheriff and police.
The arrests include Lorenzo, Unicorn Riot live streamer. This
makes the fifth Unicorn Riot live streamer arrested.
The location is three miles west of 1806. Hwy 1806 closed in
both directions Saturday morning....
You can see the videos of what went down on the link
below:...
Unprovoked Attacks on Peaceful Water Protectors by the Conglomerate
of Law Enforcement Officers Headed by the Morton County Sheriff and
His Deputies
Angela Ohmer, Facebook - 22 OCT 2016
Non-resistant Water Protectors are being thrown to the
ground, beaten with batons, and sprayed with whatever agent the cops
are armed with.
Cops also armed themselves with shotguns and rubber bullets.
Cops armed with shotguns can be seen in other videos of today's
action, and one of the people video recording the action said that
the law enforcement had rubber bullets, but that has not been
confirmed or dismissed. Without confirmation that the bullets were,
indeed, rubber bullets, it should be assumed that the ammunition in
the cops' weapons is regular, police issue, live, deadly ammunition.
In either case, the Water Protectors are unarmed and nonviolent, and
there were children present; so the use of ANY firearms, even firing
rubber bullets, is not only unnecessary, it's an unprovoked,
wrongful use of firearms by law enforcement officers.
The real danger here is that some trigger-happy deputy will
fire into the crowd and trigger an all-out, full-fledged massacre at
the hand of the Morton County Sheriff's minions.
Shailene Woodley: The Truth About My Arrest TIME Magazine - 20 OCT 2016
Shailene Woodley was arrested last week and charged with
criminal trespassing and engaging in a riot. She pled not guilty on
Wednesday. This is her first full statement in response to what
happened.
I was arrested on Oct. 10, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a
holiday where America is meant to celebrate the indigenous people of
North America.
I was in North Dakota, standing in solidarity, side-by-side
with a group of over 200 water protectors, people who are fighting
the Dakota Access Pipeline.
People who carry a rainbow of colors on their skin. People
who gathered together because they realize that if we don’t begin
taking genuine steps to protect our precious resources—our soil, our
water, our essential elements—we will not have a healthy or thriving
planet to pass on to future generations....
Morton Co. Police Strip Search Lakota Woman, Leave in Jail Cell
Naked LaDonna Brave Bull Allard describes how Morton
County police arrested her daughter, without any cause. She was
strip searched by male officers and left naked in a jail cell all
night.
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 19 OCT 2016
STANDING ROCK, North Dakota -- Morton County police and jail
guards are violating human rights and engaged in militarized sexual
violence, as they illegally strip search Lakotas who are defending
the Missouri River, and ancestral burial places, from Dakota Access
Pipeline.
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, who owns the land where Sacred
Stone Camp is located, said her daughter was strip searched, and
left naked in a jail cell all night.
"They are targeting our families," Allard said.
Allard describes how Morton County police followed a car that
her daughter, an adult, was riding in. Her daughter was a passenger
in the back seat.
She was arrested with no cause given and taken to Morton
County Jail.
"Three male officers, and one female officer stripped her
naked. Then they took her naked and put her in a jail cell and left
her there all night."
Then, in the morning, they came in and gave her a jump suit.
When Allard questioned what the charge was, Morton Co.
continually changed their response as to what the charge is. Morton
Co. made various claims about charges, including speeding, but her
daughter wasn't driving, and attempted to charge $500 for "living at
the camp," and then Morton Co. basically said they didn't like her
attitude....
Dine' Stand with Standing Rock "NoDAPL" Censored News - 19 OCT 2016
by Carol Davis, Coordinator, Dine' Citizens Against Ruining our
Environment
Photos by Dana Powell
DILKON, Arizona -- A delegation of Diné citizens and allies
has just returned from a week of lending their labor, solidarity,
and prayers to the NoDAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) movement in
Standing Rock Sioux territory.
Organized by the grassroots organization Diné Citizens
Against Ruining our Environment, the 21-person delegation journeyed
from the Navajo Nation to the Mni Sose (Missouri) River, near Cannon
Ball, North Dakota.
The caravan of one pickup truck, SUV, and 15-passenger van
journeyed northeast, through Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming,
and South Dakota and covered 1,170 miles: the exact same mileage of
the proposed oil pipeline (1,172 miles)....
Protectors of the Sacred
A Reminder of Why The Stand against DAPL is Happening
Myron Dewey, YouTube - 10 SEP 2016
DAPL Convoy of 10 Oversized Semis Headed Toward Missouri River Censored News - 18 OCT 2016
Johnny K. Dangers reporting live from Standing Rock
Breaking: Convoy of 10 Fully Oversized Semis loaded
We just saw a Convoy of 10 fully oversized semis loaded with
NEW Dakota Access Pipeline heading south on Highway 6 directly where
the pipeline crosses the road. Heavy construction is ongoing east of
the highway with large crews. DAPL is working as fast as possible to
race towards the Missouri River. We must stop the Black Snake!
Share! #NoDAPL #WaterisLife #KeepitintheGround...
Chili Yazzie - Beyond the Pipeline, Standing Rock is Ultimate Stand
for Earth Mother
by Chili Yazzie, Dine'; Censored News - 18 OCT
2016 Letter to the Editor, Censored News
In struggles throughout history there is a positive and
negative side, justice versus injustice, good against evil. The
standoff at Standing Rock is such a story. The Energy Transfer
Partners with its Dakota Access Pipeline and supporters on one side;
the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and supporters on the other.
Standing Rock and multitudes of people oppose inflicting more
damage to the earth. The pipeline will destroy waters of life and
further contaminate the environment. The permanent consequences of
climate change will be inherited by our grandchildren.
In this confrontation between the Destroyers and the
Protectors; the Destroyers have the power of physical advantage and
the Protectors have the power of spiritual advantage. The spiritual
always prevails over the physical....
First Baby Born on the banks of the Cannon Ball River Indigenous Midwifery - 17 OCT 2016
First baby born on the banks of the Cannon Ball River into
the arms of the birthing mama.
What a beautiful blessing for the water protectors and camp.
"Babyna blessed the grounds and her relatives....born before
dawn in her Ina's arms and warm teepee along the banks of the Cannon
Ball River where our Lakota Dakota people have gathered power since
the begining of our time. Mni Wiconi perfect health and balance.
Wopida for the prayers, support family."- Zintkala Mahpiya Wi
Blackowl...
"We're Going to Call That a Win": Water Protectors Promise More
Protests as Felony Charges Dropped Democracy Now! - 18 OCT 2016
At the Morton County Courthouse in North Dakota on Monday,
authorities dropped or rejected multiple felony and misdemeanor
charges against water protectors involved in the ongoing resistance
to the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, including a felony
charge against Marcus Frejo Little Eagle, known by his artist name
Quese IMC. "Water is what’s going to bring our people back
together," he says. "This destructive unnatural force that is trying
to destroy this water is the same force that dismantled our homes
back in the day during the Indian wars." The state also dropped a
felony charge against Little Eagle’s nephew, Morgan Frejo.
Misdemeanor charges against water defender Cody Hall were also
dropped....
Standing Rock Sioux Pediatrician: Threat from Fracking Chemicals is
"Environmental Genocide" Democracy Now! - 18 OCT 2016
In an extended interview with one of the first people arrested in
the resistance movement against the Dakota Access pipeline, Dr. Sara
Jumping Eagle explains, "as a physician, I’m very aware of what the
health effects could be of a pipeline spill … among our
communities." Jumping Eagle is a pediatrician and a member of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe...
Why Is
North Dakota Strip-Searching Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters
Charged with Misdemeanors? Democracy Now! - 18 OCT 2016
Resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline has been met by an
ongoing crackdown on water and land protectors by the Morton County
Sheriff’s Department. In recent weeks, there has been widespread use
of strip search in the Morton County jail. Democracy Now! spoke with
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair Dave Archambault II about whether
he had been strip-searched after he was arrested at a protest and
with Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, a pediatrician and a member of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who also says she was strip-searched after
she was arrested on August 11, taken to Morton County jail and
charged with disorderly conduct....
Midwives at Dakota Access Resistance Camps: We Can Decolonize,
Respect Women & Mother Earth Democracy Now! - 18 OCT 2016
Thousands of people have flocked from across the United
States, Latin America and Canada to join the resistance camps
opposing the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access
pipeline. Most are Native Americans representing hundreds of tribes
from across the Americas. The ongoing encampment is considered one
of the largest gatherings of Native Americans in decades. People
have set up multiple kitchens, a school that teaches Lakota
languages and other subjects, and medical services to care for the
thousands who come to join the resistance to the pipeline. On
Monday, a group of indigenous midwives posted online that the first
baby was born in the camp. When Democracy Now! was in Cannon Ball,
North Dakota, this weekend, we spoke with women and midwives about
the importance of reproductive healthcare at the resistance
camps....
Charges Dropped Against Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Member;
Surveillance of DAPL Resistance Continues Video & Transcript Democracy Now! - 18 OCT 2016
We speak with Cody Hall of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe,
who had a warrant issued for his arrest for two misdemeanors of
criminal trespass for land defense actions related to the Dakota
Access pipeline and was arrested in a dramatic traffic stop that he
says involved at least 18 law enforcement officials. On Monday, he
learned the charges were dropped, but says he is still under
surveillance....
Winona
LaDuke & Tara Houska on the Indigenous Resistance
to the Dakota Access Pipeline, Part 1
Dakota Excess Pipeline? Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched,
Jailed for Days on Minor Charges (Click
Title to go to the Transcript
at Democracy Now!)
Democracy Now! - 17 OCT 2016
We discuss the crackdown on the resistance to the Dakota
Access pipeline with Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist and
executive director of the group Honor the Earth who lives and works
on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, and Tara
Houska, national campaigns director for Honor the Earth. Police have
begun deploying military-grade equipment, including armored
personnel carriers, surveillance helicopters, planes and drones.
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple activated the National Guard in
late September. Roughly 140 people have been arrested. Some report
being strip-searched in custody at the Morton County jail and being
held for days without bond, even when they are facing minor
misdemeanor charges....
Part 2: Winona LaDuke & Tara Houska on the Indigenous Resistance to
the Dakota Access Pipeline(Click Title to go
to the Transcript
at Democracy Now!) Democracy Now! - 17 OCT 2016
In this web-only exclusive, Amy Goodman talks with Winona
LaDuke, a Native American activist and executive director of the
group Honor the Earth who lives and works on the White Earth
Reservation in northern Minnesota, and Tara Houska, national
campaigns director for Honor the Earth....
Breaking: Judge Rejects "Riot" Charges Against Amy Goodman in North
Dakota Democracy Now! - 17 OCT 2016
A North Dakota judge today refused to authorize riot charges
against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman for her reporting on an
attack against Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters.
“This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist
to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the public’s right to
know what is happening with the Dakota Access pipeline,” said
Goodman. "We will continue to report on this epic struggle of Native
Americans and their non-Native allies taking on the fossil fuel
industry and an increasingly militarized police in this time when
climate change threatens the planet."
District Judge John Grinsteiner did not find probable cause
to justify the charges filed on Friday October 14 by State’s
Attorney Ladd R. Erickson. Those charges were presented after
Erickson had withdrawn an earlier charge against Goodman of criminal
trespass. Goodman had returned to North Dakota to turn herself in to
the trespassing charge.
The charges in State of North Dakota v. Amy Goodman stemmed
from Democracy Now!’s coverage of protests against the Dakota Access
pipeline. On Saturday, September 3, Democracy Now! filmed security
guards working for the pipeline company attacking protesters....
Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access
Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All.
The charges against Goodman are a clear attack on
journalism and freedom of the press.
by Lizzy Ratner, The Nation - 15 OCT 2016
This Monday morning, shortly after the sun rises
over the small city of Mandan, North Dakota, the award-winning
journalist, and host of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman will walk into
the Morton County–Mandan Combined Law Enforcement and Corrections
Center and turn herself in to the local authorities. Her crime:
good, unflinching journalism.
Goodman had the audacity to commit this journalism on
September 3, when she was in North Dakota covering what she calls
“the standoff at Standing Rock”: the months-long protests by
thousands of Native Americans against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The $3.8 billion oil pipeline is slated to carry barrel after barrel
of Bakken crude through sacred sites and burial grounds of the
Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and tribe members fear it could pollute
the Missouri River, the source not only of their water but of
millions of others’, should the pipe ever rupture. Their protests,
which began in April and ballooned through the summer months,
represent the largest mobilization of Native American activists in
more than 40 years—and one of the most vital campaigns for
environmental justice in perhaps as long....
An Indigenous
singer stands behind a banner that reads "Stand Up to
Big Oil: Protect Our Water," at a protest against the
Dakota Access pipeline in Standing Rock on 10 Oct 2016.
(Photo: Ellen Davidson)
Is Standing Rock the Oil Industry's Last Stand? It's Up to Us to
Make It So
by Four Arrows, Truthout - 17 OCT 2016
Having just flown in from Mexico, my first night at the
campground in Standing Rock felt especially cold. Temperatures had
dropped to the low 30s and strong winds shook my rented minivan
until 4 in the morning. By 6:45 am, the illumination of the yet
invisible sun revealed that many of the tents around me had been
blown down. The tepees of course were still standing. People all
around for as far as I could see were reverently standing and facing
east with hats removed in spite of the nip in the air. An elder's
voice echoed out from the PA system on the hill with a traditional
Lakota prayer and song. I stood similarly, waiting in anticipation
of the ball of sacred fire to make its first appearance and then
staring at it with wide-open eyes seeking a vision from within it
and giving unrestrained thanks for the new day it promised.
By 9 am I had been informed that today there would be no
direct actions to stop the forward progress of the pipe laying, but
that a Veterans for Peace meeting was scheduled for 2 pm. Being a
cofounder of the Northern Arizona chapter of Veterans for Peace, I
was pleased to see the national organization's peace statement
written by Brian Trautman, one of my doctoral students, in support
of the water protectors, and knew from my time at the Pine Ridge
reservation in South Dakota that veterans can play an important role
in such battles as this....
The Arrest of Journalists and Filmmakers Covering the Dakota
Pipeline Is a Threat to Democracy—and the Planet
Deia Schlosberg, Amy Goodman, and Shailene Woodley
are among those who have been arrested while covering demonstrations
against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
by Josh Fox, The Nation - 14 OCT 2016
On October 11, Deia Schlosberg, the producer of my new film,
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t
Change, was arrested in Walhalla, North Dakota, while reporting on a
climate-change protest. She was held for 48 hours before being
allowed to speak to a lawyer. The authorities confiscated her
footage. She is now charged with three counts of felony conspiracy
and faces a possible sentence of up to 45 years.
All this should send chills down the spine of every
documentary filmmaker and journalist....
Director Arrested Filming Dakota Access Pipeline Documentary The Young Turks - 13 OCT 2016
An award-winning documentary filmmaker has been charged with
conspiracy for filming the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Cenk
Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
http://tytnetwork.com/join
"Deia Schlosberg, the producer of my new climate change
documentary, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things
Climate Can't Change, was arrested Tuesday in Walhalla, North
Dakota, for filming a protest action against a pipeline bringing
Canadian tar sands oil into the U.S...
The action was conducted by Climate Direct Action, but Deia
was not part of the group and did not participate in the action,
only filmed it. Her film footage was confiscated and she is
currently being held in jail.
According to Reuters: ...
Good Afternoon,
We, the Native American Indian Movement of Northern Nevada,
are outraged by the actions of the Reno Police Department. We are
disappointed in the charges brought against the driver. It is
unreasonable that the victims of this hate crime are being charged.
It is not reasonable to have a double standard regarding self
defense, based on race. The 'factual account' of events offered by
the Reno Police Department did not include any of the eye witness
accounts of the individuals stalking the Abolish Columbus Day
Protest, the eye witness accounts of them yelling racial slurs, or
the aggressive provocation that happened before the video began.
We demand the charges be dismissed on the two protectors who
tried to stop this violent individual.
We demand that more charges be brought against the driver,
and his passenger.
We demand that the City of Reno publicly abolish Columbus
Day.
We demand Chief Soto's resignation for his lack of leadership
in this investigation.
We will be holding a press conference today, October 15, 2016
at 10AM at Valdez Studio, 940 Matley Lane, Ste 34.
Solidarity,
Raquel Arthur
Sheriff Removes Deputies Who Were Sent to Police Dakota Access
Pipeline Resistance Democracy Now! - 14 OCT 2016
Meanwhile, the sheriff of Dane County, Wisconsin, has pulled
his deputies out of North Dakota, after they were dispatched there
one week ago at the request of the Morton County Sheriff’s Office in
order to police the ongoing resistance to the $3.8 billion Dakota
Access pipeline.
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney said he pulled his deputies
out of North Dakota because "A wide cross-section of the community
... all share the opinion that our deputies should not be involved
in this situation."
This comes after the Morton County Sheriff’s Department
requested hundreds of out-of-state deputies come to North Dakota....
Standing Rock: 16 Water Protectors Arrested Oct. 15, 2016
Massive police force Saturday, 16 arrests Hundreds of water protectors walked in from several directions.
'We walked two miles to support our warrior who is locked down.'
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 15 OCT 2016
ST. ANTHONY -- More than 500 water protectors hiked to the
sites of Dakota Access Pipeline construction and were met with
massive police force and armored vehicles on Saturday. At least 16
water protectors were arrested, including one person who was locked
down for five hours to equipment.
“We walked two miles to support our warrior who is locked down,"
said one woman, among hundreds walking in from several directions.
Water protectors reported seeing the National Guard arrive
near the site where the water protector was locked down to a track
hoe....
Amy Goodman to Turn Herself In, Will Fight 'Clear Violation' of
Press Freedom
Goodman will return to North Dakota to fight charges
of criminal trespassing for filming an attack on protesters at
Dakota Access Pipeline site
by Nadia Prupis, staff writer, Common Dreams - 13
OCT 2016
Award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman
will turn herself in to police in North Dakota next Monday to face
charges stemming from her coverage of a Dakota Access Pipeline
protest last month.
Goodman, whose camera crew filmed a private security team
attacking peaceful Native American protesters with dogs and pepper
spray, faces charges of criminal trespassing—which many have said
amounts to an assault on press freedom. The arrest warrant was
issued on September 8.
In a media advisory issued Thursday, Goodman said, "I will go
back to North Dakota to fight this charge. It is a clear violation
of the First Amendment. I was doing my job as a journalist, covering
a violent attack on Native American protesters."
Prominent journalists and rights advocates have called on
North Dakota prosecutors to drop the charges against Goodman.
On Thursday, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi wrote in a
column that Goodman "was clearly acting as a reporter at the
protest. Moreover, she's as close to the ideal of what it means to
be a journalist as one can get in this business."...
A scene from the
protest site south of Bismarck-Mandan earlier this week.
Forum News Service file photo
Doubling Down, ND Governor Says People Can Decide Whether Tribal
Chairman Has Control over Protest Camp
by Mike Nowatzki, Grand Forks Herald - 12 OCT
2016
BISMARCK – Gov. Jack Dalrymple responded Wednesday, Oct. 12,
to comments made one day earlier by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Chairman Dave Archambault II, who denied telling the governor that
he has lost control of the camp where thousands of Dakota Access
Pipeline opponents are staying in south-central North Dakota.
“People can judge for themselves how much authority Chairman
Archambault has over the situation,” Dalrymple said Wednesday
through spokesman Jeff Zent. “What’s important is that we are all
trying to promote peaceful protest at all times.”
Dalrymple told KFYR radio host Scott Hennen on Tuesday that
among the pipeline protesters is a group of about 200 people who
“are into a more militant form of agitation” and “provide 100
percent of the problems that we deal with.” Authorities have
arrested 123 protesters so far, including 27 on Monday at
construction sites near St. Anthony....
DN! Returning to North Dakota to Continue Coverage of Dakota Access
Pipeline Democracy Now! - October 13, 2016
And an update on our coverage of the Dakota Access pipeline
and the resistance to it: Democracy Now! will be heading back to
North Dakota to continue our coverage of the standoff at Standing
Rock. As has been reported here and elsewhere, as a result of
Democracy Now!’s reporting over Labor Day weekend last month, Amy
Goodman was charged by the state of North Dakota with criminal
trespass. A warrant was issued for her arrest on September 8—five
days after we released video of the Dakota Access pipeline company’s
security guards physically assaulting nonviolent, mostly Native
American land protectors, pepper-spraying them and unleashing attack
dogs, one of which was shown with blood dripping from its nose and
mouth....
Energy policy
adviser Brian Deese, who helped broker the Paris
agreement, is congratulated by President Obama
yesterday. White House photo by Pete Souza.
Why Standing Rock Is a Test for Obama—and All Climate Choices Ahead Resilience - 07 OCT 2016
Ten months ago, the United States told the world it was ready
to do something about climate change. Enough talk. Time to act. And
because of the nature of the crisis, the world’s governments are
moving quickly (well, at least as measured by governments). On
Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced the global agreement
from the Paris talks will begin implementation on November 4 after
being ratified by European nations.
“Today, the world meets the moment. And if we follow through
on the commitments that this agreement embodies, history may well
judge it as a turning point for our planet,” the president said.
The Paris agreement formally begins four days before the U.S.
presidential election, in which Republican Donald Trump opposes that
agreement as well as its science while Democrat Hillary Clinton
strongly supports it....
Army Corps Holds Off on Resuming Dakota Access Pipeline Work
by Blake Nicholson, AP, The Washington Post - 10
OCT 2016
BISMARCK, N.D. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won’t yet
authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access
oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said
Monday, along with reiterating its earlier request that the pipeline
company voluntarily stop work on private land in the area.
The corps’ statement came in the wake of a federal appeals
court ruling Sunday that allowed construction to resume on the
pipeline within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. That ruling sparked a large
protest Monday in North Dakota that led to the arrest of 27 people,
including “Divergent” actress Shailene Woodley, who is known for her
activism.
A joint statement from the Justice Department, Interior
Department and the corps said it was not ready to allow pipeline
work to continue on its land bordering and under Lake Oahe, a
reservoir that the agency manages on the Missouri River and the
water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It also called on
pipeline owner Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners to voluntarily
stop work in the area; ETP didn’t respond to a request from The
Associated Press for comment Sunday or Monday....
Tribal Consultations: Government-to-Government Consultations Set –
All Tribes Invited Breaking News
The Departments of the Army, the Interior and Justice Invite Tribal
Leaders to Participate in Formal Government-to-Government
Consultations on Infrastructure Decision-Making
by Levi Rickert, Native News Online - 23 SEP 2016
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Departments of the Army, the Interior,
and Justice today invited representatives from all 567 federally
recognized tribes to participate in formal, government-to-government
consultations on how Federal decision-making on infrastructure
projects can better allow for timely and meaningful tribal input.
Starting with a listening session on October 11, formal tribal
consultations are scheduled in six regions of the country, from
October 25 through November 21. The deadline for written input will
be November 30....
The Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the
Department of the Interior today issued the following statement
regarding the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:
“We appreciate the D.C. Circuit’s opinion.
“We continue to respect the right to peaceful protest and
expect people to obey the law.
“The Army continues to review issues raised by the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe and other Tribal nations and their members and
hopes to conclude its ongoing review soon. In the interim, the Army
will not authorize constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline on Corps
land bordering or under Lake Oahe. We repeat our request that the
pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within
20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe.
“We also look forward to a serious discussion during a series
of consultations, starting with a listening session in Phoenix on
Tuesday, on whether there should be nationwide reform on the Tribal
consultation process for these types of infrastructure projects.”
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Thanks Giving to Dineh Relocation Resisters at Black Mesa
Bahe - 10 OCT 2016
"- I know many good people, who support the movements of
indigenous resistance and environmental justice are putting your
weight with the protector camps of Standing Rock and for just
reasons! However, The Dineh of Big Mountain have been protecting the
vast Black Mesa area: water ways, ecology, cultural sites for almost
40 years! This steady struggle continues in daily ritual by the
hands of stronghearts who refuse to be moved by anyone else than the
creator. Beyond the hardships of living without plumbing,
electricity, and nearby conveniences, Dineh resistors face
consistent harassment by Government agents to relocate. Also the US
Government has marked this sacred landscape a National Sacrifice
Zone. For at least 20 years at the invitation from the Big Mountain
Dineh, people's throughout Turtle Island gather to aid and abet
their resistance during the week colonizers coined Thanksgiving. The
invitation stands to anyone willing to: respect and follow Dineh law
and leadership, work on Earth centric projects, leave entitlements
at the door, and be as self sufficient as possible. Needs list for the gathering and beyond:
- Large pots and pans, Propane, camp stoves, coolers....
- Bulk rice and beans, oatmeal, cornmeal, potatoes, onions, hard
squash, coffee, tea, sugar, flour,
baking powder, salt, cooking oil,
- Canned goods, eggs....
- Bring out or donate old hand tools: axe, shovel, maul, pick...
- Wheel Barrows!
- Solar equipment: generators, panels, flashlights,
- Auto maintenance supplies; motor oil, antifreeze, brake fluid,
Gas....
- Large tarps and rope
Funds are
short. Supporter cells are autonomous and do not rely on or accept
large donations from institutions or foundations that would
compromise our work or the work of our co-inspiritors."
For more information you can call me 937-479-4214, or email
goatalin@yahoo.com.
Army Corps Holds off on Resuming Dakota Access Pipeline Work Fox News, U.S. - 10 OCT 2016
BISMARK, N.D. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't yet
authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access
oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said
Monday, along with reiterating its earlier request that the pipeline
company voluntarily stop work on private land in the area.
The corps' statement came in the wake of a federal appeals
court ruling Sunday that allowed construction to resume on the
pipeline within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. That ruling sparked a large
protest Monday in North Dakota that led to the arrest of 27 people,
including "Divergent" actress Shailene Woodley, who is known for her
activism.
A joint statement from the Justice Department, Interior
Department and the corps said it was not ready to allow pipeline
work to continue on its land bordering and under Lake Oahe, a
reservoir that the agency manages on the Missouri River and the
water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It also called on
pipeline owner Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners to voluntarily
stop work in the area; ETP didn't respond to a request from The
Associated Press for comment Sunday or Monday....
No Justification for State's Response
Doug Graves, Mandaree Bismarck Tribune - Oct 8, 2016
The show of force by North Dakota is nothing short of 7th
Cavalry mentality!
How can the state justify its draconian actions, over
saturating a venue far smaller in area and population than Bismarck?
The population of Bismarck is about 60,000-70,000 and it
covers roughly 31 square miles. Bismarck has 16 police officers per
10,000 residents (total 103). Bismarck’s policing budget for 2015
was approximately $11 million ($7,486,924 for salaries and wages).
The governor has dispatched the National Guard and a horde of
law enforcement to a patch of prairie smaller than a square city
block and a couple thousand unarmed citizens.
The Department of Emergency Services’ recent request for “up
to $6 million borrowing authority” “for providing assistance to
local law enforcement” is utterly astonishing! Would the state
respond in this same manner if a group of Christian parishioners
gathered on the open plains to express their constitutionally
protected rights?...
Cannon Ball, ND – The U.S. Court of Appeals Sunday night rejected
the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for a temporary injunction
to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline thru traditional
unceded Oceti Sakowin treaty lands near the Missouri River. The
three-judge panel issued its decision Sunday after hearing oral
arguments from lawyers representing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
and pipeline developers Energy Transfer Partners earlier this week.
The decision was based on a specific request by the tribe for the
court to continue a work stoppage order on the pipeline within 20
miles on either side of the Missouri River.
The tribe still has an ongoing lawsuit, filed in July, against the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its permitting of the pipeline to
cross the Missouri River just north of the reservation.
Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental
Network gives the following statement in response:
“We are troubled by the court’s decision, but as water protectors
and land defenders, our resolve to stop this Bakken frack-oil
pipeline will not be diminished. We will continue to support the
tribe’s efforts to hold the US federal government accountable for
rubber stamping this dirty oil project. Meanwhile, our hearts and
minds go to the pipeline fighters who will continue to use prayer
and peaceful civil disobedience to disrupt business-as-usual and
stop this black snake from being completed. This fight is far from
over.”
Photo Credit: Rob Wilson Photography
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Ladonna Bravebull Allard Clips Indigenous Environmental Network - 11 OCT 2016
Ladonna Bravebull Allard, the Section 106 Tribal Historic
Preservation Officer for the standing Rock Sioux Tribe, owns the
northernmost land of the Standing Rock Reservation. The northern
border is the Cannon Ball River. The eastern border is the Missouri
River. From her land, you can see the pipeline corridor. This is the
land she grew up on, and can tell the history of this river back
2,000 years. Dakota Access, the USACE, and SHPO all failed to
properly consult her local knowledge or take her concerns into
consideration in the routing of this pipeline.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Revokes Sovereign Lands Construction
Permit for Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa Indigenous Environmental Network Responds Indigenous Environmental Network - 27 MAY 2016
Des Moines, IA – The United States Fish and Wildlife Service
has revoked its approval of a construction permit for the Dakota
Access pipeline through the Big Sioux River Wildlife Management Area
in Northeast Iowa. This permit is called the Sovereign Lands
Construction Permit and was revoked because a significant Native
American archaeological site was discovered along its proposed path.
Due to the permit revocation, the Iowa Department of Natural
Resources has ordered that Dakota Access LLC stop all construction
work for its Bakken oil pipeline until a survey of the area is
conducted and consultation with local agencies and tribes is
completed.
Shailene Woodley Arrested for Trespassing TMZ - 10 OCT 2016 NOTICE: This article does not present all the facts,
and is therefore a skewed report. The only accurate items in the
article are the charges against Ms. Woodley. The article falls short
of the real reason--the entire reason for the presence of the Water
Protectors, which is to protect not just the Indigenous American
graves, human remains, artifacts, and sacred sites; but especially
the water, which the pipeline threatens to destroy. -- Al
Swilling, SENAA International
Breaking News
Shailene Woodley was arrested for criminal trespass while
protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline ... law enforcement tells TMZ.
The 'Divergent' star was busted Monday morning for
trespassing during what she called a "peaceful protest" in Sioux
County, North Dakota. About 100 protesters were on a construction
site for the controversial pipeline project before cops moved in and
put handcuffs on Shailene.
Shailene was arrested for 2 misdemeanors ... including
engaging in a riot. Cops tell us they issued multiple warnings for
the protesters to leave. 27 protesters were ultimately arrested....
Actress Shailene Woodley Arrested at North Dakota Pipeline Water
Protection Event
by Dan Whitcomb, Reuters - 10 OCT 2016
Actress Shailene Woodley was arrested in North Dakota on
Monday while protesting a planned pipeline that Native Americans say
will desecrate sacred land and damage the environment, an incident
that was live streamed on Facebook.
The 24-year-old actress was taken into custody shortly after
noon local time with 27 other people on misdemeanor charges of
criminal trespass and engaging in a riot, said Rob Keller, spokesman
for the Morton County Sheriff's Office.
He said it was unclear if Woodley remained in custody later
on Monday afternoon or had been released on bond. The protests were
taking place at a construction site for the pipeline about 2 miles
(3.2 km) south of the town of St. Anthony....
Standing Rock -- Riot Police Standoff Oct. 10 "We Won't Back Down"
Actress Shailene Woodley and activist Vic Camp just
arrested by riot police, among 27 arrested. Two charged with
felonies who were locked down to DAPL machinery.
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 10 OCT 2016
ST. ANTHONY, North Dakota -- Twenty-seven water protectors
were arrested today, including two charged with felonies who were
locked down to Dakota Access Pipeline machinery.
Actress Shailene Woodley was arrested by riot police, as police
continue to target livestreamers and members of the media.
Activist Vic Camp was also just arrested. Twenty-five water
protectors were arrested by riot police, and two others were
arrested and charged with felonies who locked down to Dakota Access
Pipeline construction machinery.
Shailene had just finished livestreaming, as riot police
arrived with armored vehicles in riot gear.
Water protectors seated in a tipi were arrested and slammed
to the ground by police.
Water protectors said at 11 a.m. today that they woke at
sunrise for prayer. Water protectors then raveled by way of caravan
to a pipeline construction site and erected tipi poles.
Two miles away, allies were locked down to machinery since
5:30 a.m....
Police Equipped
with Attack Dogs and Riot Gear Against Unarmed, Peaceful
Water Protectors...
It's enough to make one wonder who was really
behind the September Dog Attacks on peaceful water
protectors that were recorded on video by Democracy
Now's Amy Goodman. (Al Swilling, SENAA International)
Activists Visit Iowa Pipeline Protest Camp The Des Moines Register - 06 OCT 2016
KEOKUK, Ia. - A group of American Indian activists offered
prayers and encouragement for anti-pipeline protesters here at a
small encampment along the Mississippi River on Thursday.
"All life is sacred and to be treated with respect," Robert
Eder told a group of 50 protesters gathered just downhill from a
Dakota Access pipeline work site. "How can you respect that which
gives you life when you rape it for profit?"
Eder, from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana,
visited Iowa on Thursday with roughly a dozen activists who are
traveling to rally support against the $3.8 billion pipeline under
construction. The pipeline is expected to carry up to 570,000
barrels of oil each day from North Dakota to Illinois, crossing
under both the Missouri and Mississippi rivers....
Dead End Surveillance – Stingrays and Civil Rights Native News Online - 07 OCT 2016
CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA – The terminus of a lonely dead end
county road in North Dakota’s contested territory laid beneath one
of the most terrifying civil rights moments in modern American
history; an echo of historical injustices come around the canyon of
time to ring again.
Water Protectors, a group of Native Americans and their
allies lead by the Standing Rock Sioux, prayed for the end of the
Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at one of its construction sites in
rural North Dakota on September 28, 2016. Elders, children, horse
riders, and adults gathered in prayer. Some Water Protectors were
live streaming the prayer on Facebook, until the signal suddenly
stopped.
They feared the consequences of their prayer event was just
coming around the corner....
US Appeals Court Denies Injunction to Halt DAPL Construction
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue fight against
pipeline despite court setback
by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Censored News - 09
OCT 2016
CANNON BALL, North Dakota — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit today rejected the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe’s request for an injunction to halt construction of the Dakota
Access Pipeline by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners. The
decision comes as the Tribe is pursuing an appeal to stop
construction while the rest of the case proceeds in U.S. District
Court.
“The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is not backing down from this
fight,” said Dave Archambault II, Chairman of the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe. “We are guided by prayer, and we will continue to fight
for our people. We will not rest until our lands, people, waters and
sacred places are permanently protected from this destructive
pipeline.”
The 1,168-mile pipeline crosses through the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe’s ancestral lands and within a half mile of the
reservation boundary. Construction crews have already destroyed and
desecrated confirmed sacred and historic sites, including burials
and cultural artifacts. The original pipeline route crossed the
Missouri River just north of Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota.
The route was later shifted downstream, to the tribe’s doorstep, out
of concerns for the city’s drinking water supply....
It’s Time for Every Ally to Show Up in the Fight Against the Dakota
Access Pipeline
The temporary halt to the pipeline’s construction
must be made permanent.
by Tom Goldtooth and Annie Leonard, The Nation - 27 SEP 2016
Over the last month, thousands of Native
Americans from across the country have converged to camp in and
around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota to oppose
the construction of the multibillion-dollar Dakota Access oil
pipeline. The pipeline, which would transfer crude oil to existing
pipelines in Illinois, would come within a half-mile of the
reservation and cross culturally significant ancestral sites. It
would also run under the Missouri River, an important water source
for the Standing Rock Sioux, which could be damaged if the pipeline
were to erupt. Their rallying cry is direct and powerful, yet has
been mostly ignored by corporate and political leaders in the face
of a decision on the pipeline: “Water is life.” As opposition grows
by the day, it is clear that our leaders need to heed the calls of
the frequently marginalized Indigenous people of our country. The
federal government recently took an important step by calling for a
temporary halt to construction of part of the pipeline, but this
halt must be made permanent before irreparable damage is done.
Activists on the front line of this fight have used the word
“protectors,” not “protesters,” to describe themselves. That’s
because the land and water they are fighting for is of the utmost
spiritual, cultural, and environmental significance. This land
represents the sacred burial grounds of ancestors, historic village
grounds, and Sundance sites....
Heavy Police Force Blocks Standing Rock Prayer 06 Oct. 2016 Censored News - 06 OCT 2016
Armored police vehicles and riot police block Standing Rock
water protectors today, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, as they move forward
in a caravan to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline construction.
BULLIES
The photos and videos of this excessive force of police,
showing up with armored vehicles in riot gear,...
North Dakota Seeks More Felonies For Water Protectors
Camp of the Sacred Stones - 05 OCT 2016
North Dakota continues to escalate repression of the people
protecting sacred sites and waters from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Today, two more felony charges were sought for water protectors
bringing the total to seven, including Dale "Happi" American Horse,
the first person to lock to lock his body to active Dakota Access
Pipeline construction equipment. This comes days after a heated
exchange at a prayer ceremony when police abruptly dispersed the
crowd with shotguns, a Bearcat armored vehicle and a Mine-Resistant
Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle.
American Horse appeared with his court appointed counsel,
Steven Balaban. His misdemeanor case was dismissed and then refiled
as a felony case. The new charges include one count of felony
Reckless Endangerment, one count of misdemeanor Obstruction of a
Government Function, one count of misdemeanor Preventing Arrest, and
one count of misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct. Despite the gravity of
these new charges, American Horse was undaunted. "We as protectors
are not intimidated when it comes to defending Mother Earth, either
on the front lines or in the courtroom,” American Horse said. He
remains free on a $500 bond, and trial was set for December 23rd....
Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments over Dakota Access Pipeline
by Julia Harte, Thomson Reuters Foundation News - 05 OCT 2016
WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Three federal appeals judges in
Washington, D.C., heard arguments on Wednesday over whether to stop
work on a crude oil pipeline in parts of North Dakota where the
Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes say the project will desecrate
sacred land.
The judges are not expected to rule for months. In September,
they ordered the group of firms building the pipeline, led by Energy
Transfer Partners LP, to pause construction on the disputed section
of the route while they consider the tribes' request that the U.S.
government withdraw permits for the project.
Opponents of the 1,100 mile (1,770 km), $3.7 billion pipeline
celebrated in September when legal challenges and violent clashes
between protesters and security guards prompted the administration
of President Barack Obama to ask the company to stop work on the
disputed land while the government revisited its previous decisions
about the project.
Celebrities including actor Susan Sarandon and Green Party
U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein have also joined protests
against the pipeline....
Court Postpones Decision on DAPL Construction Stoppage as Standing
Rock Stands Strong
Indian Country Today - 05 OCT 2016
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II on October
5 reiterated his commitment to keeping the Dakota Access oil
pipeline away from the tribe’s drinking water after a U.S. District
Court postponed ruling on a request for a permanent halt to the
construction along its designated route a half mile from the
reservation.
“Millions of people across the country and world, more than
300 federally-recognized tribes, members of Congress and dozens of
city governments across the country stand with the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline,”
Archambault said in a statement after the court postponed a
decision, leaving the temporary injunction in place. “We stand
together in peaceful prayer and solidarity because this pipeline
threatens the lives of the more than seventeen million people who
rely on the Missouri River for their water. This pipeline has
already destroyed the burial places of our Lakota and Dakota
ancestors. If construction continues, our people stand to lose even
more of our sacred places and cultural objects.”
The tribe had requested an injunction that would halt
construction of the pipeline while it appeals Judge James Boasberg’s
initial denial. While the construction has been stopped temporarily
by a second court ruling while the federal government reevaluates
the procedure, work could resume once a final decision is made....
At Standing Rock, Descendants of Sitting Bull Are Fighting the Same
Battle White Wolf Pack - 02 OCT 2016
"I want to know what you are doing, traveling on this road. You
scare all the buffalo away. I want to hunt in this place. I want you
to turn back from here. If you don't, I will fight you again. I want
you to leave what you have got here and turn back from here. -
Sitting Bull.
A sea of thousands of Native Americans from over 200 indigenous
nations has descended onto the Great Plains to stand at the
forefront of a new but familiar battle against fossil fuels.
Led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Hunkpapa Lakota Nation), these
nations are fighting against the 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline,
which would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields to pipelines in
Illinois, and is set to come within a half-mile of the Standing Rock
reservation, threatening its water supply....
Oklahoma Governor Declares Oct. 13 a Day of Prayer for the Oil
Industry
(No, This Is Not a Joke)
by Jen Hayden, Daily KOS - 05 OCT 2016
Let me be perfectly clear: what you are about to read is not
satire. It’s entirely real and it’s all happening in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma’s Trump lovin’ Governor Mary Fallin is has proclaimed
October 13 as Oilfield Prayer Day:
“We're asking churches all over Oklahoma to open their doors,
put on a pot of coffee and pray for the oil field, and not only for
the oil field but the state, because the economy of our state is so
connected to the oil field.”
Jeff Hubbard, with Oilfield Christian Fellowship- Oklahoma
City, agreed.
“We have a saying: The oil field trickles down to everyone,”
he said...
Standing Rock Chairman: Federal Appeals Court Temporary Halt to DAPL
Remains Oct. 5, 2016 Censored News - 05 OCT 2016
On October 5, 2016, Chairman Dave Archambault II of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe read the following statement after a court
hearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit regarding
the Tribe’s request for an injunction to halt construction of the
Dakota Access Pipeline during the appeal process. A ruling wasn’t
issued, keeping the temporary halt to construction in place until
the court decides.
"Millions of people across the country and world, more than
300 federally-recognized tribes, members of Congress and dozens of
city governments across the country stand with the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline....
Feds Say They Won’t Evict Sprawling Pipeline Protest Camp
The gathering has been called the largest gathering
of Native American tribes in a century TIME Magazine's Skewed View TIME Magazine - 01 OCT 2016
(BISMARCK, N.D.) — The sprawling encampment that’s a living
protest against the four-state Dakota Access pipeline has most
everything it needs to be self-sustaining — food, firewood, fresh
water and shelter. Everything, that is, except permission to be on
the federal land in North Dakota.
Federal officials say they won’t evict the Oceti Sakowin, or
Seven Council Fires camp, due to free speech reasons, even though
it’s on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near the confluence of the
Missouri and Cannonball rivers that many Native Americans believe is
still rightfully owned by the Standing Rock Sioux under a nearly
150-year-old treaty.
“We’re not leaving until we defeat this big black snake,”
camp spokesman Cody Hall said of the pipeline....
North Dakota Asks Pipeline Company to Explain Ranch Purchase Sioux City Journal - 28 SEP 2016
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Attorney General Wayne
Stenehjem is asking the developer of the four-state Dakota Access
oil pipeline to explain its purchase of a ranch where a protest
turned violent earlier this month.
Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners recently purchased the
7,000-acre ranch last week for an undisclosed price.
Stenehjem is giving the company 30 days to say how the land,
where tribal officials said construction crews destroyed burial and
cultural sites, will be used.
North Dakota law generally bars corporations from owning
agricultural land unless the property is controlled by a farm
family. The company must prove to the state how its purchase
complies with the Depression-era anti-corporate farming law....
Tribe Request for State Emergency Aid Denied
by Jessica Holdman, Bismarck Tribune - 01 OCT 2016
The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services declined a
request from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for aid from the North
Dakota Department of Health at the site of one of the Dakota Access
Pipeline protest camps.
In a letter, Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II asked that a
Health Department first aid station at the protest camp north of the
Cannonball Bridge to provide emergency medical care.
Archambault said Standing Rock Emergency Management Task
Force was providing water, portable toilets, waste management, road
maintenance, ambulance services and community health representatives
to provide medical assistance. He said emergencies, accidents and
injuries were “stressing” the tribe’s capabilities, resulting in
“diminished services to the residents of Standing Rock.”...
The Dakota Access Pipeline: A Legal Environmental Justice
Perspective Jurist - 29 SEP 2016
JURIST Guest Columnist Dayna Jones, a law student at Lewis
and Clark Law School, discusses the intersection of law and
environmental justice concerning the the Standing Rock Sioux Nation
and the Dakota Access Pipeline...
The largest multi-tribal gathering of indigenous peoples in
North America in over a century is happening now at the Sacred Stone
Camp in North Dakota. Leading the cause is the Standing Rock Sioux
Nation. The Standing Rock Sioux and their allies are standing
against construction of the "black snake" Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)
slated to run under the Missouri River and through their
historically-sacred tribal sites. The tribe states it has not been
properly consulted prior to construction of the DAPL, a requirement
legally mandated by Executive Order 13175 [PDF]. Executive Order
13175 stipulates that: "[e]ach agency shall have an accountable
process to ensure meaningful and timely input by tribal officials in
the development of regulatory policies that have tribal
implications."...
Sunoco, Behind Protested Dakota Access Pipeline, Tops U.S. Crude
Spill Charts
by Liz Hampton, Reuters - 23 SEP 2016
HOUSTON—Sunoco Logistics, the future operator of the oil pipeline
delayed this month after Native American protests in North Dakota,
spills crude more often than any of its competitors with more than
200 leaks since 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of government
data.
The lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sit a half mile south of
the proposed route of the Dakota Access pipeline. The tribe fears
the line could destroy sacred sites during construction and that a
future oil spill might pollute its drinking water....
The Growing Indigenous Spiritual Movement That Could Save the Planet
North Dakota is just the beginning. Think Progress - 30 SEP 2016
When Pua Case landed in North Dakota to join the ongoing Standing
Rock protests in September, she, like thousands of other
participants, had come to defend the land.
Masses of indigenous people and their allies descended on camps
along Cannonball River this year to decry the construction of the
Dakota Access pipeline, a series of 30-inch diameter underground
pipes that, if built, would stretch 1,172 miles and carry half a
million barrels of crude oil per day — right through lands Native
groups call sacred.
“We are not here to be anything but peaceful, but we are here,” Case
told ThinkProgress, describing the moment she linked arms with
fellow demonstrators and stared down rows of police in Bismarck. “We
will stand here in our tribal names in respect and honor.”...
North Dakota - De räckte över gåvor från Sápmi SverigesRadio - Publicerat lördag 01 Oktober 2016 kl 06.19 En kaffepåse i skinn, en kåsa, en väska och en flaska med
källvatten var gåvorna från Sápmi som Sofia Jannok tillsammans med
Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska och Inger Biret Kvernmo Gaup överlämande
till Standing Rock Siouxs rådsledare Dave Archambault II.
- Vi hör er, vi ser er och eran kamp är också våran kamp, sa
Sofia Jannok.
I närmare en vecka har systrarna Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska
och Inger Biret Kvernmo Gaup varit i lägret, Sofia Jannok kom i
onsdags och stannade till fredagen för att stötta motståndet mot
oljeledningen. Norska Samers Riksförbund (NSR) hade skickat en kosa
som Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska överräckte till reservatsrådets ledare
Dave Archambolt II med uppmaningen att ge den vidare till Standing
Rocks Sioux's yngsta medlem.
- Vi önskar rent vatten till barnen här, sa hon...
Congress Members Send Letter Urging Obama to Stop Controversial
Pipeline
by Daniel A. Medina, NBC News - 30 SEP 2016
Nearly two dozen members of Congress sent a letter to the
White House on Thursday requesting that the Obama administration
intervene to stop construction of the controversial Dakota Access
Pipeline in North Dakota.
The two-page letter, co-signed by 19 members, was a direct
call to action to an administration that has been the most
progressive in the nation's history in its efforts to address issues
affecting Native Americans. The letter's co-signers include Rep.
Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
(D-HI), who are influential among progressive Democrats in
Congress....
Photos: Big Bend Texas March against Pipeline Obama Permitted for
DAPL Owners Censored News - 01 OCT 2016
Yesterday members of the American Indian Movement of Central
Texas, local descendants of indigenous tribes, and citizens long
involved in the Trans-Pecos Pipeline struggle marched against the
Trans-Pecos Pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota,
in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux.
About a hundred marched the three and a half miles from the center
of Alpine to the pipeline crossing of 1703, rallying briefly at the
gates of the Pumpco office / utility yard where AIM members waved
their flags in broad gestures of disapproval....
Frank Cooper
and Kaya Littleturtle of the Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina greet Sami representatives from Norway, Inger
Biret, Kvernmo Gaup, and Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska on
Friday. Photo by Desiree Kane.
Standing Rock Joins the World’s Indigenous Fighting For Land and
Life Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access demonstrators
recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with
the world’s Indigenous Peoples. Yes! Magazine - 30 SEP 2016
When opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline galvanized the support
of hundreds of U.S. tribes, it became an unprecedented show of
Indian Country unity and resolve.
Now, it’s a global indigenous movement.
Members of tribal communities from around the world have joined in
activism led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. A Sami group from
Norway was the latest to arrive on Friday. This resistance campaign,
many say, has emerged as part of a greater global crisis—a united
struggle in which indigenous lands, resources, and people are
perpetually threatened by corporations and governments often using
military force. Integral to this shared narrative is the routine
ignoring of treaties....
A Special Report from Standing Rock: Part 1 - Laura Flanders Show The Ring of Fire Network - 29 SEP 2016
Part 1 of Laura Flanders’ field reports from the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, or
Seven Council Fires Community, at StandingRock in Cannonball, North
Dakota. Representatives from over 200 nations have travelled to #StandingRock
to defend their right to clean water, and more, to preserve their
sovereignty against a state that has illegally decided to take this
land. They are protectors, not protesters. Their historic effort is
bringing attention to a long struggle against environmental racism,
indiscriminate raids, and genocidal erasure...
Lawyer's View: Recent Days at Standing Rock
by Jeff Haas, Truthout - 29 SEP 2016
I am a civil rights lawyer, just back from my second stay at
the Standing Rock Camp where I am part of the Camp's legal team --
the Red Owl Collective assembled by the National Lawyers Guild. We
are pro bono attorneys and legal workers seeking to maintain a
regular presence in the camp. Included among us is long-time
(Wounded Knee) defender of Native Americans, Bruce Ellison. The Red
Owl Collective, with the help of funds raised through the Sacred
Stones Camp FundRazr campaign, are providing bond and legal
assistance to those arrested protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
There have been more than 80 arrests charging criminal
trespass and nonviolent direct actions, including lockdowns on
earthmoving equipment to prevent Dakota Access, LLC from building
the pipeline from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to
the Midwest, and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. If completed, the
leak-certain pipeline would go...
Dear Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier:
Following the protests that took place at a Dakota Access
Pipeline construction site on 3 September, we are writing to ask you
to investigate the use of force by private contractors, remove
blockades and discontinue the use of riot gear by Morton County
Sheriff’s deputies when policing protests in order to facilitate the
right to
peaceful protests in accordance with international law and
standards.
On 3 September, protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline
construction moved on to private property in response to the
potential destruction of land that was earlier marked as containing
burial grounds and sacred sites for the local Native American
tribes....
The U.S. government is obligated under international law to
respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of Indigenous people,
including the rights to freedom of
expression and assembly. It is the legitimate right of people to
peacefully express their opinion. Public assemblies should not be
considered as the “enemy”. The command hierarchy must convey a clear
message to law enforcement officials that their task is to
facilitate and not to restrict a peaceful public assembly.
We look forward to your reply and would be happy to provide
additional
information as needed.
Yours Sincerely,
Margaret Huang
Executive Director
Amnesty International USA
How to Contact the 17 Banks Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline
Here are CEO names, emails, and phone numbers—because
banks have choices when it comes to what projects they give loans
to. YES! Magazine - 29 SEP 2016
The Dakota Access pipeline is funded directly by 17 banks,
many of which—Citibank, Wells Fargo—are ones you’ve probably heard
of or do business with.
Researchers with the nonprofit Food & Water Watch found that
38 banking institutions are involved in funding the proposed Bakken
pipeline, which would stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. A
section of this project is the Dakota Access pipeline, where the
Standing Rock Sioux and thousands of allies have physically put
themselves in the path of the pipeline to protect their reservation
and a stretch of the Missouri River.
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, recently wrote an article
for YES! suggesting that banks are more susceptible to public
pressure than the oil and gas giants, which depend on bank loans and
lines of credit to build their pipelines. “It’s probably sustained
public pressure that will do the most good,” he wrote.
Wondering what to say to a bank executive?...
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Releases Statement on Dakota
Access Pipeline Arrests
by Native News Online Staff, Native News Online -
30 SEP 2016
EAGLE BUTTE, SOUTH DAKOTA – On September 29, Cheyenne River Sioux
Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier sent a letter to United States
Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting Federal monitors in North
Dakota and asking her to condemn of the aggressive actions against
the water protectors at Standing Rock by privately sanctioned
personnel and law enforcement....
Robert Redford: I Stand with the Standing Rock Sioux
by Robert Redford, TIME Magazine - 26 SEP 2016
Something all too familiar is happening in North Dakota right
now: Once again, Native Americans are being asked to accept a raw
deal.
The short version is this: a private energy company, Energy
Transfer Partners, is building a pipeline that runs from North
Dakota to Illinois like a 1,200-mile zipper that cuts across four
states. If completed, the Dakota Access Pipeline will carry nearly
half a million barrels of oil each day across the watersheds the
Standing Rock Sioux tribe use for drinking water. Now, thousands of
Native Americans have gathered at one of the most controversial
sections of the proposed pipeline’s path and are staging a 24/7
protest. They’ve created a settlement in the middle of their North
Dakota home to try to prevent the pipeline from being finished....
Prayer Ceremony and Caravan Halts Pipeline Construction
Photos by Red Warrior Camp, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 28 SEP 2016
ST. ANTHONY, North Dakota -- Standing Rock water protectors
moved in mass, by the hundreds, and halted construction at multiple
sites of Dakota Access Pipeline, where work was supposed to be
halted.
'The roads were blocked -- the eagle guided us," said one of
the Lakota women, among hundreds who rushed to the sites to halt
construction.
Pipeline workers fled as water protectors arrived. Police
arrived in riot gear with a sound canon, acoustic weapon, which has
not been used as of now.
Water protectors shook the hands of the police officers....
Standing Rock Breaking News Surrounded by Police: Wed. Sept. 28,
2016
Breaking News Wed., Sept. 28, 2016
Police loaded shotguns, dropped tear gas or mustard gas, on water
protectors
Censored News - 28 SEP 2016
Live video: They dropped tear gas, we are surrounded by
police.
"They are moving in."
"They won't let us leave. They have us locked in on both
sides."
"They've got their weapons drawn."
"They've got snipers on top of the hill"
"They are blocking me on Facebook."
"They are arresting everyone now. Everyone is running."
"Share this far and wide."...
Water Protectors Stop Construction of DAPL and Dispel Accusations of
Violence
Water Protectors Across Midwest Continue to Stop
Active Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline and Dispel Accusations
of Violence. Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, and
Red Warrior Camp
via Censored News - 27 SEP 2016
CANNON BALL, North Dakota -- On Monday, North Dakota news
outlet WDAY-TV published a report on a #NoDAPL action in North
Dakota that occurred the day prior. The report alleges a private
security guard was “assaulted” and “carried by” protesters at a
Dakota Access construction site. There is no proof of the incident -
the hundreds of photos and live video shot of the demonstration all
show an entirely peaceful day.
As documented on Sunday, hundreds of indigenous peoples,
organizations, and allies gathered in peaceful opposition to the
Dakota Access Pipeline. Native women and youth planted willow trees
in the path of the pipeline. Prayers and songs by the protectors
were in stark contrast to the helicopters flying overhead and police
presence. Elders spoke of protecting the water, and the significance
of the willow trees....
NO DAPL Protests 27 SEP 2016 Red Warrior Camp - 27 SEP 2016
Today, a 60+ vehicle caravan travelled to 3 Sacred Sites that
are being threatened by the Dakota Access Pipeline, starting with
the Sacred Ground Camp (where ancestral sites were desecrated &
private security unleashed their dogs on unarmed protectors). The
caravan then travelled and conducted ceremonies at 2 other DAPL
construction sites. Water Protectors, Indigenous Peoples and allies
united today to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The
actions today were led by ceremony.
Despite the accusations by the police that there "were shots
fired" at todays ceremonies and actions, we stand united that this
was a peaceful act of prayer for our Water and our Lands....
2016
White House Tribal Nations Conference - Opening Remarks
White House on YouTube - 26 SEP 2016
ABC, NBC Censor Largest Native Mobilization In Decades Against
Dakota Access Pipeline
Native nations across the continent sign a new treaty
opposing oilsands expansion as anthropologists, historians and
museums condemn destruction of Sioux sites, but you wouldn’t know it
from the mainstream media.
by Joe Catron, Mint Press News - 26 SEP 2016
NEW YORK — As thousands of supporters around the world have
joined demonstrations in solidarity with Native land and water
defenders blocking the planned Dakota Access pipeline near the
Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the largest Native
mobilization in decades remains absent from some of the biggest news
media in the United States.
Jim Naureckas, editor of the media watchdog site FAIR.org,
released a report on Thursday which noted that “to this day, ABC
News and NBC News have yet to broadcast a word about the pipeline
struggle.”
Among the “Big Three” television networks, CBS first broached
the story on Sept. 5, in “a lone report on CBS Morning News
(9/5/16), amounting to 48 words read at 4 o’clock in the morning,”
although Naureckas found the channel has since “returned to the
story repeatedly.”
While other news channels, including MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and
even Fox News, have reported the standoff, none have mentioned
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman’s threatened arrest for “criminal
trespass” while covering attacks on protesters by Dakota
Access-contracted security guards using dogs and pepper spray on
Sept. 3.
In earlier analysis, released on Sept. 15, Naureckas noted
the media’s broad lack of attention to the State of North Dakota’s
“extraordinary action” against a fellow journalist....
Pipeline Developer Buys Ranch Near North Dakota Protest Camp
by James Macpherson, Associated Press, ABC News - 23 SEP 2013
The company developing the four-state Dakota Access oil
pipeline has purchased a portion of a historic North Dakota ranch
where a violent protest occurred earlier this month due to what
tribal officials said was construction crews destroying burial and
cultural sites.
Morton County records show Dallas-based Energy Transfer
Partners purchased 20 parcels of land on the Cannonball Ranch
totaling more than 6,000 acres from David and Brenda Meyer of
Flasher. Financial terms of the deal, which was finalized Thursday,
were not disclosed.
The Meyers did not return telephone calls Thursday or Friday
seeking comment. Energy Transfer Partners confirmed the purchase
Friday but declined to provide further details....
Standing Tall
The Sioux’s battle against a Dakota oil pipeline is a
galvanizing social justice movement for Native Americans. Slate - 23 SEP 2016
What sparks and sustains a movement? For more than a month,
members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and thousands of allies
have gathered in camps along the Missouri River in Cannon Ball,
North Dakota. They are protesting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access
Pipeline which, if completed, would carry half a million gallons of
crude oil per day ultimately to refineries along the Gulf of
Mexico.* More urgently for the protesters, the pipeline is slated to
be built within a half mile of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation,
traveling across treaty-guaranteed lands, under the tribe’s main
source of drinking water, and through sacred sites.
As lawyers for the tribe have argued, “An oil spill at this
site would constitute an existential threat to the Tribe’s culture
and way of life.”...
Two Men Packed a Power-Filled Gift for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe White Wolf Pack - 26 SEP 2016
Truck wheels kicked up the dust of sacred land and Arizona's
red rock desert soon became a rear view as two men from the Navajo
Nation set off beyond the Colorado plateau and on an expedition that
would likely be the most impactful of their lives.
Unlike most journeys though, this trip was more than just a
road trip. More than just a series of photos. More than just a
self-fulfilling retreat for peace of mind. This journey was a
contribution to support and protect land and water considered sacred
and significant to the tribes of Standing Rock, North Dakota.
Known and loved in their local community for their efforts to
bring affordable solar solutions to families living off the grid,
Brett Isaac and Doug Yazzie (Navajo / Hopi and Navajo, respectively)
were pondering the best ways to contribute to the fight against the
Dakota Access Pipeline construction when a camp contacted them
regarding support in the form of energy.
Isaac and Yazzie, solar energy business partners, accepted
the challenge without hesitation and resolved to build a 20-foot
trailer and gift their own solar unit to the camp...
Federal Government Invites Tribal Leaders to 'Consultations' Over
Pipeline Protests
by CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News - 23 SEP 2016
The Federal government invited tribal leaders today to
government-to-government consultations, as the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe continues its fight to block construction of the Dakota Access
Pipeline.
The Department of the Interior, Department of Justice,
Department of the Army and other federal agencies extended an
invitation for consultations on "how the Federal Government can
better account for, and integrate tribal views, on future
infrastructure decisions throughout the country," as a direct
response to what has become one of the biggest Native American
demonstrations in decades over a 1,172-mile-long crude oil pipeline.
The movement to block the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline,
being built by Texas-based Energy Transfer, has united tribal groups
and environmental activists from across the nation, with hundreds
still camped out near the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's reservation in
North Dakota.
The camp site even hosts a school and an increasingly
organized system for meal and water delivery, The Associated Press
reported....
President Obama Tells Standing Rock Demonstrators: 'You're Making
Your Voice Heard'
by CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News - 26 SEP 2016
President Obama weighed in on the Native American movement to
block a disputed oil pipeline today as he hosted more than 500
Native American leaders for his eighth and final White House Tribal
Nations Conference as president.
“I know many of you have come together, across tribes and
across the country, to support the community at Standing Rock and
together you’re making your voices heard,” the president said to
applause.
“And in a spirit of cooperation and mutual respect, we’ve
made a lot of progress for Indian country over the past eight years,
and this moment highlights why it’s so important that we re-double
our efforts to make sure that every federal agency truly consults
and listens, and works with you, sovereign-to-sovereign,” Obama
continued.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sued to block construction of
the four-state Dakota Access pipeline earlier this summer, citing
concerns over potential water contamination and destruction to what
they deemed to be culturally sacred sites. The tribe also argued
that they were never meaningfully consulted on the project before
construction began.
While a judge in Washington denied the tribe's request for a
temporary injunction, the Department of Justice, the Department of
the Army and the Department of the Interior intervened with an
unprecedented joint statement requesting "that the pipeline company
voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or
west of Lake Oahe."
Kelcy Warren, chairman and CEO of Energy Transfer, denied the
tribe's claims, writing in an internal memo that "concerns about the
pipeline’s impact on the local water supply are unfounded" and
"multiple archaeological studies conducted with state historic
preservation offices found no sacred items along the route."...
Last Friday, the Department of the Interior, Department of
Justice, Department of the Army and other federal agencies
officially invited the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for consultations
on "how the Federal Government can better account for, and integrate
tribal views, on future infrastructure decisions throughout the
country."
The movement to block the 1,172-mile pipeline, being built by
the Texas-based company Energy Transfer, has united tribal groups
and environmental activists from across the nation, with hundreds
still camped out near the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's reservation in
North Dakota....
What Is the LRAD Sound Cannon? GIZMODO - 27 SEP 2016
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri have reached a terrifying fever
pitch, and the ludicrously armed Ferguson Police Department is
bringing all its crowd-control weapons to bear, tear gas, stun
grenades, rubber bullets, you name it. One of the more controversial
of those is the LRAD Sound Cannon. So what's the harm in a little
noise? Well, a lot, actually....
Breaking Action: Standing Rock 'NO DAPL' Sept 27, 2016 Censored News - 27 SEP 2016
Standing Rock water protectors moved in mass today, by the
hundreds, and halted construction at multiple sites of Dakota Access
Pipeline, where work was supposed to be halted.
'The roads were blocked -- the eagle guided us," said one of
the Lakota women, among hundreds who rushed to the sites to halt
construction today.
Pipeline workers fled as water protectors arrived. Police
arrived in riot gear with a sound canon, acoustic weapon, which has
not been used as of now.
"We are going to come back every day until we shut this
pipeline down," said one of the Lakota men protecting the land,
water and air for future generations....
Cannonball Ranch Sale Resulted from DAPL Bullying
by Waste' Win Young, Censored News - 26 SEP 2016
Regarding the Cannonball Ranch: In 2006, Bill Edwards tried
to auction off all 7,400 tracts.The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
legitimately looked at buying it but didn’t have the $5 million
asking price.
Dave and Brenda Meyer bought 10 parcels equaling 2,365 acres
of the Cannonball Ranch in 2013 for $3.2 million dollars. This
includes the 429 acres of United States Army Corps property under
easement to the Cannonball Ranch.
The Meyers signed an easement with the Dakota Access Pipeline
(DAPL) which would have allowed the pipeline to cross their land.
Recently, the Meyers had allowed Standing Rock Sioux Tribal
members to survey (area where dog attacks occurred) and identify
historic properties significant to the Očeti Śakowin. When Energy
Transfer Partners/DAPL found out that the Meyers had allowed tribal
members on site they initiated a lawsuit against the Meyers -- worth
millions.
When the news broke that Meyers sold the Cannonball Ranch to
DAPL for $100.00 it was no surprise to me -- because I know the back
story. It IS disappointing, but not unexpected....
Financially Struggling Alexander First Nation Residents Disturbed by
Controversial Audit
While some residents chop wood and live in mouldy
homes, administrators cited for $2.1M in unexplained bills.
by Andrea Huncar, CBC News - 26 SEP 2016
Life is not easy for Dorothy Powder and her husband on the
Alexander First Nation reserve, where they have been waiting for
power poles for six years.
The couple fetches water a mile up the road in heavy jugs,
chops wood for heat, cooks canned food on their camp stove and takes
sponge baths. Powder, 59, recently underwent a hernia operation from
all the heavy lifting.
"We have to do it the old style way we used to do it in the
old days," she said, adding she's been told repeatedly by the past
three chiefs and councils there is no money to extend the power
lines.
"But we saw all the money," said Powder. "The proof is right
there. They have enough money."
On Aug 4, Dorothy attended a band membership meeting where
accountants presented a scathing report identifying $2.1 million in
"unexplained payments" between 2013 and 2015 to a former band chief
Herbert Arcand and seven administrative staff. Arcand and another
senior administrator have denied the allegations....
Sen Barrasso Refuses Hearing on Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Opposition
to the Dakota Access Pipeline Chairman of the Committee
on Indian Affairs Ignores Treaty Rights Last Real Indians - 14 SEP 2016
Washington D.C. – Representatives of the International
Indigenous Youth Council of Standing Rock and Oceti Sakowin Youth
encampment have requested that Senator John Barrasso (R- WY) hold a
Senate committee hearing on Indian Affairs in response to the
Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s opposition to the Dakota Access
Pipeline. As the 114th Congressional session is coming to an end,
the window of opportunity is closing to give notice to other
Senators, as required by procedural rule 4.a for the Indian Affairs
committee. Senator Barrasso’s legislative director, Bryn Stewart,
advised Youth Council representatives on Wednesday, September 14,
2016, that in order for Barrasso to schedule a hearing, he needed
requests from other senators to do so. However, according to Senator
Tester (D-MT), this isn’t the case and Barrasso can immediately
schedule a hearing on the impact the Dakota Access Pipeline
construction is having and will have on Indian Country. On Friday
September 16th, the Indigenous Youth Council confronted Senator
Barrasso, and they were informed that the Senator would not be
calling a hearing.
Barrasso’s legislative director, Stewart, told the Youth
Council representatives that Senator Barrasso, “has other priorities
than Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s opposition to the Dakota Access
Pipeline.” This dismissal comes at a time when nearly 300 Native
tribes have rallied in support with the Standing Rock Sioux, and
this issue has garnered national and international attention,
including “solidarity protests” in 40 states and worldwide, and
coverage by the mainstream print and tv media....
How the FDA Manipulates the Media The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been arm-twisting
journalists into relinquishing
their reportorial independence, our investigation reveals. Other
institutions are following suit Scientific American - OCT 2016 Issue
It was a faustian bargain—and it certainly made editors at
National Public Radio squirm.
The deal was this: NPR, along with a select group of media
outlets, would get a briefing about an upcoming announcement by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration a day before anyone else. But in
exchange for the scoop, NPR would have to abandon its reportorial
independence. The FDA would dictate whom NPR's reporter could and
couldn't interview.
“My editors are uncomfortable with the condition that we
cannot seek reaction,” NPR reporter Rob Stein wrote back to the
government officials offering the deal. Stein asked for a little bit
of leeway to do some independent reporting but was turned down flat.
Take the deal or leave it.
NPR took the deal. “I'll be at the briefing,” Stein wrote.
Later that day in April 2014, Stein—along with reporters from
more than a dozen other top-tier media organizations, including CBS,
NBC, CNN, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the New
York Times—showed up at a federal building to get his reward. Every
single journalist present had agreed not to ask any questions of
sources not approved by the government until given the go-ahead....
Dakota Access Pipeline Exposes Rift In Organized Labor The Huffington Post - 23 SEP 2016
WASHINGTON ― The nation’s largest federation of labor unions
upset some of its own members last week by endorsing the
construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. Some
labor activists, sympathetic to Native American tribes and
environmentalists, called upon the AFL-CIO to retract its support
for the controversial project.
The rift within the federation may be even deeper than it
first seemed. The day before federation President Richard Trumka
issued a statement supporting the pipeline, Sean McGarvey, the head
of the AFL-CIO’s building trades unions, sent him and the presidents
of the federation’s other unions a blistering letter. In the letter,
which Common Dreams posted on Thursday, McGarvey ripped the unions
that publicly opposed the pipeline....
Archeologists Denounce Dakota Access Pipeline for Destroying
Artifacts Archeologists and museum directors have denounced the
“destruction” of Native American artifacts during the construction
of a contentious oil pipeline in North Dakota, as the affected tribe
condemned the project in an address to the United Nations. Dakota
Access Pipeline plan still on despite protests across the US and the
world. The Guardian - 22 SEP 2016
The $3.8billion Dakota Access pipeline, which will funnel oil
from the Bakken oil fields in the Great Plains to Illinois, will run
next to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The tribe has mounted a
legal challenge to stop the project and claimed that several sacred
sites were bulldozed by Energy Transfer, the company behind the
pipeline, on 3 September.
A coalition of more than 1,200 archeologists, museum
directors and historians from institutions including the Smithsonian
and the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries has written to
the Obama administration to criticize the bulldozing, which Energy
Transfer claims did not disturb any artifacts.
The letter states that the construction work destroyed
“ancient burial sites, places of prayer and other significant
cultural artifacts sacred to the Lakota and Dakota people”....
Standing Rock: Water Protectors Shut Down Continued Construction of
Dakota Access Pipeline
by Natalie Hand, Lakota Media Project, Censored News -
25 SEP 2016 1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty Territory, Cannon
Ball, North Dakota -- Hundreds of tribal members and allies
marched onto active and ongoing construction sites of the Dakota
Access Pipeline today. Water protectors brought offerings of prayer,
ceremony, drums, and tribal nation flags to construction sites to
expose illegal company actions.
Julie Richards, founder of Mothers Against Meth Alliance (M.A.M.A.)
based in Pine Ridge, South Dakota stated, “Our ancestors fought for
our rights to clean water and to have a good way of life and now
we're fighting to make sure that our daughters and great
granddaughters can also have those rights and a better life. All
this land is sacred to us- it's our ancestral homelands and part of
the designated treaty territory.” On September 9, 2016, the United States Army Corps of
Engineers issued an order to temporarily cease all work within 20
miles of the Lake Oahe/Missouri River but Dakota Access Pipeline
construction crews have used the public's perception of halted
activity to aggressively continue destructive construction within
the buffer zone. Each morning hundreds of workers employed to lay
and weld pipes, underbore roads, and install valve controls travel
by the busloads to dozens of sites, working 6-7 days a week. This
activity violates both Federal treaties with the Oceti Sakowin and
the Obama Administration’s orders to halt construction.
“We need to be aware that this 20 mile buffer zone is
imaginary. They're still laying pipe- moving it towards us- towards
the water we're protecting. Progress on easements is continuing even
though they don't consider it construction.” stated Kate
Thunderbolt, a water protector....
Obama Approved Pipeline now Destroying Indian Burial Place in Texas
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 22 SEP 2016
While the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline was
escalating, President Obama approved two pipelines to cross the
border into Mexico by the same owners, Energy Transfer Partners of
Dallas. Now, this black snake pipeline company is ripping into an
ancient Indian site in the conservation area of Big Bend in Texas.
"In May, the federal government quietly approved permits for
two Texas pipelines — the Trans-Pecos and Comanche Trail Pipelines —
also owned by Energy Transfer Partners. This action and related
moves will ensure that U.S. fracked gas will be flooding the energy
grid in Mexico," Desmogblog reports.
Just as it did in the north, with the the theft of the word
'Dakota,' for its black snake pipeline, in the south, this black
snake corporation Energy Transfer Partners stole the name of
'Comanche' for its pipeline.
The pipelines were dependent on presidential approval because they
will cross the international border of the U.S. and Mexico.
The Big Bend Conservation Alliance said, "Today was a sad day
as we witnessed the destruction of part of an ancient Indian site
along the eastern front of the Davis Mountains by Energy Transfer
Partners—the same company that destroyed the sacred burial grounds
of the Standing Rock Sioux a few weeks ago. Giant mulching machines
chewed through creosote bush and pulverized rock as it ground a
pathway across the Trap Spring site for the bulldozers in the days
to come....
Obama Wants Government Consultations with 567 Native American Tribes Telesur - 24 SEP 2016
The Dakota pipeline protests have brought treaty rights into
the national spotlight. Now the federal government may finally start
to honor them.
In what is being hailed as a "historic" move, the Obama
administration invited hundreds of Native American tribes on Friday
to particpate in consultations in order to find solutions to protect
and honor treaty rights and ensure meaningful consultations for any
infrastructure project that may affect tribes....
Big Business Is Diving into the Fight over the Dakota Access
Pipeline Grist - 23 SEP 2016
Two pro-development lobbying groups, the National Association
of Manufacturers and the Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now,
have teamed up to launch a seven-figure ad campaign urging the Obama
administration to support completion of the pipeline.
The ads point out that President Obama has called for
investing in American infrastructure and argue that he should
therefore support the embattled Dakota Access project, a 1,172-mile
pipeline that would transport over half a million barrels of Bakken
crude oil per day across the Midwest. Members of the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe and other Native Americans and environmental groups are
fighting the pipeline, arguing that it threatens sacred grounds,
water supplies, and the climate. (Follow Grist’s coverage of the
fight
here.)....
U.N. Steps Into Dakota Oil Pipeline Fight UPI - 23 SEP 2016
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. government is
called on to stop the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline
because of threats to the aboriginal community, a U.N. envoy said.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a United Nations special envoy for the
rights of indigenous people, called for a halt to the pipeline's
construction because it's seen as a threat to drinking water
supplies and some of the sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe....
Native Americans in Nevada Will Have to Travel Almost 100 Miles
Round-trip to Vote
by Kira Lerner, Think Progress - 13 SEP 2016
For two Native American tribes in northern Nevada, casting an
early ballot next month will require multiple hours, access to a
car, and a tank full of gas.
Those two tribes, the Pyramid Lake Paiutes and Walker River
Paiutes, filed a lawsuit in federal court last week demanding that
Nevada establish satellite election offices on their reservations so
they have the same ballot access as white members of their
community....
Cannonball Ranch sold to Dakota Access LLC MyNDNOW - 22 SEP2016
Bismarck, ND
Private property along Highway 1806 has been sold to Dakota
Access LLC.
The land sold today is not where the Sacred Stone Camp sits,
but it is an area where other protests occurred....
North Dakota: “Indigenous peoples must be consulted prior to oil
pipeline construction” – UN expert UN Human Rights High Commission - 22 SEP 2016
GENEVA (22 September 2016) – The United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria
Tauli-Corpuz, today called on the United States to halt the
construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline as it poses a significant
risk to the drinking water of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and
threatens to destroy their burial grounds and sacred sites.
Ms. Tauli-Corpuz’s call comes after a temporary halt to
construction and the recognition of the need to hold
‘government-to-government consultations’ made by the US Departments
of the Army, Justice and of the Interior. The 1,172 mile (1,890 km)
pipeline is being built by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the
Energy Transfer LLC Corporation....
LaDonna
Brave Bull Allard, founder of the Sacred Stone Camp at
Standing Rock. Photo
by Sara Lafleur-Vetter
A Subzero Winter Is Coming to Standing Rock—Here’s Their Plan The camps are preparing to keep the Dakota Access pipeline
blockade going strong—keeping resolve firm, spirits high, and
thousands of bodies warm.
Yes! Magazine - 23 SEP 2016
On a Saturday in mid-September, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
ambles through the Sacred Stone Camp, which she founded on her
family’s land this spring to stop the construction of the Dakota
Access pipeline. The camp started small, but as media attention—and
support—grew over the summer, it swelled by the end of August beyond
its physical capacity into overflow camps. The population of the
largest one, Oceti Sakowin, now numbers in the thousands.
Allard, who is the Standing Rock Sioux’s director of Tribal
Tourism, a position that covers historic and cultural preservation,
is both inspired and overwhelmed by this outpouring, but she’s
careful not to let it distract her. Cold weather is rapidly
approaching, and if the water protectors, as they call themselves,
are going to make it through winter on the northern Plains, they
need to prepare...
UN Body Says Sioux Must Have Say in Pipeline Project
by Michael Astor, AP; Washington Post - 31 AUG
2016
UNITED NATIONS — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe must have a
say with regard to a $3.8 billion oil pipeline that could disturb
sacred sites and impact drinking water for 8,000 tribal members,
representatives of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues said Wednesday.
In a statement, the forum’s chairman Alvaro Pop Ac called on
the U.S. to provide the tribe a “fair, independent, impartial, open
and transparent process to resolve this serious issue and to avoid
escalation into violence and further human rights abuses.”
Dalee Dorough, an Inuit member of the forum, which provides
representation at the world body for indigenous peoples around the
globe, said failure to consult with Sioux over the project violated
the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples....
Archaeologists & Museums Denounce Destruction of Standing Rock Sioux
Burial Grounds Natural History Museum - 21 SEP 2016
We call on the federal government to abide by its laws and to
conduct a thorough environmental impact statement and cultural
resources survey on the pipeline’s route, with proper consultation
with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We stand with the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe and affirm their treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, and
the protection of their lands, waters, cultural and sacred sites,
and we stand with all those attempting to prevent further
irreparable losses....
Heritage Celebration Saturday, 19 November 2016, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM NC Museum of History - 22 SEP 2016
Musicians, dancers, artists, storytellers, and authors from
North Carolina’s eight state-recognized tribes will gather for this
popular family event. With something for all ages, the celebration
is a firsthand opportunity to learn about the state’s American
Indian culture, past and present. Activities include craft
demonstrations, hands-on activities, games, foods, and much more.,,,
AFL-CIO Constituency Groups Stand with Native Americans to Stop the
Dakota Access Pipeline APALA - 19 SEP 2016
Washington, DC - Together, the Labor Coalition for Community
Action, which includes the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, the Asian
Pacific American Labor Alliance, the Coalition of Black Trade
Unionists, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Labor Council for
Latin American Advancement, and Pride at Work, rises in solidarity
with Native Americans and our allies in protesting against the
Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and defending Native lands from
exploitation by corporations and the U.S. government. We advocate
for a progressive labor movement rooted in dignity and respect of
all peoples, including Native Americans and their families.
Though cited to bring 4,500 jobs, the Dakota Access Pipeline
seriously threatens tribal sovereignty, sacred burial grounds, and
the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux and potentially 17
million others. As organizations dedicated to elevating the
struggles of our respective constituencies, we stand together to
support our Native American kinfolk – one of the most marginalized
and disenfranchised groups in our nation’s history – in their fight
to protect their communities from further displacement and
exploitation....
Hopi
Nation Arrives at Standing Rock Reservation We Are the Media - 18 SEP 2016
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman urges United Nations, 'Stop the
Pipeline'
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 20 SEP 2016
GENEVA -- Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II
addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council today and urged
the U.N. to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Chairman Archambault told the U.N. Human Rights Council that
the Standing Rock Sioux Nation is a sovereign nation, located in the
United States, whose sovereignty is recognized by the
legally-binding treaties of 1851 and 1868, and signed by the
traditional government Oceti Sakowin.
Oil companies are causing the deliberate destruction of their
sacred places and burials, he told the U.N.
"Dakota Access Pipeline wants to build an oil pipeline under
the river that is the source of our nation's drinking water."
"This pipeline threatens our communities, the river, and the
earth."
Oil companies and the U.S. Government have failed to respect
their rights, he said, describing the struggle for the "benefit of
our children not yet born."...
Civil Suit Against State Police for Alleged Brutality on Onondaga
Nation in 1997 Begins CNYCentral - 20 SEP 2016
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- 15 members of the Onondaga Nation are
finally getting their day in court for a violent clash with State
Police alongside Interstate 81 nearly 20 years ago.
Jury selection for the civil trial in Federal court began
earlier today. The judge warned those jurors that the case is a
little unusual, and that was an understatement. 15 plaintiffs - who
are each representing themselves - gave 15 individual opening
statements, presenting their accusations against 51 defendants who
are either current or former New York State Troopers....
As Dakota Access Protests Escalated, Obama Admin OK’d Same Company
for Two Pipelines to Mexico The Huffington Post - 20 SEP 2016
On September 9, the Obama administration revoked
authorization for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)
on federally controlled lands and asked the pipeline’s owners, led
by Energy Transfer Partners, to voluntarily halt construction on
adjacent areas at the center of protests by Native Americans and
supporters.
However, at the same time the pipeline and protests
surrounding it were galvanizing an international swell of solidarity
with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its Sacred Stone Camp,
another federal move on two key pipelines has flown under the
radar....
North Dakota Gov. Dalrymple Owns Stock in Company That Plans to
Drill Near Elkhorn Site
by LAUREN DONOVAN, Bismarck Tribune - 22 MAR 2013
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who will help decide
whether an oil company can drill 100 feet from Theodore Roosevelt
National Park, owns stock in the oil company making the request.
Dalrymple owns shares of stock in ExxonMobil, owner of XTO
Energy, which staked out a four-well pad on Forest Service land next
to the park’s Elkhorn Ranch site.
Through a spokesman, Dalrymple said he is not going to
disclose the details of those shares, including how many or their
value....
Activists, 200+ Tribes Unite to Fight Dakota Access Pipeline RT America on YouTube - 12 SEP 2016
Fawn Sharp:
America Needs to Catch up on Indigenous Rights Vimeo - JUN 2016
Fawn Sharp, president of the Quinault Indian Nation,
described how America lags behind the rest of the world in how we
treat our native communities, and has avoided agreeing to the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
“Countries around the world have embraced what we believe are
fundamental principles that are absolutely necessary in the
relationship that we should have with the United States. In 2007,
144 at the UN General Assembly passed and approved the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Four countries
opposed it: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
The three countries that opposed it with the United States reversed
the decision and now support it… From our perspective, we need to
not only embrace the declaration, but three critical issues inside
the declaration. I think we need to do [this] in the coming
years.”...
At Camp with the Standing Rock Pipeline Protesters
by: Terray Sylvester, Outside - 15 SEP 2016
I first made the 1,600-mile journey from Berkeley, California, to
the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in late August and again in
early September to document this latest skirmish in the fight to
shield fresh water from pollution, to keep fossil fuels in the
ground, and to ensure greenhouse gasses stay out of the
atmosphere....
Morton County Charges 8 Additional Dakota Access Pipeline
Protesters,
Files Warrants for 3 Others Fox News - 15 SEP 2016
MANDAN, N.D. - Authorities have charged eight individuals for
their involvement in illegal protest activities on September 14.
Protesters were arrested yesterday at a Dakota Access Pipeline
construction site on private property near New Salem in Morton
County.
Nicholas Tilsen, Wanikiyewin Loud Hawk and Daniel Tseleie
were arrested for felony reckless endangerment for attaching
themselves to construction equipment using a “steel or sleeping
dragon” device. Law enforcement were forced to remove the device
endangering responders due to the dangerous conditions.
Five others were arrested for their involvement in the
unlawful protest activities.
Below are the names and criminal charges of those arrested
September 14:...
20
Arrested During #NoDAPL Lockdown, Including 2 Unicorn Riot
Journalists Unicorn Riot - 13 SEP 2016
Morton County, ND – Multiple lockdowns took place at two
Dakota Access Pipeline construction sites in Morton County North
Dakota. All work was stopped for the day as police arrested twenty
people, including targeting and arresting two Unicorn Riot
journalists....
Water
Protectors Arrested by Militarized Police Vimeo - 15 SEP 2016
Over twenty water Protectors were arrested after taking
Non-Violent Direct Action to stop Dakota Access Pipeline
Construction.
Two Unicorn Riot Journalists were also arrested as they
documented the action....
Company Executives Could Now Be Tried for Land Grabs and
Environmental Destruction Global Witness - 15 SEP 2016
Today’s announcement in The Hague is critical first step in
crackdown on violence and theft in global trade in land and natural
resources
A move by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
to expand its focus signals a landmark shift in international
criminal justice and could reshape how business is done in
developing countries, says Global Witness. Company executives,
politicians and other individuals could now be held criminally
responsible under international law for crimes linked to land
grabbing and environmental destruction.
Global Witness has been campaigning for the ICC to
investigate crimes committed amid the global rush for land and
natural resources, which has seen an area the size of Germany leased
to investors in developing countries since 2000. (1) This has led to
millions of people being evicted from their land – illegally and
often violently - in countries that lack functioning national
courts.
At its worst, this violence is fatal. According to Global
Witness data, in 2015 more than three people were murdered a week
defending their land from theft and destructive industries – the
deadliest year on record. (2) Conflicts over mining were the number
one cause of killings, followed by agribusiness, hydroelectric dams
and logging....
Dakota Access Pipeline Plan Still On Despite Protests Across the US
and World The Guardian - 13 SEP 2016
Rallies are taking place over $3.8bn North Dakota pipeline,
which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe says threatens their water
supply and cultural heritage.
The company behind a controversial pipeline project near
native American land in North Dakota has vowed to press ahead,
despite the plan sparking protests across the world on Tuesday.
Protests are taking place in the US, Europe, Japan and New
Zealand over the $3.8bn Dakota Access Pipeline, which the
Standing Rock Sioux tribe claims threatens their water supply and
cultural heritage.
Rallies have taken place in cities including New York City,
Los Angeles and London, where an anti-pipeline banner was dangled in
front of the Palace of Westminster.
In one of 100 protests across the US, Senator Bernie Sanders,
CNN pundit Van Jones and Native American leaders are to address
hundreds of people gathered outside the White House. Sanders said
the pipeline must be stopped “once and for all”....
Thunder Valley Founder Arrested in DAPL Protest Rapid City Journal - 15 SEP 2016
Nick Tilsen of Porcupine, a Lakota housing activist, was one
of three people arrested and charged with a felony in North Dakota
on Wednesday in connection to ongoing protests against the Dakota
Access pipeline.
Authorities say Tilsen was among three people who attached
themselves to construction equipment in order to stop progress on
the controversial pipeline....
Tangled Web of Lies: U.S. Army Corps' DAPL Historic Properties
"Review" Galanda Broadman - 05 SEP 2016
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave! When we first practice to
deceive." --Sir Walter Scott
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' "review" of historic
properties in ancestral Sioux Treaty lands, associated with the
"Dakota" Access Pipeline (DAPL) project, is fundamentally
dishonest---especially considering the easement the Corps must still
issue to allow drilling underneath Lake Oahe and the Missouri River
pursuant to the federal Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.
In fact, the Corps have woven together a tangled web of lies,
and are telling those lies to the Great Sioux Peoples and the entire
country....
Showdown Over Oil Becomes a National Movement for Native Americans The Washington Post - 07 SEP 2016
CANNON BALL, N.D. — The simmering showdown here between the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the company building the Dakota Access
crude-oil pipeline began as a legal battle.
It has turned into a movement.
Over the past few weeks, thousands of Native Americans
representing tribes from all over the country have traveled to this
central North Dakota reservation to camp in a nearby meadow and show
solidarity with a tribe they think is once again receiving a raw
deal at the hands of commercial interests and the U.S.
government....
As Coal Companies Sink into Bankruptcy, Who Will Pay to Clean up
Their
Old Mines? Peabody is the latest to make big promises to a bankruptcy judge. Vox Energy & Environment - 02 SEP 2016
In the context of US capitalism, corporate bankruptcy has
become less an admission of failure or a final chapter than a kind
of R&R, a chance to shed some flab and come back stronger. As anyone
who has followed Donald Trump’s career knows, a big company
declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy is like Lindsay Lohan checking into
rehab. They’ll be back.
So it is with Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private
coal company, which entered bankruptcy back in April. It is
currently undergoing its bankruptcy spa treatment — shedding workers
and retirees, their health and pension benefits — and preparing to
get back to work (or so it hopes).
In the case of Peabody and other coal companies, however,
there’s another sort of flab, er, liability at issue, for which
there is less precedent in bankruptcy court: namely, environmental
remediation obligations....
Twenty-three Water Protectors Being Denied Bail by Morton Co.
Sheriff 'NO! DAPL'
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 13 SEP 2016
CANNON BALL, North Dakota -- Morton County Sheriff's Office
is denying bail to 23 water protectors arrested today defending the
Missouri River water from the construction of Dakota Access
Pipeline.
Cody Hall, media spokesperson for Red Warrior Camp, said the
Sheriff is using the excuse that none of the Standing Rock Camp
attorneys are licensed in the State of North Dakota.
Hall said police in riot gear with semi-automatic weapons
arrested the water protectors today....
LOCKDOWN on DAPL Construction Machinery Sept. 13, 2016 Twenty water protectors arrested by police in riot gear during
multiple lockdowns west of Mandan
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 13 SEP 2016
MANDAN, North Dakota -- Heavily armed police in riot gear
have arrested about 22 water protectors, following multiple
lockdowns to construction machinery this moring.
Medics and Unicorn Riot journalists were arrested at the
Dakota Access Pipeline site 89, west of Mandan.
At 4 p.m., one water protector remained locked down. Police
were not letting anyone take the person water.
Red Warrior Camp said, "Relatives, do not let media, the
North Dakota Morton County Police Dept and these corporations lie to
you! Construction was only halted within 20 miles of the river! All
other areas are still being dug up and pipe is being laid! Seek
truth relatives and take heart! Warriors to the front!
As police charged in riot gear with assault wespons, the
Unicorn Riot livestream was censored by Facebook."
Before being arrested, the Unicorn Riot journalists said, "So
they're pointing at everyone with camears saying, he's going, she's
going ... So it, seems they're targeting media for arrest. We might
be getting arrested here ..."
Charge Against Reporter 'Raises a Red Flag'
by CAROLINE GRUESKIN, Bismarck Tribune - 12 SEP
2016
The head of the state newspaper association says charges filed
against a reporter who documented a pipeline protest "at least
raises a red flag," though law enforcement says she was targeted
because she could be identified from video footage -- not because
she is a journalist.
"It’s apparent that the protest was on private property, but it’s
regrettable that authorities chose to charge a reporter who was just
doing her job," Steve Andrist, executive director of the North
Dakota Newspaper Association, said via email about the misdemeanor
trespass charge filed against Amy Goodman, a New York-based reporter
who documented the use of guard dogs at a Dakota Access Pipeline
protest.
"There were a lot of people at the protest site, and only two of
them were charged. One was a reporter, and that certainly creates
the impression that the authorities were attempting to silence a
journalist and prevent her from telling an important story," Andrist
wrote after reviewing the complaint against her....
The Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around Dallas Goldtooth, a veteran organizer of the Keystone XL fight,
is amazed at the historic support from tribes at Standing Rock--even
tribes that rely on resource extraction. Yes! Magazine Online - 11 SEP 2016
This year’s massive buildup of resistance to the Dakota
Access pipeline follows closely on the heels of the victory over
Keystone XL pipeline, something often credited to feverish
organizing by 350.org. But years before 350’s involvement, there was
the Indigenous Environmental Network, which launched that movement
and its “Keep It In the Ground” messaging. This time, with nearly
200 tribes unified behind the Standing Rock tribe’s opposition to
the pipeline and more than 3,000 people gathered at the Standing
Rock Sioux reservation, Native Americans are clearly leading the
movement.
The encampment at Standing Rock are filled with prayers and
ceremonies, and the spiritual core to this movement gives it
resilience and power. The courage and clarity of the stand to
protect our water is attracting support across the nation and around
the world....
Red Warrior Camp Spokesman Cody Hall Is Free
by Brenda Norrell Censored News - 12 SEP 2016
BISMARCK, North Dakota -- Cody Hall sent a message of love to
all the water defenders, after being released from jail. Hall, media
spokesperson for Red Warrior Camp, spent four days in jail.
Hall said they tried to break him down, with shoulder flexes,
psychological tactics, and intimidation, but he understands that
someone has to take the fall first in this struggle.
"They tried to break me down," Hall said when released
Monday, "but I won't be broken down."...
Feds Step in for Standing Rock Sioux--
the Big Win May Be for All Tribes Facing Pipelines
The Department of Justice suggested that serious re-examination
might be on the way to reform how U.S. law treats tribal land.
by Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, Yes! Magazine - 09 SEP 2016
A dramatic day at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe occupation seems to
have ended in a temporary victory for the tribe in its battle to
stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. But the biggest win might be in
what this could mean for future projects nationwide that put tribes
up against pipelines.
Immediately after Friday’s decision by the U.S. District Court to
deny the Standing Rock Sioux’s request for an injunction to stop the
Dakota Access Pipeline, the Obama Administration swooped in to
temporarily stop construction bordering Lake Oahe on the Missouri
River. “Construction of the pipeline on Army Corps land bordering or
under Lake Oahe will not go forward at this time,” said a joint
announcement of three federal agencies—U.S. Department of the
Interior, Department of Justice, and Army Corps of Engineers....
Joan Baez at Standing Rock Sunday Night Circle
Censored News - 11 SEP 2016
Joan Baez sang for the Sunday night circle when she arrived
in Standing Rock Camp tonight.
Listen to Joan Baez and Haudenosaunee singers.
Broadcast live by Govinda at Standing Rock Spirit Resistance
Radio and recorded by Censored News. Sept. 11, 2016
Red Warrior Camp's Cody Hall Bond Hearing Monday Morning (12 Sept 2016)
Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 11 SEP 2016
The North Dakota media is going to try to vilianize leaders
of the movement to stop the pipeline. Cody Hall is no agitator. Cody is
led by the same spirit that moves all of us to uplift our people,
protect our water, our sacred sites and spiritual ways for all of
humanity. Cody has stood his ground in a peaceful way. Peace does not
back down. Cody's bond hearing is tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 11, at about 9
am CST at Morton County courthouse. From here on out you all be very
careful to protect your identity. Do not agree to any illegal activity
in the presence of anyone. Be wary of provocateurs who incite unlawful
activity. Guarantee you they are trying to build conspiracy cases. This
is how it goes. Firearms and violence will derail this whole movement.
We all agree there's no place for that here. We must be unbreakable,
unbribable, unsnitchable. Facial recognition each time we go thru the
"info points." Do not travel alone. #FreeCodyHall respect to all
arrested, please give even a little to our legal fund.
https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/red-warrior-camp-legal-fund-nodapl
Supporting Standing Rock in Juneau: Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Sing,
Dance, Drum
Steve Quinn, Indian Country Today - 10 SEP 2016
More than 100 Alaska Natives from the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian
tribes gathered recently at a Juneau park to sing, dance and drum their
support for those at Standing Rock opposing the Dakota Access pipeline.
There has been other support from Alaska too, with Tlingit artist Doug
Chilton bringing his famed custom 30-foot fiberglass canoe to the
Missouri River. In addition the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida
Indian Tribes of Alaska issued a statement in support....
‘We Are Water People’: Tlingit Canoe Travels Nearly 3,000 Miles to
Support Standing Rock
Steve Quinn, Indian Country Today - 06 SEP 2016
JUNEAU, Alaska—The call to action came the morning of August
31.
Tlingit artist Doug Chilton received a request to bring his
custom 30-foot, fiberglass canoe from Juneau, Alaska, to Bismarck, N.D.,
where he will join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other paddlers
protesting the construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state oil pipeline
that will cross the Missouri River.
Fears that the project will destroy burial grounds and
contaminate drinking water for thousands of tribal members quickly
resonated with Chilton....
'Paddle to Standing Rock' Northwest Canoes on the Cannon Ball River
by Zoltan Grossman, Censored News - 08-09 SEP 2016
CANNON BALL, North Dakota -- The Pacific Northwest came to
the Northern Plains today, when canoes from Washington, Idaho, Oregon,
Minnesota, and Alaska landed at the Camp of the Sacred Stones. They had
come for two days down the Missouri River from Bismarck, and arrived at
the Cannonball River on the northern boundary of the Standing Rock
Reservation.
It was a powerful show of solidarity from tribes that have
also been opposing Bakken oil trains, and highlighted that "Water is
Life" from the Pacific Ocean to the Missouri River. 18 canoes
participated, including Nisqually, Puyallup, Quinault,
Chehalis/Colville, Kalispel, Warm Springs, Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai, and
Tlingit-Haida....
Chief Baker Issues Statement on Standing Rock Ruling Cherokee Nation - 09 SEP 2016
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Late Friday afternoon, a federal judge
denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s motion to stop the Dakota Access
oil pipeline in North Dakota. Just minutes later, the U.S. Department of
Justice, Department of the Army and Department of the Interior issued a
joint statement announcing a temporary halt to work on the pipeline.
In the statement, the agencies acknowledged "important issues
raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations." The
statement went on to say “The Army will not authorize constructing the
Dakota Access pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe until
it can determine whether it will need to reconsider any of its previous
decisions regarding the Lake Oahe site under the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) or other federal laws. Therefore, construction of the
pipeline on Army Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe will not go
forward at this time.”...
Kalgoorli in Australia Support Standing Rock Against DAPL Censored News - 10 SEP 2016
The Kalgoorli people of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance
support the people of Standing Rock against the DAPL. Indigenous
solidarity from a group fighting against uranium mining and nuclear
waste storage on their lands.
Posted by
brendanorrell@gmail.com
Ocheti Sakowin Camp Human Rights
Observers Statement Censored News - 10 SEP 2016
Greetings relatives and friends from the plains of the Ocheti
Sakowin,
This letter is not a joyful letter of salutations, but one of
mourning, and heartbreak concerning the violation of indigenous peoples’
human rights last Saturday near the Cannonball River in Standing Rock,
North Dakota.
The media continues to misrepresent the truth about this
gathering, particularly the acts of violent aggression and genocidal
tactics used on our people. First, we are protectors of life, of water,
not protesters. Indigenous peoples here are exercising a human and
indigenous right to self-determination over the lands, territories, and
resources they traditionally used and occupied.
Last week, water protectors were physically attacked by
private security hired by Dakota Access as they peacefully gathered and
prayed in response to the destruction and desecration of known and
demarcated sacred sites and burial grounds. The people present, led by
our women,
fearing the bulldozers would cause irreparable harm to their sacred
grounds, gathered with arms linked in order to halt the desecration.
In response, a security firm hired by Dakota Access released
dogs on those gathered.
Several people were bitten by dogs including a pregnant woman. The
people were also sprayed with mace. This traumatic event must be
addressed in a just and transparent way and Dakota Access must be held
accountable for this violence....
Reporter Who Documented Guard Dogs Charged with Trespassing at
Pipeline Protest Site
by Amy Dalrymple, WDAZ - 10 SEP 2016; 3:32 p.m.
MANDAN, N.D.—A reporter from Democracy Now! who documented
security personnel with guard dogs working for Dakota Access
Pipeline is facing criminal trespassing charges in Morton County.
Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Amy Goodman of
New York for a Class B misdemeanor, according to court documents.
Goodman, a reporter for the independent news program, can be
seen on news footage from Sept. 3 documenting the clash between
protesters and private security personnel with guard dogs at a
Dakota Access construction site, including footage showing people
with bite injuries and a dog with blood on its mouth....
BREAKING NEWS
Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman, Cody Hall Arrested: Standing
Rock Defends the Sacred
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - 10 SEP 2016
CANNON BALL, North Dakota -- A warrant has been issued for
Democracy Now producer Amy Goodman, charging her with
criminal trespass when Native Americans were attacked by
vicious dogs defending burial places on Sept. 3.
Cody Hall of the Red Warrior Camp was arrested last night,
charged with criminal trespass for both Sept. 3 and Sept. 6.
On Sept. 6, a Lakota woman and man from the Amazon locked
down to the Dakota Access pipeline bulldozers to prevent
destruction of the burial places.
The charges state there was damage to equipment, painting of
equipment, a tire was flattened, and dirt was placed in fuel
lines, on Sept. 6. Cody Hall was identified addressing those
present, according to the charges....
Justice Dept., Army & Interior Dept. Temporarily Block DAPL
Construction under Missouri River Democracy Now - 09 SEP 2016
In a dramatic series of moves late Friday afternoon, a
federal judge rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for
an injunction against the U.S. government over the Dakota Access
Pipeline. Then the Army, Department of Justice, and Department of
the Interior responded with an announcement that the Army Corps will
not issue permits for Dakota Access to drill under the Missouri
River until the Army Corps reconsiders its previously issued
permits:
“The Army will not authorize constructing the Dakota Access
pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe until it can
determine whether it will need to reconsider any of its previous
decisions regarding the Lake Oahe site under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or other federal laws. Therefore,
construction of the pipeline on Army Corps land bordering or under
Lake Oahe will not go forward at this time. “
“We appreciate the District Court’s opinion on the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers’ compliance with the National Historic
Preservation Act. However, important issues raised by the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members
regarding the Dakota Access pipeline specifically, and
pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain.”
Read the full memo
here.
The Corps also asked Dakota Access to voluntarily cease
construction 20 miles east and west of the Missouri River.
In a statement posted online the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
summarized the actions taken by the agencies and added that they
"also set the stage for a nationwide reform,...
STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Justice.gov - 09 SEPT 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, September 9, 2016
Joint Statement from the Department of Justice, the
Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior Regarding
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the
Department of the Interior issued the following statement regarding
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:
“We appreciate the District Court’s opinion on the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers’ compliance with the National Historic
Preservation Act. However, important issues raised by the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members
regarding the Dakota Access pipeline specifically, and
pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain. Therefore, the
Department of the Army, the Department of Justice, and the
Department of the Interior will take the following steps.
The Army will not authorize constructing the Dakota Access
pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe until it can
determine whether it will need to reconsider any of its previous
decisions regarding the Lake Oahe site under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or other federal laws. Therefore,
construction of the pipeline on Army Corps land bordering or under
Lake Oahe will not go forward at this time. The Army will move
expeditiously to make this determination, as everyone involved —
including the pipeline company and its workers — deserves a clear
and timely resolution. In the interim, we request that the pipeline
company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles
east or west of Lake Oahe....
Court Ruling - Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Petition for Injunction Earthjustice - 09 SEP 2016
58
IV. Conclusion
As it has previously mentioned, this Court does not lightly
countenance any depredation
of lands that hold significance to the Standing Rock Sioux. Aware of
the indignities visited upon
the Tribe over the last centuries, the Court scrutinizes the
permitting process here with
particular
care. Having done so, the Court must nonetheless conclude that the
Tribe has not demonstrated
that an injunction is warranted here. The Court, therefore, will
issue a contemporaneous Order
denying the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
/s/
James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
United States District Judge
Date: September 9, 2016
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe calls for peace in advance of
court ruling
Court to announce decision on whether construction of
pipeline can continue
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe - 08 SEP 2016
CANNON BALL, N.D. – A ruling from the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia is anticipated
tomorrow, September 9, on whether construction can
continue on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The statement
below from David Archambault II, chairman of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, can be quoted in full or in
part.
Thousands of people, from members of the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe, tribes across the nation and First Nations
in Canada, to non-Native supporters in the United States
and around the world, have stood in solidarity against
the harm and destruction caused by the Dakota Access
Pipeline. We have stood side by side in peaceful prayer.
The pipeline threatens our sacred lands and the health
of 17 million people who rely upon the Missouri River
for water. There is a lot at stake with the court
decision tomorrow. We call upon all water protectors to
greet any decision with peace and order. Even if the
outcome of the court’s ruling is not in our favor, we
will continue to explore every lawful option and fight
against the construction of the pipeline.
Any act of violence hurts our cause and is not welcome
here. We invite all supporters to join us in prayer
that, ultimately, the right decision—the moral
decision—is made to protect our people, our sacred
places, our land and our resources.
Additional information:
Chairman Archambault II spoke with the governor this
morning and was notified of action by the National Guard
to ensure safety of all citizens. The National Guard has
been called in to assist state and county police in
notifying drivers on Highway 1806 travelling south that
there may be pedestrians on the road and cars may be
parked on the side of the road. This is intended to keep
all drivers and pedestrians safe. The National Guard
will not enter the camp.
‘I Want to Win Someday’: Tribes Make Stand Against Pipeline
by JACK HEALY, New York Times - 08 SEPT 2016
NEAR CANNON BALL, N.D. — Verna Bailey stared into the silvery
ripples of a man-made lake, looking for the spot where she had been
born. “Out there,” she said, pointing to the water. “I lived down
there with my grandmother and grandfather. We had a community there.
Now it’s all gone.”
Fifty years ago, hers was one of hundreds of Native American
families whose homes and land were inundated by rising waters after
the Army Corps of Engineers built the Oahe Dam along the Missouri
River, part of a huge midcentury public-works project approved by
Congress to provide electricity and tame the river’s floods....
North Dakota activates National Guard to Protect the Pipeline
Instead of Our Tribes Daily KOS - 08 SEP 2016
North Dakota’s Gov. Jack Dalrymple held a press conference
today activating the National Guard. In this press conference,
below, please note that there are no American Indian journalists
except for Chase Iron Eyes who expresses concern about escalating
violence as a result of the governor’s decision. The rest of the
press corps ask questions that, in my opinion, carry water for the
Dakota Access Pipeline. This is a one-sided presentation to the
media and our tribes will continue to press our message of why this
pipeline needs to be stopped.
Below, I have permission to post in full Jacqueline Keeler’s
report today which provides some background....
North Dakota Governor Activates National Guard, Tribal Leaders
Respond
by Sarah Sunshine Manning, Indian Country Today - 08 SEPT
2016
OCETI SAKOWIN TERRITORY—On Thursday, September 8, North
Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple officially activated the National Guard
to assist security near the site of the demonstrations near Standing
Rock, alarming many campers, water protectors and supporters at the
Oceti Sakowin camp along the river.
“When we first heard about the possibility of the National Guard
coming, it was almost trauma response,” said Faith Spotted Eagle,
Ihanktowan elder, who was present when the word came down. “A lot of
people went numb because the idea of the military came in.
“To an average non-Native person, that might feel safe,”
Spotted Eagle told ICTMN. “To us, it feels really familiar, and it
personally takes me back to the Whitestone Massacre. But we know how
to handle these situations,” she said. “We pray. We support and
listen to each other, and seek consensus to know that we are safe.
We all play a part in deciding what’s best for the people.”...
OWE AKU: Critical Request: Call ND Governor:
Stop the Militarization of a Peaceful Protest Censored News - 08 SEP 2016 CALL THE GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA
THE GOVERNOR MAY CALL IN THE NATIONAL GUARD, RAISING TENSIONS AND
MILITARIZING A PEACEFUL PROTEST TO PROTECT SACRED WATER
CALL GOVERNOR DALRYMPLE AND ASK HIM NOT TO DO THIS. THE GOVERNOR'S
PHONE NUMBER IS 701-328-2200
Lockdown at Dawn -- Protecting Burial Place from DAPL Bulldozers Censored News - 08 SEP 2016
CANNON BALL, North Dakota (Sept. 8, 2016) -- Protectors of
burial places locked down to heavy construction machinery before
first light this morning to protect the burial place of chiefs in
the path of bulldozers of Dakota Access Pipeline.
Construction workers did not arrive, apparently because of
muddy road conditions.
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple announced today that he has the
National Guard on standby.
A federal judge refused to protect the burial place on
Monday, after bulldozers ripped into the topsoil of the burial
place.
Six protectors were bitten by vicious attack dogs of the
pipeline, many were maced and some were assaulted by private
security of the pipeline.
Morton County Sheriff's Kyle Kirchmeier office released a
statement of lies, blaming the burial place defenders for violence.
These lies were distributed by major media outlets. The Sheriff's
office falsely claimed the protectors had weapons, which they did
not. Major news outlets, including AP, repeated those lies....
A Word About Brenda
Norrell and Censored News Al Swilling, SENAA International - 14 FEB 2015 For those wondering why the vast majority of shared
posts on SENAA International's Web site and Facebook page are from
Brenda Norrell's Censored News, it's very simple—and very complex. For
many years, Brenda Norrell was a major journalist for (forgive me,
Brenda) Indian Country Today (ICT) until they censored Brenda's articles
and terminated her without cause. After leaving Indian Country Today,
Brenda created the appropriately
named Censored News.
While at
ICT, Brenda was a voice for the Dineh (Navajo) people at
Black Mesa, Arizona, where bed partners Peabody Coal and the BIA were trying to
forcibly remove Dineh residents from their ancestral homes in order to
strip mine the land of its coal. That greed took the form of a
contrived, fictional "land dispute" between Dineh' and Hopi....
Censored
News by Journalist & Publisher Brenda Norrell Censored News - 12 FEB 2015
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Worldwide Prayer Gatherings Will Resume Weekly
by SENAA International - 28 OCT 2014 What Is a Worldwide Prayer
Gathering?
Though the specific details may vary from one support group to
another, and from one geographical location to another, the essential
concept remains the same.
A Worldwide Prayer Gathering is not so much a physical gathering into
one physical location as it is the spiritual gathering of individuals
and groups from around the world who are of one mind and one accord into
one spiritual place for a common purpose, which is to ask for the
Creator's help to bring about the circumstances that will accomplish our
common goal according to His promise.
TUTORIAL
LSO MANAGEMENT: What They Are
and What to Do About Them SENAA International - 16 FEB 2010
Introduction
The computing public is becoming increasingly aware
of the existence of Local Shared Objects (LSOs),
also called "Flash cookies" or "Persistent
Identification Elements" (PIEs), the dangers they
pose, and the unethical ways that they are placed on
our machines. LSOs are the busybodies of the
Internet, sticking their
noses in your personal
business at every opportunity without
your knowledge or consent; and like most
busybodies, they're being found out.
With growing public awareness of LSOs comes a growing
demand for effective, real time control of them. Most
LSO management solutions offer management or deletion of
LSOs after potentially malicious ones have had time to
do their damage. Stand-alone LSO management utilities do
not offer real time protection, either. This tutorial
provides real-time management of LSOs....
IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, LEARN THEM! READ THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS!
Transcripts of the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of
Rights (1st 10 amendments), and other Constitutional Amendments for your
perusal. A public service endeavor of SENAA International.
The PATRIOT Act's Impact on Your Rights - ACLU
The
ACLU’s National Security Project is dedicated to ensuring
that U.S. national security policies and practices are
consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human
rights.
