#NoDAPL

Extreme Enforcement Abuse At Standing Rock & Where It’s Going

January 29, 2017 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org Educate! #NoDAPL, Courts, Criminal Justice System, Indigenous Resistance, Police abuse, Standing Rock

By Dahr Jamail for Truthout. What are your concerns with the Trump administration as to how much worse this could become, particularly after his recent executive order? Trump has been an investor in the pipeline. He says he's decreased his investment, which I question. He's made the construction of pipelines and general fossil fuel development a large part of his program. I think he'll make Standing Rock a target. Instead of the Army Corps of Engineers having a new EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] done, as it is calling for, he'll erase that, and tell the pipeline if they drill under the lake they won't be prosecuted anyway. I fear that law enforcement will feel they have a free hand to use excessive, and possibly lethal, force on the Water Protectors.

Large Anti-Trump Protests In Philadelphia At GOP Retreat

January 26, 2017 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Donald Trump, Environment, Healthcare, KXL pipeline, LGBTQ, War On Drugs

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. On Thursday afternoon the protests grew filling the streets of downtown Philadelphia when Trump arrived at noon. People were protesting a host of extreme right wing issues that Trump and the GOP are pursuing including immigration, healthcare, women's rights, the drug war and civil liberties, urged tolerance and love as an antidote to hate. Thousands of people filled city blocks around the Loews Hotel. People also protested his executive orders that seek to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone Pipeline as well as Trump's threats to the environment.

Movement Gears Up To Stop Trump’s DAPL Pipeline

January 24, 2017 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Indigenous Resistance, Oil & Gas

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders advancing the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access (DAPL) pipelines, prompting a tsunami of outrage and vows of bold resistance from the Indigenous activists, climate campaigners, and countless others who have fought against these projects. The Associated Press confirmed the orders had been signed after earlier reports citing anonymous officials indicated they were in the works. Many environmental groups who fiercely fought against both projects were quick to condemn the move, declaring, as 350.org did, "We have no alternative but to resist."Progressive lawmakers and climate groups echoed that promise, issuing a chorus of statements condemning the president for "putting the profits of the fossil fuel industry ahead of the future of the planet."

Cops Unleash Fury During DAPL Water Protector Eviction

January 24, 2017 Staff, www.countercurrentnews.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Cops, Repression, Water Protectors

By Staff of Counter Current News - Cannon Ball, ND — All water protectors must leave the camps — and abandon plans to relocate to a higher elevation — the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Council wrote in a resolution passed during an executive session of a district meeting just before President Donald Trump took the oath of office. Decisive, sharp consequences soon followed. Journalist and livestreamer Jon Ziegler — known better as Rebelutionary Z — met the full force of the law enforcement coalition led by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department on the front lines of brutal and indicative attacks on peaceful water protectors opposing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

ND Bill Would Protect Drivers Who ‘Accidentally’ Hit & Kill Protesters

January 15, 2017 Andy Campbell, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, North Dakota, Standing Rock

By Andy Campbell for Huffington Post. Republican lawmakers in North Dakota are taking aim at protesters with a handful of bills that would make another pipeline protest far more dangerous. The oil-friendly legislature argues that its constituents are frustrated over the protests, which led federal authorities to halt construction of the $3.8-billion Dakota Access Pipeline as thousands of protesters braved cold weather and violence for months. A bill that state GOP Rep. Keith Kempenich introduced would exempt drivers from liability if they accidentally hit a pedestrian, according to the Bismarck Tribune. House Bill 1203 was written up in direct response to groups of protesters blocking roadways, Kempenich told the paper. He claims protesters were seen jumping out in front of vehicles.

ND Debates Petition For Out-Of-State Lawyers For #NoDAPL Arestees

January 9, 2017 Caroline Grueskin, www.rapidcityjournal.com Create! #NoDAPL, Criminal Justice System, National Lawyers Guild, Water Protectors

By Caroline Grueskin for the Bismarck Tribune. MANDAN, N.D. | A petition to let out-of-state lawyers represent pipeline protesters has drawn thousands of public comments to the North Dakota Supreme Court. The vast majority of the comments, which come from as far away as Hawaii, are in favor of the petition, which arose from concerns among some lawyers there were not enough criminal defense attorneys in the state to handle the 570-plus criminal cases arising from the Dakota Access pipeline protests. When the petition was filed in mid-December, 264 people were listed as being without attorneys, a problem they said could be partly attributed to a shortage of public defenders and private criminal defense lawyers.

Thousands March For #NoDAPL Solidarity With Standing Rock In Rose Bowl Parade

January 5, 2017 Staff, www.madeinlosangelesnow.wordpress.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Standing Rock

By Staff of Echo En LA - After so many days of preparation, and then the real thing, the aftermath of #NODAPLRoseParade is something overwhelming, something epic, something comforting, and something exhausting. Today Water Protectors held true to their commitments and buckled down for the long haul waking up before sunrise, some pulling all nighters to prep the float, others coordinating logistics, and when the time came for us all to march, march in solidarity we did. I have to say that the venue of the #RoseParade is probably the largest audience this group has seen. And for the most part, in the protests I’ve been a part of, they like to keep us away from the mainstream population

2 Arrested After Dangling Alongside #NoDAPL Banner At Vikings Game

January 2, 2017 Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Protesters Arrested

By Eliott C. McLaughlin for CNN - The Minneapolis Police Department identified the climbers as Karl Mayo, 32, and Sen Holiday, 26. "They climbed up a metal guardrail to climb up these big trusses that hold up the roof," said Minneapolis police spokeswoman Sgt. Catherine Michal. Those sitting beneath the dangling protesters were evacuated as negotiators tried to persuade the climbers to return to solid ground, she said. Several fans posted images on social media, saying they noticed the banner in the first half of the game. Eric Biermann of Minneapolis told CNN he saw police gathering on the platform above banner.

Historic Injustice Against Water Defenders In ND Courts

January 1, 2017 Barbara With and Rebecca Kemble, www.wcmcoop.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Courts, Due Proecess, Human Rights, Pipelines, Police abuse, Prosecutorial Abuse, Right to counsel, Water Protectors

By Barbara With and Rebecca Kemble for Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative. According to Angela Bibens, an attorney from Colorado and a member of the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC), the conditions of North Dakota’s legal system at present are making it impossible for fair trials to take place due to several factors. The Morton County Sheriff’s department made the decision to take a hard-line, militarized position in its response to the nonviolent activities of unarmed water protectors. This includes the use of water cannons, flash bang canisters, rubber bullets, and mace, which resulted in hundreds of water protectors being injured at the front lines. As of August 19, 2016, there were just 28 DAPL-related arrests. By mid-December, 500 more people have been arrested and charged. This was a crisis of their own making, which has cost the state over $17 million in law enforcement fees.

Is The Pilgrim Pipeline Protest The Next #NoDAPL?

December 31, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Pipelines, Protests

By Lorraine Chow for Eco Watch - Is this the next #NoDAPL? The Ramapough Lunaape tribe in the township of Mahwah, New Jersey are protesting the interstate Pilgrim Pipeline, a proposed 178-mile dual pipeline that would carry fracked Bakken shale oil from Albany, New York to the Bayway Refinery in Linden, New Jersey. While it is not yet finalized, the preliminary route crosses five counties and 30 municipalities in New Jersey and five counties and 25 municipalities in New York, as well as the Highlands region, where the groundwater and surface water are the direct source of water for more than 4.5 million people in both states, according to the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline.

Not Just N. Dakota: 10 States Where Activists Are Fighting Pipeline Projects

December 30, 2016 Alexandra Rosenmann, www.scoop.co.nz Resist! #NoDAPL, Pipelines, Protests

By Alexandra Rosenmann for AlterNet - With the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly 90% complete, developers are focusing their attention elsewhere. Meanwhile, protests against additional pipelines throughout the country have yet to receive a tenth of the airtime. “If you draw a line from Chicago to the Gulf Coast — Houston, Port Arthur, Baton Rouge — that line goes through Patoka, Illinois,” John Moody, a spokesman for the Association of Oil Pipelines told the Chicago Sun Times. “Then start in Cushing, Oklahoma, and draw a line across to Cleveland and Detroit and central Ohio, and that line goes through Patoka. Patoka is a crossroads for energy delivery.”

Shootings On Backwater Bridge

December 29, 2016 Four Arrows, www.truth-out.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

By Four Arrows for Truth Out - Late afternoon on December 27, "Lunatic Outpost" released a video showing a group of about "20 to 50" Water Protectors who, while returning from a prayer walk along the Cannonball River, were chased down by armed security from DAPL and Morton County Sheriff's Department. A helicopter and tracked vehicles were involved in the pursuit. Behind the images of the large number of police and security dotting the snow-covered terrain played, background radios from the Standing Rock medics could be heard. "We need a medic team. We need a team ready to roll now." Then the narrator says "Four women were taken away in a red paddy wagon of some sort."

Black Snake Bleeding Out: How DAPL Is Duping Investors

December 25, 2016 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, www.theleapblog.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines

By Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright for The Leap. The Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) is yet another violent variable in the equation of environmental racism that plagues the United States, and the world—to the peril of Indigenous and low-wealth communities of color everywhere. Native lands, water, sacred sites, and sovereignty have been sacrificed to “spare” majority white areas north of Bismarck, North Dakota from the myriad risks of this pipeline. Now, in what can only be characterized as abject avarice, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP)—the principal corporation behind DAPL—is pushing for expedited completion of the project, despite the fact that their major investors and stockholders inevitably stand to lose a significant amount of money. That’s because the Army Corps of Engineers, the key federal agency responsible for DAPL, announced on December 4th that they are denying a critical easement and associated permit required for the pipeline to cross Lake Oahe, pending further environmental analysis. The financial implications of this decision are both far reaching and profound, and may signal the death knell of DAPL.

How To Demand That Your Bank Stop Funding DAPL

December 23, 2016 Collin Ruffino, www.theleapblog.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Banks, Pipelines

By Collin Ruffino for The Leap - I recently became aware that Citibank has provided a significant portion of the financing to Energy Transfer Partners for the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. I am writing to urge you to divest from this destructive and unethical project and to cease the financing of all other current and future projects that do not respect native sovereignty or that require the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels. I have been a Citibank customer for X years and will be closing my accounts with your bank and urging others to do so until there is positive action on the part of Citigroup.

Seattle Urged To Drop Wells Fargo Over DAPL

December 16, 2016 Amanda Froelich, www.trueactivist.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Investment, Seattle, Standing Rock

By Amanda Froelich for True Activist - A few weeks ago, actress and activist Susan Sarandon made headlines when she asked supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe – who are protesting the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) – to pull their money out of the banks which are invested in its development. “Water protectors”, who have been camped out near Cannon Ball, ND, since April, argue that the controversial DAPL will uproot sacred burial ground and potentially contaminate the Missouri River. In addition, they maintain that the land is rightfully theirs due to an 1851 treaty which was never revoked.

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