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Water Protector Legal Collective Sues For Excessive Force Against Peaceful Protesters

December 2, 2016 Tasha Moro, www.waterprotectorlegal.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Lawsuit, Protests

By Tasha Moro for NLG - CANNON BALL, ND —Today, the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC-formerly Red Owl), an initiative of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), filed suit in US District Court against Morton County, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirschmeier, and other law enforcement agencies for using excessive force against peaceful Water Protectors on the night of November 20, 2016. The class action suit, filed on behalf of persons who were injured on the night of November 20 and early morning of November 21, seeks an immediate injunction preventing the Morton County Sheriff’s Department...

North Dakota Governor Orders Pipeline Protesters Expelled

November 30, 2016 Terray Sylvester, www.reuters.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Government, North Dakota, Protesters

By Terray Sylvester for Reuters - North Dakota's governor ordered the expulsion of thousands of Native American and environmental activists camped on federal property near an oil pipeline project they are trying to halt, citing hazards posed by harsh weather as a blizzard bore down on the area. The "emergency evacuation" order from Governor Jack Dalrymple came days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the site, set a Dec. 5 deadline for the demonstrators to vacate their encampment, about 45 miles (72 km) south of Bismarck, the state capital.

#NoDAPL DC Solidarity March Resounds With ‘Water Is Life’ Battle Cry

November 28, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! #NoDAPL, Protests, Washington DC

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Washington, DC — Several hundred people, led by Native Americans in ceremonial dress, marched from the Department of Justice to the Washington Monument on Sunday in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is under construction on land belonging to Sioux Nations according to an 1851 treaty. This event was one of many solidarity actions supporting the North Dakota resistance camps fighting the pipeline, which if completed would run 1,168 miles from North Dakota Bakken shale fields to Illinois.

Police Treating Dakota Access Protesters ‘Like An Enemy On The Battlefield’

November 28, 2016 Phil Mckenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Police, Repression

By Phil Mckenna for Inside Climate News -The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International are stepping up calls for the Department of Justice to investigate what they feel is excessive use of force by law enforcement in North Dakota in response to protests against the Dakota Access pipeline. The renewed calls for action come after police used tactics Sunday night that included the use of rubber bullets, concussion grenades, tear gas and water cannons sprayed on hundreds of protesters for hours in freezing temperatures, according to live streamed video and protesters' accounts.

Newsletter – Time To Ask Who We Are

November 27, 2016 Margaret Flower and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #NoDAPL, Bayer, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Coal, Donald Trump, Education reform, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Labor, militarism, Monsanto, Neo-Nazis, Oil and Gas, Torture, Trumpism, weapons, Workers

By Margaret Flower and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. The United States has reached a turning point. Where we turn is dependent on what we do as people to determine our future. Neither of the major political parties are going to adequately solve the crises we face. This is a time to examine and discuss some fundamental issues: who we are and who we want to be. Out of crises come opportunities to put bold solutions in place. We are calling for a People's Agenda. We have the power to make changes in this country that completely alter the course of our nation and the world. We can say no to genocide against Native Americans. We can end systemic racism. We can demand respect for the human rights of all people. We can promote peace and prosperity for all. We can solve the climate crisis. It is up to us and how we organize in our communities. At the heart of the success of popular movements is what we have advocated - the building of a broad and diverse unified movement that is active and has built national consensus for the changes we wish to see.

#NoDAPL Camp Responds To Eviction: Refuses To Give Up

November 27, 2016 Whitney Webb, www.nationofchange.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Activist, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Standing Rock

By Whitney Webb for Nation of Change. The federal government finally made its intentions public when the Corps sent a letter to Sioux tribal leaders, telling them that their camps of peaceful protestors and water protectors would be evicted to protect “the general public.” To add insult to injury, the Corps’ commander told the protestors they could move to an officially sanctioned “free speech zone” away from the construction site. These hollow words are clearly more “spin” designed to distance the government from its obvious, though indirect support of the $3.8 billion pipeline project. The Cheyenne River tribe, who are co-litigants in a lawsuit against the pipeline, sharply rebuked the plan, citing that the area on which the targeted camps lie are Sioux territory per the 1851 Fort Laramie treaty signed by the Sioux and the US federal government. The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux, David Archambault II also seconded this statement, saying that the news of the eviction notice was “saddening” but not surprising considering the US government’s historical treatment of indigenous people.

Solidarity Protesters Lock Down At TD Head Office Over DAPL

November 26, 2016 Syed Hussan, www.facebook.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Banks, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Syed Hussan. Toronto, Canada, Nov. 25, 4:30pm - EST - Three protesters locked their necks to railings inside TD Head office today as native land protectors and allies rallied and drummed outside the bank. Anglican ministers Maggie Helwig and Andrea Budgey, and activist Taylor Flook asked to speak with Bob Dorrance, Chairman, CEO and President of TD Securities asking why he had not yet made a statement condemning the attacks on peaceful land defenders occupying their treaty territory in North Dakota. Protesters are targeting TD in solidarity with water protectors at Standing Rock in North Dakota, where thousands of land defenders are blocking construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). TD Securities, a subsidiary of TD, has been targeted by protests in recent weeks after the bank was identified as one of the largest funders of the controversial pipeline.

Army Corps Of Engineers Will Shut Sacred Stone Camp By December 5, 2016

November 26, 2016 Staff, www.kfyrtv.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Military, Protests

By Staff of KFYR-TV - WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to the Morton County Sheriff’s Office, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants all people camping on its property north of the Cannonball River to leave by Dec. 5. The Corps sent a letter to Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault Nov. 25, saying the decision is to protect the general public from violent confrontations between protesters and law enforcement in that area. He also says the decision was made to protect inhabitants of the camps from the harsh North Dakota winter and that medical, emergency and fire response teams cannot be provided.

Dakota Pipeline Linked To ‘Crushing Venezuela’: Winona LaDuke

November 26, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Venezuela

By Staff of Tele Sur - The North Dakota pipeline is linked to North American companies and the U.S. government's “crushing Venezuela” as they seek dirty oil extraction locally instead of doing business with the South American country that has the largest oil reserves in the world, longtime Native American activist Winona LaDuke said Sunday. “You know, all of the catastrophes that are happening elsewhere in the world have to do with the fact that North America is retooling its infrastructure

Anonymous Joins #NoDAPL Fight

November 25, 2016 Brianna Acuesta, www.trueactivist.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Anonymous, Militarized police, Police violence

By Brianna Acuesta for True Activist. What occurred on Sunday night at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation was a brutal use of force that showed the true colors of the oil companies backing the Dakota Access Pipeline and local police. It’s been clear which side the police have been on from the start, but up until now the assault on protesters has been relatively mild and spread out. However, on Sunday night, chaos ensued when law enforcement pulled out all the stops in an effort to persuade the protesters to end their fight. Police used rubber bullets, water cannons, and concussion grenades to cause “nonlethal harm” to the water protectors, but the damage inflicted was massive. Police reportedly shot a 13-year-old girl in the face with rubber bullets, vindictively shot a man at point blank range in the belly button and knee caps with a smile on their face...

Mourning Day: Water Is Life, Life Is Struggle

November 25, 2016 Leonard Peltier, www.counterpunch.org Educate! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Leonard Peltier

By Leonard Peltier for CounterPunch. Here we are again. This time the year is 2016. It has been more than 41 years since I last walked free and was able to see the sun rise and sit and feel the earth beneath my feet. I know there have been more changes then I can even imagine out there. But I do know that there is a struggle taking place as to whether this country will move on to a more sustainable way of life. This is something we wanted to have happen back in the seventies. I watch the events at Standing Rock with both pride and sorrow. Pride that our people and their allies are standing up and putting their lives on the line for the coming generations, not because they want to but because they have to. They are right to stand up in a peaceful way. It is the greatest gathering of our people in history and has made us more connected than ever before.

‘Where Evil Resides’

November 25, 2016 Adam Linehan, www.taskandpurpose.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Veterans

By Adam Linehan for Task and Purpose. On Dec. 4, if everything goes according to plan, hundreds of veterans will muster at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The mission: To stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. “Most civilians who’ve never served in a uniform are gutless worms who’ve never been in a fight in their life,” Wes Clark Jr. declares. “So if we don’t stop it, who will?” Clark Jr. is one of the most vociferous opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a controversial 1,170-mile project that, if and when it is completed, will shuttle an estimated 470,000 barrels of crude oil every day from North Dakota to Illinois. “It’s immoral, and wrong, and dangerous to us all,” Clark Jr. adds.

Solidarity Protest With NoDAPL In Baltimore Shuts Down Wells Fargo

November 25, 2016 Staff, www.citypaper.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Baltimore, Wells Fargo

By Staff for the City Paper. The group marched to the Wells Fargo Bank building downtown where many gathered outside and some entered the bank chanting, "Protect the water, defund the pipeline." Eventually, three affixed a chain of bike locks around their neck and sat down and began reading four demands: "1. We demand that Wells Fargo divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline2. We demand that Wells Fargo divest from predatory development and gentrification.3. We ask the people of Baltimore to divest from Wells Fargo.4. We ask the city of Baltimore to respect Indigenous sovereignty by changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day and by removing colonialists statues." Outside, as group held signs that read "No DAPL," "Big Oil Out Of Native Land," and "From Standing Rock To Palestine Ethnic Cleansing Is A Crime," others lead the group in chants, further articulating the point of the protest

Good News For Standing Rock From Around The World

November 23, 2016 Dr. Shepherd Bliss, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Dr. Shepherd Bliss. Sonoma County, California - “Think global and act local. This is the intention behind the actions of the Commission on Human Rights, which passed a resolution on Tuesday night in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline,” according to a Nov. 18 press release from the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights. “We wanted to support the Standing Rock Sioux, but also the actions of our local tribal leadership from the Coyote Valley Band and Kashia Band of Pomo, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and Ya-Ka-Ama, as well as the many residents of Sonoma County who have mobilized around this issue,” says Vice Chair Dmitra Smith. “The Commission joins nineteen U.S. city governments and more than 300 tribes who have rallied in support of the Standing Rock Sioux’s stance against the routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline under the Missouri River near their reservation.

Don’t Be Passive Observers Of Last Night’s Terrorization In Standing Rock

November 23, 2016 Kelly Hayes, www.truth-out.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Standing Rock, State Terror

By Kelly Hayes for Transformative Spaces - This afternoon, hundreds of water protectors, many of whom were injured by law enforcement last night, are peacefully assembling in downtown Bismarck to protest the egregious colonial violence inflicted upon Water Protectors on Highway 1806 last night. When gathering in Bismarck, which is 90 percent white, Protectors are frequently met with calls to "go back" where they belong -- the irony of which is apparently lost on the white residents of Bismarck.

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