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Mainstream Media MIA As DAPL Action Is Met With Water Cannons And Mace

November 22, 2016 Jenni Monet, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com , ,
By Jenni Monet for Indian Country Today Media Network - Outside a triage tent at the foot of the Oceti Sakowin Camp, frantic chatter and whirring generators fused with the familiar drone of police surveilling in the night sky. “We have seen four gunshot wounds, three of them to the face and head,” said Leland Brenholt, a volunteer medic. By gunshots, he insinuated that rubber bullets had been used on hundreds of people clashing with police. Conflict erupted again over the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, Sunday night.

DAPL Company Files Lawsuit To Finish Pipeline And Bypass “Political Interference”

November 22, 2016 Alexandra Jacobo, www.nationofchange.org , ,
By Alexandra Jacobo for Nation of Change - Dakota Access Pipeline parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, along with its subsidiary Sunoco Logistics, announced two court filings made last week in U.S. federal district court. The filings demand judgement declaring that they have the legal right-of-way to finish the Dakota Access Pipeline, despite the recent decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to delay granting the necessary easements to complete the project until “additional discussion and analysis” can take place with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

Obama Should Stop Dakota Access Pipeline Once And For All

November 21, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , , ,
By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC — It was not business as usual when a delegation of indigenous people from Standing Rock Reservation and thousands of allies shut off access to the General Accounting Office (GAO) on Tuesday during a sit-in. They were there to pressure the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), whose offices are housed there, to deny the final permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Its parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, needs an easement to finish the pipeline by drilling under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe.

Newsletter: Turn Widespread Discontent Into Mass Movement

November 20, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistnace.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. With the election of Donald Trump as president the struggle continues for economic, racial and environmental justice. We knew we would be in struggle no matter who was elected and have been calling for #NoHoneymoon protests for months. We also support calls made for protests in the days before the inauguration and after them. We expect to see a growing presidency of protest under Trump as the movement will grow and continue to demand justice, human rights and a people-based democracy. We need to build now, provide a vision and have conversations at the local level so when the attacks on our communities occur and false promises of Donald Trump are made obvious people know where they can turn. We can turn widespread discontent into a mass movement with the power to transform the nation.

CNN Protest Demands Fair and Accurate Reporting On Standing Rock

November 20, 2016 Alexandra Jacobo, www.nationofchange.org , ,
By Alexandra Jacobo for Nation of Change. Native American activists are protesting outside CNN’s office building in Hollywood demanding more coverage on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Native American activists are protesting outside CNN’s office building in Hollywood demanding more coverage on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. The Indigenous Life Movement has covered the event via Facebook: The group can be heard singing and playing instruments in peaceful protest outside the building. They have to raise awareness about the bias or near-lack of coverage the mainstream news network is giving to the protests in North Dakota. CNN has barely covered the situation in North Dakota. On Thursday, when police showed up in full riot gear and used tear gas and pepper spray on the peaceful water protectors, the network finally ran a small story featured on their homepage with a headline that stated the protesters were starting fires. Although additional details were given when reading the actual report, CNN failed to report on any of injustices on the part of the police, including protestors being injured by shrapnel from concussion grenades and pepper spray to the face.

Demonstration In Bismarck-Mandan, Cass County Deputies Beat Man Bloody

November 19, 2016 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja , , ,
By Staff of Unicorn Riot - Bismarck-Mandan, ND – On Thursday morning, a convoy of water protectors drove from the main Oceti Sakowin encampment to hold demonstrations in the nearby Bismarck-Mandan area. The caravan first arrived in Mandan, to demonstrate outside a Wells Fargo bank branch demanding Wells Fargo withdraw its financial support for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Before the water protectors arrived, there were already dozens of law enforcement officers in riot gear guarding the Wells Fargo

Anti-DAPL Protesters Hold ‘Day Of Action’ Across US

November 16, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com , , ,
By Staff of RT - Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline are happening across the country as the construction company has sought relief in court. With more than 200 demonstrations planned, the Day of Action is expected to be the largest anti-DAPL protest in months. Shortly after 6:00pm EST in New York City, protesters were arrested. Video of the final police warnings was shared on Twitter by Candace Bryan, who reported 36 arrests.

Army Corps Halts Dakota Access Pipeline, Pending Review

November 16, 2016 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org , , , , ,
By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News - The Obama administration gave the Standing Rock Sioux tribe a partial victory on Monday, by declining to grant a final easement for a disputed section of the the Dakota Access pipeline that would skirt its ancestral land. It called, instead, for "additional discussion and analysis." Under sharp pressure from tribal and environmental activists, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior said further consultation is "warranted in light of the history of the Great Sioux Nation's dispossessions of lands...

DAPL Profiteer TD Bank Shut Down In Boston

November 14, 2016 Steve Ahlquist, www.rifuture.org , , ,
By Steve Ahlquist for RI Future - The FANG Collective targeted a TD Bank branch in downtown Boston early Thursday, shutting down operations there for over two hours. Two activists used bike locks to lock their necks to the door handles at the entrance of the bank, while two other people connected to them with lock boxes. Police, swat teams and fire fighters arrived at the scene and spent hours cutting through the lock-boxes and bicycle locks. All four people were eventually extracted and arrested.

#NoDAPL: Company Refuses To Halt Construction

November 12, 2016 Monique Judge, www.theroot.com , ,
By Monique Judge for The Root - Although the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not granted a permit, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline announced Tuesday that it is preparing to drill under Lake Oahe on the Missouri River in the next two weeks. As previously reported on The Root, resistance to the $3.8 billion pipeline has been strong from the beginning. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe argues that pipeline construction is desecrating sacred ancestral lands and that the pipeline itself endangers the Sioux’s major water suppliers: Lake Oahe and the Missouri River.

Dakota Access Pipeline Company Intends To Break Law To Finish Project

November 12, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , ,
By John Zangas for DC Media Group - The Obama Administration is presently considering a reroute of the pipeline away from the planned pipeline tunnel under Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Reservation. Obama spoke on November 2, saying the Army Corps of Engineers is considering a reroute because of the unrest. But Elders say the project route has already destroyed burial sites and whatever river crossing is chosen, it will still cross the Missouri upstream, potentially affecting the reservation and millions dependent on the river.

Police Departments Refuse To Return To #NoDAPL Protest

November 11, 2016 Isiah Holmes, www.thefifthcolumnnews.com , ,
By Isiah Holmes for TFC - Standing Rock, North Dakota (TFC) — Widespread outrage over both the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and violent police crackdowns rages on. That outrage is spreading even to police agencies now returning from deployment to the reservation. Two departments have already refused to return, citing personal and public objections. As if that wasn’t enough, an army of sympathizers is re-purposing social media to combat police efforts in Standing Rock.

Undeterred By Trump Victory, #NoDAPL Pursues Campaign Against Lenders

November 11, 2016 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us , ,
By Mark Hand for DC Media Group - Washington, DC — Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline resumed one day after Donald Trump shocked most prognosticators by winning the U.S. presidential election. In Washington, DC, people gathered in Farragut Square in the early evening on Nov. 9 to express their opposition to the construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline and the financial institutions that are providing loans to its developers.

Arrests Made Following Rally Of Protesters, Clergy At Capitol

November 5, 2016 Nick Smith, www.bismarcktribune.com , ,
By Nick Smith for Bismarck Tribune - The protest movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline for the first time was brought right up to the state Capitol steps and, later, just yards away from the governor’s front doorstep. More than 15 people were arrested Thursday evening among a group of clergy and other protesters who staged a demonstration on the North Dakota state Capitol grounds in opposition to the multi-billion dollar project. The demonstration brought the number of arrests to at least 425 since August.

500 Interfaith Clergy And Laity Answered The Call To Stand With Standing Rock

November 5, 2016 Lynette Wilson, www.episcopaldigitalnetwork.com , ,
By Lynette Wilson for Episcopal News Service – Cannon Ball, North Dakota - In a historic show of interfaith support and solidarity, more than 500 interfaith clergy and laity answered a call to come to North Dakota to stand in peaceful, prayerful and lawful solidarity Nov. 3; and to bear witness with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation as they continue to protect the tribe’s sacred land and water supply.
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