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Solidarity Protesters Lock Down At TD Head Office Over DAPL

November 26, 2016 Syed Hussan, www.facebook.com , , ,
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.

‘Where Evil Resides’

November 25, 2016 Adam Linehan, www.taskandpurpose.com , , , ,
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.

Good News For Standing Rock From Around The World

November 23, 2016 Dr. Shepherd Bliss, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
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.

Police Attack Water Protectors At Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff

November 23, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , ,
By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Standing Rock Reservation, ND — In what will go down as one of the most violent chapters of a nine-month standoff against a company building an oil pipeline at the Standing Rock Reservation in Morton County, ND, police launched a full-frontal attack against Water Protectors trying to clear access across a bridge on Highway 1806. Hundreds were injured, more than two dozen seriously, including an activist from New York who may lose functioning of an arm and is still in the hospital as of publication.

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.

Fighting A Mid-Atlantic Pipeline In The Age Of Trump

November 21, 2016 Kara West, www.nationofchange.org , ,
By Kara West for Nation of Change - In the Natural Bridge Hotel lobby before a pipeline summit in opposition to two planned fracked-gas pipelines, two words could be heard in almost every conversation: “Trump” and “election.” Smaller and quieter than the Standing Rock pipeline protest in North Dakota, this Mid-Atlantic pipeline resistance movement met here in the Shenandoah Valley this month to reassess and reenergize in the wake of the Presidential election.

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.

We Can No Longer Hope To Win This By Simply Voting Or Speaking Out

November 16, 2016 Emily Johnston, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Emily Johnston for Common Dreams - Annette and I have been charged with felony property damage and aiding and abetting felony property damage, as well as trespass and aiding and abetting trespass. Along with our friends engaging in the same acts in other states, we took every precaution to ensure the safety of our actions, including two safety calls to Enbridge, and in fact—as a result of these calls—it was the company which actually shut the pipelines down.

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...

Dakota Access Pipeline Delayed As Army Calls For More Analysis

November 15, 2016 Julia Carrie Wong, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Julia Carrie Wong for The Guardian - The US army corps of engineers has completed its review of the Dakota Access pipeline and is calling for “additional discussion and analysis”, further delaying completion of a project that has faced massive opposition from indigenous and environmental activists. The statement comes amid heightened tensions between Native American activists and the surrounding community over the pipeline, which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe says could contaminate its water supply and destroy sacred sites.

Trump Owns Stock In Keystone Pipeline Corp

November 14, 2016 Antiphon Freeman, www.news.groopspeak.com , ,
By Antiphon Freeman for Groop Speak - Donald Trump will be moving forward with the Keystone pipeline project once he’s president that was put to a halt by President Obama, calling it a “priority of his administration.” Previously, President Obama has called the pipeline as being “against the national interests of the United States.” But, Trump says it will create jobs.

#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.

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.

Activists Up Ante Against ‘Pipebomb On The Hudson’

October 31, 2016 Wendy Sol, , ,
By Wendy Sol for the Indypendent. AIM is short for Algonquin Incremental Market Project, one of a number of pipelines that are being built in the Northeast to transport natural gas from fracking fields in Pennsylvania to New England and on to markets abroad. If completed by Nov. 1, as planned, AIM will carry approximately 342 million cubic feet of gas to Boston and other ports in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Spectra is also increasing capacity by more than a third on an existing pipeline that runs within about 100 feet of generators at the aging Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson in Westchester County, about 35 miles north of Midtown Manhattan.With Spectra intending to have AIM ready by the beginning of November, groups that have opposed the project since it was first proposed to federal regulators in 2014 worry they are running out of time to halt the pipeline and are escalating their activism.

Newsletter: Solidarity With #NoDAPL Strengthens All Of Us

October 30, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Once again, as happened repeatedly over hundreds of years of struggle by Indigenous Peoples, the United States is using a militarized response against people seeking to protect the land and water and standing up for their human rights and justice. The militarized police are collaborating with oil companies and Indigenous people are having their civil rights trampled. The Water Protectors wrote the Department of Justice telling them about Indigenous drivers being harassed, the police conducting intrusive strip searches for minor offenses like trespass, the use of unlicensed guard dogs against protesters, as well as the use of military vehicles and militarized law enforcement. As Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault wrote “rather than seeking to keep the peace, law enforcement personnel are clearly working in tandem with private security of Dakota Access”who are escalating the conflict with peaceful water protectors.
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