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Anti-Pipeline Protests At Sen. Schumer’s Offices In Peekskill And Elsewhere

October 29, 2016 Lanning Taliaferro, www.patch.com ,
By Lanning Taliaferro for Peekskill Patch - CORTLANDT, NY — Opponents of the Algonquin Pipeline expansion projects demonstrated Wednesday at Senator Schumer’s offices in Peekskill, Rochester, Binghamton, Albany, Long Island, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Washington DC. Organizers said they estimated 250 people gathered and heard from health professionals, indigenous leaders and residents of the Hudson Valley where the natural gas pipeline is being built.

Police Are Violating Civil Rights Of Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents

October 27, 2016 Michael McLaughlin, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Michael McLaughlin for The Huffington Post - This week, the Standing Rock Sioux called on the Department of Justice to investigate state and local authorities for civil rights violations during protests over the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. But North Dakota authorities are refuting the tribe’s accusations, saying they’ve been patient and accommodating with protesters. “We keep getting portrayed as the jackbooted thugs coming down for a confrontation,”

Columbia Gas Pipeline’s Potomac Crossing Draws Protest

October 26, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us ,
By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - A fracked gas pipeline proposed by Columbia Gas was the motivation for a protest and march on Saturday at the C&O Canal National Park near the point where the pipeline may cross the Potomac River. While details are scarce about the pipeline so far, it will likely originate in Pennsylvania, traverse Maryland and connect with a distribution line in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

Pipeline Owned By Company Behind Dakota Access Leaks 55K Gallons Of Gasoline

October 25, 2016 Alexandra Jacobo, www.nationofchange.org , ,
By Alexandra Jacobo for Nation of Change - A different, completed pipeline owned by Sunoco Logistics, the same company behind the construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, leaked 55,000 gallons, or 1,300 barrels, of gasoline into a major river on Friday. The pipeline leaked into the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This river is already the third most endangered river in the United States, mostly due to the development of the natural gas industry.

83 People Arrested, Maced in North Dakota

October 23, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org , , , ,
By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams. More than 80 people were arrested in North Dakota on Saturday, as police armed with pepper spray descended on a protest near the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction site. The 83 water protectors were hit with charges ranging from rioting to criminal trespass, according to the Morton County sheriff's department. Saturday's arrests follow reports of escalating police abuse at the protest sites, including beatings and unnecessary strip-searches of those arrested. On Twitter, Ojibwe activist and attorney Tara Houska wrote: Journalists, attorneys, indigenous protectors arrested & maced while demonstrating today. Whose interest is North Dakota protecting? Construction on the pipeline is continuing despite a request from the federal government to put a halt on activity so that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can properly consider objections.

Environmentalists: Make Your Stand Like Standing Rock

October 19, 2016 Billy Talen, www.revbilly.com , ,
By Billy Talen for The Stop Shopping Choir - The First Nations peoples in North Dakota are showing us the future of direct action. In the path of the Enbridge pipeline, the “black snake,” they’re making something that traditional environmentalists don’t have words for. A friend of mine who is there put it this way: “It’s not like a protest. It’s a ceremony.” There is a crucial lesson here that we environmentalists must learn. At Standing Rock, the cops and courts, helicopters and drones and Dobermans

How To Fight Big Oil: Join Your Neighbors

October 18, 2016 Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org , , , ,
By Sarah van Gelder for Yes Magazine - The last few weeks and months have seen major victories for communities resisting oil trains, coal terminals, pipelines, and strip mines. This is big news at a time of an out-of-control climate crisis—this July and August tied as the hottest months ever recorded. Could these stories represent our best shot at taking on the giant corporations and banks that are trying to build new fossil fuel projects at a time when we need to be phasing out carbon-based fuels?

North Dakota Prosecutors Charge Amy Goodman With Riot For DAPL Reporting

October 16, 2016 Trevor Timm, freedom.press , , ,
By Trevor Timm for Freedom of the Press Foundation. North Dakota prosecutors have indicated they have dropped the trespassing charges against Amy Goodman, and instead will charge her with participating in a "riot." “I came back to North Dakota to fight a trespass charge. They saw that they could never make that charge stick, so now they want to charge me with rioting," Goodman said on Saturday. "I wasn’t trespassing, I wasn’t engaging in a riot, I was doing my job as a journalist by covering a violent attack on Native American protesters." It couldn’t be more obvious that Ms. Goodman is being charged solely for her journalism and the impact it had on the oil pipeline debate. Here’s howDemocracy Now described its news coverage that led to the charges against Ms. Goodman: "On Saturday, September 3, Democracy Now! filmed security guards working for the pipeline company attacking protesters. The report showed guards unleashing dogs and using pepper spray and featured people with bite injuries and a dog with blood on its mouth and nose. Democracy Now!’s report went viral online . . ."

Corn Protesting Atlantic Coast Pipeline Harvested

October 15, 2016 Bob Stuart, www.dailyprogress.com , , ,
By Bob Stuart for The News Virginian - STUARTS DRAFT — Corn planted on Stuarts Draft land in June to show opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was harvested Friday. The sacred corn -- called "seeds of resistance" -- rests on land that is part of the proposed path of the 600-mile natural gas pipeline. The pipeline path includes about 55 miles of Augusta County. Joining area groups opposed to the pipeline were Jane Kleeb, president of Bold Alliance, and Wes Mekasi Horinek of Bold Alliance.

Supporting Standing Rock And Confronting What It Means Living On Stolen Land

October 14, 2016 Berkley Carmine and Liza Minno, www.wagingnonviolence.org , , ,
By Berkley Carmine and Liza Minno for Waging Nonviolence - A month after President Obama told the Army Corps of Engineers to pause construction on the Dakota Access oil pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux and those supporting them still find themselves in a dire struggle to protect their water and land. With winter approaching, the 300 tribes that are now represented at the Camp of the Sacred Stone in North Dakota are preparing for a lengthy battle.

5 Climate Activists Shut Down 5 Tar Sands Pipelines

October 12, 2016 Dan Zukowski, www.ecowatch.com , ,
By Dan Zukowski for Eco Watch - "This morning, by 7:30 PST, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe."

Protesters Inside Pipeline Stop Spectra For 16 Hours

October 11, 2016 Resist Spectra Staff, www.PopularResistance.org , ,
By Staff for Resist Spectra. At about 7 AM on October 10th, Indigenous People's Day, four water protectors crawled inside lengths of pipeline along the Hudson River to stop Spectra Energy from dragging its 42-inch diameter, high pressure, fracked-methane gas pipeline under the Hudson River alongside the aging and failing Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The protectors stayed inside the pipeline for more 16 hours. They continued to sustain the occupation until after 11:00 PM when they were threatened by police with the use of tactical force to be removed and promised only minimal charges for the protest if they voluntarily left. Two support people were also arrested on site and charged with criminal trespass; a third support person was arrested on public property merely on suspicion of illegal activity by association

North Dakota Seeks More Felonies For Water Protectors

October 10, 2016 Staff, www.lastrealindians.com , , , , ,
By Staff of Last Real Indians - North Dakota continues to escalate repression of the people protecting sacred sites and waters from the Dakota Access Pipeline. On Tuesday, two more felony charges were sought for water protectors, bringing the total to seven. One of the we charges is against Dale “Happi” American Horse, the first person to lock to lock his body to active Dakota Access Pipeline construction equipment.

Black Snakes And Grizzly Bears: The Tribes’ Fight For Nature

October 10, 2016 Louisa Willcox, www.grizzlytimes.org , ,
By Louisa Willcox for Grizzly Times - In an unprecedented series of events, Tribes from across North America are rising up to protect land, water, and wildlife such as the sacred grizzly bear from degradation by greedy corporations. Last week, in one of the latest developments, Chief Stanley Grier of the Piikani Nation of the Blackfeet Confederacy submitted a declaration to Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell reaffirming their opposition to removal of federal protections for the Yellowstone grizzly bear...

23 Arrested Outside Gov. McAuliffe’s Mansion During Protest

October 8, 2016 Ali Rockett, www.richmond.com , ,
By Ali Rockett for Richmond Times-Dispatch - Twenty-three people were arrested Wednesday for trespassing in front of the Executive Mansion following a peaceful, three-day protest urging Gov. Terry McAuliffe to reject a pair of proposed fracked-gas pipelines, require power companies to clean up or move coal ash ponds before closing them and pass measures to prevent rising sea levels.
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