The Standing Rock ‘Water Protectors’ Who Refuse To Leave And Why
By Phil Mckenna And Cassi Alexandra for Inside Climate News - CANNON BALL, N.D.—Many of the people who halted their lives to join the movement to fight the Dakota Access pipeline are vowing to stay at the protest camp through brutal winter conditions despite the Army Corps of Engineers' decision on Dec. 4 to halt the pipeline. Standing Rock Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II pleaded that they go home after a powerful blizzard blasted the camp last Monday, sending temperatures plunging well below zero. About 2,000 people remain in the camp, down from the nearly 5,000 who were there when the Army Corps announcement came.