Standing Rock

Veterans Arrive at Standing Rock To Act As ‘Human Shields’

December 4, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Standing Rock, Veterans

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams. As tensions grow in North Dakota, with multiple eviction orders facing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, U.S. military veterans on Friday began arriving at the Oceti Sakowin protest camp. The 2,000 veterans, which include Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), plan to act as an unarmed militia and peaceful human shields to protect the Indigenous activists from police brutality. "I signed up to serve my country and my people and I did that overseas," Indigenous U.S. Navy veteran Brandee Paisano told the CBC. "I didn't think I'd have to do it here, on this land, so here I am. This is what I need to be doing." The "deployment" is officially planned for December 4-7, but veterans who have arrived early have already taken their stand in front of the militarized police blockade stopping traffic into and out of the camp

Cuba-Trained Doctors Head To Standing Rock

December 3, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! #NoDAPL, Cuba, Health Care, Standing Rock

By Telesur. A delegation of doctors trained at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba announced they will head to Standing Rock to “serve in solidarity.” In a late Thursday Facebook post, a group of U.S.-based medical professionals trained at Cuba’s famous Latin American School of Medicine, or ELAM, announced they will head to Standing Rock “to humbly serve in solidarity with the Sacred Water Protectors on the front lines of the current human rights and ecological crisis occurring right now in North Dakota.” Dr. Revery P. Barnes, a graduate of ELAM, said in a post on Facebook, “We answer the call to serve in alignment with the mission and core principles of our alma mater and dedication to our commitment to serve underserved communities in our HOME country.” The delegation will work in collaboration with the Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: ‘I’ll See You At Standing Rock’

December 2, 2016 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., www.ecowatch.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Standing Rock

By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Eco Watch - In 1966, my father held Senate hearings to investigate violent attacks by growers against pickers in the produce fields surrounding Delano, California. A young United Farmworkers organizer, Cesar Chavez, was orchestrating peaceful protests by Filipino and Chicano farmworkers against meager pay and brutal working conditions. My father only reluctantly attended the hearings. While he was sympathetic with the farmworkers' plight, he already had a full plate of issues ranging from the Vietnam War, rioting cities to starvation in the Delta and education on Indian reservations. He didn't think he had bandwidth for another cause.

#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.

Wounded Knee III In The Making?

November 26, 2016 Dave Lindorff, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Sioux, Standing Rock

By Dave Lindorff for Counter Punch - The struggle at Standing Rock, North Dakota, between the Sioux people and their supporters and the oil corporations and banks trying to run a dangerous pipeline for filthy Bakkan crude oil through their sacred lands and underneath the Missouri River was cranked up to a new level of violence Sunday and in ensuing days as National Guard troops and the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, bolstered by volunteers from various other police departments conducted an all-night attack using maximum violence,

This Native American Tribe Wants To Block Trump’s Wall

November 24, 2016 Julie M. Rodriguez, www.care2.com Resist! Donald Trump, Native Americans, Standing Rock

By Julie M. Rodriguez for Care 2 - We've heard time and time again about Donald Trump's proposed wall between the U.S. and Mexico and why it's a terrible idea. But there's one potential obstacle the president-elect seems not to have noticed: a Native American reservation the size of Connecticut, located directly in the path of his proposed construction. The Tohono O'odham Nation has existed for thousands of years, straddling the line between the land that is now the U.S. and Mexico.

Deconstructing Thanksgiving With Standing Rock

November 24, 2016 Medea Benjamin, www.alternet.org Resist! Standing Rock, Thanksgiving

By Medea Benjamin for AlterNet - It is with a heavy heart that I travel to Standing Rock to give thanks and serve meals to the water protectors who, in the freezing weather, have braved attack dogs, tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, percussion grenades and other forms of state-sanctioned violence. This Thanksgiving comes on the heels of a particularly heart-wrenching day, November 21

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.

Obama Should Stop Dakota Access Pipeline Once And For All

November 21, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! #NoDAPL, Barack Obama, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock

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.

At Standing Rock, A Native American Woman Elder Says The Following

November 11, 2016 Ann Wright, www.commondreams.org Resist! Native Americans, Standing Rock

By Ann Wright for Common Dreams - This time I have been at Standing Rock, North Dakota at the Oceti Shakowin camp to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) for four days during a whirlwind of national and international attention following two terrible displays of police brutality toward the water protectors. On October 27, over 100 local and state police and National Guard dressed in riot gear with helmets, face masks, batons and other protective clothing, carrying assault rifles stormed the Front Line North camp.

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

November 5, 2016 Lynette Wilson, www.episcopaldigitalnetwork.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Interfaith Organizing, Standing Rock

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.

Are The Trades Putting Labour’s Head In The Gas Oven?

November 5, 2016 Sean Sweeney, www.socialistproject.ca Educate! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock

By Sean Sweeney for The Bullet - If anyone were looking for further evidence that the AFL-CIO remains unprepared to accept the science of climate change, and unwilling to join with the effort being made by all of the major labour federations of the world to address the crisis, the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) provides only the most recent case in point. Taking direction from the newly minted North American Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and the American Petroleum Institute (API), the federation stood against the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribal nations.

2 Police Officers Turn In Badges In Support Of Standing Rock Water Protectors

November 4, 2016 Staff, www.themindunleashed.com Resist! Police, Standing Rock

By Staff of The Mind Unleashed - With actions from militarized police continuing to be seen as extremely violent and dangerous, this news is a big win for the water protectors and for humanity as a whole. While the actions of some police officers are not appropriate, we all must continue to visualize and intend/pray that the hearts of all involved in this situation continue to open. Police must be held accountable for their actions, though we must continue to welcome them over to the side of the water protectors.

Activists Protest CNN To Demand Fair & Accurate Reporting On Standing Rock

November 3, 2016 Alexandra Jacobo, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Media, Protests, Standing Rock

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. 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.

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