Water Protectors

Lockdown To Stop The Bayou Bridge Pipeline

April 19, 2018 L'eau est la vie, Facebook. Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Water Protectors

MAURICE, LA - On the morning of April 18th a water protector locked herself into a cement filled barrel placed in the trench of a horizontal directional drill on a construction site of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Over a dozen more water protectors from L'eau est La Vie resistance camp rallied alongside her blasting loud music and dancing under banners strung from the drill and excavators that stated "Water is Critical Infrastructure. Stop HB727" and "Stop ETP". The group was soon detained and ID'ed but were eventually let go and allowed to move to a public road nearby where they continued to shout words of support to their locked down comrade.

Water Protectors Construct Longhouse To Block Doors Of Puget Sound Energy HQ In Bellevue

April 4, 2018 Puget Sound Anarchists. Resist! Fracking, Protests, Water Protectors

Water Protectors have constructed a Longhouse to block the doors of the Puget Sound Energy HQ in Bellevue, WA. Permits were applied for but it was thought with the way PSE operate, they would understand if it was built while it is pending. Puget Sound Energy continue to build a dangerous Fracked Gas processing facility on Puyallup Tribal treaty land without proper permits.

Goldman Sachs Event At Harvard Disrupted Today

March 6, 2018 No Bayou Bridge Pipeline Solidarity Campaign, Popular Resistance. Resist! No BBP, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Water Protectors

A Goldman Sachs recruitment event at Harvard University was just disrupted over Goldman's investments in Energy Transfer Partners (ETP). Goldman Sachs is the top shareholder of ETP and the second largest shareholder of ETP's parent company, Energy Transfer Equity, holding nearly $2 billion in shares in these companies. Goldman Sachs has also loaned ETP tens of millions of dollars. ETP is the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline and hired armed mercenaries to brutalize peaceful water protectors at Standing Rock. Construction on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline is happening now but communities are resisting. Support the frontlines by finding a target and taking action: www.NoBayouBridge.global

Indigenous Wisdom Provides Path For Positive Change

February 28, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. Podcast Indigenous Activist, Pipelines, Spirituality, Water Protectors

Sherri Mitchell, Penobscot, an Indigenous lawyer, writer and activist, has a new book, "Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change," which explains her personal journey to activism and both how our societies have arrived at this time of grave threats and what we can do to create change. Some of our tasks are to recognize that colonization has not ended, the ways it manifests itself and how to begin the process of decolonization. We can do that, in part, by working to protect water sovereignty. Sherri talks about the mobilization at Standing Rock and the rise of Water Protectors. Then we speak with RaeLynn Cazelot, United Houmi and Pointe-au-Chien, who is a Water Protector working to stop the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP).

Standing Rock Water Protector Reaches Non-Cooperating Plea Agreement

February 6, 2018 Water Protectors Legal Collective, Nativenewsonline.net Educate! Activists, North Dakota, Standing Rock, Water Protectors

MANDAN, NORTH DAKOTA – On Thursday February 8, Michael Giron will appear in federal court in Bismarck for a change of plea hearing as per the terms of a non-cooperating agreement with prosecutors. Mr. Giron, who is known as Little Feather, was charged with Civil Disorder and Use of Fire to Commit a Federal Felony Offense, arising from events of October 27, 2016. Under this plea agreement, the Use of Fire charge – which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and the possibility of up to 15 years in prison – will be dropped entirely, and Little Feather will take responsibility for aiding a civil disorder. Subject to the acceptance of the plea agreement by Judge Daniel Hovland, who is presiding over the case, prosecutors and the defense will jointly recommend a sentence of 36 months on the Civil Disorder charge, although the judge does have the authority to go as high as five years.

Nuns vs. Pipelines & The Water Protector’s Hub

January 11, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Pipelines, Water Protectors

This week on Act Out! Kiilu Nyasha takes us into the New Year with some words of wisdom from a woman who's seen decades of what works and what doesn't. Next up, how do you approach the work of building and fighting? Are you embroiled in Facebook tiffs or reaching out to neighbors – and how can human psychology guide our fight? Then, we take a look at a couple of good news stories followed by pipeline updates and an incredible resource for water protectors worldwide.

Resisting Energy Transfer Partners’ Louisiana Bayou Bridge Pipeline

December 23, 2017 By Emma Fiala, mintpressnews.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Water Protectors

L’EAU EST LA VIE CAMP, LOUISIANA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just granted a permit to a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) for the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) in Louisiana. The Corps neglected to perform an environmental impact review of the pipeline project that opponents say will put local communities, indigenous peoples, and the environment at risk. ETP is the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, made famous last year by water protectors defending the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s right to clean water just outside of Bismarck, North Dakota. If completed according to plan, the BBP will connect with the Dakota Access, bringing fracked oil from North Dakota south, where it will eventually be exported overseas.

Water Protectors Block All Entrances LNG Facility In Tacoma

December 20, 2017 Staff, pugetsoundanarchists.org Resist! LNG, Protests, Washington, Water Protectors

The action comes four days after a Tacoma jury acquitted two women who locked down to construction equipment last May — the jury found them not guilty because they said they could not tell whether the action took place on Puyallup territory or City of Tacoma-owned land. The action also comes four days after activists used tripods to block all three gates to the site in the early morning and a week after two men kayaked across the Hylebos Waterway, scaled a fence and climbed a crane to halt construction of an 8-million-gallon gas storage tank.

Standing Rock Spawned A Generation Of Water Protectors

August 14, 2017 Joseph Bullington, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Standing Rock, Water, Water Protectors

By Joseph Bullington for In These Times - BISMARCK, N.D.—Forty miles north of where the Standing Rock resistance camps once stood, Matt Lone Bear and Carter Gunderson crouch on the curb, changing the brakes on a Chevy Blazer. As they wrestle a worn rotor off the axle, they discuss their plans. They’ll stick around until their court dates later in June, then hit the road for a tour of the Standing Rock diaspora—camps that have sprung up across the country to oppose fossil fuel projects, living on after the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). To the east, in Huntingdon County, Penn., the Gerhart family and their supporters have formed Camp White Pine on family property, which lies in the path of the Mariner East 2 natural gas pipeline. The pipeline’s owner, Energy Transfer Partners—the same company behind DAPL—hasinvoked eminent domain to cross the property, but construction faces resistance in the form of tree sits and other direct actions. Farther east, in Mahwah, N.J., the Native-led Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp stands in the way of the Pilgrim pipeline. The camp’s Facebook page declares “solidarity with Standing Rock & all who resist the black snake worldwide.”

‘The Fight’s Not Over’: Water Protectors Pitch Tipis Within View Of White House

March 10, 2017 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Protests, Water Protectors, White House

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC–Indigenous tribes from across the country have set up a camp of seven tipis right across from the White House. Led by the Standing Rock Sioux, who have been in a battle with the federal government over the placement of a pipeline on their ancestral lands, the tribes says they are here to demand that rights of indigenous people everywhere be respected. Dallas Goldtooth with the Indigenous Environmental Network said the camp is the next step in a continuation of a movement not only to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, but to energize a global movement against fossil fuels. "Dakota Access, win or lose, has always been about keeping fossil fuels in the ground,” Goldtooth said.

Revealed: FBI Terrorism Taskforce Investigating Standing Rock Activists

February 11, 2017 Sam Levin, www.theguardian.com Educate! FBI, Standing Rock, Terrorism, Water Protectors

By Sam Levin for The Guardian - The FBI is investigating political activists campaigning against the Dakota Access pipeline, diverting agents charged with preventing terrorist attacks to instead focus their attention on indigenous activists and environmentalists. The Guardian has established that multiple officers within the FBI’s joint terrorism taskforce have attempted to contact at least three people tied to the Standing Rock “water protector” movement in North Dakota. The purpose of the officers’ inquiries into Standing Rock, and scope of the task force’s work, remains unknown. Agency officials declined to comment.

Last Stand: ‘Water Protectors’ Return To Standing Rock As Drilling Set To Begin

February 10, 2017 Sam Levin, www.theguardian.com Resist! Drilling, Protests, Standing Rock, Water Protectors

By Sam Levin for The Guardian - Clarence Rowland returned to Standing Rock in the dark of night. The 26-year-old Oglala Sioux tribe member arrived to his solar-powered hut at 1.30am on Wednesday, knowing that within several hours, Dakota Access pipeline workers could start drilling. “I came back to stand for our people,” Rowland said, as he prepared a large stew inside his family’s wooden hut. Around him, young children took shelter from sub-zero temperatures outside. Rowland – who arrived at Standing Rock last August, but went home in January – is one of a number of Native Americans who rushed back this week to the camps in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to fight the $3.7bn pipeline.

Standing Rock Camp Founder Refuses To Shut Down Water Protector Camp

January 27, 2017 Michael Sainato, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Standing Rock, Water Protectors

By Michael Sainato for Counter Punch - On December 4, the Army Corps of Engineers and Obama Administration temporarily halted the Dakota Access Pipeline construction along its proposed route under Lake Oahe, which will threaten the drinking water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux. On January 24, President Trump signed an executive order resuming construction of the pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have denounced Trump’s order, calling for his administration to “honor our treaty rights and provide a fair and reasonable pipeline process,” Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archembault told the Guardian. On January 20, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council “unanimously voted to support the district of Cannon Ball in asking all Dakota Access Pipeline protesters to leave the area

Cops Unleash Fury During DAPL Water Protector Eviction

January 24, 2017 Staff, www.countercurrentnews.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Cops, Repression, Water Protectors

By Staff of Counter Current News - Cannon Ball, ND — All water protectors must leave the camps — and abandon plans to relocate to a higher elevation — the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Council wrote in a resolution passed during an executive session of a district meeting just before President Donald Trump took the oath of office. Decisive, sharp consequences soon followed. Journalist and livestreamer Jon Ziegler — known better as Rebelutionary Z — met the full force of the law enforcement coalition led by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department on the front lines of brutal and indicative attacks on peaceful water protectors opposing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Media Silence After Water Protectors And Police Clash On MLK Day

January 21, 2017 Alexandra Jacobo, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, MLK, Police, Water Protectors

By Alexandra Jacobo for Nation of Change - The National Guard and Morton County Sheriff’s Department violently clashed with protesters on a day we are supposed to remember a man who dedicated his life to non-violence. On Martin Luther King day this past Monday, officials fired less-than-lethal projectiles and pepper spray at water protectors and arrested three for trespassing. 200 people marched on the Dakota Access Pipeline horizontal drill pad. According to the Morton County Sheriff Department, the three individuals (who have not yet been named) that were arrested are charged with criminal trespassing onto private property, inciting a riot and resisting arrest.

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