Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate? [Archive]

thunder24

16th September 2016, 11:38

From what I have read, they stopped it right around the river but it continues further north... I will see if I can find more detail

By Devin Henry - 09/09/16 03:52 PM EDT

The Obama administration said it would not authorize construction on a critical stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline, handing a significant victory to the Indian tribe fighting the project the same day the group lost a court battle.

The administration said construction would halt until it can do more environmental assessments.

The Department of Justice, the Army and the Interior Department jointly announced that construction would pause on the pipeline near North Dakota's Lake Oahe, a major water source on the Missouri River for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
The agencies will now decide whether they need to reconsider permitting decisions for the pipeline under the National Environmental Policy Act.

"The Army will move expeditiously to make this determination, as everyone involved — including the pipeline company and its workers — deserves a clear and timely resolution," the agencies said in a statement. "In the interim, we request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe."

The Lake Oahe crossing was a major concern for the tribe, which worries about the impact a leak in the pipeline would have on the lake.

A federal judge Friday denied the tribe's request to halt construction on the 1,170-mile pipeline. The administration's decision came shortly after that decision.

The tribe had sued over the Army Corps' approval of the project under a historic preservation law, but the judge ruled that regulators had acted properly when issuing permitting for the project.

Despite the ruling, the agencies said, "important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members regarding the Dakota Access pipeline specifically, and pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain."

The Army Corps has permitted pipeline construction near Lake Oahe. But, as of last month, federal agencies had not yet issued the easements necessary for construction to begin there.

Dave Archambault II, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, hailed the decision, and vowed to continue fighting against the project....
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/295223-obama-administration-orders-nd-pipeline-construction-to-stop

does not sound like the title of the article is correct

Daozen

16th September 2016, 12:06

Really surprised by the response to this thread... I guess its not theoretical or philosophical enough.... Maybe I should change the title to have the words Hilliary, Trump, Simon, or 911 in it...

I know how you feel.

I am constantly surprised at the lack of interest in real concrete change from "esoteric researchers". It makes you wonder what "spirituality" means. Even if you can't make it to the Dakotas, you can still show support online.

Amazon wish lists are a good idea to make sure donations get spent on the right items.

betoobig

16th September 2016, 17:21

chop Wood carry wáter and stop the pipeline

thunder24

16th September 2016, 17:31

i just read that they are trying to prepare for winter and need more permanant housing, such as yurts and t-pees... which means t-pee poles , wood stoves and such... i have a wood stove i plan on taking if i can fit it in, just a small one... but yes the amazon wish list is a great idea to get them what they need...

Daozen

16th September 2016, 22:10

Can you partially pay for an item on the wish list? Some people may not have 89 USD for a jacket, but could donate 5USD. Would be good if Amazon let you part fund an item.

ElfeMya

16th September 2016, 23:29

Daozen

16th September 2016, 23:40

Can you partially pay for an item on the wish list? Some people may not have 89 USD for a jacket spare, but could donate 5USD. Would be good if Amazon let you part fund an item.

I guess you could donate through the paypal link that cosmic lightning and thunder2 provided in their posts ?
Hugs to you !

Maybe this link. (https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=Tb5y4qFGcDqgegrzYqCcErrqBo_h3KR2Q0fvHjlBJEdB6zekzwVrPSkqGn0&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d4fe1dd75ca3bd4f11d72275b28239088)

Thanks ElfeMya. It says "action not completed"... The good thing about Amazon Wish Lists is that people know exactly where their money is going. With Paypal you are never 100% sure, although I trust these protestors.

If you combined Wish Lists with Crowdfunding it would be very powerful.

Sueanne47

16th September 2016, 23:50

That link didnt work ElfeMya, I just donated by SacredStone..

ElfeMya

17th September 2016, 00:07

That link didnt work ElfeMya, I just donated by SacredStone..

Thanks so much Suanne, I was not sure of the link at all... luckily you found the right one, would you mind sharing it ?
Hugs to you

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Can you partially pay for an item on the wish list? Some people may not have 89 USD for a jacket spare, but could donate 5USD. Would be good if Amazon let you part fund an item.

I guess you could donate through the paypal link that cosmic lightning and thunder2 provided in their posts ?
Hugs to you !

Maybe this link. (https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=Tb5y4qFGcDqgegrzYqCcErrqBo_h3KR2Q0fvHjlBJEdB6zekzwVrPSkqGn0&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d4fe1dd75ca3bd4f11d72275b28239088)

Thanks ElfeMya. It says "action not completed"... The good thing about Amazon Wish Lists is that people know exactly where their money is going. With Paypal you are never 100% sure, although I trust these protestors.

If you combined Wish Lists with Crowdfunding it would be very powerful.

Sorry for the broken link, noob here LOL ! I think you are right, maybe something to tell them or thunder24 as he is very much involved in this ?
I donated thorugh the amazon wishlist actually...
Hugs to you !

Sueanne47

17th September 2016, 00:22

Here ya go ~

http://fnd.us/d19fAf

thunder24

17th September 2016, 00:34

Can you partially pay for an item on the wish list? Some people may not have 89 USD for a jacket, but could donate 5USD. Would be good if Amazon let you part fund an item.

i agree about crowd funding and all that but now i guess it is what it is

Stephanie

17th September 2016, 05:26

This is the link that worked for me.

http://standingrock.org/ Standing Rock Sioux Tribe website

...

Their address maybe helpful.
34215

thunder24

17th September 2016, 12:04

Well Im still surprised about this thread, but no worries, im going to do my part, will be leaving here in a couple hours with wood, barrels for hauling water, propane, thermal socks and underwear, tobacco and a wood stove... hope more of Avalon will find this thread, and choose to participate in any way you can and bring attention to what could be one step in the staircase of change...

Federal judge has dropped the restraining order on the water protectors, and the construction around the Missouri river is halted till January when there will be a hearing about it...

BUMP

Orph

18th September 2016, 01:52

Today, Native Americans held a protest rally where I live. I joined them and spent the day waving signs and marching. The local tribes have, and still are, collecting donations to help the cause. There is already a truck with with some supplies and stuff headed up to the Dakota's. Tribes all across the US are joining in.
We do what we can.

thunder24

19th September 2016, 14:04

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3792210/Pipeline-protest-site-city-unto-school-meals.html

Trip got postponed, the rental i reserved was not there...hopefully today...

bumping thread again.... we all need clean air and water..... and that is science fact... Our collective spirituality got us to this point...

So it seems right now feet on the ground protecting clean air and water is in fact...
"...where science and spirituality meet."

william r sanford72

21st September 2016, 22:28

Standing Rock Sioux Testifies About DAPL Before United Nations in Geneva
ICTMN Staff
9/21/16

http://d1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/article_media/dapl-ungeneva-taulicorpuz-archambault-andrea_carmen_iitc-courtesy_standing_rock.jpg?itok=l0tHBQcV

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II called on the United Nations on Tuesday to halt construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline through tribal treaty territory and formally invited United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz to visit the reservation.

“I am here because oil companies are causing the deliberate destruction of our sacred places and burials,” he told the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on September 20. “Dakota Access wants to build an oil pipeline under the river that is the source of our nation’s drinking water. This pipeline threatens our communities, the river and the earth. Our nation is working to protect our waters and our sacred places for the benefit of our children not yet born.”

Speaking at the 33rd Session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which runs from September 13 through 30, Archambault outlined the ways in which the pipeline and the treatment of water protectors by the company’s employees had violated the protectors’ human rights.

“Thousands have gathered peacefully in Standing Rock in solidarity against the pipeline,” he said in a statement from the tribe afterward. “And yet many water protectors have been threatened and even injured by the pipeline’s security officers. One child was bitten and injured by a guard dog.
We stand in peace but have been met with violence.”

That was on September 3, the day that Dakota Access employees bulldozed a two-mile-long, 150-foot-wide swathe in the exact spot that Standing Rock officials had said contained burial grounds and sacred items. Archambault also referred to the treaties signed in 1851 and 1868 that promised to respect the tribe’s sovereignty.

“Our lives and our rights are threatened by Energy Transfer Partners,” said Archambault, alluding to Dakota Access LLC's parent company. “This company has shown total disregard for our rights and our sacred sites.”
He and other tribal leaders are in Geneva to meet with U.N. ambassadors over the next two days and take part in panel discussions about the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the tribe said. Archambault also briefed Tauli-Corpuz on the issues and invited her to visit the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the construction site.

There, she could speak to youth and elders “and witness for yourself the urgent situation and threats we are facing so that you are able to make informed recommendations to the United States about how to resolve this situation in a way that respects our rights as Indigenous Peoples,” Archambault said in his formal written invitation to the rapporteur.

http://d1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/article_media/dapl-un_geneva-archambault-victoria_taulicorpuz.jpg
Chairman Archambault presents invitation letter to the SR to visit Standing Rock on an urgent basis. (Photo: Courtesy Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

The chairman had sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations in August in conjunction with the International Indian Treaty Council, alleging that construction was being undertaken in the absence of free, prior and informed consent—a cornerstone of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

RELATED: Dakota Access Pipeline: Standing Rock Sioux Issue Urgent Appeal to United Nations Human Rights Officials

The U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues weighed in soon afterward, chastising the U.S. for ignoring tribal nations.

RELATED: UN Permanent Forum Rebukes U.S. for Ignoring Standing Rock and Other Tribal Nations

“The world needs to know what is happening to the Indigenous Peoples of the United States,” said Archambault in his statement to the U.N. “This pipeline violates our treaty rights and our human rights, and it violates the U.N.’s own Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I hope the U.N. will use its influence and international platform to protect the rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.”

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/09/21/standing-rock-sioux-testifies-about-dapl-united-nations-geneva-165853

good point

23rd September 2016, 19:48

The Saganing Indian Chippewa Tribe of Michigan went to support this movement of the Souix Nation. I'm all for upholding treaty law, protecting human rights and the ancestral lands of indigenous people.
http://www.sagchip.org/news/images/90949cbb-34b1-4e5d-a35c-466604e9357e_0_carousel.jpg
However, some of these people are so petty! I'm not a tribal member but I grew up with more Native American's than I did my own white peers for quite awhile. I grew up going to their center, their funerals, their council member's homes! When the Tribe developed on their land trust holdings, for a casino, then hired everyone applicable in my neighborhood. Literally, just about everyone who was interested. Granted, this is a very small beach resort community in Northern Michigan, not Detroit. Still, my older peers all were gainfully employed. My father, whom was already retried, even worked for them part time 5 years! Then it became well to do for me to work for them. Honestly, all I got was doors closed in my face. The first couple interviews were great but then I interviewed with a food service manager named Christopher. This guy had a great attitude, we shook hands, smiled, etc. (he was not a native). Since this local establishment (casino) of the Tribe is only just down the road from my house, 1 mile away, it's very convenient that I work there. As I'm a local, Hell I helped take down the old buildings on the site of the new development. There could be no better candidate than me. I worked in a very busy movie theater 26 miles away and had plenty of stellar references that already had jobs there. The only way Christopher chose not to hire me, so I thought, was that a Native American was chosen first via Tribal preference law. Just as it happened, I frequented the casino to double, triple or sometimes even quadruple my meager paycheck from being an usher/cashier. Usually, by way of the roulette. Also to board the public transit bus from the neighboring county to the South that stops there. One day, perhaps a week or two after my interview with food service manager Chris, I find him walking about the place. I stop with a warm smile and greet him. We smile, shake hands. I begin to discuss his duties as my interviewer and hiring manager. Eventually, I asked if "they" were going to put me to work. He said no, "we" decided to go with someone else. Now I told him that I understood and that I also knew I can reapply for other positions. This was my third interview for a third separate position. Bartender, no. Maintenance, 3rd choice for the job requisition! Food service . . . or so I thought. Then I asked him if he made his decision according to preference law to see if that was the reason I wasn't chosen but no he couldn't tell me that information. I very calmly and politely go on to inform him of my opinion that he has made a mistake because I'm the right man for the job. I expressed to him how living on the reservation all my life makes me practically a member of the tribe. We smiled, shook hands and we thanked each other before leaving. Now, it wasn't until months (I repeat: MONTHS) later, I'm in the casino. I just broke a fresh bill on the roulette table. Casino security approaches me and asks me to go with them to the entrance. I instantly knew what that was about. There I was informed of the Tribe's decision to banish me for life from all property belonging to the Saganing Indian Chippewa Tribe, both on and off the Isabella Indian Reservation. Why? For my "conduct" there! They violated my human rights not to be subjected to undue hardship! They violated my right to equal opportunity. I could appeal this, over a year has come to pass but why? Why did they do it in the first place? Ignorance, pure hypocritical ignorance. Maybe I will appeal it so I can remain blissfully ignorant of the past. Why though? I deserve employment, the largest employer in the whole county, on the same block as me, and I have had to leave 70 miles, one way in three different counties just to find work. Barely more than $1,000 a month. I quit working because I can't afford to go to work! 5 years in the work force and I can't continue accepting menial pay for my tremendous efforts. I won't. That being said, maybe I'll go protest with these Standing Rock Souix in protest of those helping them protest.

TargeT

24th September 2016, 00:15

Are your "Boots on ground"?

get some pictures of the area for us!

Fanna

24th September 2016, 18:52

Are your "Boots on ground"?

get some pictures of the area for us!

Definitely second that motion.

Also, "boots on the ground" is a way of saying it that is both appropriate AND ironic. <3

thunder24

25th September 2016, 05:35

thunder24

26th September 2016, 04:17

photos in next few posts

thunder24

26th September 2016, 14:41

So last night when i shared the photobucket I didn't realize it was set to private, it is now set to public for anyone interested in seeing my photos of the Standing Rock Sacred Camp in North Dakota .... Im feeling very disheartened by the lack of interest on Project Avalon about this situation more then the lack of coverage by Mass Media... Obama has allegedly gave the go ahead to the same company to build two more pipelines near native American lands while attention by few are on this on in NOrth Dakota....

Sueanne47

26th September 2016, 14:49

I pray this wont happen thunder24! I put a petition link about Stonehenge having a pipeline/motorway put through the heritage site, but didnt get much response either.. I know how you feel.

Sue

thunder24

26th September 2016, 14:54

North Dakota — I didn’t want to be right last month when I predicted the media’s blackout of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests after the blockade first started generating a buzz on social media — but I was.

According to media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), ABC and NBC News have yet to broadcast a single mention of the DAPL protests, which have brought the $3.8 billion oil pipeline project at the Sacred Stone Camp in North Dakota to a halt. http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/09/media-blackout-abc-nbc-still-refuse-air-single-word-dakota-access-protests/
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thunder24

27th September 2016, 03:51

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thunder24

27th September 2016, 04:03

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thunder24

27th September 2016, 21:39

I was informed that 5 construction sites were shut down today, one horse injured by police but everyone returned to camp ok.... the peaceful protectors were shaking hands with the police also.... If you are of the praying slant...keep praying

Sueanne47

27th September 2016, 22:30

I was informed that 5 construction sites were shut down today

YAY!! :victory: That's great you got some biker's join in Thunder...I'm praying for you... :heart:

thunder24

28th September 2016, 00:02

I was informed that 5 construction sites were shut down today

YAY!! :victory: That's great you got some biker's join in Thunder...I'm praying for you... :heart:

Thats REDRUM , native american motorcycle club

peggy englebrake

28th September 2016, 01:24

thunder24 Thank you for going to Standing Rock. Do not be disheartened. Many of us want to join you but have to rearrange our lives before we can do so. I believe more and more people will come, especially in the Spring and perhaps when more are awakened. You are on Indian time now. Things will happen when they are supposed to. (I just spent 20 years in Alaska with the Tlingit and Haida, so I have some experience with this). Please keep us informed.

TargeT

28th September 2016, 02:32

Looks awesome, now that your there... what are the dire "needs" of the local?

if someone wanted to help out, where's the best place to start?

maybe a prioritized list?

thunder24

28th September 2016, 02:44

thunder24

28th September 2016, 03:01

more items that are needed... this is their amazon wish list, getting ready for winter....
https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/196PVIWRDX1M4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ip_wl_o_jwV1xb3DA8BH0

here is the wish list on amazon

Bob

28th September 2016, 15:28

Official archaeological report (AP)

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota state inspection of an oil pipeline site has found no sign of the Native American artifacts or human remains that an American Indian Tribe says are present, the state's chief archaeologist said in a draft memo.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had cited the potential for burial grounds and other artifacts as a major reason to lead protests that have stymied completion of the project.

Chief Archaeologist Paul Picha said in the memo first published Monday by conservative blogger Rob Port that seven state archeologists inspected the 1.3-mile section along the route of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in southern North Dakota. The memo said only some animal teeth and bone fragments were found during the survey last week.

Historical Society spokeswoman Kim Jondahl confirmed the contents of the memo but said it was "a first draft of an internal summary." She declined to say how the draft differed from later versions.

In early September, Standing Rock Sioux officials said crews bulldozed several sites of "significant cultural and historic value" on private land, which Dallas-based pipeline builder Energy Transfer Partners denies. It led to a clash between protesters and private security guards hired by the pipeline company. Law enforcement officials said four security guards and two guard dogs received medical treatment, while a tribal spokesman countered that six people were bitten by guard dogs and at least 30 people were pepper-sprayed.

The Morton County Sheriff's Department is heading up the probe of the Sept. 3 incident at the construction site near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

In an incident on Sunday, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier says about 200 people confronted about 30 security guards at a construction site. The sheriff says all but three security guards left the construction site. The sheriff says law enforcement officers witnessed one of the security guards being carried by protesters for about 100 yards. The guard was treated for minor injuries by paramedics. No arrests were made.

Picha did not return telephone calls Monday about the memo. The state Historical Society and the Morton County Sheriff's Department declined to release the memo, saying it was part of an ongoing investigation by law enforcement.

The clash between security guards and protesters on Sept. 3 came one day after the tribe filed court papers saying it found burials, rock piles called cairns and other sites of historic significance to Native Americans along the pipeline's path.

Tribal preservation officer Tim Mentz said in court documents that the tribe was only recently allowed to survey private land, which is now owned by the pipeline company.

Standing Rock Sioux tribal members could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.

But Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II has said previously that construction crews removed topsoil across an area about 150 feet wide stretching for 2 miles.

"This demolition is devastating," Archambault said. "These grounds are the resting places of our ancestors. The ancient cairns and stone prayer rings there cannot be replaced. In one day, our sacred land has been turned into hollow ground."

Source: Article written September 27, 2016

By James MacPherson, Associated Press

:Renyse:

28th September 2016, 17:38

IF someone was there, bring enough supplies for your self i.e. firewood, food, clothes, blankets etc.. and then contribute some to the collective camp. If you are able bodied then come to help i.e. haul water, split wood, carry wood, prepare meals, cook meals, feed fires, fill in fire pits...people are breaking ankles where camps that have left did not fill in their fire pits, pick up ciggarete butts and trash all day, put water bottles in recycling... learn the culture, respect it... you are a guest and this is not your platform for your agenda... leave all the new age rhetoric at the gate. Their is an open mic and many non natives wanna talk but the verbiage used is not going over well with the natives... respect the fact you are a guest their to help and not push your own ideologies...

If you are not there or don't plan on going, the amazon wish list is the best way to contribute in my opinion... that way you are not just giving money blindly to things you don't know what they go too.

also, they are planning winter camp, if you go and have building skills, bring tools, if you have knowledge on solar and wind bring your information and be ready to work, its not a pow wow . It is a prayer ceremony 24 hours a day, respect that....no alcohol, no drugs (including weed) no weapons... no cig buts in the prayer fire.... and learn the culture you are entering...

Hi thunder24, just a bump for a very important post... thank you for the great pics and practical advice for those who are able to go and help!

This is very close to my heart as I've studied Native American history (true history!) for most of my life and with listening to friends from various tribes I know what's been done to them and what continues to this day. These days I'm filled with gratitude and awe seeing so many tribes and individuals joining together to protect the waters and take a stand against those who would use and destroy. I would love to be there standing with everyone in person as this fight is so vital to us all... though it is not possible at this time I am doing what I can to assist on other levels.

We are watching history in the making and I strongly feel that regardless of what the b*stards try, this unity will bring more powerfully positive outcomes than we can know now. Much respect.

betoobig

28th September 2016, 20:02

:Renyse:

28th September 2016, 21:26

[/QUOTE]
Amen
I do sense too all this will triger bigger and wider unity!
Agree 120%
Much love[/QUOTE]

Yes! It's felt like destiny to me from the start... I got a wisp of feeling of why there's been so much thrown at them over time to try and extinguish them, which thankfully did not happen. Meant to be! <3

thunder24

29th September 2016, 05:06

https://www.facebook.com/ThomasH.JosephII/videos/10210794487923484/ damn

We need everyone able to come join us at Standing Rock.

Today's action where uncalled for, the police was a direct threat to woman and children.

We gathered in prayer un-armed, prayed, sang songs, and attempted to leave. No threats, No vandalism, No violence was taken on our part. (See my previous video evidence)

Flood the White House with phone calls and demand Obama to act and enforce his previous declaration of no construction. With state police protecting Dakota Access Pipeline his words are meaningless.

White House Phone Number:
202-456-1111

sandy

29th September 2016, 05:38

Earlier in the day the Protectors took the lead and began to shake the Terrorists hands and soon it was a long line of handshaking..........Corporation probably went Ape****e when they witnessed this display of respect both ways and began the onslaught of intimidation thereafter!!

I'm probably driving my friends crazy with my digital communications non stop re: Standing Rock but so be it.........this is a paradygm shift right on our doorstep and I'm not missing the chance to push it forward every chance I get...........people must know what is happening NOW!!

Standing Rock is just the beginning and if we let this happen there will be no turning back IMHO...............

thunder24

29th September 2016, 19:00

https://vimeo.com/184731177

GUEST: Nick Tilsen, Executive Director, Thunder Valley Community Development Corp, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe
BACKGROUND: While mainstream media attention to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests has already waned, activists are refusing to back down. Since April of this year indigenous leaders and tribal members have set up camp in Cannonball, North Dakota, near one portion of the controversial pipeline project. The protests grew enormously in September when activists of diverse backgrounds joined in to express solidarity. Under the hashtag #NODAPL, spirited demonstrations captured national attention.

Bizarrely, the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest federation of labor unions, recently issued an official position supporting the pipeline claiming it would help create jobs. Despite this, opposition to the project remains firm and has even spread to other parts of the pipeline, which extends across four states.

Michelle Marie

29th September 2016, 20:40

Just went to a community event last night, a fundraiser for the DAPL protesters. Dropped off coats and food. Lots of community businesses provided support for the event. Some community members had gone there and came back with their stories and insights.

Huge crowd showed up in solidarity. There was a silent auction, Native American speakers and music, community speakers and music, food, and dancing. Great slide show of the protest site.

What a demonstration of unified action!

So many contributions are on their way!

Love to all,
Michelle Marie

thunder24

30th September 2016, 16:25

"While our Amazon list has been enormously helpful, and we are so grateful for everything received so far (we will release photos of donations received soon), we have a need to be able to run up to Bismarck and purchase needed supplies on the fly.

One way that this can be done is for donations to be sent via gift cards. Here are a few options that would greatly help us in making our daily operations run smoothly. Again, thank you all for your support in making sure that our water protectors and everyone at the camps are safe and healthy.

http://www.giftcards.com/virtualgift/build…

http://www.giftcards.com/target-gift-card

http://www.lowes.com/pd/Classic-Gift-Card/3437260

https://www.menards.com/main/gift-cards/c-3410.htm

If you plan to send gift cards to any other stores, please check with us first as Bismarck doesn't have every store in town and the gift cards may not be useful. Thanks for bearing with us as we try our best to help the medics and healers at camp stay operational.

Note: Please use medichealercouncil@gmail.com for the recipient of any of these gift cards. You can send physical gift cards to the following address until we get our PO Box set up:

404 E Rosser Ave, Bismarck ND, 58501
ATTN: Michael

Thanks again,

-Medic & Healer Council"

thunder24

3rd October 2016, 12:58

http://earthjustice.org/features/faq-standing-rock-litigation#.V_EatUvq1QM.facebook
UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2016, 3:00PM PT
ORAL ARGUMENTS ON THE EMERGENCY MOTION FOR INJUNCTION have been scheduled for Wednesday, October 5, at 9:30AM ET at the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The temporary injunction will remain in place until then.

thunder24

4th October 2016, 11:05

http://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Dakota-Access-Pipeline-demonstrators-protest-at-gubernatorial-debate-395757961.html
BISMARCK, N.D. - Sparks flew at the gubernatorial debate at the Belle Mehus Auditorium in Bismarck Monday night, but it had little to do with the candidates.

Around 200 people were outside the auditorium to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline Project.

The protesters carried signs and chanted "Water is Life." They say they began the protest when it became clear those at the debate would not be allowed to question the candidates directly.

"There was no Q & A. There was no public Q & A in a gubernatorial debate in Midwestern America. I mean, I'm sorry, but putting in a few questions here and there that are picked and choosed, that's not true democracy," says Joye Braun, Indigenous Environmental Network.

Braun invited all three candidates to visit the Sacred Stone Camp to hear them out.

thunder24

4th October 2016, 11:18

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/03/amnesty-international-morton-county-sheriff-investigate-use-force-against-protectors-dapl
Amnesty International to Morton County Sheriff: Investigate Use of Force Against Protectors at DAPL

Amnesty International USA
10/3/16
Editor’s note: On September 3, water protectors trying to stop the bulldozing of sacred sites to make way for the Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Missouri and Cannonball rivers were met with pepper spray and vicious dogs.

RELATED: Manning: ‘And Then the Dogs Came’: Dakota Access Gets Violent, Destroys Graves, Sacred Sites

Now Amnesty International USA is demanding answers, in a letter to Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, who has repeatedly claimed that the protectors are violent, even as his police force stood by during the attacks on unarmed protectors. The human-rights body also touches on the trespassing charges levied against journalist Amy Goodman, who recorded the events for Democracy Now!

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/03/amnesty-international-morton-county-sheriff-investigate-use-force-against-protectors-dapl http://d1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/article_media/dog_lunges_at_water_protectors-cropped.jpg?itok=dc9RBcwl

betoobig

4th October 2016, 14:51

U.S. Government Just Declared WAR On Native Americans, State Gives Cops the Green Light To Shoot DAPL Protesters On Sight
While Trump is busy targeting Mexicans and Muslims, his new adviser and current governor of North Dakota has just given the green light to “shoot on sight” Indigenous tribes that are peacefully protesting against the Dakota Access pipeline, according to Anarchic News.

Please share this with the world let them know how they are treating us… we are not terrorist! We are defending the land and the water! Protecting out future!
From http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/10/north-dakota-gives-the-green-light-to-indigenous-tribes-on-sight/
This is so wrong

thunder24

4th October 2016, 18:53

I saw that, but when you go to the source they didn't have a link of that up, and no one from camp is posting about it or talking about it...

thunder24

6th October 2016, 02:57

"Relatives, I'm just getting back from a long Stand at Standing Rock Reservation. There's so much passion, power and prayer to be shared! It was excruciating to leave, but I'm on a mission: "It's just a big supply run!"
First and foremost are the practical ways that YOU can help Stand! The People need every one of us to do what we can to protect the Water. Every contribution is a huge prayer, no matter the size. We will stop DAPL with our Standing and Prayers!
They are protecting the Waters for all of us, so let's support them.
The lists of needs are great. Think bodies on the Frontline in arctic winter conditions. Imagine the historic gathering of tribes from all over the country, all over the world...and they will NOT leave camp until the Black Snake has been stopped. (In fact, this encampment is now being made a permanent green built community forever!) Elders, mothers and children Standing. THAT'S commitment. While you sit in your comfortable surrounding worried about first world conveniences, they are protecting the water that nourishes 2/3rds of this country. Shivers. WATER IS LIFE!
I've organized the current most crucial supplies in order of need.
-Housing-Healing-Garb-Gear-
***Education / Media***
HOUSING
-tipis...see link below
-cooking tents (big, army issue style)
-storage style tents
-wood burning stoves, all parts & gift cards for. -rocket stoves, build them & teach them!
-wood, $ donations specific for that.
-full propane tanks, or empty with gift card attached.
-Lowe's gift cards and gas cards! The building and housing is a constant immediate need right now!
-industrial sewing machines. We are working with a local indigenous nonprofit making tipis at cost. Need sewing machines and canvas donations! Link below, or ask! <3
-chainsaws, all tools & things re wood heating.
-building, farm & garden tools. (Gift cards.)
-canvas tarps, canvas tents, 12-15 oz. canvas by the bolt.
HEALING
-hot water on demand systems, or people to go out and build on site.
-MEAT!
-non perishables, bulk & large restaurant sized
-chocolate. Really.
-throat lozenges. Lots.
-Herbal healing teas. Lots
-Herbal remedies. All of them. Especially cold and flu. Specifically non-alcohol. Herbal healers, I have lists and specifics. Please get in touch with me. Working on coordinating the ever-changing needs with a group I helped create, All Tribes Medic & Healing Council. (Link to follow.)
-Gift cards
GARB
(Think arctic! Winds like you wouldn't believe. Extreme weather, weatherproof, waterproof.)
-long johns/ thermal underwear (all sizes)
-snow pants (all sizes)
-wool/ warm socks (all sizes)
-wool/ warm hats
-winter boots - no steel toe (all sizes)
-gloves, all sizes and types. Especially extreme work/weather
-Hand warmers, by the case.
-coveralls, extreme weather types.
-Gift cards to outdoor centers.
*no cotton, unless longjohns or under garments*
GEAR
-Power banks for phone charging on the go
-solar everything, personal sized to huge.
-Rechargeable batteries and charge stations
-Walkie- talkies, long range & rechargeable
-Go pro camera
-camera drone for arial shots
-chainsaws and all the accompanying parts.
-Lowe's and gas gift cards
-canvas tarps, canvas tents, canvas by the bolt.
EDUCATION
-GO TEACH! Plan on-the-ground workshops!
***rocket stoves, hot water system, solar systems, wind energy***
-I'd love to get together a small panel of folks to go to schools and organizations and do education and Q&A's. Anyone interested in organizing that here in the Boone High Country, please up! (My skills and passions are presenting and praying. <3 ) Anyone else feel called to being a part of that, get in touch.
-Why in the freakin heck does our mainstream media deliberately ignore this message?!?
-How could it be that your friends and family don't know?!?
-WE ARE THE MEDIA!
-WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR!!!
-Let's make the media Stand!
We know that everyone wants to contribute what they can and are so appreciative of that. Please stick to items on the lists, though, as things that travel out there take up precious room in vehicles and on trailers. And if they are not needed, then there is no where for them to go. They can become a liability.
<3 Mni Wiconi <3 Water is Life <3
Items can be shipped to:
Richard White
8849 17th Ave. Fort Yates, ND 58538
(Or get in touch and fill up my two trucks!)
Donate here! Like and share this page!
Tipis made for Standing Rock by local nonprofit Indigenous Center."
FROM FACEBOOK

sandy

6th October 2016, 06:52

Getting winter clothing, coats and footware ready to ship soon...:handshake:

thunder24

6th October 2016, 11:38

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/05/court-postpones-decision-dapl-construction-stoppage-standing-rock-stands-strong-165997

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II on October 5 reiterated his commitment to keeping the Dakota Access oil pipeline away from the tribe’s drinking water after a U.S. District Court postponed ruling on a request for a permanent halt to the construction along its designated route a half mile from the reservation.

“Millions of people across the country and world, more than 300 federally-recognized tribes, members of Congress and dozens of city governments across the country stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline,” Archambault said in a statement after the court postponed a decision, leaving the temporary injunction in place. “We stand together in peaceful prayer and solidarity because this pipeline threatens the lives of the more than seventeen million people who rely on the Missouri River for their water. This pipeline has already destroyed the burial places of our Lakota and Dakota ancestors. If construction continues, our people stand to lose even more of our sacred places and cultural objects.”

The tribe had requested an injunction that would halt construction of the pipeline while it appeals Judge James Boasberg’s initial denial. While the construction has been stopped temporarily by a second court ruling while the federal government reevaluates the procedure, work could resume once a final decision is made.

The 1,172-mile-long, $3.8 billion project has been under contention since it was first proposed in 2014 by Energy Transfer Partners. Thousands of people have been camped near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers to protect the water.

Archambault also invoked the trust responsibility held by the administration of President Barack Obama and all federal agencies to honor treaties signed in the 1800s, under which the tribe retained the right to be consulted about what was done to its land.

“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the pipeline without consulting with our tribe,” Archambault said. “The approval of this pipeline by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a violation of our treaty rights and we will not stop fighting until our lands, people, water and sacred places are permanently protected.”

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/05/court-postpones-decision-dapl-construction-stoppage-standing-rock-stands-strong-165997

TargeT

6th October 2016, 12:36

cheap/easy rocket stove:
kmDYUrVHPWc

Cheaper? Dakota fire hole:
ffldYo4EVCg

Lots of good survival info out there, should be able to save some pennies.

TargeT

8th October 2016, 18:26

Federal judges grill opponents of Dallas firm's Dakota Access pipeline
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court panel had tough questions for opponents of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline who are arguing to keep a temporary stop of construction in place.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments Wednesday in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's request to continue blocking work on a section of the approximately 1,200-mile pipeline near Lake Oahe (oh-AH'-hee) while the tribe seeks to appeal a lower-court ruling from September.

The pipeline, which runs through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois, is otherwise nearly complete.
The tribe says the pipeline, being built by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, will impact sites of historic, religious and cultural significance.

The judges didn't say when they'd rule.
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2016/10/06/federal-judges-grill-opponents-dallas-firms-dakota-access-pipeline?

betoobig

9th October 2016, 10:07

Three cellebities are there:
1- Di Caprio
2- Robert Redford
3- my favorite... Thunder24!!!!
Much love to you all....
G E R O N I M O

thunder24

9th October 2016, 22:28

john bravebull
1 hr ·
just got flagged down by a nice little old lady outside of yates. Thought it was car trouble but she asked me how to get supplies to the "big camp." i told her just keep going straight and it will be on the other side of the bridge just outside of cannonball. Then she asked if the bridge was going to give her any problems i said no its a little bridge. Then she whispered but what about the sheriff and the national guard? She didnt want to get shot or arrested for helping the camp. I told her she'd be fine that's farther up north... She thanked me and went on her way. Said she felt better now. Good job north dakota. Your 1800 style responce to "those indians" and bull**** press releases have little white ladies afraid to do what their heart tells them is right. This lady drove all the way around to enter from the south and flagged down a huge indian for help rather than deal with the people who are supposed to protect and serve? This isn't an anti cop post. It's just a post about a department who doesn't know how to do they job unbiased and the bull**** it's causing.

#checkpointclowns shake my damn head

thunder24

10th October 2016, 02:20

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060044031
DAKOTA ACCESS:
Appeals court dissolves work freeze on pipeline
Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E reporter
Greenwire: October 9, 2016 at 7:53 PM
Construction on a contested portion of the Dakota Access pipeline can move forward after a federal court dissolved an administrative injunction and refused to grant an emergency request to continue freezing work on part of the project.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today issued a short order denying a request from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, joined by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, to continue a pause on the oil pipeline.

The order also dissolved an existing temporary work freeze, meaning Dakota Access LLC can continue work on a section of the pipeline west of Lake Oahe in North Dakota (Greenwire, Sept. 16).

But the judges appeared sympathetic on the merits of the case, noting that their denial was a narrow decision and "not the final word" on the tribe's complaints about consultation.

Lake Oahe and its shorelines remain off-limits while the Army Corps of Engineers considers whether to issue an easement there.

The appeals court now will consider whether to uphold an order from a lower court that denied a broader injunction on the length of the pipeline. The tribe says the corps failed to adequately consider their concerns when it approved water crossings for the project.

In its order today, the three-judge panel of the appeals court seemed to take the tribe's complaints to heart.

"Although the tribe has not met the narrow and stringent standard governing this extraordinary form of relief, we recognize Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act was intended to mediate precisely the disparate perspectives involved in a case such as this one," the order said.

"Its consultative process — designed to be inclusive and facilitate consensus — ensures competing interests are appropriately considered and adequately addressed," it continued. "But ours is not the final word. A necessary easement still awaits government approval — a decision corps' counsel predicts is likely weeks away; meanwhile, intervenor DAPL has rights of access to the limited portion of pipeline corridor not yet cleared — where the tribe alleges additional historic sites are at risk. We can only hope the spirit of Section 106 may yet prevail." this is not good...

thunder24

10th October 2016, 15:30

Front lines right now.... well the video i posted was taken down.... ill see if i can find more

https://www.facebook.com/lucie.longtree/videos/1695940814066848/

thunder24

10th October 2016, 17:28

Indigenous peoples day and the fascist police shoW up in full riot gear...

sandy

11th October 2016, 07:40

thunder24

11th October 2016, 13:22

the link doesn't want to open for me...not sure why??

Front lines right now....
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alot of things are being blocked right now on facebook, i saw a lady today with 4500 pics get her tumbler taken down because she was posting about standing rock
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/celebrities/army-corps-holds-off-on-resuming-dakota-access-pipeline-work/2016/10/10/d60d94cc-8f2a-11e6-bc00-1a9756d4111b_story.html

BISMARCK, N.D. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won’t yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said Monday, along with reiterating its earlier request that the pipeline company voluntarily stop work on private land in the area.

The corps’ statement came in the wake of a federal appeals court ruling Sunday that allowed construction to resume on the pipeline within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. That ruling sparked a large protest Monday in North Dakota that led to the arrest of 27 people, including “Divergent” actress Shailene Woodley, who is known for her activism.

A joint statement from the Justice Department, Interior Department and the corps said it was not ready to allow pipeline work to continue on its land bordering and under Lake Oahe, a reservoir that the agency manages on the Missouri River and the water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It also called on pipeline owner Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners to voluntarily stop work in the area; ETP didn’t respond to a request from The Associated Press for comment Sunday or Monday.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe believes the pipeline, which will cross through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois, will destroy cultural artifacts and could pollute drinking water. The tribe had asked the appeals court to continue blocking work on the section of pipeline while it appeals a lower-court ruling from September that let work on the entire pipeline go forward.

Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault II said in a statement Sunday that the tribe “is not backing down from this fight.”

william r sanford72

11th October 2016, 14:57

Been to the lee county pipe line protest area a couple times now since back from standing rock...they need more people...don't wanna draw att while there cause me and M short/county attorny and police have a some what negative view of each other and jail isn't the goal.funny I new short and some of them lacky back in the day when there corrupt ass were doing things that shoulda had em disbarred at the very least...and got away with it...I digress....lee county needs help and with the to few people showing up they are still doing a wonderfull job slowing down DAPL... considering thee odds.
:heart:
William.

thunder24

11th October 2016, 18:10

https://www.facebook.com/mikebonefanz/videos/1295975050421725/ protestors in reno nevada yesterday ran over

thunder24

12th October 2016, 00:49

Deia Schlosberg arrested for videoing the protests not participating in the protection of the water...

https://www.facebook.com/joshfoxintlwow/videos/10207480318741847/ If any of you dont have facebook, you dont have to give real info about your self nor make friends, but this is not covered on main stream media, so if you can't see some of these videos, sign up so you can at least see what is happening...

thunder24

12th October 2016, 03:13

http://bismarcktribune.com/news/opinion/mailbag/no-justification-for-state-s-response/article_c9ebdde4-992e-5217-b8e6-b20fd1d646cb.html No justification for state's response

The show of force by North Dakota is nothing short of 7th Cavalry mentality!

How can the state justify its draconian actions, over saturating a venue far smaller in area and population than Bismarck?

The population of Bismarck is about 60,000-70,000 and it covers roughly 31 square miles. Bismarck has 16 police officers per 10,000 residents (total 103). Bismarck’s policing budget for 2015 was approximately $11 million ($7,486,924 for salaries and wages).

The governor has dispatched the National Guard and a horde of law enforcement to a patch of prairie smaller than a square city block and a couple thousand unarmed citizens.

The Department of Emergency Services’ recent request for “up to $6 million borrowing authority” “for providing assistance to local law enforcement” is utterly astonishing! Would the state respond in this same manner if a group of Christian parishioners gathered on the open plains to express their constitutionally protected rights?

Six million dollars? The DES representative, Cecily Fong, said “We plan and evaluate every possible scenario,” and that is “how the $6 million figure was reached.” Surely the average taxpayer can’t accept such a clumsy explanation.

Why have state officials responded in this manner? Statewide coordinated attack by military, law enforcement and private security; coupled with activist judges; lawyers; state agencies and biased media against an unarmed gathering of citizens praying to protect water resources — which we all need.

The state must absorb the total cost associated with its entire “shenanigans” of creating fear and brutalizing an unarmed group of praying citizens.

There is absolutely no justification for the violent actions of the state officials who may also be violating the human rights and civil rights of citizens who have gathered to pray and protect the waters of this country.

thunder24

12th October 2016, 18:25

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=185379935238781&set=a.115411822235593.1073741829.100013003268852&type=3 Dave matthews showed up!

Singer-songwriter David Matthews is headlining a Obama administration-sponsored concert for the benefit of a Democratic congressional candidate involved in protests to stop the building of a controversial oil pipeline.

The “Turnaround: Arts Sings With Standing Rock” will feature performances by Matthews, Mic Jordan, Ledisi, DJ IZ, among other B-list celebrities.

A poster for the show states Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard will serve as emcee along with Chase Iron Eyes, a member of Standing Rock Sioux and a Democratic candidate for North Dakota. It is slated to take place Tuesday, Oct. 11 near campsites set up to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/07/dave-matthews-puts-on-taxpayer-funded-show-for-dakota-pipeline-protesters/#ixzz4MtekveY5 http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/07/dave-matthews-puts-on-taxpayer-funded-show-for-dakota-pipeline-protesters/

william r sanford72

12th October 2016, 19:22

Standing Rock Is Making the Billionaires Mad!

qsYVmCFwjrE

Bob

12th October 2016, 21:19

Direct quote follows from article below - summary: details about a safety and environmental (spill) concern about attempts to shut down existing pipeline(s) under high pressure -

10/12/2016
By Nick Snow
From: OGJ Washington Editor

Three groups that support the Dakota Access crude-oil pipeline and similar oil and gas transportation projects separately expressed concerns on Oct. 11 after protesters broke into facilities near the Canadian border and elsewhere and tried to close pipeline valves manually.

The activists’ actions were a danger to themselves, workers, and the surrounding communities while also potentially disrupting fuel supplies to refiners and, ultimately, consumers, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Pres. Chet Thompson maintained.

Thompson cited reports that activists in Clearbrook, Minn., were caught trespassing and forcing the shutdown of several pipelines.

TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone pipeline in Walhalla, ND, also saw protestors and closed a line near that location.

Spectra Energy’s Express pipeline in Coal Banks Landing, Mont., also closed in the face of protests.

Together, these pipelines supply more than 2.5 million b/d of crude oil to American refineries, Thompson said. “Criminal trespassing, destruction of property, and the creation of potentially unsafe conditions, are not proper forms of protests,” he said. “The belief and politics of a few eco-terrorists do not supersede the rights of millions of consumers who could face increased costs because of reduced supplies of energy.”

Association of Oil Pipe Lines Pres. Andrew J. Black also condemned protesters break-ins and attempts to close pipeline valves manually. “These are industrial facilities that operate under high pressure, and we don’t want anyone to get hurt or cause a release into the environment,” he said.

Black explained that pipeline operators place shutoff valves periodically along the line’s length to help control the flow of product and isolate certain segments of pipe if needed. When operated correctly by trained engineers, pipelines are the safest way to transport the large volumes crude oil and petroleum products US consumers need, he said.

Possibly serious consequences
However, pipelines operate under as much as 1,000 psi of pressure, Black said. Incorrectly closing a valve in the middle of a pipeline without simultaneous control of pumps before and after the valves could cause a pressure surge, rupture the pipeline, and cause a spill that could have a public and environmental impact, he warned.

An industry review of pipeline valve incidents found nine different examples of pressure surge releases, with one resulting in nearly 4,000 bbl of crude oil being spilled, the AOPL president said. For these reasons, pipeline facilities behind lock-and-key are protected for the safety of the public.

Vandalizing, attempting to operate or otherwise tampering with pipeline equipment is dangerous and risks hurting those involved, the public, or the environment, he said.

In Houston, Consumer Energy Alliance Pres. David Holt said protesters’ extreme and illegal actions place US consumers at risk. “Intentionally breaking the law to trespass and shut down critical infrastructure like this can cause serious repercussions and harm. These lines move large volumes of much-needed energy to families and businesses across the nation. Extremists are also putting themselves and the very environment they intend to protect at risk,” he said.

“The steps taken by these individuals to sabotage pipelines—in addition to the threats, intimidation, and cyberbullying tactics they are using—clearly show that their agenda has nothing to do with protecting the environment and everything to do with shutting down the American economy and hurting everyday Americans, families, small business, and our economic way of life,” Holt said.

“Pipelines have proven to be the most effective and environmentally sound method of transporting fuels, which are critical to our modern way of life,” AFPM’s Thompson said. “Eco-terrorists will not win support from consumers or policymakers by disrupting fuel supplies and driving up the costs of products that Americans depend on every day.”

references:

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4134108-enbridge-oil-pipelines-minnesota-among-five-targeted-environmental-activists - minnesota pipelines targeted

Activists protesting the movement of tar-sands oil from Canada into the U.S. took action early Tuesday against five different pipelines, including two Enbridge Energy lines in northern Minnesota.

Shannon Gustafson, a spokeswoman for Enbridge, said two pipeline valves near Clearbrook in northwestern Minnesota had been tampered with.

http://oilpatchdispatch.areavoices.com/2016/10/11/activists-target-five-pipelines-in-solidarity-with-dakota-access-opponents/ -

The activists from Climate Direct Action said they were targeting pipelines that deliver tar sands oil from Alberta into the U.S. as a sign of support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2016/10/9-arrested-for-tampering-with-pipeline-valves/ -

9 arrested for tampering with pipeline valves.

“The groups involved in this morning’s activities claim to be protecting the environment, but their actions alone are inviting an environmental incident and put the safety of people, including themselves and potentially first responders and our employees, at risk,” Enbridge said in a statement.

The group also targeted Spectra Energy’s Express pipeline in Coal Banks Landing, Mont., and Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline at Anacortes, Wash.

thunder24

12th October 2016, 21:33

.

http://oilpatchdispatch.areavoices.com/2016/10/11/activists-target-five-pipelines-in-solidarity-with-dakota-access-opponents/ -

The activists from Climate Direct Action said they were targeting pipelines that deliver tar sands oil from Alberta into the U.S. as a sign of support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2016/10/9-arrested-for-tampering-with-pipeline-valves/ -

9 arrested for tampering with pipeline valves.

“The groups involved in this morning’s activities claim to be protecting the environment, but their actions alone are inviting an environmental incident and put the safety of people, including themselves and potentially first responders and our employees, at risk,” Enbridge said in a statement.

The group also targeted Spectra Energy’s Express pipeline in Coal Banks Landing, Mont., and Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline at Anacortes, Wash.[/QUOTE]

while there is no quick fix because of infrastructure that our ancestors and current fascist elites have created for us, and could be argued was allowed by the public, I can see where the tampering of the pipelines could cause catastrophe on the environment.... however some of the verbiage that the author used to describe what is happening and the point of blame could be turned right around and pointed back at the corporate energy fascists who refuse to change the type of fuel we use... thanks bob

thunder24

12th October 2016, 21:59

And just to return voly at this Chet Thompson fella...

https://vanishingearth.org/2016/09/09/latest-louisiana-oil-pipeline-rupture-photos-nodapl/

LATEST LOUISIANA OIL PIPELINE RUPTURE, PHOTOS; #NODAPL
September 9, 2016 · by nolaspyboy · Bookmark the permalink. ·
Yesterday, I flew over the latest pipeline leak on the Louisiana Gulf Coast and took plenty of footage to document the damage. The scene out there is pretty nasty and reminiscent of the 2010 BP disaster, though much smaller in scale. My flight was sponsored by SouthWings.org and piloted by the incredibly skilled Lance Rydberg.

South Louisiana continues to get ravaged by pipeline and other leaks. The latest came in the form of an estimated 5,250-gallon crude oil leak on Chenier Ronquille, a barrier island on the edge of Bay Long in southern Barataria Bay. The incident was allegedly caused by a contractor working on a restoration project aimed at restoring the effects of, well, the BP disaster. Apparently heavy equipment operated by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. accidentally cut through the pipeline owned by Harvest Pipeline Company, an affiliate of Hilcorp Energy. You may recall that Hilcorp was responsible for another nasty pipeline leak just a few weeks ago in Lake Grande Ecaille, also part of Barataria Bay. It’s now being reported that at least 200 oiled birds have been spotted.

As I was flying over this leak I kept thinking about the struggle going on in North Dakota where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is desperately fighting to halt construction of a section of oil pipeline out of fear the pipeline could contaminate its drinking water and sacred lands. Having witnessed and documented countless pipeline and other oil leaks here in the Gulf Region, I stand firmly with the hundreds of protesters in their struggle to prevent this from ever happening on their sacred lands. Over the years and on several occasions, I have been asked by Native American tribes from around the nation to take healing ashes given to me by the tribes and to drop them into the Gulf, which I have done from planes and boats. I’m not sure if this will help in the fight going on now up there, but I offer these images and any footage I have to those tribes currently fighting in North Dakota to use as evidence that oil pipelines are a major threat to our water and every thing we hold sacred.

Here are some ways you can help Stop the dakota Access Pipeline:

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/10-protest-dakota-access-pipeline/

Jonathan Henderson, Vanishing Earth no protesters did this Chet

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thunder24

12th October 2016, 22:34

watching a live feed right now on highway 6northdakota.... they saying that the morton county sheriffs are pulling over cars left and right, basically harrasing people.... The mailman got pulled over multiple times, along with the ups driver...

RunningDeer

13th October 2016, 00:18

thunder24

13th October 2016, 18:07

https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/21W6BM0GB2OFB/ref=cm_sw_su_w winter wish list for red warrior camp

thunder24

13th October 2016, 19:38

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/taibbi-on-amy-goodman-arrest-for-covering-dakota-pipeline-story-w444754 Journalist Amy Goodman Shouldn't Be Arrested for Covering Dakota Pipeline Story

A little over a month ago, private security guards working on behalf of the Dakota Access pipeline company clashed with Native Americans. They were protesting the bulldozing of land on a Standing Rock Sioux tribal burial site in southern North Dakota.
Guards sprayed protesters with pepper spray and unleashed attack dogs on the crowd – which included children – in a reprehensible example of corporate violence.
Filming the protests in North Dakota that day was a crew from Democracy Now! The show's award-winning anchorwoman Amy Goodman conducted interviews during the protests and covered the dog attacks as they unfolded.
The show's subsequent special report about the incident went viral, with more than 14 million people viewing it on Facebook.
Shortly thereafter, the Obama administration intervened, stopping pipeline construction on Army Corps land and asking the company to "voluntarily pause all construction activity" in the area.
This victory for the Standing Rock Sioux would likely not have been possible without the aggressive independent reporting of Democracy Now!, whose pictures created significant public pressure.
On September 8th, five days after the events, local authorities took the incredible step of filing criminal trespassing charges against Amy.
Prosecutor Ladd Erickson argued publicly that Amy was not acting as a journalist at the time of the protests.
"She's a protester, basically. Everything she reported on was from the position of justifying the protest actions," he said.
Erickson added that he was distressed that Goodman had not mentioned alleged assaults on guards, or trespassing.
A Hawaii-based attorney named Teresa Tico wrote Erickson to complain. She first asked if he had been quoted correctly when he pooh-poohed Goodman's status as a journalist. She also hailed Goodman's career and hastened to reassure Erickson that Amy is, in fact, a reporter.
This, weirdly enough, is where my name comes up in this story. Erickson wrote back to Tico and said:
"One of my favorite writers is Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone and I try to track his stuff. Ms. Goodman has interviewed him a couple times that I have seen and that is my primary source for knowing who she is."
Democracy Now! passed on this strange note and asked for comment.
I don't normally like to disagree with anyone possessing the excellent judgment to be a regular reader of mine, but Erickson is dead wrong here.....

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/13/media_advisory_journalist_amy_goodman_to
October 13, 2016 – Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, charged with criminal trespassing for filming an attack on Native American-led pipeline protesters, will turn herself in to North Dakota authorities on October 17.

Amy Goodman will surrender to authorities at the Morton County–Mandan Combined Law Enforcement and Corrections Center at 8:15 a.m. local time (CDT). CrfEasDnfGM

thunder24

13th October 2016, 19:49

national geographic (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/portraits-from-dakota-access-pipeline-protest/)

As currently proposed, the Dakota Access pipeline would move oil out of northwestern North Dakota, through a 30-inch pipe, and along a 1,200-mile path that cuts through both Dakotas, Iowa, and a stretch of Illinois before meeting another pipeline in the town of Patoka. It would carry nearly half a million barrels of domestic sweet crude oil every day, and the project’s builder, Energy Transfer Partners, says it will bring back money.

The Texas-based company says the pipeline will create up to 12,000 jobs (the Army Corps of Engineers approved the project and agreed) and generate over $120 million in property and income taxes every year. And they say it’ll be safer than moving the oil by train, the current option.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe tells another story. The tribe, made up of Hunkpapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota, lives in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which covers parts of North and South Dakota. Members have been protesting the pipeline since April. They’re worried it might leak and contaminate wells along the pipe’s path, threatening their water supply.

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thunder24

14th October 2016, 13:29

Faces 45 years for journalism (https://trofire.com/2016/10/13/documentary-filmmaker-faces-45-years-prison-covering-pipeline-protest/)

In the same week that activist and celebrity Shailene Woodley was arrested while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, a documentary producer was arrested at yet another pipeline protest and charged with conspiracy.

Deia Schlosberg, producer of the 2016 film “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change,” was following the actions of activists in North Dakota who were protesting against a pipeline. Both activists and documentarian Schlosberg were arrested by police and charged with conspiracy to commit theft of property and services.

Protesters were attempting to take matters into their own hands and planned to physically stop the flow of crude oil through valve stations at five locations on Tuesday. Schlosberg attended the event in order to document the protest – something a journalist often does.

The filmmaker continues to be held in jail and all three arrested appeared in court on Thursday for a bond hearing. None were bailed and they all remain in police custody.

According to fellow filmmaker Josh Fox, Scholsberg has been charged with three felony charges, carrying some serious penalties.

“Now here is the really bad news and this is why we need you to act right now. This afternoon she was escorted to the courthouse where she was charged with 3 Class A and C felony charges that carry 45 years maximum sentences combines. She has been charged with 2 Class A Felony Charges and 1 Class C Felony Charge; Conspiracy to theft of property, Conspiracy to theft of services, Conspiracy to tampering with or damaging a public service.”

While the activists who attempted to commit crimes are facing justice (regardless of the morality of their cause), charging the journalist with the same crime is insanity.

For simply covering reality, Schlosberg faces a maximum 45 years in prison. While we hope that the judge is reasonable enough to clear the woman of all charges, the fact that a journalist could face conspiracy charges and 45 years in prison is a daunting invasion on the freedom of speech.

It is disturbing to know that journalists are being arrested for merely being present and covering important issues like these protests. Schosberg should be freed immediately and cleared of all charges.

william r sanford72

14th October 2016, 14:28

10/01 - 10/08 - Dakota Pipeline Protest - MIssissippi Stand - Unicorn Riot #NODapl
Published on Oct 10, 2016
Collection of video from Facebook from past week. 09/30-10/08

Most footage one minute to 3 minutes long.

Compiled footage from facebook

Miss. Stand - https://www.facebook.com/MississippiS...

Red Warrior Camp - https://www.facebook.com/RedWarriorCamp/

Unicorn Riot - https://www.facebook.com/unicornriot....

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william r sanford72

14th October 2016, 16:26

Lockdown Stops DAPL Construction in Iowa, 3 Arrested, Including Unicorn Riot Journalist

October 13, 2016

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Lee County, IA – Early Wednesday afternoon, a group of water protectors entered a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site where earth was being cleared.

A woman named Krissana Mara, age 31, attached herself to the arm of an excavator using a lock-box device at a site down a dirt road off of 320 Street on the side of Highway 286.

Read More At...
http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=10002

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william r sanford72

15th October 2016, 16:29

Emails Show North Dakota Budget Bureaucracy Behind #NoDAPL Policing

October 14,

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Bismarck, ND – Emails acquired by Unicorn Riot via public records request to the North Dakota Office of Budget and Management allow a small glimpse into the behind-the-scenes working of the state government around the date of a permitted protest rally against the Dakota Access Pipeline held on the capitol grounds on Saturday, September 9, 2016.

The rally was held the same day that a federal judge ruled against the injunction the Standing Rock Sioux tribe was seeking against DAPL construction. After the judge struck down the injunction, the federal government stepped in and asked Energy Transfer Partners to voluntarily cease construction within 20 miles of Lake Oahe.

While the rally took place without incident in accordance with its permit, state officials at the capitol grounds seemed to anticipate a more dire series of events.
An email sent out to state employees working at the capitol that day promised “adequate” law enforcement protection from the potential threat of water protectors storming government offices:

“A short time ago, I (along with other agency heads) was briefed about this afternoon’s demonstration that is being allowed on the lower part of the mall. Based on the briefing, I can assure you that there is a security plan in place with adequate resources and personnel to protect the capitol and those in it. That is, in the event any of the participants in the rally attempt to rush the capitol or damage any of the property. If that should happen, the capitol will be locked down and you will receive further instructions.” – North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger

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Replying to an email about the planned protest, Allison Volk, a Training and Development Administrator employed by the state of North Dakota, wrote, “Thanks for supporting our team during this semi-scary event. I feel a lot may have anxiety over this.”

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The emails also reveal that the North Dakota HIghway Patrol used the Haugland Room at the state capitol grounds to stage state troopers, who were present throughout the rally in riot gear.

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Read More...

http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=9638

thunder24

15th October 2016, 23:38

finally a little mainstream action (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/standing-rock-pipeline-fight-draws-hundreds-north-dakota-plains-n665956)

The largest gathering of indigenous nations in modern American history has set up camp on land belonging to the Army Corps of Engineers at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers in North Dakota. Tents and teepees, now home to whole families, stretch the plain.

They have come by the hundreds to protest construction of the 1,172-mile Dakota Access oil pipeline, which would run within a half-mile of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and cross beneath the Missouri River. Opponents say the pipeline will adversely impact drinking water and disturb sacred tribal sites.

Supporters say it would enable crude oil from North Dakota to reach major refineries while reducing more dangerous rail and truck transport.

Reporter Sasha von Oldershausen spent three days with the protesters to see how they are living and to learn why they have answered the call of the Standing Rock Sioux.

NEAR CANNON BALL, N.D. — Winter is coming to the plains. At all times of the day, when there is lumber to chop, men throw their weight into axes and cut firewood for the frigid days ahead.

One tribe from Wisconsin recently visited the camp with a logging truck filled with lumber that 20 men unloaded by hand. The camp relies on these donations for its survival, and wood is scarce.

"We need to conserve our wood," Everett Iron Eyes, a Standing Rock Lakota and camp organizer, said to people packed beneath the large, brown canopy of tent at the top of a hill. Just below, hundreds have been camping for months in protest of the Dakota Access pipeline.

"Our people survived hundreds of years in the snow," he said, the heavy canvas walls snapping like sails from the blustery wind. Inside, all was still as people sat cross-legged or stood along the fringes. Elders occupied the few available metal fold-out chairs. Everyone was listening. http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_39/1732126/10t231405z_1890512701_tm3ec9a1hdk01_rtrmadp_3_usa-pipeline-nativeamericans_72aad167fe5d478045a421ea1dbedb76.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg
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photo of UN observer in Standing Rock https://www.facebook.com/1131347910264898/photos/a.1131354410264248.1073741826.1131347910264898/1132715160128173/?type=3

thunder24

16th October 2016, 13:42

Pipeline workers are now working at night , and police guarding them

william r sanford72

16th October 2016, 18:28

Where does the North Dakota anti-pipeline camp go from here?

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OCETI SAKOWIN CAMP, N.D. — North Dakota’s unforgiving winter is looming.
Construction on the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline, including an 18-county slice through Iowa, is more than half completed.
And tensions between law enforcement and protesters have reached new heights

Here, where Army tents, teepees and motor homes blanket the rolling prairie in a protest of the pipeline, one question lingers: What's next?

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe started an occupation of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land that birthed one of the largest gatherings of native people in modern history. The site has become not just a protest, but a place of spiritual pilgrimage.

Now, some tribal leaders want the camp to move onto the nearby reservation, where campers would have access to modern utilities and health care.
But a move would be complicated. Thousands of native and white activists from across the country have made their home here, some arriving with little more than gas money.

There is no commerce, yet a basic infrastructure exists: Makeshift roads of worn-down grass snake through the camp, which is dotted by rows of portable toilets and huge plastic water bins. Medical tents offer both Western medical treatment and traditional forms of healing.
And people have already begun collecting blankets and building hardened structures for the winter.

“The camp has a life of its own,” said Standing Rock Sioux chairman Dave Archambault II.

NEW INTERACTIVE VIDEO EXPERIENCE:Tour the camp in 360-degree video

Life in the camp

In the heart of the camp, a collection of tents and canopies connects a sprawling kitchen complex, where women on folding chairs peel potatoes and shuck corn.
Melaine Stoneman stirs a bubbling kettle of buffalo stew behind the serving line. She’s helped lead the volunteer kitchen crew for nearly three months.
Some people cook at their campsites, but Stoneman says most eat here, in meal services that bump into each other. At times, the kitchen served breakfast, lunch and dinner to more than 7,000 people, but the number is about half that now.

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Campers line up for lunch at the Oceti Sakowin Camp near the Standing Rock Reservation Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. (Photo: Rodney White/The Register)

“They start at 4 a.m. with breakfast,” said Stoneman, who lives on South Dakota’s Rosebud Indian Reservation. “We’re probably out of here about 11:30 p.m.”

Like the next-door thrift store of donated coats, socks and shoes, the kitchen runs on donations. Crudely erected shelves are well stocked with staples like rice and bulk cans of green beans and corn. More sparse, Stoneman said, is fresh fruit, milk, eggs and meat.
Nearby, volunteers run a makeshift school in a series of tents and teepees.
Jill Watrous, of Des Moines, volunteers alongside teachers who left jobs and graduate school to be here.

A member of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Watrous, 59, had planned to volunteer in the Peace Corps after retiring from teaching. But she set aside those plans when her daughter became pregnant.

“This is sort of my Peace Corps,” she said.

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Jill Watrous of Des Moines, Iowa, greets representatives of the Havasupai Tribe from the Havasupai Indian Reservation in the Grand Canyon enter the Oceti Sakowin Camp near Standing Rock Reservation Thursday Sept. 29, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

Last week, North Dakota officials said the school is operating without a license and urged campers to enroll their children in nearby school districts. The camp school teaches standard subjects like math and reading, along with environmental studies, compost lessons and traditional Lakota language.
In many ways it's an ordinary school, Watrous said. Yet this is unlike anything she's ever experienced.
She sleeps on a pile of blankets, and like other school volunteers in her military tent, awakens to the sound of the public address system each dawn.

At the school, new children can arrive in a van in the middle of the day.
Aside from a break to visit family in Iowa and Canada, Watrous said she hopes to stay at the camp through the winter.
"I wish I could say that the Bakken pipeline stuff would all be over and we could leave when the winter gets horrendous," she said. "But I don’t think it's going to be over."

'We have to deal with the mayhem.'

While the camp sorts out its future, local law enforcement are growing increasingly frustrated with the pipeline opponents.
Days at the camp are mainly filled with fellowship, chores and prayerful ceremonies. But various factions venture out for shows of defiance. As of Oct. 10, 123 people had been arrested for venturing onto pipeline work sites.

In late September, a group dressed in orange jumpsuits filed in for bond hearings at the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan, about 40 miles north of the camp.
Allen Koppy, the state’s attorney, described the protesters as a “mob.” He said their actions were escalating and asked the judge to send a statement by setting bonds higher than the $500 he had issued for dozens of people before them.

“At what point, your honor, do we reach the tipping point?” Koppy said. “… At some point, your honor, we have to deal with the mayhem.”
In early October hundreds of demonstrators convoyed to a work site more than 30 miles from the camp. Videos posted online showed them holding signs and chanting. Police stood still in riot gear, as a woman on a megaphone urged the demonstrators to control their emotions.

“I know you are angry. I know you are sad. And I know you are mad,” she said.
Many of the protesters were ushered away without incident, but police arrested 27 at the scene, including actress Shailene Woodley.

Like others before them, the demonstrators were charged with criminal trespassing. But officers also charged them with engaging in a riot (a gathering of five or more may be considered a riot under North Dakota law).

“When you have that many people engaged in that kind of behavior, inciting others to break the law, cheering others on as they do break the law, refusing to leave when they’re asked to leave, that’s not a protest,” Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney said at a press conference afterward.
Laney hails from Fargo but is acting as operations chief at the protest site. Police from many jurisdictions are aiding the local, state and federal officers on scene.

“These are people with an ideology and an agenda that’s not from here, and they’re bringing it here,” he said of those arrested. “What started as a North Dakota issue with North Dakota people and the Standing Rock tribe has excelled well past that."

Protesters are undeterred.

On Tuesday, eight environmental activists were arrested after attempting to shut down other pipelines in a show of solidarity.
And at the North Dakota camp, Angela Bibens, who runs a free legal clinic in a green Army tent, said the movement wouldn't end anytime soon. Bibens, who said she is of Sioux heritage but not enrolled in a tribe, is worried about the escalating tone from law enforcement.
"I'm confident that we’ll be here until it’s stopped. But I’ll tell you, it’s scary," Bibens told the Register in late September. "When they point military-grade weapons at our grandmothers who are carrying sage and cedar, it’s terrifying."

'This area is going to be a historic site'

Even with a possible move in its future, Archambault sees a permanent role for this land.
The territory now occupied by the camp once belonged to the Sioux, before Congress began ceding back treaty lands. The chairman said he has asked the Corps about deeding the land to the tribe, so it can be a place “all nations can gather and talk about all our issues.”

“I really love this place where we’re at, and I’m going to try to keep this long-term for years to come,” Archambault said. “This area is going to be a historic site."
For months, tribe members have railed against the underground pipeline, which they believe will threaten the reservation’s drinking water in its crossing of the Missouri River. The original route called for it to cross the Missouri River near Bismarck, but concerns over the capital city's water supply saw it rerouted closer to the reservation.
Archambault recently told campers that the camp was only one leg of the resistance: The tribe also filed a federal lawsuit, took its story to the United Nations and has been in talks with members of Congress.

“There’s different fronts, and I can’t tell you which one is going to work," he said. "But we’re trying all of them."
While fervent protesters have pledged to stay until the pipeline is defeated, the chairman said he “can’t guarantee anybody that this pipeline’s going to be stopped.”

The tribe has spent thousands of dollars on basic necessities like waste removal to keep the camp livable. And it will likely need to till and reseed the campsite, where pasture has been bulldozed by people, horses and cars, said Karol Two Bears, Standing Rock’s tax director, who ranches cattle nearby.
She finds it hard to swallow the costs of maintaining the camp. People talk of building permanent shelters and bathrooms, yet the reservation has hundreds of names on a housing wait list.

“At some point," she said, "we need to come back to taking care of our tribe.”

Two Bears said the standoff between protesters and the pipeline company has not been popular with North Dakotans, particularly in the state capital of Bismarck, where people think the controversy has gone on too long.

But she doesn’t think she has to worry much longer: Winter will thin out the protests on its own.
On a recent evening in the camp, she noticed a camper hovering near a fire. The man complained of the cold. The temperature was in the 40s or 50s, she said.

“I was like: 'Buddy, it gets 40 below wind chill here, and it will stay like that for four or five days,'” she said. “There’s some people in for a shock.”

About the pipeline

The 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline will not cross the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, whose boundaries extend into North Dakota and South Dakota. But tribal leaders worry that burying the pipeline under the Missouri River will threaten the reservation’s water supply for generations to come.
In a September memo to employees, Kelcy Warren, CEO of pipeline parent Energy Transfer Partners, said concerns about the local water supply were “unfounded.” He said the pipeline was being carefully inspected and will be at least 90 feet below Lake Oahe. He also noted that electric transmission lines and a natural gas pipeline already run through the contested area.

The pipeline will run diagonally for 343 miles through 18 Iowa counties while transporting up to 570,000 barrels of oil daily from the Bakken and Three Forks oil production areas of North Dakota.

It will end at a distribution hub at Patoka, Ill., where the oil could be transferred to railroad tank cars or linked to another pipeline for shipment to refineries in the Gulf Coast.
An Energy Transfer spokeswoman said work is nearly 70 percent complete on the four-state project.

Read More ..with Vid and Pictures
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2016/10/14/where-does-north-dakota-anti-pipeline-camp-go-here-dakota-access-pipeline-protest/91946980/

thunder24

17th October 2016, 13:10

_oAY4OvAU18 Very informative legal interview concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline....

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TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (https://twitter.com/JordanChariton) spoke with Lauren Regan, a lawyer representing the Civil Liberties Defense Center. Regan has been representing water protectors who are wrongly arrested for demonstrating against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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thunder24

17th October 2016, 18:20

Amy Goodman about to faceing rioting charges in north dakota ...morton county....

Orph

17th October 2016, 19:20

And nobody hears about this stuff. It's so obvious that we are living in a police state. The police, who are supposed to be protecting the rights of the citizens, are instead paid shills for big money corporations.
:facepalm:

thunder24

17th October 2016, 20:38

http://m.bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/judge-refuses-to-sign-off-on-charges-against-journalist-amy/article_06ade343-892c-5177-b201-907142d1ab03.html

Police officers arrested one person as a protest winds down outside the Morton County Courthouse after a judge dismissed a complaint against Democracy Now journalist Amy Goodman, who reported on a clash between pipeline protesters and private security in September.

Police ordered about 200 people to stay out of the road. Officers with batons were lined up outside the courthouse. As protesters left, some thanked officers.

Goodman's attorney, Tom Dickson told the crowd Judge John Grinsteiner did not find probable cause in a riot charge against Goodman. The case was dismissed.

thunder24

17th October 2016, 21:21

BREAKING #NoDAPL #MississippiStand: We just received an eye witness confirmation of the presence of UK security agency G4S in Iowa. Known for countless human rights violations while working for oil companies in the Middle East and Latin America, G4S presence shows that Mississippi Stand is being affective at stopping work on the Dakota Access Pipeline. They are working in conjunction with Precision Pipeline here in Iowa in response to peaceful water protectors. Lets hope they don't choose to use attack dogs on Mississippi Stand folks like they did to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
We suspect the man pictured here may work for GS4. Please help us identift this man.
More about G4S working on the pipeline: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/g4s-security-dakota-pipel…/
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RunningDeer

18th October 2016, 02:22

Riot charges dropped against journalist, Amy Goodman, who covered #NoDAPL protest
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Published on Oct 17, 2016

A “Democracy Now” journalist has been charged with rioting after reporting on a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, with a prosecutor claiming she was "basically" acting like a protester. The case against Amy Goodman was later dismissed, her lawyer said. RT America's Manuel Rapalo has the story.

william r sanford72

18th October 2016, 02:34

thunder24

19th October 2016, 01:26

https://freedom.press/blog/2016/10/out-control-north-dakota-prosecutors-still-pursuing-reporter-amy-goodman-even-after

Out-of-control North Dakota prosecutors still pursuing reporter Amy Goodman, even after judge dismisses riot charge
October 18, 2016

[Goodman] and her lawyers declared victory on Monday, but Ladd Erickson, a state prosecutor who is assisting the Morton County state’s attorney’s office in the case, said other charges were possible.

“I believe they want to keep the investigation open and see if there is any evidence in the unedited and unpublished videos that we could better detail in an affidavit for the judge,” he said via email. “The Democracy Now video that many people have seen doesn’t have much evidence value in it.”

http://m.kdlt.com/news/ACLU-Investigating-Sheriff-Highway-Patrol-Actions-at-DAPL-Protests/42124876 ACLU Investigating Sheriff, Highway Patrol Actions at DAPL Protests

NORTH DAKOTA -
The American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota has filed open records requests related to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

The ACLU is seeking information about the policing practices and possible use of surveillance technology by the Morton County Sheriff's Department and North Dakota Highway Patrol at the protest site.

The ACLU says the open records requests were prompted after several reports were made to them of unwarranted stops by police, the use of highway roadblocks and checkpoints, and militarized equipment by law enforcement in response to pipeline protests.

Cidersomerset

19th October 2016, 08:07

Judge Rejects 'Riot' Charges Against Journalist Amy Goodman for Covering North Dakota Pipeline Protest

By David on 19 October 2016 GMT

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Human Rights
Judge Rejects 'Riot' Charges Against Journalist Amy Goodman for Covering North Dakota Pipeline Protest

In a win for First Amendment rights.

Democracy Now! October 18, 2016

‘On Monday, a North Dakota judge refused to authorize riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy
Goodman for her reporting on an attack against Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters.

“This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the
public’s right to know what is happening with the Dakota Access pipeline,” said Goodman.’

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Read more: Judge Rejects ‘Riot’ Charges Against Journalist Amy Goodman for Covering North Dakota Pipeline Protest

http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/judge-rejects-riot-charges-against-journalist-amy-goodman-covering-north-dakota

Cidersomerset

19th October 2016, 09:07

Related......

Filmmaker facing 45yrs in prison for filming pipeline activists

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Published on 18 Oct 2016
Documentary filmmaker Deia Schlosberg has been charged with 2 felonies and is
facing 45 years in prison for filming activists attempts to tamper with an oil pipeline
leading from the Canada into the United States. RT America’s Alexey Yaroshevsky
has the report.

Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/

Sueanne47

19th October 2016, 09:20

I hope Deia becomes just as famous as Nelson Mandela ~ this is an outrage :mad2:

william r sanford72

19th October 2016, 15:34

West Coast Women Warrior Media Cooperative with Amy Goodman from DemocracyNow
Published on Oct 18, 2016

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william r sanford72

21st October 2016, 13:58

Birthing the Sacred: Baby Born at Water Protector Camp Bears Hope
Mary Annette Pember
10/20/16

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For Zintkala Mahpiya Wi Blackowl, Sky Bird Woman, the birth of her baby girl at one of the water protector camps in North Dakota was the ultimate act of resistance.

Baby, as yet unnamed, was born early in the morning in a tipi on October 12 directly into her mother’s arms as their family slept nearby. The family’s tipi is pitched alongside the Cannonball River.
Baby is healthy and thriving. Blackowl plans to take her to Indian Health Service this week for a well-baby check-up.

“I birthed her by myself,” said Blackowl, of the Sicangu and Ihanktonwan Lakota tribes.
Although her husband and family were sleeping in the same tipi, the birth was a private event. In the traditional Lakota way, the mother gives birth alone.

“That space in which we give birth is so holy,” she said. “At one time our people realized that.”

This is Blackowl’s sixth child, all of whom were born at home with the help of a midwife. Her other children are ages 3, 6, 8, 11 and 13. Although Blackowl’s husband Lowicha of the Pit River and Oglala Lakota tribes woke up almost immediately after baby arrived, the little girl is the first child born alone to her mother.
The decision to have her baby here at the water protector camps where people are opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was a conscious one.

“Having babies is my act of resistance; our reproductive rights as Native women have been taken away from us in so many ways,” Blackowl said.

“At one time, we were forcibly sterilized; assimilation has come down really hard on us.”
Blackowl, 35, is a stay-at-home mom. She has not participated in any of the frontline actions but has focused on exposing her children to life in the camp, keeping them close to ceremony and being a part of the school where her children attend classes.

Her journey to give birth here began in August. She and some women friends and children drove from her home in Oregon to support the protector camps. She noticed a lodge in which the men could meet, but there was no space for women.

Her journey to give birth here began in August. She and some women friends and children drove from her home in Oregon to support the protector camps. She noticed a lodge in which the men could meet, but there was no space for women.

“I realized that we needed a place, beyond the Moon lodge or the kitchen, where we could council and hold space for each other where we could have those important conversations about how to decolonize ourselves and discuss our new roles as indigenous women,” she said of herself and other women.
So she went back home and began to fundraise for a large tipi to take back to the camps that would serve as a women’s meeting place. She returned with her family and the tipi last month and began to prepare a space for her baby to be born. But beyond family and close friends, Blackowl told no one of her birth plans.

“In our culture, we really guard our babies,” Blackowl said. “I didn’t talk about being pregnant until the very end. There has been something really important and special about this pregnancy. I really felt that this was where she wanted to be born.”
Blackowl had plenty of help, however, in preparing for the birth, and many people available nearby if she needed. One of her sisters is an indigenous midwife and the other is an indigenous doula. Both were close by on the night Baby was born and were with her at the births of her other children. Having her sisters nearby also helped comfort her husband.

She did her own prenatal care, consulting with her sisters, listening to Baby’s heartbeat with a fetal scope and conducting a full blood screen during her pregnancy.
Blackowl has a longstanding commitment to home birth. She was also born at home; her mother also spent time at the camp and helped prepare for baby. It has been challenging, however, to come up against mainstream attitudes about birth that medicalize the process.

“Even my own people, including the Emergency Medical Technicians here, encouraged me to go to a hospital to have my baby,” she reported.
The EMTs insisted she keep a walkie-talkie near her at night, but she turned it off.

“I’ll birth where I choose. It’s not for any man to tell me where I can have my baby,” she said. “In the end, though, they respected my wishes. I didn’t need a bunch of people all on edge around me.”

For Blackowl, birth is her center and her strength. Although many people have suggested she become a midwife, she chafes at the notion of midwifery as a paid career.

“We need to restructure our notions that you have to pay to get this knowledge, this is knowledge that belongs to all women,” she said. “Native women have become so disconnected from our bodies and our roles as a result of the mainstream colonial culture that is steeped in patriarchy and toxic male ego; we have a lot of healing work to do before we can teach our children how to be healthy.”
Part of that healing should include teaching girls about birth and their bodies beyond where to buy tampons.

“We should also teach our sons that it is part of their sacred duty to make it safe for women to do the work they need to do,” she said.
The most profound part of her baby’s birth has been the fact that she is a girl.
“I was so sure I was carrying a boy. Her being a girl, however, is of great significance,” Blackowl noted.

Many Native women at camp, however, told her of dreams they had of her birthing a girl.
Baby will get her name soon, in ceremony. In the meantime, Blackowl is mindful of protecting the new life and spirit, explaining to others that the family needs privacy.
Baby’s placenta has been buried in the earth, as is the Lakota way.

“She will know where she came from, that she came from very strong women who all stand behind her wherever she goes,” Blackowl said. “I definitely felt those strong spirits near us when she was born.”

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/20/birthing-sacred-baby-born-water-protector-camp-bears-hope-166152

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thunder24

21st October 2016, 13:59

http://time.com/4538557/shailene-woodley-arrest-pipeline/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook

I was arrested on Oct. 10, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday where America is meant to celebrate the indigenous people of North America.

I was in North Dakota, standing in solidarity, side-by-side with a group of over 200 water protectors, people who are fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

People who carry a rainbow of colors on their skin. People who gathered together because they realize that if we don’t begin taking genuine steps to protect our precious resources—our soil, our water, our essential elements—we will not have a healthy or thriving planet to pass on to future generations.
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/shailene-woodley-north-dakota-access-pipeline-protest-arrest-standing-rock2.jpeg?quality=85&w=1100

thunder24

21st October 2016, 14:02

One Nation Camp Fundraiser (https://www.youcaring.com/esha-hoferer-669860?fb_action_ids=337246063289828&fb_action_types=youcaringcom%3Adonate)
"We are creating a Winter Camp and we need your help relatives. This will be an area for our young people to creatively construct action plans on our social media forefront. We all have many hats at sacred stone. Winter is coming. We need your help purchasing:
Army Tent
Generator/s (Solar/Panels)
Wood Stove/Pipe
Sleeping Cots
Wood
Purchasing Computer Equipment
We have many things we can add but we know these are the easentials to our camp. We will update as we move along. Thank for anything you may able to offer. We are not asking you to empty your bank account. We as Water Protectors feel we must be here to protect our future generation. Water is Life."

william r sanford72

21st October 2016, 14:22

RunningDeer

21st October 2016, 16:02

thunder24

22nd October 2016, 06:14

FINALLY WORKING TOGETHER (http://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Members-of-Standing-Rock-Sioux-Tribe-Morton-Co-Sheriffs-Dept-Dakota-Access-Congress-walk-DAPL-route-together-talk-about-issues-concerning-construction--397950451.html)

" Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members met with Dakota Access and the Morton County Sheriff's Department Thursday to walk the pipeline route and visit specific locations previously identified by former tribal historic preservation officer, Tim Mentz, Sr.

Also involved in the site visit were U.S. Corps of Engineers Omaha District Commander, Col. John Henderson; Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, David Archambault II; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Historic Preservation Officer, John Eagle; Chief State Archeologist Paul Picha; along with members of the environmental team from Dakota Access Pipeline and Congressman Kevin Cramer and representatives from Senator John Hoeven and Senator Heidi Heitkamp's offices.

"I think all of us on all sides of the Dakota Access Pipeline issue benefited from walking together and sharing our expertise or experiences and even our expectations, and I hope this can help establish a better understanding as we go forward," says Cramer.

"This is very positive to see that all interested parties could together look at the sites in which they have had differing opinions of the historical significance," says Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier. Twenty-two organizations that represent businesses and workers all across the country have sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Army Secretary Eric Fanning asking that the Obama Administration to follow the rule of law and established regulations and allow the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The organizations include Industrial Energy Consumers of America, National Association of Manufacturers and The Association of Union Constructors."

PEACEFUL PRAYER WORKS AND IS WORKING!!!

sandy

22nd October 2016, 07:13

This is a GREAT start for sure. Sincere Heart Felt Prayer brings PEACE , individually and collectively. :handshake:

FINALLY WORKING TOGETHER (http://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Members-of-Standing-Rock-Sioux-Tribe-Morton-Co-Sheriffs-Dept-Dakota-Access-Congress-walk-DAPL-route-together-talk-about-issues-concerning-construction--397950451.html)

" Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members met with Dakota Access and the Morton County Sheriff's Department Thursday to walk the pipeline route and visit specific locations previously identified by former tribal historic preservation officer, Tim Mentz, Sr.

Also involved in the site visit were U.S. Corps of Engineers Omaha District Commander, Col. John Henderson; Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, David Archambault II; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Historic Preservation Officer, John Eagle; Chief State Archeologist Paul Picha; along with members of the environmental team from Dakota Access Pipeline and Congressman Kevin Cramer and representatives from Senator John Hoeven and Senator Heidi Heitkamp's offices.

"I think all of us on all sides of the Dakota Access Pipeline issue benefited from walking together and sharing our expertise or experiences and even our expectations, and I hope this can help establish a better understanding as we go forward," says Cramer.

"This is very positive to see that all interested parties could together look at the sites in which they have had differing opinions of the historical significance," says Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier. Twenty-two organizations that represent businesses and workers all across the country have sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Army Secretary Eric Fanning asking that the Obama Administration to follow the rule of law and established regulations and allow the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The organizations include Industrial Energy Consumers of America, National Association of Manufacturers and The Association of Union Constructors."

PEACEFUL PRAYER WORKS AND IS WORKING!!!

TargeT

22nd October 2016, 17:03

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The US Government just released this advert about the Dakota Access Pipeline and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

☛ 10 WAYS YOU CAN HELP THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX FIGHT THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE: https://thejuicemedia.com/nodapl

1. Call North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple at 701-328-2200. When leaving a message stating your thoughts about this subject please be professional.
2. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 or (202) 456-1414. Tell President Obama to rescind the Army Corps of Engineers’ Permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
3. Donate to support the Standing Rock Sioux at http://standingrock.org/news/standing...
4. Donate items from the Sacred Stone Camp Supply List: http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/
5. Contribute to the Sacred Stone Camp Legal Defense Fund: https://fundrazr.com/d19fAf
6. Contribute to the Sacred Stone Camp gofundme account: https://www.gofundme.com/sacredstonecamp
7. Contribute to the Red Warrior Camp Legal Fund: https://www.generosity.com/fundraisin...
8. Sign the petition to the White House to Stop DAPL: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/peti...
9. Like and support the following Faceboook Pages: @SacredStoneCamp | @StandingRockSioux Tribe | @RedWarriorCamp
10. Share this video to help raise awareness about the #NoDAPL fight on social media

thunder24

22nd October 2016, 17:18

Protectors are being arrested, with shotguns pointed at them now...more media being arrested today October 22nd. President Obama and AG Loretta Lynch, this is not justice and is pure bull****. The protectors are being peaceful and praying, unlike St. Louis or Baltimore, or your home of Chicago... Stop this overreach of militarization of police TODAY

NOW BEING peppersprayed

a tweet from Unicorn Riot "Reports are coming in that many #NoDAPL water protectors were maced, 1 badly beaten w/ a tear gas launcher after police surrounded marchers."

https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousLifeMovement/videos/10153559675327255/

william r sanford72

22nd October 2016, 19:01

NODAPL Media Update from Myron Dewey

Published on Oct 20, 2016

Myron works for an independent indigenous media group and is looking to educate and expand the knowledge. He is going to be teaching youth and anyone interested at camp how to document and record their struggles so they themselves can be the journalists.

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With that plane circling round over the campsite, my mind went to spraying subtle concoctions or shooting invisible zaps.

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My laptop was hacked....turned on by itself and passwords bypassed like they didn't exsist..:(... didn't discover this until about four days into camp when I went to write/journal..and read...laptop was on and about drained of charge.:confused:..would turn it off...and within seconds it would turn on by it self.:facepalm:..felt maybe leaving it alone until I got home was best.Glad I don't and didn't have a cell/smart phone.

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William.

thunder24

22nd October 2016, 23:41

"At least two National Lawyers Guild legal observers were arrested by Morton County, ND today also. #NoDAPL"

tweet by unicorn riot

https://www.facebook.com/CampOfTheSacredStone/videos/1791886047767092/

https://www.facebook.com/NsitePictures/videos/1145508358871904/

these cops are sick.... to bad this isn't baltimore or st. louis then mayb more members here would be interested

RunningDeer

23rd October 2016, 00:28

these cops are sick.... to bad this isn't baltimore or st. louis then mayb more members here would be interested

I shortened the video to 12 seconds posted originally from FaceBook.

Berserk Police indiscriminately mace peaceful Water Protectors!
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Berserk Police indiscriminately mace peaceful Water Protectors!

This blatant attack was unprovoked - there were young children and elders in this crowd for prayer.

#NoDAPL #WaterisLife #MniWiconi

Video by Rob Wilson Photography #WearetheMedia SHARE WIDELY!!

Call to Action! We need you here NOW at Sacred Stone Camp!
DAPL is trying to finish this pipeline now and they are nearing camp! They have to date destroyed 380 sacred sites!

If you've thought about coming out - now is the time - we need you!

thunder24

23rd October 2016, 00:31

yeah its sick , the sheriff said that protector charged the line....looked to me like he totally stood there

RunningDeer

23rd October 2016, 00:35

yeah its sick , the sheriff said that protector charged the line....looked to me like he totally stood there

Yes, I downloaded and watched frame by frame and the protector stood in one spot even when the guy came back around. Admittedly, I may be reading into too much, but I couldn't help but wonder if the protector was single out because he was black.

thunder24

23rd October 2016, 19:24

"On far right: new #NoDAPL winter camp where water protectors have declared eminent domain on DAPL property. Far left: police Bearcat" tweet from unicorn riot..
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https://www.facebook.com/TheAntiMedia/videos/664829676975404/ watch this

now this action here is definantly going to draw attention and push back more then they have seen before from the fascists

https://www.facebook.com/janene.hampton/videos/10211072070662561/

thunder24

23rd October 2016, 21:48

https://www.facebook.com/manape.lamere/videos/1173869019369651/

This video explains how the natives are able to assert eminent domain over the land... From what i gather, the natives that renounced their american citizenship and have blood going back to the treaties are legally or lawfully ( not going into the difference) able to do this...

betoobig

24th October 2016, 08:31

There is an info saying the construction has stop, could you confirm?
Much love

thunder24

24th October 2016, 13:51

There is an info saying the construction has stop, could you confirm?
Much love

I have not heard that, when was it published and what was the reasons given?

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william r sanford72

24th October 2016, 15:00

A statement from a water protector that was on the ground this morning.

Published on Oct 23, 2016

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RunningDeer

24th October 2016, 15:33

Standing Rock: Police Arrest 100+ Water Protectors as Dakota Access Speeds up Pipeline Construction
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Published on Oct 24, 2016

http://democracynow.org - We go to North Dakota for an update on the ongoing Standoff at Standing Rock, where thousands of Native Americans representing more than 200 tribes from across the Americas are resisting the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which is slated to carry oil from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfields through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois.

On Saturday, over 100 people, who call themselves protectors, not protesters, were arrested at a peaceful march after they were confronted by police in riot gear, carrying assault rifles. They say police pepper-sprayed them and then arrested them en masse, and discharged rubber bullets to shoot down drones the water protectors were using to document the police activity. We are joined by Sacheen Seitcham, media activist with West Coast Women Warriors Media Cooperative who was arrested Saturday along with more than 80 other protesters and journalists at a construction site for the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.

thunder24

24th October 2016, 16:23

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/14642054_10102033426923235_5377526786843354717_n.jpg?oh=10e786cff5dc923324d2e0e095d5626d&oe=58AB6C8B hahahahahhahahaahahhaahha

william r sanford72

24th October 2016, 16:52

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/14642054_10102033426923235_5377526786843354717_n.jpg?oh=10e786cff5dc923324d2e0e095d5626d&oe=58ab6c8b hahahahahhahahaahahhaahha

lol!!!!!!!!!...............:highfive:

thunder24

24th October 2016, 21:38

The scuttlebutt im hearing is that the police and national gaurd and stageing something as in coming to raid the camp...i would assume this is the camp that was created yesterday on treaty land...not sure yet...

"Meeting scheduled with President Obama and Tribal Leaders tomorrow morning over two hundred years of broken treaty rights. Word!" from facebook

thunder24

25th October 2016, 11:44

"Some Fabulous News today from Legal Aid:
1....Tomorrow Obama is meeting with 3 Tribal Chairmen 😁
2.... Also confirmed yesterday's "arrest" was done illegally, as it was on Army Core Land and is considered a KIDNAPPING, and they can be charged.
3...UN representative was contacting today, the Sherrif to request they STOP their Shenanigans.
4...DaPL does not have legal right for work where the new Front Line camp is now set up as it is Army Corp Land, nor can they make us leave.
#LOVEWINS
#NODAPL
**Edit: Regarding questions...all I can say is this information was given directly to us by a Legal Aid Rep, we were asked to share far and wide."

posted 9 hrs ago

thunder24

25th October 2016, 15:04

"Awesome news, one police officer who had worked for 16 years turned in his badge and joined us, a friend of mine met and spent time with him here.
I heard that 4 others also quit their jobs and turned in badges but haven't confirmed with multiple sources...
lets hope this is true and keeps happening.
also by the way a sherriff from Wisconsin was found passed out in his car with a high blood alcohol content and was given a DUI, Wisconsin troops were withdrawn from north dakota."

this might be working....

thunder24

26th October 2016, 04:04

http://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Dept-of-Justice-says-Lake-Oahe-DAPL-permit-on-hold-while-addressing-Standing-Rock-Sioux-Tribe-issues-398395591.html

BISMARCK, ND - The U.S. Department of Justice has reiterated that the Army will not issue a permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to cross Lake Oahe while they examine the issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

“While the Army continues to review issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members, it will not authorize constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe. In the interim, the departments of the Army, Interior, and Justice have reiterated our request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe,” said Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle in an email Tuesday.

“The Justice Department is taking the situation in North Dakota seriously, and has been in communications with state and local law enforcement officials, as well as tribal representatives and protesters, to facilitate communication, defuse tensions, support peaceful protests, and maintain public safety,” Hornbuckle said.

This is bull****, request my ass, they have already gotten up right to a couple miles from river if not closer . YOu request my ass, this is saying go ahead and do it we are only asking you don't.... "Hey bully please don't punch my friend"...meaning "grab them by the pussy..."

thunder24

26th October 2016, 13:40

RunningDeer

26th October 2016, 13:51

This comes a few days after cops shot natives drones fly by for observation

"BREAKING
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounds all non law enforcement aircraft, including drones, within a 7 mile radius of #NoDAPL camps in North Dakota.
Confirmed: FAA informed Unicorn Riot that "only response aircraft in support of law enforcement" are cleared to fly within no-fly zone"
Source: Unicorn Riot
Please help! You can donate to support Standing Rock here:
https://www.youcaring.com/standing-rock-indigenous-water-pr…
Please share widely!
#NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #MniWiconi #WaterIsSacred #SacredStoneCamp #RedWarriorCamp #OcetiSakowin #ProtectorsNotProtesters #RezpectOurWater #StandTogetherAgainstThePipeline #WeAreStrongTogether #ProtectTheLandAndWater #LifeIsSacred #ProtectTheSacred #StandingRock

Take a Stand with Standing Rock! (https://www.youcaring.com/standing-rock-indigenous-water-protectors-654173) - Updated broken link and add the video that’s on the main page for new comers to the thread.

Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters
with Dogs & Pepper Spray
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william r sanford72

26th October 2016, 14:31

This comes a few days after cops shot natives drones fly by for observation

"BREAKING
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounds all non law enforcement aircraft, including drones, within a 7 mile radius of #NoDAPL camps in North Dakota.
Confirmed: FAA informed Unicorn Riot that "only response aircraft in support of law enforcement" are cleared to fly within no-fly zone"
Source: Unicorn Riot
Please help! You can donate to support Standing Rock here:
https://www.youcaring.com/standing-rock-indigenous-water-pr…
Please share widely!
#NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #MniWiconi #WaterIsSacred #SacredStoneCamp #RedWarriorCamp #OcetiSakowin #ProtectorsNotProtesters #RezpectOurWater #StandTogetherAgainstThePipeline #WeAreStrongTogether #ProtectTheLandAndWater #LifeIsSacred #ProtectTheSacred #StandingRock

this link is to source....

Issue Date :
October 25, 2016 at 2341 UTC
Location :
CANNONBALL, North Dakota near BISMARCK VOR/DME (BIS)
Beginning Date and Time :
October 25, 2016 at 2340 UTC
Ending Date and Time :
November 04, 2016 at 2340 UTC
Reason for NOTAM :
Temporary flight restrictions
Type :
Hazards
Replaced NOTAM(s) :
N/A
Pilots May Contact :
MINNEAPOLIS (ZMP) ARTCC, 651-463-5580, 202-267-3333

Jump To:
Affected Areas
Operating Restrictions and Requirements
Other Information

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No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM (except as described).

http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_6_6648.html

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william r sanford72

26th October 2016, 16:57

Standing Ground on NoDAPL: Oceti Sakowin School Educates Next Generation
Mary Annette Pember
10/19/16

http://d1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/article_media/web_img_0201-dapl-hand_drum_teaching_camp_school-pember.jpg?itok=hHaFNxgJ
Steve Tamayo, a Lakota artist from Milks Camp, South Dakota, teaches children at the Oceti Sakowin camp school how to make a traditional hand drum.

The children currently camped out at Standing Rock are the generation that will grow up knowing that their parents, and by extension they, stood up for the water—and thus themselves—and that it is their story to tell.
“We aren’t just sitting around out here talking bad about the pipeline,” said Tashubi B., an 11-year-old Sicangu Lakota girl attending school at the Oceti Sakowin camp of water protectors near the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. “We have resources.”
Those resources consist of a fully operational school that is combining conventional classes with real-world experience for a unique educational opportunity. For instance, Tashubi and her classmates are putting their education to immediate use by creating documentaries about their experiences and perspectives at the camp as part of a school project.
“They said they were tired of reporters coming to the camp and telling stories about them and the school,” said Teresa Dzieglewicz, a teacher at Oceti Sakowin School. “They decided they wanted to tell their own stories.”

Using donated tablets, Dzieglewicz and her colleagues are working with students as they first create written proposals and later gather interviews and information to tell their stories.

“Our plan is to have all the documentaries online for everybody to see,” Dzieglewicz said.

Started by Standing Rock schoolteacher Alayna Eagle Shield, the camp school has attracted a core group of committed teachers and support staff such as Dzieglewicz and colleagues Blaze Starkey and Jose Zagney. Although Dzieglewicz initially planned to stay only two days when she arrived more than a month ago, she has since decided to put her Master of Fine Arts studies in St. Louis on hold and stay on at the camp. Previously she had taught elementary school on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

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Left to right: Teresa Dzieglewicz, Jose Cagney and Blaze Starkey, a few of the teachers at the Oceti Sakowin camp school, pose in front of a tipi used as a classroom. (Photo: Mary Annette Pember)

“I believe deeply in environmental and indigenous rights issues,” Dzieglewicz said. “I decided that I needed to care about them here rather than from far away in St. Louis.”
Parents and students are very engaged with the home schooling curriculum offered by teachers at the school. For instance, after realizing that the kids wanted to tell their own stories about the camp and share their feelings about the pipeline, Dzieglewicz helped get tablets donated with the help of attorney Eric DeWeese of Portland, Oregon, who also volunteered at the Oceti Sakowin as legal council for several days.

“I saw the elders in a tipi talking and I thought, Wow, they must have amazing stories to tell,” said DeWeese, who ended up donating 15 tablets along with solar chargers. “I thought it was an incredible opportunity for kids to hear and document their stories.”
Students at Oceti Sakowin school were a little weary from several days of media attention when an ICTMN reporter arrived. This made Tashubi initially reluctant to discuss her project, until she learned that one of her teachers had said she was a very sharp girl.

“Well, of course,” she quickly agreed, and went on to describe her work. “My project is about the resources that we have here at camp. I want people to see that we have lots of things here and that we can take care of ourselves in a good way. We have a school, a kitchen, security and supplies.”

She was also keen for people to know that the camp school is a serious place.

“We don’t just sit around and talk. We study serious subjects like math and science,” Tashubi said. “We also get to learn about Lakota values and language. Mostly I want people to know that we are unarmed; we are humble and peaceful people who are praying for a new way to live on the Earth.”

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Oceti Sakowin school camp students are learning firsthand that Water Is Life.

Not everyone agrees, however, that the school is a good thing. North Dakota Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Kirsten Baesler has told the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council that the Oceti Sakowin camp school is operating illegally and does not fit the official definition of a home-schooling operation, the Bismarck Tribune reported. She offered to bus students to Mandan public schools, the newspaper said.

Dzieglewicz, however, said the school adheres strictly to the state’s home schooling requirements and standards, and helps parents work on completing home-school paperwork. But according to Baesler, North Dakota regulations governing home schooling require that parents must be the primary educators for students.

Dzieglewicz is a former certified teacher, and Blaze Starkey, one of the main teachers at the camp, has a bachelor’s degree in language arts. Neither has ever made any pretense of operating the school as an accredited institution, they told the Bismark Tribune. Moreover, North Dakota law is not precise about stating that parents must be the educators in home schooling students, said Dan Beasley, a staff attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association.
While the grown-ups debate, the schooling goes on.

“Since this documentary is created by an 11-year-old girl, you know of course that there will be some fun and comedy too!” said a smiling Tashubi of her project.
The students at Oceti Sakowin camp do have lots of fun. Embedded in the fun and games, however, are important lessons about Lakota values and traditional skills such as making drums, putting up a tipi, and learning traditional songs and dances.

Fortunately, Dzieglewicz and her colleagues have been able to draw from some of the most talented and skilled Native teachers and artists in Indian country, as they cycle regularly through the camp.

Steve Tamayo of the Milk’s Camp community on the Rosebud Sioux reservation is spending several days with the children, teaching traditional skills such as tipi and drum making. He’s the artist who painted the tipi for the Cowboy and Indian Alliance that was gifted to President Obama in 2014 to help raise awareness about the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Artist Steven Tamayo is teaching students how to make tipis and hand drums, giving them math lessons in the process.

Tamayo integrates sacred Lakota symbolism and spirituality as well as knowledge of plants and their uses in his lessons. For instance he integrates the spiritual Lakota significance of the numbers four, seven and 13 into teaching about tipi building. At the same time, he creates a valuable lesson in math and problem solving. The students are working with Tamayo to create a winter count using Lakota symbols that will tell the story of their experience at camp.

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Steve Tamayo's hands as he plies his craft, teaching students how to make a hand drum. (Photo: Mary Annette Pember)

Currently Tamayo works as manager and cultural arts specialist with the Native American Advocacy Program (NAAP) in Herrick, South Dakota. NAAP is a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk youth build a cultural identity based on the traditional Lakota way of life. NAAP Executive Director Marla Bull Bear also worked with children at the camp, teaching them a Lakota morning song every day.

“Your prayers count,” she told the group as they sat in a circle around her. She led the students in song, quietly at first, then building to a crescendo that silenced the surrounding camp conversations.

With the help of teachers at Oceti Sakowin, the Sacred Stone camp has also started a school of its own just across the Cannonball River. Mary Paniscus of Berlin, as well as other volunteers, had just finished organizing the huge number of donated books and school supplies when ICTMN visited.

“I was just telling my mother this morning that I was thinking I might return to teaching,” Paniscus said with a laugh. “Now, this afternoon, I find that I’m the principal of the Sacred Stone Camp school.”

Paniscus, who teaches genetics in Germany, had just arrived with her mother. After teachers and students posed for their first-day-of-school photo, Paniscus shooed parents and visitors out.

“You’ll have to excuse us now,” she said. “It’s time for class.”

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Students and teachers pose in front of the newly opened school at the Sacred Stone Camp. (Photo: Mary Annette Pember)

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thunder24

26th October 2016, 17:22

Just read on facebook group that the national guard has told the front line camp to vacate or be removed by force... Im trying to talk with someone to confirm this..but if true, then it doesn't sound like that meeting with obama did much good.

On a side note, REv Jesse jackson and the incredible hulk are in standing rock now

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thunder24

26th October 2016, 19:27

So word is, the police are stationed at fort rice North of Cannon Ball as a gathering point which is signifigant in the fact this is where the calvary were gathered in the 1800s to hunt down the Dakota people. They (whoever they are) are also scrambling the phones live streaming right now.

Mark Ruffalo was on his way to the airport and the police have blocked the roads to all traffic, and at this moment Jesse Jackson is on his way to the barracade to discuss what can be done with the police "guarding it" and is now calling the White House . Assault rifles in hand at the barracade. Also it is being reported medics and emt are being positioned at Fort Rice for immediate future actions by the police

thunder24

26th October 2016, 21:42

http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Nearly-all-emergency-funds-for-pipeline-protest-10414494.php

"CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they are poised to remove about 200 protesters trying to halt the completion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota after the demonstrators refused to leave private land owned by the pipeline company.
Officers with county sheriff's offices, the state Highway Patrol and the National Guard asked protesters to move off the site on Wednesday morning and were rebuffed. The authorities then left.
Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney later told reporters that authorities don't want a confrontation but that the protesters "are not willing to bend."
"We have the resources. We could go down there at any time," he said. "We're trying not to."
Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said authorities would continue to try for a peaceful resolution but that "we are here to enforce the law as needed."
Protesters vowed to stay put, at one point chanting "Stand in peace against the beast."
"We're going to hold this ground," said protester Mekasi Camp Horinek.
"I'm here to die if I have to. I don't want to die but I will," said Didi Banerji, who lives in Toronto but is originally from the Spirit Lake Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
About 200 activists moved onto the site last weekend to fight the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline, which they fear could harm cultural sites and drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
Energy Transfer Partners, which is building the $3.8 billion pipeline, said Tuesday that the protesters were trespassing and that "lawless behavior will not be tolerated."
Protests supporting the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's opposition to the pipeline have been ongoing for months, with more than 260 people arrested so far in North Dakota. The pipeline is to carry oil from western North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Patoka, Illinois, where shippers can send it on to Midwest and Gulf Coast markets. Energy Transfer Partners has said the pipeline is nearly complete other than the work in south central North Dakota.
Local sheriff's officials had said earlier they didn't have the resources to immediately remove activists from the private land, which is just north of the main protest camp on federal land near Cannon Ball, a town about 50 miles south of Bismarck. But officers called for reinforcements, and those were arriving from other states.
The tribe has five ambulances on standby Wednesday, along with 32 emergency workers — with no one allowed to take time off, tribal health director Margaret Gates said.
"Our concern is chaos," she said. "Our concern is for the safety and well-being of everybody. We don't know what's going to happen."
One notable clash came on Sept. 3, after construction crews removed topsoil from private land that protesters believe contained Native American burial and cultural sites. Authorities said four security guards and two guard dogs were injured. The tribe said protesters reported that six people were bitten by security dogs and at least 30 people were pepper-sprayed.
The state and pipeline company dispute that any sacred grounds have been disturbed during the construction.
North Dakota's Emergency Commission approved $6 million in emergency funding for law enforcement costs related to the protest — but as of Wednesday, nearly all of that had been used up. The Department of Emergency Services plans to ask for more, Fong said.
The protest has drawn the attention of activists and celebrities, including actress-activist Shailene Woodley and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and actor Mark Ruffalo were at the protest camp Wednesday. Jackson said he was there "to pray together, protest together and if necessary go to jail together."
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This version of the story corrects the end point of the pipeline to Patoka, Illinois rather than refineries in Illinois."

thunder24

27th October 2016, 02:14

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/25/video-police-viciously-attacked-peaceful-protestors-at-the-dakota-access-pipeline/

Interesting video...

thunder24

27th October 2016, 15:30

"I went to a meeting yesterday at the community center in Cannonball, the nearby town that has been at the forefront of standing rock. Councilman Chad came down to answer questions.
Here are the highlights:
DAPL/Energy Transfer Partner Oil company bought the land where the pipeline goes through for $18million, if were to legally take it as eminent domain we would need to offer 9million as "just compensation", which we do not have. It is a actually illegal in north dakota for a corporation to own ranches, which is what they bought, so this illegal purchase and ownership is being "looked into" by the state but no confidence in any actual results.
Also I was disappointed to hear that the treaty land angle may not hold up because standing rock did legally lose the land but didnt accept that legally. He said the process has gone thru the supreme court and was determined once before so it helps to stall but probably wont hold up in court. At the same time he said they are spending a lot of $ on lawyers to look into this process and if there is any other way to reclaim this land illegally taken in violation of the treaties of 1851.
The longer we stall the construction of the pipeline itself, the more likely investors will back out from DAPL and that would end it.
The US army corps of engineers still has not granted permit for missouri river drilling, so its down to that and our physical stand at frontline camp that is between them and finishing.
The biggest curveball for winterization is that the ideal site to set up a more official winter camp would need some of the acreage acquired through the Beareau of Indian Affairs, and they just said it would take two years for the process. The tribe put in a requesr to expedite the process of acquiring the land by cannonball pit stop but BIA "won't" do it, not that they can't, but they are known to be slow and are not making exceptions for standing rock. I wonder if it is worth calling them en masse and requesting this be done...
Chairman said that the native people are tired of being the "collateral damage" with army situations, and is proud of this stand for declaring that.
The tribe has signed a letter for the US Attorney general and Amnesty International to look into racial discrimination by morton county sheriff department at the road block checkpoints. They are known to make brown skinned people detour around it and submit to harassment and searches whereas allow white skinned people to be waved through. It was different and much more casual once the National Guard took over. Personally I have been waved through without issue whenever having gone through the checkpoints.
An elder woman said lets ask Governor Dalripple: "are we native people actually citizens of north dakota?because he does not treat us like we are" The chairman responsed that it doesnt seem like the Governor caree about any of this, he is just "sticking his head in the sand until this is over because he is out of office in 2 months, the election is in 10 days.
Fun fact for protectors here: if you have been here for 30 days you can sign an affidavit and Vote here! Anyone know more info on this? I will talk to legal and find out, we could make a big difference here, several native people are on the ballot...
Chairman agrees that there have been dozens of infractions against the law by the state but they dont have enough legal funds for all the lawsuits. Donations and legal aid are deeply needed. There are some lawyers from a tribe in Washington who are helping, thank you to them. They also need particular expertise in researching the history of the treaty law situation if anyone knows any experts on that type of law.
A concern of Cannonball and the tribe is what will happen to liability for the tribe if people at camps are having cold related health issues such as frostbite, hypothermia, as well as does the IHS insurance company have enough funds to cover people here if they are uninsured?
Chairman Chad said that although the tipis are beautiful and symbolic, most people have not lived in them full time especially through a north dakota winter for a very long time. He said people have trouble staying warm inside wooden houses here and every year sadly people perish due to the extreme cold. He does not want people to suffer or not survive the winter living outdoors, but there is no other viable land to build a proper winter camp nearby. One question is would US Army Corps give the land where Big camp/oceti sakowin is now to the tribe as a compromise, because some people are already winterizing there and don't want to move anyway.
Gratitude for the Episcopal Diocese for providing the meal for this gathering, it was sweet to hear the pastor sing a prayer song in the local language." from lolly bee

thunder24

27th October 2016, 17:08

police and army have shown up at the new camp to make a sweep...looking for more updates

all the live feeds i click on too are being jammed...
http://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/6556653 unicorn riot live feed front lines

sound guns being used...

thunder24

27th October 2016, 19:08

https://www.facebook.com/NBC4Columbus/videos/10153845302597751/ news agency at the front lines

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https://www.facebook.com/sarah.manning.146/videos/10211055348961029/ sheriff on mega phone telling the natives to stop shooting bows and arrows at the police according to this lady

thunder24

27th October 2016, 21:22

"A Concussion Grenade has been fired into crowd. Bean Bags have been fired. E
Pepper spray has been sprayed.
Ponca Tribal council member Casey Camp has been arrested." - dallas goldtooth

https://www.facebook.com/esha.hoferer/videos/259403611123137/ start at about an hour 10 minutes in.... sound cannon and concussion gernades

dude recording got hit by a bean bag

thunder24

27th October 2016, 23:37

Bureau of Indian affairs arrested a paid contractor who came very close to oceti sakowin camp brandishing an automatic weapon.

thunder24

28th October 2016, 14:48

"Snippets from what happened yesterday at the #NODAPL frontline in ND:

-Over 100 Water Protectors have been arrested in an act of civil disobedience, in the face of a militarized police force.

- President Obama had asked that work stop within 20 miles of river yet national guard were used to clear the way for yesterday's police sweep & DAPL construction.

- men and women were pulled out of a sweat lodge ceremony at gunpoint.

- DAPL security forces were part of the invasion. They had armed men with AR-15 and had malicious intent to sneak into the camp.

- the similarities to wounded knee cannot be ignored. There was potential last night to turn a peaceful protest into a major tragedy.

- the racial undertones of yesterday's actions cannot be ignored. Armed white men stand off against police in Oregon: Acquitted. Unarmed water protectors in North Dakota: Concussion grenades, rubber bullets and batons.

- FAA made a no fly zone yet DAPL private security planes and choppers were flying all day.

- ND police have been saying we are armed vigilantes. The only weapons on site yesterday were in the hands of militarized police. Assault rifles, snipers, concussion grenades, batons, etc.

- Horse back riders were attacked by police on ATVS resulting in one horse being hurt so severely that it had to be put down.

- There were national guard humvees on site with snipers stationed on top." ----from DAllas goldtooth

thunder24

28th October 2016, 19:21

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cv37m-zUsAA9EPH.jpg removed from a medics neck at standing rock

RunningDeer

28th October 2016, 21:27

removed from a medics neck at standing rock

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By design, we're scattered in so many directions that no one important story gets the airtime it deserves. Thanks for keeping us informed, T24 and everyone.

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Hervé

29th October 2016, 16:53

.......

Well, the buffalo came...

‘Ancestors are with us’: Wild buffalo stampede North Dakota pipeline protest (VIDEOS) (https://www.rt.com/viral/364667-buffalo-north-dakota-protest/)

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While demonstrators and police faced off during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, a rather unexpected show of force emerged - a thundering herd of buffalo.
A stampede near the Standing Rock protest camp prompted cries of joy from the Standing Rock Sioux.

Footage of the moment, understood to have occurred on Thursday, shows a protester is being interviewed before stopping when spotting the herd of wild buffalo in the distance.

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The Standing Rock Sioux had been reportedly praying for help in the midst of the standoff , US Uncut (http://usuncut.com/resistance/thousands-wild-buffalo-appear-nowhere-standing-rock/) reports.

“The ancestors are with us,” said Myron Dewey, who uploaded video footage of the stampede to Facebook.

Buffalo are revered as symbols of sacrifice in Native American culture. Indigenous people believe the animals, which are also known as “Tatanka Oyate” or “Buffalo Nation,” sacrifice themselves in order to supply their meat and their hides for people.

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BUFFALO PEOPLE // Spirit riders on horseback opened a fence just east of Treaty camp and once again hundreds of buffalo were allowed to freely run the North Dakota plains as police and military forces were trying to overrun the camp with violence and intimidation. The cheers and emotion from the water protectors were a force upon itself when the crowd watched the buffalo run full speed through what is now being nicknamed "Buffalo Hill".
10/27
-Redhawk

At least 117 demonstrators have been arrested in North Dakota as protesters continue to protest against construction of the controversial pipeline, which will cut through Native American land. Protesters say its construction will destroy sacred sites and have a negative impact on the region’s water supplies.

In a statement (http://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Standing-Rock-Sioux-Tribe-responds-to-law-enforcement-escalation-at-DAPL-protest-site-398966791.html) from the tribe’s chairman, David Archambault II, the leader condemned what he called the recent “militarized law enforcement” against protesters.

“Militarized law enforcement agencies moved in on water protectors with tanks and riot gear today,” he said. “We continue to pray for peace. We call on the state of North Dakota to oversee the actions of local law enforcement to, first and foremost, ensure everyone’s safety.”

RunningDeer

29th October 2016, 20:28

Sending White Buffalo, too.

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Expect a miracle and keep the faith. A period of calm and peacefulness is upon you, one that you can pass along in your contact with others. Your spirituality will now increase in leaps and bounds. You’re a contributor to a new era that’s being ushered in, one of peace and harmony for all people.

Farmer, Dr. Steven. Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals: Understanding Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides

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TrumanCash

30th October 2016, 04:28

Live updates from Dakota Access Pipeline protests (http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/live-updates-from-dakota-access-pipeline-protests-oct-28/) (Seattle Times)

thunder24

30th October 2016, 06:25

"Until people stand together and say no more this will continue. We all have diffrent ways of expressing this sentiment and different ways of viewing it... but reality is until we stand as a majority and say no more, it will continue. Emotions are running high on both sides because humanity is at a cross roads, and Standing Rock is a crux...Oil at this point is an ends to a means on the bigger scale. When we use oil to get us where we want to be with renewable energies or free energy then we will no longer need it....until then it is necessary for our world to keep flowing. Majority of people on here would not know what to do with action to live if we stopped oil TODAY. BUT if we work together to utilize the paradigm we have towards what we want , all of us as a whole can get there. "

I posted this on facebook group about standing rock, but of course it didn't get much attention cause everyone is dealing with emotions right now, understandably so but it still needs to be said.

RunningDeer

30th October 2016, 07:59

Hillary Turns Her Back on Standing Rock Sioux:
‘Path Forward Must Serve Broadest Public Interest’

[snippets from article (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/hillary-turns-back-standing-rock-sioux-path-forward-must-serve-broadest-public-interest/)]

The statement from the Clinton campaign director of coalitions press, Xochitl Hinojosa, who oversees Hispanic, black, and women’s media for the Clinton campaign, reads in full:

We received a letter today from representatives of the tribes protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. From the beginning of this campaign, Secretary Clinton has been clear that she thinks all voices should be heard and all views considered in federal infrastructure projects. Now, all of the parties involved—including the federal government, the pipeline company and contractors, the state of North Dakota, and the tribes—need to find a path forward that serves the broadest public interest. As that happens, it’s important that on the ground in North Dakota, everyone respects demonstrators’ rights to protest peacefully, and workers’ rights to do their jobs safely.

On the same day the militarized action in North Dakota took place, Native youth from the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes — tired of the damning silence from Hillary Clinton — demonstrated outside of Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.

A number of brave Lakota youth and their Lenape relatives erected a teepee and prayed in the lobby of Clinton’s Brooklyn office as a militarized police force evicted water protectors from their traditional Treaty Lands in North Dakota. They were there to deliver a letter to Clinton about the pipeline.

A 14 –year-old girl from Standing Rock attempted to deliver a letter to Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign HQ to ask her to take a stand on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The youth stood at the front desk in tears asking for someone to please come down to accept the letter. The guards completely ignored the young girl, and the Clinton campaign refused to show enough respect to send a campaign staffer to cordially accept the letter.

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Published on Oct 27, 2016

william r sanford72

31st October 2016, 17:26

Hows about a bit of music to go along with thee post....??..:bigsmile:

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thunder24

1st November 2016, 04:09

"Things seem to be changing at the Courthouse.
Prolific the Rapper has been working for the media at STANDING ROCK, gathering footage for the world to see.
Today, Oct. 31, Prolific appeared at his bond hearing. He was told at the courthouse that he had to post a $100,000.00 CASH BOND. His lawyer was shocked.
Later, on the same day, the prosecuting attorney was pushing hard to keep the bond at $100,000 cash but Prolific's lawyer spoke and the judge reduced the bail to $1,000 Cash.
Hmm....
Prolific overheard someone at the jail say that the UNITED NATIONS, the DEPARTMENT of JUSTICE and AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL are all there.
The Police were acting nervous.
"I feel like the things that they are doing are catching up with them. The world is watching and all these organizations are here right now.
I am hopeful, through prayer, that it will work itself out. I am hopeful that the right outcome will come through Prayer.
There is a positive message for everyone.
We are all going to make a difference if We Stand Together."
Mni Wiconi ! Water is Life !" https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousLifeMovement/videos/10153583012782255/

thunder24

1st November 2016, 04:41

http://theamericanenergynews.com/markham-on-energy/dakota-access-protests

"Industry leaders, including Kelcy Warren, have mishandled Dakota Access pipeline protest right from the beginning

Six weeks ago, I warned that the Dakota Access pipeline protest was going to be the next Keystone XL issue for the American oil and gas industry. I was wrong. It’s going to be much worse.

Dakota Access
Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, builder of Dakota Access Pipeline.
Eco-activists have acknowledged that opposing Keystone XL was more than just the pros and cons of the pipeline project. It was about re-energizing the American environmental movement around climate change and against fossil fuels.

From that point of view, it was spectacularly successful. With an ally in the White House, the political momentum created by the process that led up to the Paris climate accord, and funding from the deep pockets of major charities and newly minted “green” billionaires like Tom Steyer, US eco-activists have probably never been as powerful as they are today.

But something is going on with the Dakota Access protests that is likely to make them even more powerful – and influential with the next president and Congress. Something that could be a turning point for the American oil and gas industry.

That something is the decline of industry’s legitimacy in American political culture.

Erica Ciszek is an assistant professor with the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston. She says that if today were 1950 or even 1990, the American oil and gas industry would have tremendous legitimacy with the American public. Energy producers powered the economy, providing cheap gasoline for consumers and millions of good paying jobs for workers. Fossil fuels were seen as the backbone of the economy.

Economic strength conferred political legitimacy, says Ciszek: “The oil and gas industry had a political legitimacy that was pretty secure…The companies were viewed positively and they enjoyed political legitimacy as an economic institution, as a social institution.”

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Gallup public opinion polling shows how that legitimacy has been eroded over the past decade or so.

When asked, “Which of the following approaches to solving the nations energy problems do you think the US should follow right now?” – 73 per cent of Americans chose emphasizing “alternative energy” over oil and gas. The partisan split was quite significant: 89 per cent of Democrats and 51 per cent of Republicans. Support for alternative energy was as low as 59 per cent in 2012.

A Pew Research poll conducted in March shows that “74% of U.S. adults said the ‘country should do whatever it takes to protect the environment,’ compared with 23% who say ‘the country has gone too far in its efforts to protect the environment.’” A 2014 Pew poll found that increasing American oil and gas production didn’t change voters’ views about energy, with those favoring the expansion of “alternative energy” outnumbering those supporting oil and gas by six to three margin.

Changing national attitudes are not a pendulum swing in politics, but a structural shift in political culture driven by changes in energy technology and the way Americans think about energy, says Ciszek.

“These [oil and gas] companies are going to have to recognize the way the landscape has shifted over the past twenty years – it is not the 1990s,” she said.

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“I think we’re having a national shift in terms of who we are as a nation, how do we fuel ourselves, both literally and metaphorically and ideologically. The oil and gas industry has a lot of soul-searching to do to figure out what role they’re going to play in the American political narrative in terms of the respective roles of oil and gas, and renewable energy.”

The national “soul searching” around the energy narrative will not be aided by violent confrontation between Native Americans (supported by well-funded and organized environmental groups) and heavily militarized police forces enforcing the rule of law on behalf of a pipeline company.

That is a losing scenario for the American oil and gas industry already plagued by declining political legitimacy.

Energy Enterprise Partners had a chance to de-escalate tensions with the Standing Rock Sioux – as crisis communications experts always advise. Instead, the company chose to escalate and continue escalating, culminating with the clash Friday between protestors and police forces who looked like they were ready for a war.

Images of armored vehicles and SWAT teams and young women hit in the face with rubber bullets and rumors of arrested protestors being held in dog cages – and so much more – are buzzing around the world on social media. The Standing Rock Sioux are not going away; instead, they have vowed to continue their protest over the winter and have begun crowdfunding online to pay for provisions and housing. Protests have broken out in other parts of the United States in support of the Sioux.

And if Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election only 10 days hence, protestors will have a powerful ally in the White House (and possibly in Congress if the Democrats take the Senate, as seems possible).

The Dakota Access protests have the making of a disastrous political and public relations debacle for the industry. One it brought on itself at time when its legitimacy with voters is on the wane.

Industry leaders, including Energy Enterprise Partners CEO Kelcy Warren, should do some immediate soul searching before Dakota Access becomes a much bigger political disaster than Keystone XL ever was.

Unfortunately, it may already be too late."

And if Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election only 10 days hence, protestors will have a powerful ally in the White House (and possibly in Congress if the Democrats take the Senate, as seems possible).
i don't think so

betoobig

1st November 2016, 17:59

another pipeline exploded in Alabama... even though is wrong it may help more people to encourage and deffend wáter by helping Standing Rock...
much love

TrumanCash

1st November 2016, 18:43

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North American Energy News (http://theamericanenergynews.com/energy-politics/tribe-vows-fight-north-dakota-pipeline-winter) October 29, 2016

“Let’s reroute the pipeline. It doesn’t have to put our water at risk” – Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II, Dakota Access pipeline protest

(Reuters) – Native American leaders vowed on Saturday to protest through the winter against Dakota Access Pipeline they say threatens water resources and sacred lands and are weighing lawsuits over police treatment of arrested protesters.

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II said he and other tribal leaders were working on providing food, heat and shelter for protesters opposed to the $3.8 billiona North Dakota oil pipeline.

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“We’re just working through some technical details as far as where the land is, and the type of land that can be used for some permanent structures,” Archambault, who was flanked by Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier, told reporters in Mandan, North Dakota.

At least 10 shelters were being readied on tribal land against temperatures that can fall below -35 Fahrenheit (-37 Celsius) for days at time, he said.

“Let’s reroute the pipeline. It doesn’t have to put our water at risk,” said Archambault, who was flanked by Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier.

Opponents of the pipeline scheduled an afternoon rally at the state capitol in Bismarck against the 1,172-mile (1,885-km) pipeline being built by companies led by Energy Transfer Partners LP. It would offer the fastest route to bring Bakken shale oil from North Dakota to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

The project has drawn opposition from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as well as environmental activists, who say it threatens water supplies as well as sacred tribal sites. More than 400 protesters have been arrested since Aug. 10.

Archambault said his tribe may pursue a class action over police tactics on Thursday. Officers in riot gear swept through a protester camp on private land using pepper spray, bean bag rounds and an audio cannon against demonstrators who refused to leave. At least 142 people were arrested on Thursday and Friday.

The Morton County Sheriff’s Department has said some protesters set fire to roadblocks and threw rocks, bottles and homemade gasoline bombs at officers.

Frazier said elderly women had been pepper-sprayed and some detainees had been held in dog kennels.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said the state Department of Corrections had inspected and approved the holding area for those arrested.

Detainees had been sent to jails around the state, and many had been released after promising to appear in court, she said. Preskey said the protest site was quiet on Saturday.

The U.S. government in September halted construction on part of the pipeline. The affected area includes land under Lake Oahe, a reservoir on the Missouri River where the line was supposed to cross.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is deciding whether to grant the pipeline company an easement to build under the lake. Two-thirds of tribal members at the Standing Rock Reservation are jobless and average yearly income is $4,421, according to North Plains Reservation Aid, a charity.

Opposition to the pipeline has been backed by celebrities and actors, including Mark Ruffalo, Shailene Woodley, Susan Sarandon, Chris Hemsworth and Riley Keough.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by James Dalgleish)

TrumanCash

1st November 2016, 21:10

As a native of Turtle Island and a contributor/supporter of the Standing Rock Water Protectors I have concerns that the conflict is being used to promote concepts that are not only political but are also mind control mechanisms of the elitists who are always the enemies of indigenous peoples everywhere around the planet. These elitists are sociopathic and continually rape the earth for its resources and only consider indigenous people--and really ALL non-elitist people--to be expendable in their never-ending quest for more money, power, control and war.

The elitists operate by dividing and conquering and I see this concept being used vis-a-vis this situation.

A prime example is Democracy Now's Amy Goodman (http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/31/bundys_vs_nodapl_armed_white_militia) using racist language and blatant lies to create division amongst the peoples of this planet.

Amy Goodman's video and web page title Bundys vs. #NoDAPL: Armed White Militia Leaders Walk Free as Native Americans Face Police Violence (http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/31/bundys_vs_nodapl_armed_white_militia) is pure propaganda riddled with lies and serves only to divide people and distort the truth.

First of all, the Bundy's are not "white". This is blatant race baiting by Goodman. I never met a "white" man or woman. Even albinos are not white because the color of their blood comes through--And are not all of our bodies RED on the inside? And, really, why should genetic differences play such a negative and divisive role when we are not bodies but spiritual beings?

Secondly, the Bundy's did not "walk free". They were unlawfully detained by federal marshals (thugs, actually) and are now facing continued false imprisonment and more oppressive federal charges in Nevada. Their lawyer was thrown to the floor and tased (police violence) for requesting due process pursuant to the US Constitution.

They were arrested for exercising the same Rights that the water protectors were exercising. The Bundys were unarmed and their unarmed spokesman was murdered. So I hardly think that they received any kind of special treatment because they were "white".

The Bundys are a family of cattle ranchers and they have been attacked by the same elitists that have plagued Turtle Island natives from the get go--the WHITE House in Washington DC (which actually is painted white).

Who owned and financed the railroads that slaughtered buffalo and took over "the West" and own and control the oil industry?

How about names like Harriman, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Bush? The Clintons and Reids have been working to sell off rights to resources in the west (including treaty lands) to foreign companies. The Bureau of Land Management are their violent henchmen that have lied, bullied, tased, burned out and basically made their lives a hell in the same way that natives have been treated by the oil establishment. The very same people!

And this is the irony of this situation--that native Americans and the western cattle ranchers have the same enemy!

So this is not a Cowboys vs Indians fight. The powers that be would like us to think it is so they can keep us divided and fighting with each other instead of correctly identifying the real enemy which is a common enemy.

Another point of irony is that the Bundys are not "militia"; they are Mormons whose spiritual philosophy and practice includes following the US Constitution that also supports TREATY RIGHTS! (Read Article 6 of the US Constitution) So the Bundys are not "anti-government" as propagandist Amy Goodman alleges. They are pro-government and anti-corruption. Big difference! And also note that Goodman does not use the term "anti-government water protectors" which by the same token could be equally applied.

So is Amy Goodman no different than the mainstream media that is owned and controlled by the elitists? Is she a wolf in sheep's clothing?

Also, for anyone who is paying attention, it is cattle ranchers who have been bringing back the buffalo population. So let's villify and violently attack the cattle ranchers and let the Clintons sell uranium deposits to the Russians and let the Reids sell solar farms to the Chinese? :facepalm:

The solution is for ALL people, regardless of the silliness of "race" prejudices, to work out solutions that can be win-win achievements for all. It is a complex problem but not impossible to resolve if we do it without the WHITE House and their corporate controllers.

I am reminded of the words of the Seven Fires Prophecy of the Anishinabe People and the Process of Reconcillation:
(http://www.oneprayer.org/Seven_Fires_Prophecy.html)
"At the time of the Seventh Fire, a new people will emerge. They will retrace the footsteps of their ancestors and will try to find those things which have been lost along the way. They will approach the elders in search of guidance. It will not be an easy task but if they are of good heart and pure intentioned they can prevail. Some elders will be sleeping and have nothing to say, others will say nothing out of fear.

The New generation must be fearless in their quest.

The Light Skinned race will be at a crossroads. If they continue down the road of Materialism, it will be their destruction and for all humanity as well. But if the Light Skinned Race chooses to join with the Natural People of this land on the Spiritual path then they will again have the chance to create a nation, the greatest spiritual nation ever to have existed.

Two other races will join these two races. Together, they [we] will together light the 8th and final Fire--an eternal fire of Peace, Harmony, Brotherhood and Sisterhood."

To All My Relations
TLC

thunder24

2nd November 2016, 14:34

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/energy-environment/303912-obama-were-examining-ways-to-reroute-the-nd

"President Obama addressed the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy for the second time Tuesday, saying his administration is looking for way to reroute the pipeline.

“We’re monitoring this closely, and you know I think that as a general rule my view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans,” Obama said in an interview with Now This, shared with MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” Tuesday.
“I think that right now the Army Corps [of Engineers] is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline.”

Tensions in North Dakota are rising between police and pipeline protesters, who have been demonstrating for weeks.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe says the pipeline, which would cross the Missouri River upstream of the reservation, would contaminate drinking water and harm scared lands.

“Were going to let it play out for several more weeks and then determine whether or not this can be resolved in a way that I think is properly attentive to traditions of the first Americans,” Obama said. "

Truman Cash thankyou for your post above...

thunder24

2nd November 2016, 15:04

blob:https://vine.co/c304bcb0-c716-4068-b3ff-eee4e81977b9 #nodapl

well that suks its not showing up...last night cubs hit grandslam, a guy next to where the ball crossed the wall is holding a nodapl sign...

thunder24

2nd November 2016, 21:37

"I was just shot. Militarized police fired at me from point blank range with a rubber bullet on the front lines of Standing Rock.
My body will be okay, but I am hurting, I am incensed, I am weeping, I am scared. Peaceful, prayerful, unarmed, nonviolent people on one side of a river; militarized police with armed vehicles and assault weapons occupying treaty land on the other, where sacred burial grounds have already been destroyed. What is happening here in North Dakota is like nothing I have ever seen in my life, anywhere in the world. This is a fight to protect and defend the water for 17 million people in the watershed downstream to the Gulf, for a livable planet, for Native and human rights, for the lifeforce of us all. We are at the confluence of the movements for civil rights, for the environment, for peace, for justice. I am proud to stand in solidarity with our Native brothers and sisters – alongside the water protectors and land defenders – who put their lives on the line and are facing excessive force, pepperspray and mace, historic trauma, brutal arrest, imprisonment in dog kennels, felony charges, and callous destruction of sacred objects. This is not about me, but I am here – and will remain here – to cover and amplify truth and bravery on the ground with my colleagues Josh Fox of Josh Fox Film, Josue Rivas of Josué Rivas Fotographer, Jordan Chariton of The Young Turks, Evan Simon of ABC News. Standing Rock represents the exploitation of a long-oppressed people, illegal land seizure, crude oil transport, media censorship, national security threat, public health crises, and more human rights violations than I can count.
It is inexcusable for the President Obama to say he will “let it play out for several more weeks." It is unjustifiable for the Attorney General to not be here. It is unconscionable for mainstream media to not cover this. It is indefensible for all politicians to not condemn what is occurring here. It is disgraceful for more people to not speak out and show up to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Pray for the water protectors, for justice, for our people and our world. #NoDAPL #StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife"

Erin Shrode co-founder of turning green (http://turninggreen.org/)

betoobig

2nd November 2016, 23:19

my friend accept some healling coming your way.
Obama has ussed all the noise at standing rock to quietly approve two more pipelines.
Much love

Cidersomerset

2nd November 2016, 23:22

Susan Sarandon: Dakota Access Pipeline and why
I'm NOT backing Hillary Clinton - BBC Newsnight

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Published on 2 Nov 2016
Hollywood actress and environmental activist Susan Sarandon talks
to Evan Davis about the civil resistance on the Dakota access pipeline,
the US election and why she's not supporting Hillary Clinton for US president.

Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme
- with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.

Sueanne47

3rd November 2016, 00:20

We dont know if she's been threatened so she doesnt protest, that's a real shame..

william r sanford72

4th November 2016, 16:09

We Are Still Here ....

Published on Nov 3, 2016
"We Are Still Here" is a statement by Arvol Looking Horse about our creation story and our role as protectors of Mother Earth.

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thunder24

6th November 2016, 12:49

https://oilpatchdispatch.areavoices.com/2016/11/02/regulators-to-propose-fine-for-dakota-access/

BISMARCK — State regulators decided Wednesday, Nov. 2, to draft a complaint against the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline for failing to notify them right away about a cultural find, possibly the first time the agency has taken such action against a pipeline company.

Public Service Commission Chairwoman Julie Fedorchak said she was “extremely disappointed” when she learned Dakota Access LLC had discovered American Indian artifacts in the pipeline route but had not notified state regulators.

The company, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, did notify the State Historic Preservation Office about four cairns discovered during construction in Morton County, and the pipeline was rerouted to protect the sites in coordination with the state archaeologist.

The company’s permit requires that the Public Service Commission also will be notified of unanticipated discoveries and give clearance to proceed with construction. The commission learned about the discovery from its third-party inspector and then requested information from the company, which formally notified the commission on Thursday, 10 days after the find.

Fedorchak said North Dakota’s regulatory approach depends on a level of trust, which is verified by the third-party inspectors.

“This trust demands an exchange and full and prompt disclosure of key information,” she said.

Staff for the three-member, all-Republican commission will draft a complaint, likely by the end of the week, and also propose a fine.

Dakota Access can request a hearing or pay the fine and move on, Fedorchak said.

The maximum penalty the commission can issue is $10,000 per day per violation, or a maximum of $200,000. Fedorchak said she doesn’t view this issue as warranting the maximum fine.

The commission has not issued a complaint for a pipeline company since at least 1988.

The order granting pipeline construction does not specify a timeframe for reporting such discoveries.

Commissioner Brian Kalk said the “implied intent” is for things to be reported immediately or once the company has enough facts. Kalk noted the company has promptly notified the commission in other instances, such as worker injuries.

Commissioner Randy Christmann recused himself from the discussion because the pipeline crosses his mother-in-law’s property.

The company said in an Oct. 27 letter the delay in notifying the PSC about the discovery was “a result of the find occurring simultaneously with Dakota Access officials coordinating an on-site visit for various officials,” including U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ district commander.

That tour took place Oct. 20, three days after the find.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe was not notified about the discovery or invited to participate in the evaluation of the site. State archaeologist Paul Picha said notifying the tribe was not a requirement of the unanticipated discovery plan.

Calvin Grinnell, who works for the Three Affiliated Tribes historic preservation office and is a former chairman of the State Historical Board, attended Wednesday’s meeting at the request of a tribal member.

Grinnell said he thinks the commission is “following in the right direction” by considering a complaint against the company for the delay in notifying regulators.

Susan Beehler of Mandan, who also attended the meeting, said she thinks the Public Service Commission can do more to make it easier for the public to participate in the process.

“I’m wondering if we couldn’t do better as a state?” Beehler said.

Maz

7th November 2016, 00:14

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william r sanford72

7th November 2016, 15:37

13 Indigenous Grandmothers documentary: For The Next 7 Generations

A documentary about a group of female shamans who call themselves the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.

Synopsis:

In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where they decided to form an alliance: The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.

This is their story. Four years in-the-making and shot on location in the Amazon rainforest, the mountains of Mexico, North America, and at a private meeting with the Dalai Lama in India, For the Next 7 Generations follows what happens when these wise women unite.

Facing a world in crisis, they share with us their visions of healing and a call for change now, before it’s too late. This film documents their unparalleled journey and timely perspectives on a timeless wisdom.

Grandmother's Mission Statement:

"We, the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.

We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light the way through an uncertain future. We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-59-wb5aE3_4/UYzd3goXZKI/AAAAAAAAe9U/qVzkJVFTYO4/s640/grandmothersimage1_web.jpg

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/05/13-indigenous-grandmothers-documentary.html?m=1

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william r sanford72

8th November 2016, 16:16

Some recent activity from Iowas neck of The Woods..mississippistand....

#NODAPL BREAKING: ACTION HAPPENING POLICE ON THE SCENE
Published on Nov 7, 2016

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william r sanford72

8th November 2016, 16:37

RCMP intelligence centre compiled list of 89 Indigenous rights activists considered “threats”

https://warriorpublications.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/new-brunswick-dec-2-fire-flag-drum.jpg
Mi’kmaq warriors at tire fire blockade near Elsipogtog, New Brunswick, December 2013.

by Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, November 7, 2016

Rattled by Idle No More and Mi’kmaq-led anti-shale gas demonstrations, the RCMP compiled a list of 89 individuals considered “threats” as part of an operation aimed at improving the federal police force’s intelligence capacity when facing Indigenous rights demonstrations, according to an internal intelligence report.

The operation, dubbed Project SITKA, was launched in early 2014 to identify key individuals “willing and capable of utilizing unlawful tactics” during Indigenous rights demonstrations, according to the RCMP report, obtained under the Access to Information Act by two researchers working on a book about state surveillance of Indigenous peoples. The intelligence report was to provide a “snapshot of individual threats associated to Aboriginal public order events” for that year.

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The report, completed in 2015 by the Mounties’ National Intelligence Coordination Centre, recommended the RCMP remove Indigenous rights activism from the terrorism-extremism umbrella and instead create a new category for intelligence gathering on the issue. The report also recommended the RCMP maintain updated profiles on identified Indigenous rights activists in police databases.

“I think that this is coming out of the fallout in 2013 with the Idle No More uprising and what happened at the end of the year with Elsipogtog,” said Andy Crosby, the Ottawa-based researcher who obtained the document along with Jeffrey Monaghan, an assistant criminology professor at Carleton University. “This really had an impact on the psyche of the settler state.”

The researchers obtained the RCMP report in an Access to Information request package from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

The RCMP did not provide comment on the report as of this article’s posting.
CSIS did not respond to a request for comment.

http://aptn.ca/news/2016/11/08/rcmp-intelligence-centre-compiled-list-of-89-indigenous-rights-activists-considered-threats/

https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/rcmp-intelligence-centre-compiled-list-of-89-indigenous-rights-activists-considered-threats/

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william r sanford72

9th November 2016, 16:41

Standing Rock Opponents of Dakota Access Pipeline Try New Tactic

Published on Nov 8, 2016

Efforts to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) have met with large scale, militarized police operations designed to protect pipeline construction. North Dakota police and their out of state reinforcements have used mace, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and armored vehicles against the unarmed, generally peaceful opposition.

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silverfish

9th November 2016, 18:34

What a beautiful example of another way of being this young man and his fellow protectors are .
I have a lot to learn and I thank him for being a wise a humble teacher.

betoobig

9th November 2016, 19:51

@Thunder24, yo bro, are you still there at cthe camp???
You need to see this, i found it great to do...
Using Mirrors To Show Police What They Have Become.
https://popularresistance.org/using-mirrors-to-show-police-what-they-have-become/
http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ukraine-police-in-mirror-looking-down-e1388874660280.jpg
Much love

Orph

10th November 2016, 00:07

The video above, (posted by Sanford), ....... ............. just, ..... WOW. Can't say enough about all those people. :clapping:
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william r sanford72

10th November 2016, 17:16

#NODAPL Water Protectors Climb into DAPL Pipe in Boone County, Iowa

Published on Nov 10, 2016

PDATE: This morning @2AM in Boone county, IA, 3 of our water protectors climbed into the pipes and put their bodies as obstructions to prevent the construction from completing the pullback process under the Des Moines river. As of now, 7:30AM, they are still in the pipes and will be occupying indefinitely, risking their lives to protect water for us all.

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silverfish

10th November 2016, 17:31

Have just been looking at the anti trump demos . Think I saw 1 policeman on a bicycle wtf ! Not that i want anyone to be met by mace and violent action just can't get my head round the contrast

Hervé

10th November 2016, 20:20

Turning Tide? Sheriffs LEAVE Standing Rock, Saying 'It's Completely Unethical' (http://theindigenouspeoples.com/2016/11/09/breaking-sheriffs-leave-standing-rock-saying-its-completely-unethical/)

The Indigenous Peoples News (http://theindigenouspeoples.com/2016/11/09/breaking-sheriffs-leave-standing-rock-saying-its-completely-unethical/)
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:42 UTC

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Widespread outrage over both the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and violent police crackdowns rages on. That outrage is spreading even to police agencies now returning from deployment to the reservation. Two departments have already refused to return, citing personal and public objections. As if that wasn't enough, an army of sympathizers is re-purposing social media to combat police efforts in Standing Rock.

Minnesota's Hennepin County Sheriff's Department is among that group. Lawmakers, according to MPR News (http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/10/31/after-protest-hennepin-co-sheriffs-staff-leave-standing-rock-protest), found police activities in Standing Rock "inappropriate". It's to the point where they're considering rewriting legislation to avoid future deployments to incidents like the pipeline resistance.

Smith's comments split the state's government, however, and she was targeted. Minnesota State Rep. Tony Cornish condemned Smith for prioritizing "the rights of protesters over the needs of law enforcement", saying she should apologize to the cops.

Sheriffs from Wisconsin's Dane County were more empathetic, pulling out and refusing to return. According to the Bismarck Tribune (http://m.bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/sheriff-in-wisconsin-pulls-deputies-back-from-north-dakota-pipeline/article_c0378e3a-8e57-59f1-9975-781c35bf1ee1.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share), Sheriff Dave Mahoney made the decision after a "wide cross-section of the community" decried the deployment. "All share the opinion that our deputies should not be involved in this situation", says Mahoney. Dane County's deputies were deployed to Standing Rock for around a week. Sources report Dane County wasn't involved in recent arrests, a string of which scooped up an alderwoman from Madison Wisconsin.

Ald. Rebecca Kemble traveled to North Dakota as a "legal observer", filming and participating in prayer ceremonies. When Morton County officers - if they cans till be called that - grabbed and arrested her for engaging in a riot. According to Kemble, no riot was happening. Other Wisconsin departments have been recalled, with at least one staying behind for a more couple weeks.

Many other citizens have been charged for trespassing and participating in non-existent riots, including journalists. One of the most renowned reporters who's faced DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline)-related charges was Amy Goodman of Democracy Now (http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2016/10/reporter-amy-goodmans-dakota-access-charges-dropped-state-surveillance-and-violence-escalating/). Goodman's team filmed dog attacks by DAPL contractors who lacked proper K9 licenses. The contractors have also been accused of unethical surveillance, intimidation, and sabotaging the movement (http://pontiactribune.com/2016/11/dakota-access-contractors-didnt-have-k9-licenses-allegedly-attempt-to-sabotage-movement/) by attempting to make authorities believe the protesters have finally turned violent

Other journalists, including documentarian Deia Schlosberg, face decades in prison for filming climate activists at a separate oil project. Journalists from the independent outlet Unicorn Riot, who recently reported use of a sound cannon on water protectors, have also been arrested.

Thousands of opponents to the pipeline have flooded Standing Rock to repel construction and police brutality. More still have taken to the internet, spreading information in the form of writing, video, photography, and art. Among the renegade tactics is using Facebook to "check-in" at Standing Rock. According the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/31/north-dakota-access-pipeline-protest-mass-facebook-check-in), over a million people - even people I know - have joined the action.

It began with a Facebook post, disclosing that Morton County sheriffs are allegedly using Facebook check-ins to track protesters. "Checking in" - whether you're at a friend's, restaurant, or escalating resistance - pinpoints your location to a tee. Once you check in, a notification is sent out to, yes, your friends, but theoretically anyone who's capable of watching. It's yet another tool in the bag of tricks authorities have deployed against civilians, and are likely utilizing in Standing Rock.

Some detractors have dismissed the social media action as a waste of time. An editor at The Fifth Column challenged these in a Facebook post, narrating a debate on the subject he'd had. Editor Justin King pointed out that even if the check-in's wasted two minutes of time, multiplied by hundreds of thousands, that equates to two months of wasted police work. Now imagine how ineffective the surveillance may be with millions continuously checking.

Morton County Sheriff's, Guardian reports, called claims of police surveillance misguided "rumors". Morton County, by their own account, isn't "monitoring Facebook check-ins for the protest camp or any location for that matter." Before you trust them, consider that Facebook access for water protectors was reported as "blocked' during a military-style raid (http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2016/10/dakota-access-black-out-praying-protesters-raid-by-military-style-police-facebook-access-blocked2/) on a camp.

Data Collection Nationwide
Other police departments are similarly sketchy when pressured to speak on their surveillance technologies. Wisconsin's Milwaukee PD hid the use of cell site simulators (http://www.copblock.org/154512/milwaukee-police-hid-stingray-use-says-aclu/), or Stingrays, from courts for months. Stingrays mimic cellphone towers, thus tricking phones into providing all manner of user information and data.

Nearby, the Wauwatosa Police Department (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr18GxniEEsLmPUPYv8_WjWRbEXXrn008), despite having admitting to "collecting and analyzing cell phone data" (http://www.copblock.org/159719/what-we-learn-from-wauwatosa-pds-previously-unreleased-annual-reports/) in its public reports, denied ever even coming close to a Stingray. It took the department 5 weeks to respond to that open records request, which is considered unusually long. It remains unknown how Wauwatosa PD, which has been blasted for lack of transparency before (http://www.copblock.org/167865/update-jay-anderson-never-held-gun-to-tosa-officer-police-moved-gun-from-car/), collects cell phone data.

The Hand's Fingers In Open Rebellion
In addition to the general retreat of departments, two officers have already turned in their badges in support of the protesters. North Dakota water protector Redhawk, MintPress reports (http://www.mintpressnews.com/2-police-officers-turn-badges-support-standing-rock-water-protectors/222038/), disclosed the revelation. The individual also pointed out "you can see it in some of them, that they do not support the police actions." "Some are waking up", they continued, "we must keep reminding them that they are welcome to put down their weapons and badge and take a stand against the pipeline as well." Hints of shame could be seen in the faces of officers who confronted protesters as they blocked them from prayer grounds. As the protesters condemned officers (http://www.copblock.org/167865/update-jay-anderson-never-held-gun-to-tosa-officer-police-moved-gun-from-car/), some of whom looked down or off to the horizon in shame.

The modern era of internet and technology gifts us with a plethora of ways to express ourselves, and help one another. Standing Rock is quickly becoming a stand out of that fact. Citizens, journalists, and activists are all using the internet to achieve their own goals. Whether that be spreading information being blocked, tracking police movements, sending food and rations or just voicing opinions. Standing Rock's resistance is spreading globally, with protests occurring in Europe and elsewhere. As long as construction doesn't stop, the movement won't rest.

Police officials, of course, declined to comment on their return from North Dakota or their feelings on what's happening there. It's also made the task of rebuilding trust with the community an even loftier uphill battle. "I do not support Sheriff Stanek's decision to send his deputies to North Dakota", says LT. Governor Tina Smith, "nor did we approve his decision to begin with. I do not have any control over the Sheriff's actions, which I think were wrong, and I believe he should bring his deputies home if he hasn't already."

thunder24

10th November 2016, 22:23

@Thunder24, yo bro, are you still there at cthe camp???

no im not there right now, and honestly, i havent posted much lately cause iv been feeling a bit overwhelmed when i watch live updates and ontop of that trying to decipher what i think about the election here and the world civilization in general, but damn i thank all of you for keeping this thread alive...

thunder24

11th November 2016, 03:33

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thunder24

12th November 2016, 15:14

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/un-expert-releases-report-conditions-surrounding-dakota-access-pipeline

"The following is a report of Grand Chief Edward John on his official visit to Standing Rock Oct. 28 – 31, 2016 carried out in his official capacity as an expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Report and Statement from

Chief Edward John
Expert Member
of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Firsthand observations of conditions surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline

(North Dakota, USA)

November 1, 2016

In response to an October 28, 2016 letter of invitation to me as an Expert Member of the UNPFII from Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, David Archambault, I traveled from my community to North Dakota to see, firsthand, the conditions that he, his peoples and those from other communities have been facing in relation to the clearing of the right of way and subsequent construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. ....."

william r sanford72

12th November 2016, 17:12

A POWERFUL MESSAGE FROM NATIVE FILMMAKERS FIGHTING THE DAKOTA PIPELINE AT STANDING ROCK
Published on Nov 11, 2016

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william r sanford72

15th November 2016, 15:47

Iron Eyes addresses the Dakota Access Pipeline during a sold out TEDx event in Charlottesville, VA.

Published on Nov 15, 2016

Iron Eyes addresses the Dakota Access Pipeline during a sold out TEDx event in Charlottesville, VA. Do not allow the fight for clean water to be racialized. What the Governor, Law Enforcement & Media are engaging in, is villainizing, dehumanizing & trying to preempt the moral & legal authority in this battle. They are creating an other, making people fear an Indian gathering when half the people are not Indian. Fear mongering. Water doesn't care what color your skin is, what language you speak or whether you lean left or right. Let's build bridges not walls.

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william r sanford72

15th November 2016, 15:59

Neil Young Celebrates His 71st Birthday By Performing At Standing Rock

Neil Young celebrated his 71st birthday on Saturday by performing for Dakota Access Pipeline protesters at Standing Rock Reservation.

“Got my birthday wish today,” Young writes in a Facebook post. “My girl took me to #StandWithStadingRock.”

Young traveled to Standing Rock to walk around the protest site and perform music for protesters who have been camped out there in opposition to the pipeline. The “Heart Of Gold” singer has been outspoken in his support for anti-pipeline protesters and has voiced his concerns about the negative environmental effects of the project.

In September, Young recorded a song bout the Keystone XL Pipeline called “Indian viGivers” which makes reference to Native American protester Dale American Horse Jr. who chained himself to a digger at a pipeline worksite in North Dakota.

vid with link..
http://indigenousamerican.com/2016/11/15/video-neil-young-celebrates-his-71st-birthday-by-performing-at-standing-rock/

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william r sanford72

18th November 2016, 17:21

"For me the word activist doesn't even apply, because as an indigenous person, that's my responsibility."

Meet Heather of Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3).

They are working to shut #DAPL Down with indigenous-led direct action.

#standingrock #waterislife #mniwiconi #indigenousrising #nodapl

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BongoBob

21st November 2016, 05:11

https://www.facebook.com/kevin.happychappy?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
EDIT: Additional stream: Additional Stream Here (https://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/6668525)

Current live feed of large attacks upon water protectors. People are being attacked point blank with bean-bag shots, water cannons in below freezing weather, tear gas, and L-RADs on the ready.

RT Update: 167 water protectors reported injured, 3 in critical condition. (https://www.rt.com/usa/367592-dapl-protest-bridge-teargas/)
https://img.rt.com/files/2016.11/original/58327dbdc46188e6258b4593.JPG

The Sunday clashes reportedly occurred when several anti-pipeline protesters used a semi truck to remove burnt out military vehicles from the area, which were left over from a protest earlier in November. That allegedly prompted authorities to respond by firing tear gas.

Demonstrators protesting against Dakota Access Pipeline say they are trapped on a bridge as North Dakota police fire tear gas, water cannon and concussion grenades at them, according to live reports on social media.

The demonstration is taking place on Highway 1806, just north of the main protest camp against the pipeline.

Officers have deployed water cannon on the protesters in below-freezing temperatures, and are using LRAD sound devices. Earlier, there were reports of rubber bullets fired. Vehicles which appear to be armored humvees have arrived at the scene.

thunder24

21st November 2016, 14:35

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/standing-rock-protest-hundreds-clash-with-police-over-dakota-access-pipeline?CMP=share_btn_fb

Pipeline construction is almost completed in North Dakota, but the company building it, Energy Transfer Partners, still lacks a final permit to drill under the river. On Tuesday, 15 November, the company went to court seeking to have a judge force the government to allow it to begin drilling immediately.

Native American North Dakota oil pipeline protesters: ‘We refuse to be Trumped’
Sunday’s standoff began around 6pm local time, when a group of about 100 protesters attempted to clear two burned trucks that were forming a barricade on the bridge, which is on the most direct route from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to Bismarck, North Dakota – the closest large city. The trucks have been in place for several weeks, and law enforcement has erected a barricade behind them, forcing all traffic to take an approximately 20-mile detour.

“The purpose of this action was to do something to remove that barricade because it’s dangerous,” said Begay, a Tesuque Pueblo and Diné who has been at the Standing Rock encampments since September. “That barricade poses a danger not just to everyone at the camp, but also to Cannon Ball and other communities that are south.”

Begay said that activists did light two bonfires to keep people warm and make soup and tea. Other fires were sparked by law enforcement weapons, she added.

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thunder24

21st November 2016, 14:42

I'm sure you're reading a lot of stories about tonight... here's mine. I woke up in Rapid City, refreshed and bound for Standing Rock. It was a good day. I needed a break so I took a couple days. As we traveled north the mood got somber. We live on edge there, fear some where deep inside the brain things are going to get bad.

Tonight they did. As we crossed the border onto our reservation the live feeds of an action started chirping in our notifications. They were from a distance and all we could hear was chaos. So I stopped at moms to tell her I loved her and that I was going to the front. Not to worry cause I heard it was a prayer gathering and I'd be home soon. We met at the casino and geared up. As I gathered goggles and face shields I was a little embarrassed that I was going to be over dressed for a prayer... but I didn't know what I was walking into. I wanted it to be just a prayer circle but I was hearing whispers it was so much more.

Oh ****. After we parked and headed to the bridge, people were being walked out with injuries. Where are my friends? Just turn around John but we both know I can't. First person I saw was Tito, he gave me an update as I watched the police spray a water cannon into the crowd in sub freezing weather after dark. He said tear gas and my focus was back on him. What the... no words. I choked up. I got scared and then I shook it off cause it was time to go to work. I could see people hurt and needing help.

Chad Charlie... damn good to see his face. We caught up and watched. Watched as tear gas containers exploded mid air raining down smoking fragments that were still burning. Watching as people were being soaked with a water cannon. Shots. Some one was hit we ran to her scooped her into our arms and ran her back to medics. This was our role for the next five hours, pulling about forty people out. Some cause of shock. Some cause of breathing issues from the gas. Some just because they needed someone to tell them it was ok to pull back. Five will stay with me forever. The first was a young lady that was unconscious as we carried her. I didn't even realize she was out. I hope she is ok. I worry for her family. The second was a lady that was shot in the leg and told us she was ok as we carried her out and that she didn't want to take away from some one who needed help. As we carried her the crowd in front of us flinched and looked like they were watching a foul ball. We stopped, crouched down and protected her as a tear gas canister blew up behind and above us and we both got hit in the shoulders. Instant anger in both of us but we had to get this lady to a transport so we kept going. The third was a young man shot in the back. Before that happened though I caught a ricochet that hit me in the hip and was grazed with another behind the knee. I was pissed and marched up to the line to find out who the **** shot me... but I couldn't walk so good. So Chad pulled me back and this young man had been hit square in the kidney so we picked him up and carried him out. The fourth was a man whose arm was broken being walked out by my friend Charlie Plenty Wolf and was in complete shock. We had trouble getting him to a vehicle to get him to the E.R. The trauma in his eyes... the fifth and most haunting was a man who was shot down below on the western line. We jumped the guardrail and ran down the hill to extract him. He was yelling at the cops who shot him. Holding them accountable and refusing to leave. They shot a shield as we were trying to take him out and my left eye stung. We literally pulled this man up the hill and over the guardrail when we realized he was shot on the top of his head and bleeding. Chad demanded he go to medics but he refused. I looked into his eyes and told him he was shot in the ****ing head. Four of us carried him out. As the medics took over I washed his blood off my hands. Think about that. I'm standing on the prairie in the freezing cold, wet and hurting washing a mans blood off my hands. Oh **** I remembered I got hit in the eye. Medic!!! A lady named Victory took care of me. Something was in there but they got it out. So so much more **** happened tonight but that's all I got right now.

Except that Chad never left my side. That's important for you to know cause we didn't know each other four months ago and we had each other's backs like we were childhood friends. Johnny, Načá Wakíš'aka Wiŋ and Khannie were our base camp taking care of us as we needed all night. I felt like I was putting them in harms way though and I can't shake that. First hand account from last night

william r sanford72

21st November 2016, 17:12

Water Is Life

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TargeT

22nd November 2016, 04:00

Drone footage of the water cannons:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mnxmoosi/status/800684379429224448

betoobig

22nd November 2016, 09:24

it seems that two eagles attacked and droped down two drones from the oil company, mother Gaia helping out. It resembles the movie Avatar.
Sending loving energy to all involved.
Much love

TrumanCash

23rd November 2016, 16:54

Hundreds of Veterans Heading to Standing Rock to Defend DAPL Protesters from Police (http://theantimedia.org/veterans-defend-dapl-protesters/)

(ANTIMEDIA) As protesters continue to stand against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, facing off against heavily militarized police and their water cannons, rubber bullets, tear gas, and tasers, they have gained broad support. Celebrities and millions of social media users have raised awareness about the situation in North Dakota, and now, the “water protectors” have earned support from another group: veterans.

According to an article published by Business Insider that first appeared in Task and Purpose, a military-oriented news and culture site, two veterans are leading the charge in a show of dissent against the increasingly aggressive police. In the last several months, tensions have escalated as Natives and their allies have blocked the pipeline’s construction, citing fears surrounding water will be endangered and sacred burial sites will be destroyed (not to mention the fact their lands were forcibly stolen by the U.S. government over a century ago).

“This country is repressing our people,” says Michael A. Wood Jr., a Marine Corps veteran who recently retired from the Baltimore police force to work toward reforming law enforcement. “If we’re going to be heroes, if we’re really going to be those veterans that this country praises, well, then we need to do the things that we actually said we’re going to do when we took the oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic,” he asserted about his plans to go to Standing Rock.

Woods Jr. is joined by Wes Clark Jr. Clark Jr. is the son of General Wesley Clark, the famous military leader who once warned that shortly after 9/11, the government had its eyes on Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. Clark would later attempt to distance himself from those statements but still managed to convince his son, a member of the Army at the time, to stay away from Iraq.

“I was like, ‘I’m going back in. I’m going to go in there and **** people up,’” Clark Jr. recalls of his desire to fight for the military after 9/11. He later changed his mind after his father warned him, as Task and Purpose summarized, “that as a soldier he would be fighting a war that had nothing to do with defeating al Qaeda.”

Now, Wood Jr. and Clark Jr. are attempting to organize a mass, nonviolent protest against police action in North Dakota. Just this past weekend, a female protester was hit with a concussion grenade, causing severe damage to her arm and requiring surgery.

Other have been tear gassed, tased, beaten, and shot with rubber bullets. Anti-Media journalist Derrick Broze was tased by law enforcement immediately after he declared he was a member of the media. Another journalist was shot with a rubber bullet while standing away from a gathering of protesters as she interviewed an attendee.

Police have made over 470 arrests since August, and the Indigenous Environmental Network claims 167 people were injured just this past Sunday when police deployed water cannons in freezing weather.

Clark, a contributor to the Young Turks, explained that aside from the flagrant violations protesters are subject to in North Dakota, Natives are especially deserving of veteran support:

“First Americans have served in the Unites States Military, defending the soil of our homelands, at a greater percentage than any other group of Americans. There is no other people more deserving of veteran support,” he said.

According to a Facebook event the two men created called “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock,” those who join the effort will arrive at the protest site on December 4, where they will stay until December 7.

The event description reads:

“Come to Standing Rock Indian Reservation and hold the line with Wes Clark jr, Michael Wood Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and hundreds of other veterans in support of the Sioux nation against the DAPL pipeline. Bring Body armor, gas masks, earplugs AND shooting mufflers (we may be facing a sound cannon) but no drugs, alcohol or weapons.”

Clark Jr. was clear he was not looking for violence and that the protest would be unarmed.

“We’re not going out there to get in a fight with anyone,” he said. “They can feel free to beat us up, but we’re 100% nonviolence.”

As Task and Purpose explained:

“With an eye toward the media, old military uniforms will be donned so that if the veterans are brutalized by the police, they are brutalized not as ordinary citizens, but as people who once served the government they are protesting against.”

The event page makes it clear that the group will not tolerate “hate, violence or divisive behavior of any kind.”

“We’re doing this to support our country,” they advise, “so let’s do it with honor, working together. We can stop this savage injustice being committed right here at home. If not us, who? If not now, when?”

Over 250 veterans have already committed, but organizers hope to have a group of 500 or more by the time they head to Standing Rock.

Once there, the veterans intend to engage in a traditional native healing ceremony with protesters, with whom they have been coordinating, according to the veterans. Then, protective gear like gas masks and body armor will be issued to anyone who needs it. The soldiers will march to bagpipes and Sioux war songs as they head to the banks of the Missouri River to meet police.

“Then, the veterans and their allies — or at least the ones who are brave enough — will lock arms and cross the river in a ‘massive line’ for their ‘first encounter’ with the ‘opposing forces.’”

Though the veterans have adopted a strict policy of nonviolence, they refuse to back down and apparently hope to use their military status to spotlight the egregious behavior of the police.

“We’ll have those people who will recognize that they’re not willing to take a bullet, and those who recognize that they are,” says Wood Jr. “It’s okay if some of them step back, but Wes and I have no intention of doing so.”

Veterans Stand for Standing Rock is accepting donations to cover food, transportation, and supplies for those who travel to North Dakota. You can donate here. You can also donate directly to the water protectors.

This article (Hundreds of Veterans Heading to Standing Rock to Defend DAPL Protesters from Police) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Carey Wedler and theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11 pm Eastern/8 pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, please email the error and name of the article to edits@theantimedia.org.

onawah

23rd November 2016, 19:00

onawah

23rd November 2016, 19:09

Veterans Organizing “Like a Military Unit” to Defend DAPL Protesters from Militarized Police
Justin Gardner November 22, 2016

http://miniplanet.us/veterans-deploy-to-standing-rock-to-engage-the-enemy-the-us-government/

Resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is about to get a major boost. On Dec. 4, U.S. military veterans — possibly numbering in the hundreds — plan to gather “like a military unit” to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Having witnessed the police state brutality inflicted on Native Americans attempting to protect sacred land and natural resources, the former service members feel compelled to stand with the Standing Rock Sioux.
According to the Veterans for Standing Rock GoFundMe page:
“We are veterans of the United States Armed Forces, including the U.S. Army, United States Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard and we are calling for our fellow veterans to assemble as a peaceful, unarmed militia at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on Dec 4-7 and defend the water protectors from assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security.”
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, a combat war veteran, will be joining the act of resistance, according to the Facebook page Veterans Stand for Standing Rock.

As Task and Purpose notes, federal government ignored their duty under the National Historic Preservation Act to consult the Standing Rock Sioux before approving DAPL. Some of the pipeline construction will take place on sacred land that was taken from the tribe over the past 150 years, and the pipeline will be buried under the tribe’s drinking water source.
While federal government abandoned Native Americans once again, law enforcement are acting as militarized protection services for Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based company behind the 1,170-mile pipeline. State and local governments are set to reap millions in taxes once the oil begins flowing.
Numerous violent crackdowns have already been carried out by cops in riot gear – drenching protestors with water cannons in freezing temperatures, blowing arms apart with concussion grenades, choking protestors with tear gas and sending people into cardiac arrest.
“This country is repressing our people,” said Michael Wood, a Marine Corps veteran and former Baltimore police officer. “If we’re going to be heroes, if we’re really going to be those veterans that this country praises, well, then we need to do the things that we actually said we’re going to do when we took the oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.”
The main man behind it all is Wes Clark, Jr., son of Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Supreme Allied Commander who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. Clark Sr. called for action on climate change, and this motivation is also driving his son to fight against DAPL.
Wes Clark, Jr., is best known as a co-host for the Young Turks, and sees the Dec. 4 resistance at DAPL as “the most important event up to this time in human history.
“We’re not going out there to get in a fight with anyone. They can feel free to beat us up, but we’re 100% nonviolence.”
Clark and Wood say they are prepared to take a bullet for the cause, and they are going in well-prepared. The veterans will don old military uniforms and be equipped with body armor, ear plugs and gas masks.
“Vets Standing For Standing Rock was announced via an official sounding letter formatted like a five-paragraph military operation order, breaking down the “opposing forces” — “Morton County Sheriff’s office combined with multiple state police agencies and private security contractors” — “Mission,” “Execution” and “Logistics,” among other things. A packing list virtually mirrors the ones issued to soldiers preparing to deploy to the field (minus the weapons). But there are also parts of the document that read like a revolutionary manifesto. Under the section titled “Friendly Forces,” for example, the op order states, “we are there to put our bodies on the line, no matter the physical cost, in complete nonviolence to provide a clear representation to all Americans of where evil resides.”
Clark and Wood have an “operations order” in place to so they can organize “like a military unit” to carry out their goals. With a group of possibly 500 veterans and other brave souls, they will lock arms and cross the Missouri River to non-violently confront militarized police armed with rifles, mace, batons and dogs. Traditional Sioux war songs will be played as they attempt to peacefully surround the drill pad from which the pipeline will be bored under the river.
“It’s simple and we have clearly defined goals, so people don’t get caught up in the confusion,” said Wood. “One of the issues the police are going to face is that our level of planning and coordination is vastly superior to theirs, so they may end up with a problem when it comes to that.”
Even if the veterans are unsuccessful in stopping DAPL, the confrontation is sure to draw national attention — even from a mainstream media that have virtually ignored the corporate and government abuse being carried out on Native Americans in the interest of big oil.

onawah

23rd November 2016, 19:16

Robert Kennedy Jr, "Trump Has A $2 Million Stake in the Dakota Pipeline"
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Published on Nov 17, 2016
Big Picture Politics Panel: Robert Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance. As protests continue over the Dakota Access Pipeline - the looming shadow of President-Elect Donald Trump threatens to inflame the entire movement. Are the next two months the last chance we have to stop a pipeline that threatens the drinking water of 18 million people? Robert Kennedy Jr. - just back from North Dakota - weighs in...

TrumanCash

25th November 2016, 03:27

DAPL's Worst Nightmare: Big Oil EXPOSED By Whistleblower
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TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (https://twitter.com/JordanChariton) spoke with John Bolenbaugh, a whisteblower who exposed the oil industry's cover up of major oil spills throughout the United States. These spills have polluted water, giving fish and other animals tumors, as well as causing debilitating illnesses in human beings.
For more, subscribe to TYT Politics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuMo...
Full documentary SALGYGALrgY

John Bolenbaugh has been asking for donations but, unfortunately, I cannot find anyway to make a donation. There is no way to donate even at helppa.org where there is a button/link to gofundme but it only says "campaign not found".

onawah

25th November 2016, 04:36

Truman, you might try getting in touch with the interviewer, Jordan Chariton, who might be able to help you get in touch with Bolenbaugh.
If you go to his youtube page, there is this:

https://twitter.com/JordanChariton
...and if you click on the menu where it says ABOUT, a space opens up to send an email to him (Chariton).
Good luck!

John Bolenbaugh has been asking for donations but, unfortunately, I cannot find anyway to make a donation. There is no way to donate even at helppa.org where there is a button/link to gofundme but it only says "campaign not found".

thunder24

26th November 2016, 15:09

https://www.rt.com/usa/368213-standing-rock-camp-closing/

The US Army Corps of Engineers announced it will close the portion of federal land on which water protectors are camping in North Dakota by December 5, to protect the public amid violent confrontations between protesters and law enforcement.
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Dakota Access Pipeline
The Army Corps of Engineers said it is “closing the portion of the Corps-managed federal property north of the Cannonball River to all public use and access effective December 5, 2016,” according to a statement tweeted by the Young Turks' Jordan Chariton. it appears to be make it or break time... and this comes out one day after thanksgiving....

TrumanCash

26th November 2016, 15:52

So it appears with hundreds of veterans arriving one day before the December 5th deadline it will be a standoff between the US Army vs the peaceful US Army, Navy, Marines and Air force veterans along with native Americans, of which many are also veterans. (I think there is some irony here.)

Let us send out good thoughts and prayers for a peaceful resolution. :peace: I think this is going to be one of those "historical" events.

TODD & NORA

26th November 2016, 16:23

Dec 5th is not a hard deadline - they can arrest people at any time.

Note back in 2014 the following post - scroll down to 'superconsciousness' post (my former handle):

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/archive/index.php/t-73052.html?:

superconsciousness - 18th July 2014, 10:12

...and 'V' said a year and a half ago that God told him (he recognized the inner voice...) that in "90 days' everything would come crashing down.

This is a classic psyops disinfo feed - 'V' is widely known to promote scenarios that are consistent with anti-U.S. gov't positions...an easy target for psyops (obviously...). Speaking of gullible, Lindsey Williams new DVD video summary notes will be posted in this thread and compared with this 'V' disinfo feed in about 24 hours. The one consistency between the two that has been independently validated through our network is that 2015 will in fact be a chaotic year...and also worth noting is Wilcock's latest claim of imminent mass arrests is .b.s.

Again.

Lather, rinse, repeat...duh. You can thank the Russian KGB/GRU for many of these types of disinfo feeds. Lindsey does not fall into that category but others like 'V' , Fulford, and everyone's favorite "all ETs are good" GRU disinfo agent Greer put that check in the box.

The Cold War never ended. The most dangerous enemy is the one that people do not believe exists....yeah, yeah, we get the whole parallel civilization / secret gov't thing. The parallel civilization GDP is around $1 trillion annually. They'll have their 15 minutes of fame starting next year, but it will be short-lived so relax and find ways to serve others while this whole global psychodrama runs its course.

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Wes Clark Jr., is also 'listening to god' who is telling him to organize veterans to Standing Rock to 'peacefully' protest the oil pipeline.

Like father, like son - his dad also tried to start world war iii:
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jatras12.html

I'm all for protecting indigenous lands/resources, but starting a civil war is not the way ahead strategy to embrace.
https://www.gofundme.com/veterans-for-standing-rock-nodapl

Army Corps of Engineers gave pipeline project the thumbs up with the following:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/25/503379401/army-corps-of-engineers-tells-pipeline-protesters-to-leave-camp-by-dec-5

I cannot go up there in person to stop him due to family commitments at home, so the best I can do before Wes leaves for Standing Rock on the 30th is send a message directly to Wes telling him to stand down...if he is anything like his dad, he will only listen to the voices in his head.

That never ends well...Putin must be laughing his A$$ off right now. Nukes to Kalingrad should make it clear how 'peaceful' Putin is...he is a former hitman/assassin for the KGB, with personal control over $100+ billion in assets, and still leading Russian intelligencia. You think it's good that Russia is taking over Syria...tell that to Israel next year when they are attacked from the North. The U.S. will be tied up fighting with each other for stuff like Standing Rock that we will be weakened enough for Russia and China to counter the U.S. across the world. So if you want your Communist regimes to take over, you can keep your Communist regimes.

Yes, we know it's nothing more than a process to converge parallel civilizations, but weakening your own country as a means to an end is REALLY STUPID.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1JZAP_enUS693US693&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22voice%20of%20god%22%20psychotronics

Orph

26th November 2016, 18:44

I'm not a college educated person, so someone will have to explain something to me. The Army Corps of Engineers is going to kick everybody out of the encampment. The reason, ....... well, (bless their hearts), they don't want anybody to be injured, or, ...... let's face it, they don't want the protesters to get the **** beaten out of them.

So on one side you have heavily armed militarized paid thugs in riot gear, ... ooooooops, I mean police, and on the other side you you have unarmed peaceful protesters. The paid thugs attack the unarmed protesters with water cannons, pepper spray, flash grenades, rubber bullets, (and let's not forget possibly aircraft spraying), and who knows what else. The thugs also haul away and incarcerate hundreds of protesters. Oh, ... but HEY, ......... all of that is supposedly legal and okay.

So the protesters must be moved for they're own safety, but the paid thugs are apparently completely blameless. The gutless bastard thugs are so afraid of anything that they open fire on unarmed people, including women and children. But, ... again, .... it's the protesters fault. The protesters must be moved for they're own safety. Can't blame the thugs now can we, ..........? So why can't the A.C.E. tell the paid thugs that they have to leave?

I'm sorry, but this makes no sense to me. (tongue in cheek).

TODD & NORA

26th November 2016, 18:52

We don't agree with it either, but the governor and Army Corps of Engineers have explicitly stated that the camp must leave, not the indigenous.

LIVE FEED HERE:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1483895134957520&id=130004517013262

So the solution is to align veterans against their own government?...right.

A better question to ask is who is responsible for the "voice of god" technology being used against Wesley Clark, Jr.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1JZAP_enUS693US693&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22voice%20of%20god%22%20psychotronics (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1JZAP_enUS693US693&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22voice%20of%20god%22%20psychotronics)

Bob

26th November 2016, 19:58

[..]

A better question to ask is who is responsible for the "voice of god" technology being used against Wesley Clark, Jr.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1JZAP_enUS693US693&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22voice%20of%20god%22%20psychotronics (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1JZAP_enUS693US693&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22voice%20of%20god%22%20psychotronics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_from_ultrasound

these things have been around for a while - ultrashort wavelengths (either from microwave transmitters (RF), or from ultrasonic acoustic transmitters) - two each beamed at a target - totally unheard until either the medium (the air) breaks down, or the wavelengths breakdown inside the head - the result is "hearing" inside the head with no visible source, i.e. 'voice of god' or whatever..

TrumanCash

27th November 2016, 20:52

Army Corps Listens to Standing Rock Pipeline Voices (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnqGwheuTUo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnqGwheuTUo

Published on Nov 16, 2016

The dialogue at Standing Rock has deteriorated, the Army Corp - has decided to use militarized police tactics: Congress can still act here are contact numbers for the state's 2 Senators and At-Large congressman - let them know what you think.
Note that ND Sen. John Hoeven (R) chairs the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, which makes him intimately involved in grants for policing equipment. And Sen Heidi Heitkamp (D) is ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Subcte on Rural Energy and Development- which probably means she has received $$ from Energy Transfer & other oil and gas interests! Let your voice be heard.
Sen John Hoeven (R), 338 Russell SOB, 202 224 2551;
Sen Heidi Heitkamp (D), 110 Hart SOB, 202 224 2043;
Rep Kevin Cramer (R), 1032 Longworth, 202 225 2611.

Deputy Commanding General Donald Jackson for Civil and Emergency Operations at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emerges from the Washington DC Headquarters, before thousands of witnesses to listen to Eryn Wise a defender of indigenous rights from the International Indigenous Youth Council and Ladonna Brave Bull Allard from the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock North Dakota

On the day before demonstration throughout the country at Army Corps of Engineer facilities, the Corps issued this Statement Regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline
"Washington, D.C. – Today, the Army informed the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Energy Transfer Partners, and Dakota Access, LLC, that it has completed the review that it launched on September 9, 2016. The Army has determined that additional discussion and analysis are warranted in light of the history of the Great Sioux Nation’s dispossessions of lands, the importance of Lake Oahe to the Tribe, our government-to-government relationship, and the statute governing easements through government property.
The Army invites the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to engage in discussion regarding potential conditions on an easement for the pipeline crossing that would reduce the risk of a spill or rupture, hasten detection and response to any possible spill, or otherwise enhance the protection of Lake Oahe and the Tribe’s water supplies. The Army invites discussion of the risk of a spill in light of such conditions, and whether to grant an easement for the pipeline to cross Lake Oahe at the proposed location. The Army continues to welcome any input that the Tribe believes is relevant to the proposed pipeline crossing or the granting of an easement.
While these discussions are ongoing, construction on or under Corps land bordering Lake Oahe cannot occur because the Army has not made a final decision on whether to grant an easement. The Army will work with the Tribe on a timeline that allows for robust discussion and analysis to be completed expeditiously.
We fully support the rights of all Americans to assemble and speak freely, and urge everyone involved in protest or pipeline activities to adhere to the principles of nonviolence." (Posted 11/14/2016
Release no. 16-027, Contact Moira Kelley (DOA) 703-614-3992
moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil or Jessica Kershaw (DOI) interior_press@ios.doi.gov) from http://www.usace.army.mil/Media/News-...)

Also see Indigenous Environmental Network postings
http://indigenousrising.org/release-n...

nomadguy

29th November 2016, 07:32

There is much more at stake here than Oglala, the Missouri and the Mississippi, this is a world wide issue that stems from the insatiable hunger of the industrial elites.
This recording from 1980 sums it up quite well... nearly prophetic! :painkiller:
Have a listen ~
RkzF5TOr0k8

TrumanCash

29th November 2016, 16:59

Standing Rock Sioux invoke treaty terms in response to notice to vacate riverfront camp (https://fsrn.org/2016/11/standing-rock-sioux-invoke-treaty-terms-in-response-to-notice-to-vacate-riverfront-camp/)

Free Speech Radio News -- November 28, 2016

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After issuing an eviction notice to the Standing Rock Sioux, the Army Corps of Engineers now says it has no plans to forcibly remove thousands of people fighting the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota – but the land will still be closed to the public December 5 and those who remain do so at their own risk. The public statement followed a letter delivered on Black Friday, the day after thousands of tribal members and their supporters gathered for a Thanksgiving feast. Molly Stentz reports from North Dakota.

Download Audio (https://fsrn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161128Stentz-StandingRock.mp3)

Indigenous women led a silent prayer march Sunday to the blockaded bridge that’s become a flashpoint of the stand-off over the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project. The march was but one sign that Native American protesters and their supporters have no intention of breaking camp.

On Friday, the U.S. Army Corps sent a letter saying that public access to the main protest camp, called Oceti Sakowin, was closing. Everyone would have to move within the week – or face trespassing charges. The camp sits at the confluence of the Cannon Ball and Missouri rivers, next to the Standing Rock reservation, on land managed by the Corps. It houses thousands of volunteers who have come from across the country to help the tribe fight the four-state, nearly $4 billion pipeline, which would carry oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota down to existing pipelines in Illinois.

Opponents of the pipeline have dubbed themselves water protectors and they’re worried about oil spills contaminating the Missouri River and the millions who depend on it for drinking water.

Eryn Wise of the Tribal Youth Council met with an Army Corps general in Washington D.C. last week to reiterate their concerns: “And I told him what happens in the dead of night, when people aren’t watching. And I told him what happens to people who are left unprotected. Right now our land is to be left unprotected if we are to leave this space.”

The pipeline itself runs about a mile north of the camp, guarded by clusters of Morton County Sheriff deputies who’ve blocked the road leading to it with concrete barriers and razor wire. The Corps says it wants to move the camp for public safety reasons, citing harsh winter conditions and violent confrontations between protesters and police. They want it moved across the river to an area they call a designated free speech zone.

But tribal leaders say they aren’t going anywhere.

Nick Tilsen, an Oglala Lakota Sioux member, says his people have been forced off their land by the U.S. government before – but no longer: “Indigenous people are here to stay. We’re not going to move unless it is on our own terms. Because this is our treaty land. This is our ancestral land. This is where our people have been for thousands of years.”

Another Oglala Lakota Sioux tribal member, Isaac Westin, says the Sioux Nation has treaty rights to the campsite land that are not being respected. Access to water and hunting land are spelled out by the Fort Laramie treaty that was signed between the Sioux and the U.S. government back in the 1800s. But the U.S. later went back on that treaty. Subsequent court rulings have upheld that land was unconstitutionally taken from the Sioux. The government was ordered to pay the Sioux back – money they have refused to accept in lieu of the full return of their land.

“The Army Corps of Engineers, they aren’t our landlords. As it states in the treaty, that us, as the Oceti Sakowin, the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota people, we are the wardens of the land,” Westin says. “This is our land. They can’t remove us. They need to respect our treaties and respect our rights.”

The camp houses all kinds of structures on the flat, bare dirt between the highway and the river. There are large green army tents heated with cast iron wood stoves, yurts, hogans, RVs, school buses, teepees. A village has sprung up on the land: there are kitchen tents, meeting tents, a clinic, several schools, makeshift roads lined with logs and tribal flags, and several large campfires used for ceremonial prayer. The camp’s population has swelled from several hundred people to now several thousand.

Standing Rock Sioux tribal chair Dave Archambault isn’t worried that the camp will be evicted. He sees this letter as more of a warning that the tribe has to assume liability for anything that happens at the camp.

“If Morton County wanted to, they would be able to come in and remove us,” Archambault points out. “I don’t think that will happen. I don’t think the Corps of Engineers will come in on [December 5] and try to remove us.”

That sentiment was echoed across the camp, as people quietly went about their daily chores: preparing food, chopping firewood, refilling water jugs and propane tanks. Tribal leaders say they’re preparing another campsite nearby that will house supporters throughout the winter. There are also other, smaller camps nearby, across the river, on reservation land. The Army Corps issued another statement on Sunday (http://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/1013187/omaha-district-commander-provides-update-regarding-north-dakota-activities/), saying they have no plans to forcibly remove anyone from the land, though anyone remaining could be charged with trespassing.

Twenty-three members of Congress have joined tribal leaders calling for President Obama to intervene and deny the final permit to complete the pipeline. The Army Corps says it still needs time for further consultation and review before granting the final easement necessary for the company to drill underneath the Missouri River. But Energy Transfer Partners – the company developing the pipeline – says it already has the required permits, and has asked the Circuit Court to intervene.

A previous lawsuit in federal court seeking to halt pipeline construction was unsuccessful.

Tomás López, Jr. of the International Indigenous Youth Council says many native people are feeling ignored by the President. The tribe registered their opposition to the project two years ago – and many of their supporters have been camping out near the pipeline since April.

“President Obama, when you came here, you promised that you would protect tribal sovereignty and spiritual belief. You promised to protect our sacred way of life,” says López. “And here we are today, standing up for that sacred way of life. And where are you?”

For now, the camp is a buzz with the sound of chainsaws and generators as volunteers work day and night to winterize the camp. They’re constructing insulated buildings for people to sleep inside as evening temperatures plummet. Snow has begun falling.

TrumanCash

29th November 2016, 19:57

You might have heard members of the Standing Rock tribe cite the Treaty of 1851 (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0594.htm), which of course the United States government has violated along with all other treaties. Article 2 and Article 3 of said 1851 Treaty pretty much says it all. Please note that under Article 6 of the US Constitution treaties are the "supreme law of the land".

ARTICLE 2.

The aforesaid nations do hereby recognize the right of the United States Government to establish roads, military and other posts, within their respective territories. (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0594.htm)

[Notice in Article 2 above there is no mention of corporate "pipelines".]

ARTICLE 3.

In consideration of the rights and privileges acknowledged in the preceding article, the United States bind themselves to protect the aforesaid Indian nations against the commission of all depredations by the people of the said United States, after the ratification of this treaty. (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0594.htm)

[Wouldn't the abuse and attacks by DAPL people and the other so-called "law enforcement" constitute "depredations by the people of the said United States"? Also, why is the "law enforcement" not enforcing the Treaties, which are the supreme law of the land and instead referring to the native water protectors as "trespassers"?]

There are two treaties affecting this area as shown in the map below. The dark yellow and blues areas are designated by the Treaty of 1851. The smaller blue area was established in 1868:

http://ndstudies.gov/gr8/sites/default/files/zoomImages/Unit3Lesson4Topic2/Maps/1868-Treaty-map-optimized.jpg

The following are some links to explore the history and culture of the Standing Rock Oyate and treaties affecting this area:

Introduction (http://www.ndstudies.org/resources/IndianStudies/standingrock/historical_intro.html)

Lakota Migration (http://www.ndstudies.org/resources/IndianStudies/standingrock/migration.html)

1851 Fort Laramie Treaty (http://www.ndstudies.org/resources/IndianStudies/standingrock/1851treaty.html)

The Treaties of Fort Laramie, 1851 & 1868 (http://ndstudies.gov/gr8/content/unit-iii-waves-development-1861-1920/lesson-4-alliances-and-conflicts/topic-2-sitting-bulls-people/section-3-treaties-fort-laramie-1851-1868)

Notice from the map below that the Dakota Access Pipeline goes right through the unceded Sioux territory under the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

"Thousands of Native Americans and their allies have gathered on unceded Sioux land delimited by the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie to try and stand in the way of the “black snake” that could poison the Standing Rock Reservation’s water supply. Many have noted that the pipeline corridor was repositioned from its original route north of Bismarck after white citizens spoke up against the threat a spill would pose to their drinking water ― a threat duly recognized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Yet the Corps failed its federal mandate for meaningful consultation with the Standing Rock Tribe before signing off on a route that moved the pipeline to their doorstep." (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-nodapl-map_us_581a0623e4b014443087af35)

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TrumanCash

29th November 2016, 23:36

Literally Too Many Veterans Have Signed Up to Join DAPL Protests (http://theantimedia.org/2000-veterans-dapl/) [Donations now over $600,000]

(ANTIMEDIA (http://theantimedia.org/2000-veterans-dapl/)) Last week, the newly formed group “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” called on veterans to nonviolently stand up to militarized law enforcement at the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Since its initial call to action, the veterans’ movement has grown exponentially.

Last week, the Facebook event, which was launched by Army veteran Wesley Clark Jr. and former Marine and Baltimore cop-turned-reformist, Michael A. Wood Jr., received widespread media attention. This boost helped increase the number of attendees from a couple hundred veterans to their maximum capacity of 2,000.

A standard email response from the group (as of Saturday) reads:

“We are happy to announce our small campaign has grown to 2,000 Veterans from every corner of the US [and] will be joining us to stand in peace with our brothers and sisters in Standing Rock.”

Their event page states they have over 2,100 veterans signed up and are exploring options for a second trip.

Outrage against incidents like these, as well as attacks on journalists via tasers, rubber bullets, and felony charges has made the ongoing situation ripe for outside intervention.

“This country is repressing our people,” Wood Jr. said last week. “If we’re going to be heroes, if we’re really going to be those veterans that this country praises, well, then we need to do the things that we actually said we’re going to do when we took the oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.”

With 2,100 veterans signed up to make a stand, it appears police will be forced to reconcile their aggressive behavior with the nonviolent show of veterans, who intend to march toward police on site.

The group has gained substantial financial backing since word of their mission spread. According to their GoFundMe page, they have already raised over $500,000 to fund their trip, which is planned for December 4 to December 7.

Their goal is currently set at $750,000, an increase from the $100,000 — and then $200,000 — requested last week.

“I increased the goal because I was wrong,” Wood Jr. said, according to Task and Purpose. “I was giving a ballpark number that we could get 500 people there without feeling like I was asking much of the public. In a short period of two days, the picture changed dramatically. As long as we’re increasing in size, I have to ask for more funds. And as long as we have more funds, we will increase in size.”

He added:

“This is already way beyond transportation. So the additional funds will go toward protective equipment, infrastructure, lodging, food, medical supplies, and stuff to help deal with the elements of nature.”

The funds will also go toward bailing out members of the group who are arrested during their demonstration.

As the cash and volunteers continue to roll in, the group’s resolve in its self-described “deployment” is only increasing.

“We’ve grown to the point where we have an actual chain of command now,” Wood Jr. said. “Emails are hundreds a day, if not thousands.”

Anti-Media spoke to one Navy veteran, Jake Bagwell, who heard about the event last week through social media and is now scheduled to head to Standing Rock, pending his request for time off from work.

“I figured if any demographic would have a big enough impact to wake people up, it’s vets. Especially when it comes to standing up to the government,” he said.

He added:

“Nothing about what the ‘authorities’ are doing makes sense. Water cannons in subfreezing temperatures? Are you serious?”

The group has a strict no weapons policy but is stocking up on body armor and protective gear like gas masks to withstand potential attacks from the heavily militarized police, who have arrested at least 400 of protesters so far. According to on-site medics, hundreds of protesters have also been injured. Last week, a 21-year-old woman was reportedly hit with a concussion grenade, leading to a severe injury that may require her arm to be amputated. Though police have blamed protesters for what happened to her, at least one witness claims law enforcement’s version of events is untruthful.

lizfrench

30th November 2016, 03:51

thunder24

30th November 2016, 04:18

now they are fineing people for bringing supplies to camp .... one thousand dollar fine for bringing food and shelter...

TrumanCash

30th November 2016, 04:57

Bob

30th November 2016, 13:30

Neil Young, a music legend says Obama must end this

http://www.pennenergy.com/content/dam/Pennenergy/online-articles/2016/11/AP_Oil_Pipeline_Protest_Neil_Young.JPG.scale.LARGE.JPG

Neil Young is calling on President Barack Obama "to step in and end" what he calls the "violence" against protesters demonstrating against an oil pipeline being built in North Dakota on part of an Indian reservation.

In an open letter on Facebook posted Monday, the 71-year-old rock star calls the protest at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation "an awakening." He says demonstrators are "standing strong in the face of outrageous, unnecessary and violent aggression." He says law enforcement agencies and the National Guard are "seemingly acting to protect the interests of the Dakota Access Pipeline profiteers" with taxpayer money.

Young also chided President-elect Donald Trump, labeling him the "surprise president."

The letter is signed by Young and his girlfriend, actress Daryl Hannah.

source O&G news November 29, 2016

Cidersomerset

30th November 2016, 13:38

North Dakota officials to start blocking vital supplies to DAPL campsite – report
By David on 30 November 2016 GMT

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RT NEWS...

North Dakota officials to start blocking vital supplies to DAPL campsite – report

Published time: 29 Nov, 2016 23:23

Edited time: 30 Nov, 2016 04:19

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The Oceti Sakowin camp is seen in a snow storm during a protest against plans to
pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near
Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 29, 2016

‘North Dakota law enforcement are about to start blocking supplies to the main
camp of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters following an emergency evacuation order.

“They have deliveries, retailers that are delivering to them – we will turn around
any of those services,” Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman from the Morton County
Sheriff’s Department, has said, as cited by Reuters.

Trucks with “anything that goes to sustain living there,” including food, building
materials as well as propane tanks, will be turned back.’

Read more: North Dakota officials to start blocking vital supplies to DAPL campsite – report

https://www.rt.com/usa/368623-dapl-officials-block-supplies/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Standing Rock Resistance (On Contact special episode)

nRO7arI1KNo

Published on 26 Nov 2016
On a special edition of On Contact, Chris Hedges travels to the Standing Rock
encampment in North Dakota to listen to the frontline voices of those fighting to
block the Dakota Access Pipeline.

TargeT

30th November 2016, 14:05

Apparently they are using Mustard gas on unarmed men,women, children and elderly unarmed people. Was not sure how to post...copy and past this link and follow to source.

2016-11-28_WSR_Dan_McBolen_Max_Steel_Louisa_Goldfish_Stand ingRock_Update

This an audio interview available on Wolf Spirit Media Network on this page (http://www.wolfspiritradio.com/joomla/index.php/public-archives/current-archives). To listen go to that page and click on "2016-11-28 WSR Dan McBolen Max Steel Louisa Goldfish StandingRock Update."

It appears that something is being sprayed at night by unmarked crop dusters with no lights. Whether it is mustard gas or something else has not been scientifically established but symptoms indicate a possibility of that according to this interview. The person interviewed expressed it as "some type of phosgene gas" and "mustard gas". Eyes burning, eye tissue coming off of eyelids, upper respiratory problems/bleeding/coughing, partial blindness, bleeding through sinuses, etc, reported. The witness said that the spraying is a nightly experience.

Another report here, video published on Nov 26th:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_wZcI6KRM

Mustard gas?

Biological warfare?

Uhh...

I've seen a bit of of what our chemical warfare agents are like.. you WILL KNOW you have been hit with them.

Mustard gas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard)? come the F on, are they just trying to be assholes and downplay what those poor guys in Vietnam went through?

You will KNOW when you've been exposed to a blister agent ( aka mustard gas).
http://images.slideplayer.com/5/1480614/slides/slide_13.jpg

Is this just attention seeking behavior?

If there's planes, get some video, if there's evidence of chemical use (they mentioned eye lids or some crap?) SHOW THAT!

I don't believe people's testimony anymore, been burnt too many times, lets see some evidence; they had drone footage of the water cannons, why not get some of the planes spraying if it's THAT common / predictable that they are sprayed "every night"....

My BS meter is pretty high on this one.

Pam

30th November 2016, 14:13

now they are fineing people for bringing supplies to camp .... one thousand dollar fine for bringing food and shelter...

Leave it to the Federal Government, they will stoop as low as they need to when it comes to making a few dollars....Why don't they fine them for breathing?

TrumanCash

30th November 2016, 15:06

Thanks for posting the RT video, Cider. This is one of the best videos I've seen so far!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRO7arI1KNo

At about the 24 minute mark, Tom Goldtooth speaks and he mentions the 7th fire. For those who are not familiar with that term, it is very significant so I have posted the Seven Fires Prophecy of the Anishinabe/Ojibwe People (http://www.oneprayer.org/Seven_Fires_Prophecy.html) below. Anishinabe is pronounced like uh-neesh-ih-nah-bay and they were the native people who greeted the Europeans settlers on the Atlantic coast. They consisted of many tribes, the Ojibwe being the most numerous.

"At a time when the Anishnabe People were all living in peace and harmony along the shores of the Great Salt Ocean (Atlantic), there came among them seven prophets."

So begins the reading of the Seven Fires Prophecy as woven on a Wampum Belt sacred to the Anishnabe people throughout Turtle Island (North America). Chief William Commanda, the 89 year old spiritual elder of the Algonquin Nation is now the present holder of this belt, which is believed to have come into existence circa 1400 CE. The Seven Fires Prophecy is ancient but its message is relevant for today's world and for us, who must bring about a new balance to our lives and to the environment which we need for survival.

The Anishnabe are a family of indigenous peoples who, historically, lived along the eastern coast of North America. Anishnabe is translated as "good person" or "one who came down from the sky." Somewhere in a period of time before 1000 CE. And 1400 CE a great migration of the Anishnabe people took place. This migration saw 10,000 large canoes filled with people head inland following what is now called the Saint Lawrence River toward the Great Lakes.

Today, Anishnabe people still live along the East Coast of the U.S. and Canada, as well as, the shores of the Great Lakes, the Rocky Mountains and even as far south as Mexico. They are called by many names including, Cree, Pequot, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Algonquin, MikmaÌq, Shawnee, Innu and Chippawa. The Anishnabe family is probably the largest of all the indigenous nations living on the North American continent.

Why, then, did a people who lived for many thousands of years decide to leave their homes and travel many thousands of miles to new and unfamiliar lands at a time when, according to Anishnabe traditions, we were living in peace and harmony? The answer lies in the reading of the Seven Fires Prophecy and its implications not only for the Anishnabe people living 1000 years ago but also for us today.

What does the Seven Fires Prophecy say to Anishnabe people and how does that relate to people living in North America in the year 2000? First, the Seven Fires Prophecy is not only addressed to the Indian people of this land, it was meant for people of all colors. It is a warning and at the same time a promise of better things to come if all of us living on Turtle Island can learn to put aside our egos, our cultural and racial bias and come together as a people, one people, for our collective healing and the healing of Mother Earth.

The first three Prophets who came among our people brought a warning. They told us to be aware that a race of people, referred to as the "Light Skinned Race" would be coming to these lands.

They advised the Anishnabe that in the interest of security for our people and our nation, it would be wise if we divided our population into two groups. One would leave and go deep into the interior of this continent and wait until the intentions of the Light Skinned Race were made known. The other would wait and greet the newcomers as brothers and sisters.

These Prophets also told the Anishnabe where they would travel and how they would be guided to their ultimate destination. They told of a sacred Megis shell that would appear and lead the way to a series of islands where their journey would end. The final destination would be at a spot where the "food would grow on water." That area turned out to be the Great Lakes region where "pagwadjanomin" or wild rice grows on water.

For those of us who were to stay and greet the Light Skinned Race the 4th, 5th and 6th Prophets gave these warnings and prophecies.

"If they (Light Skinned Race) come bearing nothing in their hands, you must still be cautious for they may be smiling, but in reality they may be wearing the face of Death. Do not accept them readily but wait and see. You will know them by their actions."

"If they come with the face of Brotherhood, you will become one people. Their knowledge of the material world and your spiritual wisdom will be joined together to create a mighty spiritual nation and you will be joined by two other races, (we believe) Asian and African, to create the mightiest nation of all."

"If, on the other hand, the Light Skinned Race comes wearing the face of Death then a great calamity will befall the people of this land. Great suffering and pain will be visited upon your people. The very cup of Life will almost be overturned."

"You will know which face the Light Skinned Race is wearing when the fish are dying and the water's unfit to drink."

The 6th Prophet warned that the Natural People of this land would be attacked by a Light Skinned Race and that a great period of suffering would ensue. He foretold of a darkness, which would overshadow this land, and the suffering, which would be inflicted on the Anishnabe people, as well as on all indigenous peoples.

At this time the 7th and final Prophet came to the Anishnabe. "He was different from the others and had a strange light in his eyes." He came with a message, not only for the Anishnabe people, but directly for the Light Skinned Race "At the time of the Seventh Fire, a new people will emerge. They will retrace the footsteps of their ancestors and will try to find those things which have been lost along the way. They will approach the elders in search of guidance. It will not be an easy task but if they are of good heart and pure intentioned they can prevail. Some elders will be sleeping and have nothing to say, others will say nothing out of fear.

The New generation must be fearless in their quest.

The Light Skinned race will be at a crossroads. If they continue down the road of Materialism, it will be their destruction and for all humanity as well. But if the Light Skinned Race chooses to join with the Natural People of this land on the Spiritual path then they will again have the chance to create a nation, the greatest spiritual nation ever to have existed.

Two other races will join these two races. Together, they will together light the 8th and final Fire an eternal fire of Peace, Harmony, Brotherhood and Sisterhood."

TrumanCash

30th November 2016, 15:24

Veterans for Standing Rock #NoDAPL Update (https://www.gofundme.com/veterans-for-standing-rock-nodapl?viewupdates=1&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_content=cta_button&utm_campaign=upd_n)

Posted by Michael Wood Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDjHNfk-Sdc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK_i9Hut65g

william r sanford72

30th November 2016, 20:32

"If you are a rock, stand up like a mountain"

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:heart:

thunder24

30th November 2016, 20:39

love that song yo

TrumanCash

2nd December 2016, 02:26

Planned Standing Rock community center to be built from straw bale (http://www.curbed.com/2016/11/22/13716474/standing-rock-north-dakota-brown-earth-lodge)
It would hold up to 100 people

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For hundreds of years, modern civilizations have built homes out of straw bale, an affordable, sustainable, and energy-efficient material that can be used for insulation as well as the structure itself. Now, folks are once again turning to straw bale to construct a shelter at the Oceti Sakowin encampments at Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, site of ongoing protests against the proposed Dakota Access oil pipeline that would run by the reservation.

Honor the Earth, a non-profit focused on indigenous environments and led by tribe leaders, envisions a straw-bale community center big enough for 80 to 100 people. The all-seasons dwelling would include a kitchen and meeting space for camped out protestors, certainly a boon in harsh weather with temperatures dipping to freezing levels overnight.

Called Makagi Oti—or the Brown Earth Lodge—the community center would first be erected as a temporary space, and then get converted into a permanent structure in the spring. Honor the Earth is currently trying to fundraise $75,000 on its website towards the project—over $54,000 has been raised so far.

TrumanCash

2nd December 2016, 03:01

Trump Team Confirms Dakota Access Support Has "Nothing To Do With Personal Investments" In Pipeline Builder (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-01/trump-team-confirms-dakota-access-support-has-nothing-do-personal-investments-pipeli) -- ZeroHedge

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2016/11/23/20161130_DAPL1.jpg

As we noted yesterday, US military veterans continued to arrive at the Indian reservation, braving snow and freezing temperatures to support the protesters... (as Reuters reports (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSKBN13Q53Y))

Matthew Crane, a 32-year-old Navy veteran who arrived three days ago, said the veterans joining the protest were "standing on the shoulders of Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi" with the their plans to shield protesters.

"I bought a one-way ticket," he told Reuters as he worked to build a wooden shelter at the main camp. "Hopefully we can shut this down before Christmas."

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2016/11/23/20161130_DAPL2.jpg

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said for the first time that he supports the completion of the pipeline.

Republican North Dakota Senator John Hoeven said he met with Trump's transition team to discuss the delayed pipeline. "Today, Mr. Trump expressed his support for the Dakota Access Pipeline, which has met or exceeded all environmental standards set forth by four states and the Army Corps of Engineers," Hoeven said in a statement.

Read some more DAPL, "fake news" (Reuters (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSKBN13Q53Y)) and politician propaganda (lies) here (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSKBN13Q53Y). (Notice they don't mention the pipeline is on unceded native land which is also defined in the 1851 Treaty, so they have every right to be there and protect the water. So that pretty much blows all of Trump's and others' bullsh*t out of the water.)

TrumanCash

3rd December 2016, 03:41

Veterans for Standing Rock Organizer Michael A Wood Jr. Interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9nQYBx939M)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9nQYBx939M

TrumanCash

3rd December 2016, 06:04

Here are some very informative videos to get the native viewpoint. I especially recommend the first one below which is a panel of native leaders, both youth and elders, including the chairman of the Standing Rock tribe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K04Jop7Xuo#t=17.537596

Standing Rock Asks Police to Leave Ancient Burial Ground (Excellent video footage of building a bridge to cross the river including panoramic views of camp and rivers, etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7P0gdHiFtU

Standing Rock Response to North Dakota Governor's Evacuation Order (11/28/2016)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXKKQW0OSBY

TrumanCash

3rd December 2016, 06:14

UPDATE: Veterans For Standing Rock Are Here! Vets Shut Down Bridge At Standing Rock! (12/2/2016) Wesley Clark Jr. opens communication with "law enforcement".

Donations are approaching the one million dollar mark!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZfiuxkHV4U

Cidersomerset

3rd December 2016, 13:48

Some Articles from RT and the web......

Thousands brave winter weather to demonstrate solidarity at Standing Rock

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Published on 2 Dec 2016
Thousands of activists, self-proclaimed 'water protectors', along with U.S. military
veterans, braved the low temperatures at the Oceti Sakowin Camp on Thursday to
participate in the Global Day of Action to stop the North Dakota Pipeline.

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Rep Tulsi Gabbard Urges President to Immediately Halt Dakota

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Published on 2 Dec 2016

In a speech on the House floor Thursday, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard called on
President Obama to immediately halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
and announced plans to join thousands of veterans from across the country to
stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota this weekend.
http://bit.ly/2gMXoUh

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Hundreds of veterans arrive to support Dakota Access protests (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Published time: 2 Dec, 2016 14:55

Edited time: 2 Dec, 2016 18:01

https://www.davidicke.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/584187f2c46188cb2c8b459d.jpg

https://www.rt.com/usa/369007-veterans-arrive-support-dapl-protests/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Demonstrators at Standing Rock file class action lawsuit against sheriff

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Published on 2 Dec 2016
Demonstrators have filed a class action lawsuit against the North Dakota County Sheriff’s Office,
citing retaliatory tactics and inadequate police training. Civil Rights Attorney Rachel Lederman of
the National Lawyers Guild appears with RT’s Ed Schultz to discuss the unconstitutionality of using
impact munitions on non-violent prayerful protesters.

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‘Heads split wide open’: Anti-DAPL protesters complain of police brutality

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Published on 2 Dec 2016
RT’s Manuel Rapalo interviews activists protesting against the construction of Dakota Access Pipeline
in North Dakota over fear it will contaminate waters at the land where the Standing Rock tribe lives.
Protesters claim they face extreme aggression at the hands of the police.

thunder24

3rd December 2016, 20:27

http://mcfeely.areavoices.com/2016/12/01/gov-dalrymples-having-a-really-tough-week/
But what’s become apparent over time is that Dalrymple and his administration have been ill-equipped to handle the crisis. It has been one ham-handed move after another. Maybe the governor and his staff — and their buddies from Energy Transfer Partners — believed they could badmouth (and intimidate) Standing Rock and the protesters enough that the trouble would just go away. Just like Native Americans have always just gone away when the powers-that-be want it to be so.

Dalrymple’s week got off to a rough start with a nasty snowstorm that dumped a foot or more of snow in the area surrounding Bismarck. This led the governor to issue a mandatory evacuation order for Morton County, specifically referring to the protesters. The order left it up to the Morton County Sheriff and the Superintendent of the Highway Patrol to decide on a case-by-case basis whether emergency vehicles or supplies would be allowed into the protest areas.

This led the Morton County sheriff’s office to declare “in the spirit of public safety” that anybody delivering supplies to the main protest camp could be subject to a $1,000 fine. Vehicles would be subject to being stopped and searched if they were suspected of carrying food, clothing or firewood for the protesters.

“They need to evacuate,” a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said. “The executive order is clear that it’s public safety. If they ignore it, they have to live with the consequences of potentially freezing to death.”

It sure seemed the Morton County sheriff’s department viewed Dalrymple’s declaration as a “starve-em-out” order. Or maybe a “freeze-em-out” order.

Dalrymple called a press conference Wednesday to clear up what he meant, exactly, by issuing an evacuation order. Maybe the image of dead Native Americans and their supporters sprawled in the snow, circa Wounded Knee, wasn’t one the governor wanted beaming across the world.

“What we have here … is a failure to communicate,” Dalrymple said. Or something like that. He said some people’s interpretation of the evacuation order was wrong.

“We are not going to be stopping people. That’d be a huge mistake from a humanitarian standpoint,” Dalrymple said.

Whew. Crisis averted.

Also at Wednesday’s press conference, Dalrymple said he wants to meet with the Standing Rock Tribal Council and chairman Dave Archambault “to talk about how we are going to eventually arrive at a peaceful resolution of the situation and restore the relationship between North Dakota and the Standing Rock people.”

“I think the time has come to talk about our relationship and how we wind up at a place where the Standing Rock Tribe does not suffer any bad consequences long-term from this,” Dalrymple said.

This seemed an odd time for the governor to extend a hand of conversation and understanding, considering Dalrymple’s lieutenant governor, Drew Wrigley, has spent most of the past four months being the bad cop. Wrigley made the media rounds early in the protest to refer to the protest and protesters as “very serious,” “very significant and challenging,” “extremely dangerous,” “very, very concerning,” “hundreds of criminal acts,” “life-threatening federal crimes,” “talk of weapons,” “unlawful, intimidating, dangerous.”

The administration did everything it could to demonize the protesters. Dismiss them. Minimize them. Criminalize them.

Now the governor wants to talk. Even to “extremely dangerous” people? So confusing.

Funny, too, that he seems so interested in talking with the Standing Rock Tribal Council now, when only a few weeks ago North Dakota’s House Majority Leader Al Carlson led the charge to cancel the State of the Tribal-State Relationship message held during the first week of the upcoming legislative session. It has been delivered by a tribal chairman early in each legislative session since the 1980s. In 2015, Archambault delivered the address.

Carlson said it was a safety issue. He didn’t want to strain law enforcement.

Some Democratic legislative leaders said cancelling the address was an insult to the tribes. One Native American leader said he viewed Carlson’s decision as retaliation and a sign of disrespect.

Now Dalrymple, a Republican like Carlson, wants to restore the relationship between the state and the tribe.

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" Sioux Z has less than a 5% chance of ever seeing out of her right eye

Sioux Z was shot in the face with a tear gas canister while trying to help a member of the media off of the Blackwater Bridge

Doctor’s have told Sioux Z that there is less than a 5% chance she will ever see out of her right eye again

If Sioux Z does regain vision it will most likely only be some form of light"

william r sanford72

4th December 2016, 17:10

News coming outta The Des Moines Iowa Register.

Hundreds of veterans prepared 'to put our bodies on the line' in pipeline protest

OCETI SAKOWIN CAMP, N.D. — Tasheena Cloud said Saturday that she and the hundreds of other veterans who have been filing into this protest camp near the Dakota Access pipeline will remain peaceful when they put themselves between law enforcement officers and passionate demonstrators in coming days.
But she said she has no idea how police and the North Dakota National Guard will respond.

“I don’t know what to expect,” she said. “I just know I’ll put myself in harm’s way.”
In the snowy prairies of North Dakota, the Oceti Sakowin Camp has become the longest-running Native American protest in modern American history, as thousands of American Indians and environmentalists seek to halt the completion of the 1,172-mile pipeline. The pipeline runs from the North Dakota Bakken oil fields through South Dakota and Iowa, carrying sweet crude oil to an oil tank farm in Illinois.

Read The Whole Article here:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2016/12/03/hundreds-veterans-prepared-put-our-bodies-line-pipeline-protest/94900740/

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Melinda

4th December 2016, 20:11

This is such an important thread. My thanks to everyone contributing, and to RunningDeer for bringing it to my attention.

I posted this elsewhere. Perhaps it has a place here. It’s a piece I came across that reaffirms the necessity for peacefulness, in line with the wisdom of the tribal elders who continually reiterate that path.

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Standing Rock: A Change of Heart

Posted on Dec 2, 2016

I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath.

I would like to explain why this advice is not only spiritually sound, but politically astute as well. I would like to translate it into a strategic compass for anyone who is going to Standing Rock or supporting the Water Protectors from afar. I also want to explain how it contains a recipe for the kind of miracles that we need for the healing of our planet...

You can continue reading at the link below...

http://charleseisenstein.net/standing-rock-a-change-of-heart/

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Wishing Strength and Peace to the Water Protectors

Let’s end the insanity, the fracking and the pipelines – and create a world of clean, free energy for the deep healing of our lives and of mother earth.

thunder24

4th December 2016, 21:04

Army corp has denied easement to Dapl.... big win if only temporary.. Im looking for a more mainstream news outlet saying this, i can't find at moment really hopeing this isn't false...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/04/1607202/-BREAKING-GOOD-News-Gov-t-DENIES-easement-for-DAPL

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The Army Corps of Engineers has denied the easement to allow the Dakota Access Pipeline to pass through the Sioux reservation.

On MSNBC you can hear celebrations beginning: drums being beaten, songs being sung.

Excellent news!
https://www.facebook.com/sue.pergrover/videos/1816216465297475/ video of the announcment on tv

Whiskey_Mystic

4th December 2016, 21:27

A temporary victory, but a victory nonetheless.

thunder24

4th December 2016, 21:36

The army corp is now to conduct an environmental assessment which im reading could take months, and now they are exploring a different route...

There are many more protests and protectors all across The United States and Canada that still need help, not just The Standing Rock Sioux. If one were inclined to help them I would suggest to do so... The War and transition will take time and is still happening....

Raven

4th December 2016, 22:07

it is on mainstream news too - http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dakota-access-pipeline-1.3881042
and lots of live dancing and drumming on fb

thunder24

4th December 2016, 22:12

"DAPL is expected to drill anyway -- without a permit. Oceti Sakowin water protectors urged to stay in camp. The Army Corps of Engineers denied DAPL Permit. The announcement was made live in the Big Circle at Oceti Sakowin Camp, live on Standing Rock Spirit Resistance Radio, with Chairman Dave Archambault. Now from the Camp: DAPL is expected to pay the fines and continue drilling without a permit. At Oceti Sakowin Camp, they urged people not to leave the camp, because DAPL is expected to drill anyway, without a permit. "Stick around and make sure that doesn't happen." Listen live now on Standing Rock Spirit Resistance Radio, Sunday afternoon."

from facebook and important thoughts... Its not over yet...

onawah

4th December 2016, 22:32

Sierra Club confirms: Dakota Access Pipeline construction halted
https://sierra.secure.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0061792&id=70131000001DgkgAAC&data=137f06168b7f6a2654b4c2690c573bf830c250bc91ec054ac73dad80a137eb66c3f19fa60fe627eb21c75bc4d4e139c 7&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sierraclub&utm_campaign=beyondoil&utm_content=DAPL

History made! The Obama administration just announced that it will not grant the final easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline! Instead, the Army Corps of Engineers will conduct an environmental review and explore alternate routes for the project, away from the Missouri River crossing which would impact Tribal land and cultural resources.

Under this announcement, Energy Transfer Partners must stop construction of the pipeline on the Standing Rock Sioux's ancestral homelands until an environmental review has been conducted that includes public input.

The fight to reject the Dakota Access Pipeline isn't over and we aren't going to back down until this pipeline is rejected once and for all, but the administration's announcement today ensures Energy Transfer Partners can't continue its assault on the Standing Rock Sioux's ancestral homelands. This couldn't have happened without the Standing Rock Sioux and the Water Protectors standing up for what's right and solidarity from millions of Americans. Sierra Club supporters like you made an unprecedented 20,000 calls and sent 115,000 letters to the White House last month alone on this issue.

Over the past few months, thousands of people and hundreds of Tribes from around the world have traveled to North Dakota to peacefully support the Standing Rock Sioux and oppose this dangerous pipeline. Their prayers and songs were increasingly met by a militarized police force using dogs, water cannons, rubber bullets, pepper spray, concussion grenades, and other tactics designed to intimidate, antagonize and invoke fear. This weekend more than 2,000 veterans traveled to the camps to show their support for Standing Rock and serve as self-proclaimed "human shields."

History has taught us that it's never a question whether a pipeline will spill, rather a question of when, and a comprehensive environmental review will show that this dirty and dangerous project will threaten the safety of every community it cuts through. The 1,168-mile Dakota Access Pipeline, if completed, would carry 450,000 barrels of fracked oil every day through four states. It would cut through communities, farms, sensitive natural areas, wildlife habitat, and tribal lands like the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's ancestral lands. It would also cross under the Missouri River just upstream of the Tribe's drinking water supply, where a spill would mean a serious threat to the Tribe's health, culture, and way of life.