Category Archives: Standing Rock

Standing Rock map tells a story

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I created the above map based on a variety of sources– maps released by the US Army Corp, the Environmental Assessment by Energy Transfer Partners, Google Earth, drone footage by Digital Smoke Signals, and information at Oceti Sakowin Camp and … Continue reading →

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Time for pressure: What you can do for Standing Rock now

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Shit is going down and now is the time for the general public to apply meaningful pressure. WHAT HAPPENED THESE LAST FEW DAYS Sunday night (November 20), local law enforcement deliberately doused unarmed non-violent people with water cannons in 25F … Continue reading →

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The Dakota Access Pipeline doesn’t make economic sense anymore

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

With the decline in worldwide oil prices, production in North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields has declined so much that, by the end of this year, the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline will be completely unnecessary from an economic point of view. … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock: America’s War Zone

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I just returned from a Standing Rock/NoDAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) Teach-in at UC Davis, where we heard accounts from people just returning from the front lines.  The war terminology fits.  They described a veritable militarized zone, separating non-violent protesters (called … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock Update: Non-violence vs 7-State Army

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On October 27, a combination of military-equipped police forces from seven states and multiple counties, at the request of North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple, violently forced their way thru non-violent protesters and removed the Treaty Camp (also known as the … Continue reading →

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Upside-Down Flags, Standing Rock, and the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest: Background and Basic Facts

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Here are the basic facts.  There’s an oil boom in North Dakota in a region called the Bakken oil fields, which produces high quality oil, so pure that some workers up there have put unrefined Bakken crude oil straight into … Continue reading →

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Case dismissed against Amy Goodman; the press is now free to cover the Dakota Pipeline protest

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The case pitted the North Dakota State Attorney Ladd Erickson against Democracy Now! reporter Amy Goodman.  He was charging her with rioting for her role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, in which she was simply a reporter with a microphone, … Continue reading →

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Havoc, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Dogs of War

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The violent confrontations splashed across the media in the last few days recall not just another Avatar-esque confrontation between militarized resource-exploiting corporations and local indigenous inhabitants– and yet another ironic use of an appropriated Native name– but also the sordid … Continue reading →

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