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Tag Archives: #standingrock
They brought a missile launcher and machine gun to Standing Rock
Back in December, I detailed how the law enforcement at Standing Rock is coming from the reddest counties in the nation, and that they are using the conflict as an opportunity to test their new US military equipment. Now it seems they’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged #noDAPL, #standforstandingrock, #standingrock, avenger, Hotchkiss, machine gun, missile, Sioux, stinger, Wounded Knee
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Standing Rock Victory on Thin Ice
On December 4, we all celebrated when the US Army Corp of Engineers announced they would not grant the easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to pass under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe. Instead, they would prepare an Environmental … Continue reading
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Tagged #noDAPL, #standingrock, #standwithStandingRock, army corp, Dakota Access, eis, EPA, Sioux
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Secret Recording from Energy Transfer Partners Meeting
Shaun King has posted a secret recording apparently made in the past few days at a meeting between Energy Transfer Partners and investors or shareholders of some kind. Here are some key points: The speaker is clearly trying to reassure the … Continue reading
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Tagged #noDAPL, #Shaunking, #standingrock, #standwithStandingRock, drill pad, Lake Oahe, pipeline, recording, secret, Shaun King, Sioux, Soundcloud
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Gratitude for the Water Protectors
It’s astounding that 10,000 people converged on the open plain, with no water, food, sanitation, or housing, and worked together to make it all happen. The first camp was started by Standing Rock youth. Hundreds of other tribes from … Continue reading
Posted in my own thoughts, news, Standing Rock
Tagged #DAPL, #noDAPL, #nonviolence, #OcetiSakowin, #standingrock, #standwithStandingRock, #veterans, blizzard, indigenous, Obama, victory, wilansky
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Dakota Access’s Trail of Broken Laws
There are several laws and regulations designed specifically to prevent the kind of conflict the world is witnessing at Standing Rock. Energy Transfer Partners and the US Army Corp willfully ignored these laws and created the current crisis. While thousands … Continue reading
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Tagged #DAPL, #noDAPL, #standingrock, #standwithStandingRock, 12898, 13175, backwater bridge, Bismarck, eis, Executive Order, law, laws, map, military surplus, NEPA, pipeline, regulations, route, Section 106, SHPO, Sioux, SRST, Standing Rock, tribal consultation, Turtle Hill, violated, violation
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Red pilgrimage: right-wing counties send their cops to Standing Rock
The conflict at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation can be seen thru many lenses: white vs red, colonial vs indigenous, rich vs poor, violence vs non-violence, corporations vs grassroots, old energy vs new energy, male vs female, material vs spiritual. … Continue reading
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Tagged #election2016, #noDAPL, #standingrock, #standwithStandingRock, democrat, military surplus, Morton County, mrap, proxy war, red vs blue, republican, sherrif, Sioux, trump
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Dakota Pipeline knew about Standing Rock concerns 2 1/2 years ago
Here is the audio recording of Energy Transfers Partner’s (ETP) meeting with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) on September 30, 2014. [The video has been taken down but I took detailed notes; see below.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XARJFdyyfac The recording is astounding … Continue reading
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Tagged #noDAPL, #standingrock, #standwithStandingRock, 2014, archambault, audio, Cannonball, energy transfer partners, meeting, North Dakota, Phyllis Young, pipeline, Sioux, Standing Rock
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Standing Rock map tells a story
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
Time for pressure: What you can do for Standing Rock now
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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Tagged #bofa, #noDAPL, #POTUS, #standforstandingrock, #standingrock, #standwithStandingRock, #usdoj, #wellsfargo, bank of america, banks, citibank, pipeline, police brutality, sophia, well fargo, wilansky
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The Dakota Access Pipeline doesn’t make economic sense anymore
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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