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Red pilgrimage: right-wing counties send their cops to Standing Rock

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

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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Dakota Pipeline knew about Standing Rock concerns 2 1/2 years ago

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

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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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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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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