National Guard activated to oppose protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline [Archive]

ckaihatsu

11th October 2016, 14:53

USPCN supports #NoDAPL on #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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USPCN supports #NoDAPL on #IndigenousPeoplesDay

The $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has faced months of opposition from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as well as members of hundreds of other tribes across North and South America. Their goal is to stop the building of the DAPL, which would connect production fields in North Dakota to refineries in Illinois. Their primary fear is that an oil leak would threaten water quality for many members of the tribal community. Already, there has been destruction to ancient burial land in the initiation of the pipeline.

Protesters so far have been attacked, silenced, and jailed. The building of this pipeline is not only an attack on climate justice, but on all Indigenous people. The U.S. has been exploiting their natural resources for hundreds of years, a continued colonization of the Indigenous people's land—using tactics including military invasion, intimidation, racist policing, and actual geographic removal of the people themselves. The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) condemns the historical ethnic cleansing and oppression of Indigenous people of the Americas, leading to the current apartheid-style decision to reroute the pipeline away from the majority white town of Bismarck to the lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

We also call for an end to the general criminalization of Indigenous people in the United States. The U.S. has incarcerated hundreds of leaders, such as the most famous, the American Indian Movement's Leonard Peltier, to repress their people's aspirations for liberation and self-determination. We call for his release and the release of all Indigenous and other political prisoners in the U.S. In addition, we recognize that Native Americans have suffered greatly from mass incarceration and the police state. So far this year, 13 have been killed in officer-involved incidents. We renew our calls for real police accountability and community control of the police on Native lands and everywhere else in the U.S.

The United States Palestinian Community Network stands with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Indigenous nations in their fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, and in their important struggle for sovereignty and national development, the latter including control of their land, water, and all other natural resources.

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ckaihatsu

19th October 2016, 14:44

J. Sitting Bear: Voices from the frontlines of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline

By staff

In September, Deb Konechne and S. Gutierrez conducted a number of interviews with opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

J. Sitting Bear is a Lakota mother and grandmother from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota and now lives in Rapid City. She was a continuous presence in the kitchen that feeds the multitudes of protectors at the Oceti Sakowin encampment along the Cannonball River, where thousands traveled to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. J. Sitting Bear and her daughter traveled to Standing Rock near the beginning of the encampment and have worked tirelessly from early morning until night to prepare meals and to help with security since they arrived at the site.

J. Sitting Bear has lived a life of activism. At 16 years old, she was at the Wounded Knee uprising on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Now 59, she has a legacy of standing up for the rights of native people in multiple forms, including fighting against police brutality and killings of native people in South Dakota.

J. Sitting Bear:

“If there’s one thing in the world I could pay for and to have it go away, it’s this racism. Because of this racism… it’s just like, like cracking of the ice… you know the racism tears in and it all goes out in veins. And the more it goes out the worse it’s getting. And that just breaks my heart to see that. My chante (heart) is sick when I think of it, it really hurts, because those are all of our brothers and sisters out there.

“That’s why I’m here, I just want to be here for my people. Like I said, if it comes to it, I can lay down my life. I would give my blood, I would let my blood flow. If just one person you know doesn’t get hurt by these people [DAPL],or if just one part of the pipeline gets stopped, that’s worth it. It’s our people…and it’s not only just our people. People think it’s just us natives fighting. But it’s for all people - the farmers and ranchers have their cows, they live off the land by selling crops… that’s gonna affect them too. So it’s just so emotional for me to be here. When I heard of this starting, I told my daughter we gotta go, gotta go and she says, you’re going? And I said ya.

“I guess my life is going to be this until my time comes. I will continue to be at these things, these protests standing up for my people. If I have to crawl, I’ll get there. As long as I have a mouth, I can still speak. I’m here to help people, I give my all.”

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SkepticalofYourDogma

19th October 2016, 18:28

The Garbage Disposal Unit

19th October 2016, 19:00

Can I ask a question; why is this important to Marxists? Seriously. If this is what Marxists fight for, our movement is dead. I genuinely want an answer to my question too. Thanks and good luck with the protests.

1. The anti-colonial struggle is a key axis of anti-capitalist struggle in North America.
2. Capitalist extractive projects are a lynchpin of North American capitalism.
3. Anti-Indigenous racism is an important tool of labour dicipline and source of wealth for North American capitalists.

almost

20th October 2016, 01:10

Can I ask a question; why is this important to Marxists? Seriously. If this is what Marxists fight for, our movement is dead. I genuinely want an answer to my question too. Thanks and good luck with the protests.

If you mean "how the language sounds" in a lot of those above email news letters and ones like it, blogs, rallies, whatever it might be, and the validity of that approach, I think the criticism is valid. But your username makes me wonder why for arguments sake you'd position yourself against it in such a specific way.

ckaihatsu

20th October 2016, 13:13

Can I ask a question; why is this important to Marxists? Seriously. If this is what Marxists fight for, our movement is dead. I genuinely want an answer to my question too. Thanks and good luck with the protests.

I've been posting reports related to this issue mostly f.y.i. -- many of my posts are like this, too, incidentally.

If there's no explicit statement or opinion from me then it's probably a news / f.y.i. post.

On this pipeline issue I think what *is* of potential concern to revolutionaries is the way the protestors are *treated*, so then it becomes something akin to anti-fascism.

John Nada

20th October 2016, 13:25

Can I ask a question; why is this important to Marxists? Seriously. If this is what Marxists fight for, our movement is dead. I genuinely want an answer to my question too. Thanks and good luck with the protests.A supposed "Marxist-Leninist" asking what oppressed nations resisting imperialism(the most vicious imperialist power at that) has to do with Marxism?:lol: Maybe start by reading an obscure figure who supported such "dead-end" struggles: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm

ckaihatsu

20th October 2016, 14:16

Alfred Bone Shirt: Voices from the frontlines of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline

By staff

In September, Deb Konechne and S. Gutierrez conducted a number of interviews with opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Alfred Bone Shirt, a Lakota elder from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, traveled to Standing Rock Reservation early in August and set up camp. He, like thousands of others, came to North Dakota to unite in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipe Line. Alfred states when he got the call from his brother, who is coordinator for Grassroots AIM in Rapid City, SD, about the stand being taken at Standing Rock, he didn’t hesitate to travel. He went on KOYA 88.1 FM, the Rosebud Nation Community Radio Station, to issue a public service announcement that called on others to do the same.

Alfred Bone Shirt:

”I called for people to - I said, practically to ‘stop what you’re doing’ - this word goes out to our warriors and members of the American Indian Movement to come up and support the people in Standing Rock.’

We got ready and we headed this way. My niece and her husband, we mentioned that and they said we’re gonna come, so they hurried and got a babysitter and they got their bags and we headed out this way.

The major reason behind all this is our people - Red people - are always looked at as an impediment to progress for the white man. Everything, our resources, we’re an impediment. And I don’t like the racism; I pray against the racism. South Dakota is in denial of racism, North Dakota is in denial of racism.

It really bothers me what they say about these corporations coming in and the damage it’s going to do. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to envision - and if you listen to any type of news, you hear of oil spills across the country, catastrophes affecting a lot of areas, and it can’t be undone that easy, it’s really bad.

I know the river, the damage that could be done here, affects whites, rednecks, peaceful farmers, the clergy, down river, it’s gonna affect everybody. If I’ve never done nothing right in my life, let me come here. We come and do what we can.

In my lifetime, the only time I seen so many tribes together was Wounded Knee Two, and the International Treaty Council meeting, that first one at Mobridge, there was a lot of union there.

But prior to that I don’t think there was a representative of so many tribes on the same page, I don’t think there ever was, and this is great. Not only the American nations here are together, but like South American tribes,they’re looking this way. We sent word down to Brazil, we’re gonna send word out again, because they pretty much [know] as far as what the U.S. and corporations do, because what they do in South America, and the evil there, they can identify, they can empathize with what is occurring here. The outright blatant racism, and the civil racism, backed by big oil, backed by the government, backed by corrupt politicians, racist politicians. And here’s the end result. We’re impediments to their progress, again.

They were supposed to put it [the pipeline] above Bismarck, then they move it down here, because it don’t affect them. But see they’re narrow minded, they forgot about Mobridge, Pierre. Why they disregard their own people, I can’t understand it.

I seen the power of that spirit one other time up in Dakota Teepee Sundance. I seen that here when the horses came in [to break through the police line], and I seen the horses dance and I seen them spin and the songs were going up in a good way, the prayers were there. We said nonviolence, I seen that spirit, the same time that spirit came in again, and that was beautiful, the way they [the police] broke ranks and scattered, you know it was really beautiful to see. We were right there where the barricades were. That’s why people say, prayer is at work here, prayer is being answered, and that’s one of the most beautiful things.

When we talk about water, not just for humans, we talk about the survival for fish, other living creatures in there, and our spiritual wiwilas. I want to say, to please encourage people to keep coming. Dedicated people. We need the support, basically reinforcements. I encourage people to keep coming. I know it’s cold and luxuries in life, and it’s for hard for them to break loose from that. They need to come, continue to support and prepare for the long haul.”

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ckaihatsu

22nd October 2016, 14:26

Travis LaRouche: Voices from the front lines of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline

By staff

In September, Deb Konechne and S. Gutierrez conducted a number of interviews with opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Travis LaRouche is from the Lower Brule reservation in South Dakota. Travis also was active in opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. Travis was one of the Riders on the first day of breaking through the police lines and challenging the Dakota Access Pipe Line machines and retold his experience.

Travis LaRouche:

“I was out there, everybody was praying, keeping peaceful. They brought those barriers in, told everybody move back , let them bring these barriers in because we keep tearing that fence down. For me it was like, why we giving up more ground? Why we letting them do that?

“You know what, I said, I mean prayer’s good, but in situations like this, I said prayer ain’t enough. I said they don’t understand prayer. I kinda got disgusted with it and I went back to camp here; we was the only ones here at the time. Brule camp, first ones to set up a teepee. Came back and my nephew showed up. And he got his horses and got all regalia’ed up. Come on get on, he said.

“We got up there, and kinda riding around, and they called us over to the ditch. Elders pulled us down in the ditch, they asked us if we’d do something for them; explained what they wanted done. And that’s how we greet the enemy. He explained how to greet the enemy and push them back. You guys don’t have to do it, they said, it’s dangerous, you know. Everybody was committed. I was all committed because I wanted action. So I said, I didn’t come up here to watch construction being done, I said. I’m all about prayer, but I said we need to do something, I ain’t gonna stand here and watch them. Anyway, when the elders approached us to do that and explained the ceremony and everything, we all agreed, they prayed with us and they told us that you do it in a good way, a good heart. They explained all that and we acknowledged it, they said they was gonna sing us in, and the rest is history. I had goose bumps doing it.”

Fight Back!: Describe how you moved the police back?

Travis LaRouche: “Just charging them, coming in, charging them, if you see some of those videos that’s what they was doing, and held them at bay. I was kinda surprised, we didn’t know the other people were gonna jump the fence, but it was just like a domino effect, cause and reaction, gave the people hope; that’s what it was after and that was what I was after too.

“So being a part of that was a great honor, you know, because we did it for the people. And within that action, we, we’re here today. We pushed them back, we caused the construction to stop, to cease. We got that ground back. And it was [because] of action. Yeah I just had goose bumps doing it, and I turned around and seen everybody jumping fence and running after those dozers was pretty cool. Being a warrior that’s kinda what you do - things you do for your people.

“Being part of AIM, that’s who we are, we fight for the people, I’ve always had that mentality whenever, wherever.

“I was pretty exhilarated, we got done and then they called us in the circle and the guy explained to the crowd what was just done what the elders asked us to do, how to acknowledge, greet the enemy, so he explained all that. Everybody shook your hands and seen a post, we were in New York Times, front page. The pitch [to the states] was it created more jobs in their state with $5, $10 million, if they let this go through it’d help the economy. But if you think about it, if Keystone would’ve went through, and went all the way down to Texas, these little, drops in the bucket here, each state, ten, whatever million they’re giving these states to do this, or these landowners, shit, that’s just a drop in the bucket, Koch Brothers, Canada will get trillions of dollars to get that oil where they wanna get it, so this little $10 million ain’t nothing to them.

I was just glad I did that action.”

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ckaihatsu

25th October 2016, 13:53

They're doing WHAT to Native women???

Dear Chris,

Right now, Native women are being strip-searched and jailed in Standing Rock, North Dakota.1

The women, who are members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, have been peacefully protesting to stop the construction of an oil pipeline that would destroy sacred sites and threaten the water supply for millions of families. In response, North Dakota authorities have started to arrest, strip-search, and hold protesters for days without bond. One woman was arrested without any cause given, stripped naked, and left naked in a jail cell overnight.2

The protests have gotten a ton of national attention, but not many know about the abusive arrests and violent strip searches. The Department of Justice, which officially sided with the resistance efforts a few weeks back, has the authority to step in and stop local authorities from abusing the law.3 If we speak up in huge numbers, the Department of Justice will intervene again.

Tell the U.S. Department of Justice: Stop the sexual humiliation of water protectors by Morton County police.

Sign the petition (http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/dapl_women/?t=1&akid=3686.852651.uR2Ntb)

If you thought the abuse of Native women and families is a thing of the past, you're wrong. Oil pipeline leaks are notoriously common--and poisonous. That's why the construction of the North Dakota Access Pipeline was moved away from the state capitol, where state officials with more political power were afraid of the damage the pipeline would cause. Instead, it's being built under the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's and millions of other people's main source of drinking water.4

These water protectors, who are also currently fighting the pipeline in court, have been facing increasing terror from local authorities trying to further the pipeline's construction. Authorities have begun to deploy military-grade weapons, attack dogs, drones, and now sexual humiliation as a way to stop the protests.5

The good news is that, a few weeks ago, the Department of Justice sided with water protectors and ordered the pipeline construction temporarily halted. If we speak up by the thousands with the water protectors, the Department of Justice will step in once more to stop the violent arrests.

Will you stand up against the unlawful detention of Standing Rock Sioux women?

Thanks for taking action.

--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Shannon, Megan, Libby, Emma, PaKou, and Pilar, the UltraViolet team

Sources:

1. Dakota Excess Pipeline? Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched, Jailed for Days on Minor Charges, Democracy Now!, October 17, 2016

2. Morton County Illegally Strip Searching Lakotas Opposing Pipeline, Narcosphere, October 19, 2016

3. Justice Dept., Army & Interior Dept. Temporarily Block DAPL Construction Under Missouri River, Democracy Now!, September 9, 2016

4. The fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained, Vox, September 9, 2016

5. Dakota Excess Pipeline? Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched, Jailed for Days on Minor Charges, Democracy Now!, October 17, 2016

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ckaihatsu

25th October 2016, 19:29

No Pipeline on Indigenous Land

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Chris,
Over the weekend, 141 peaceful Indigenous warriors and allies were maced and arrested for defending their land from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). And with winter coming, even tougher times are ahead for the water protectors in North Dakota. President Obama has already proven he can halt construction: stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in demanding he permanently reject the pipeline now as part of his climate legacy. (https://click.everyaction.com/h/43130/794265?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3 Zhbi9UT05FSS9UT05FSS8xLzU3NzQ0IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1 dGlvbklkIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZU lkIjogIjhlYzczMjQxLWNjOWEtZTYxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEz MDY1NyIsDQogICJFbWFpbE1lc3NhZ2VJZCI6ICI0Yzg5NmVjOS 0xYTlhLWU2MTEtODBjMy0wMDBkM2ExMzA2NTciLA0KICAiRW1h aWxNZXNzYWdlQ29udGVudElkIjogIjhkYzczMjQxLWNjOWEtZT YxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEzMDY1NyIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJl c3MiOiAiY2thaWhhdHN1QGdtYWlsLmNvbSIsDQogICJEaXN0cm lidXRpb25UcmFja2FibGVJdGVtSWQiOiAwDQp9&hmac=SysHctWWfZfvr61v7qfPnOtQJheVvIC-cvuMZGjsflE=)

Besides violating sovereign treaty rights and desecrating sacred sites, the pipeline is a ticking time bomb: its route crosses the Ogallala Aquifer and the Missouri River, meaning that a leak could poison the drinking water of millions of people. Sunoco Logistics, the company responsible for operating the DAPL, spilled 55,000 gallons of gasoline into the Susquehanna River just last week.

Over 50 tribes from around the world have come together in an unprecedented show of unity and resistance, and this weekend, peaceful warriors moved their camp directly into the path of the pipeline.

Other98 has the great honor of working directly with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to stop this pipeline. The permits aren’t final yet: join us in telling President Obama to use his remaining days in office to reject the DAPL permanently. (https://click.everyaction.com/h/43131/794266?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3 Zhbi9UT05FSS9UT05FSS8xLzU3NzQ0IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1 dGlvbklkIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZU lkIjogIjhlYzczMjQxLWNjOWEtZTYxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEz MDY1NyIsDQogICJFbWFpbE1lc3NhZ2VJZCI6ICI0Yzg5NmVjOS 0xYTlhLWU2MTEtODBjMy0wMDBkM2ExMzA2NTciLA0KICAiRW1h aWxNZXNzYWdlQ29udGVudElkIjogIjhkYzczMjQxLWNjOWEtZT YxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEzMDY1NyIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJl c3MiOiAiY2thaWhhdHN1QGdtYWlsLmNvbSIsDQogICJEaXN0cm lidXRpb25UcmFja2FibGVJdGVtSWQiOiAwDQp9&hmac=SysHctWWfZfvr61v7qfPnOtQJheVvIC-cvuMZGjsflE=)

This President has taken a number of audacious actions against Big Oil, including his rejection of the Keystone Pipeline and drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. Now we must convince him that rejection of the Dakota Access Pipeline could be a central pillar in the Obama Climate Legacy.

President Obama and the Army Corps of Engineers can stop this pipeline. Over 65,000 folks have already signed our petition — help us get to 100,000 before we deliver to the President. Join us and add your name today. (https://click.everyaction.com/h/43132/794267?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3 Zhbi9UT05FSS9UT05FSS8xLzU3NzQ0IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1 dGlvbklkIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZU lkIjogIjhlYzczMjQxLWNjOWEtZTYxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEz MDY1NyIsDQogICJFbWFpbE1lc3NhZ2VJZCI6ICI0Yzg5NmVjOS 0xYTlhLWU2MTEtODBjMy0wMDBkM2ExMzA2NTciLA0KICAiRW1h aWxNZXNzYWdlQ29udGVudElkIjogIjhkYzczMjQxLWNjOWEtZT YxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEzMDY1NyIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJl c3MiOiAiY2thaWhhdHN1QGdtYWlsLmNvbSIsDQogICJEaXN0cm lidXRpb25UcmFja2FibGVJdGVtSWQiOiAwDQp9&hmac=SysHctWWfZfvr61v7qfPnOtQJheVvIC-cvuMZGjsflE=)

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29th October 2016, 13:35

Standing Rock and International Anti-Colonialism

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Despite what has seemed like a media blackout, millions across the world have been moved by the powerful struggle for land, water, and freedom at Standing Rock, where Native American activists and leaders established the Sacred Stone Camp nearly seven months ago to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yesterday, water protectors, elders, and youth endured pepper spray, percussion grenades, tasers, and arrests when over 300 police officers attacked the protest. Critical Resistance (CR) stands in deep solidarity with all those at Standing Rock fighting against this state repression, colonialism, and attack on indigenous self-determination.

We are inspired by the ways that Standing Rock’s fight against a destructive oil pipeline is one that is part of an international struggle resisting ongoing colonization of land and resources. We are reminded by imprisoned Native American freedom fighter Leonard Peltier that “Standing Rock was the site of the 1974 conference of the international indigenous movement that spread throughout the Americas and beyond.” It was during this time that the American Indian Movement, the Black Power movement, and third world liberation groups of all stripes were deepening the connections between their struggles as necessary for collective freedom.

The resiliency and determination of Standing Rock activists to defend the land and water empower liberation struggles everywhere, as they threaten the logic on which this country, and racial capitalism globally, was founded. CR Co-founder Dylan Rodriguez explains that:

"Land inhabitation is what matters here—that is, at stake is not merely the 'right' to be on (and part of) the life-integrity of a particular land/water mass, but also (and more importantly) the insurgency of an indigenous life practice that so proudly violates the colonialist power ordering in such a place, at such a time."

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In the same vain, the words of a Native American leader offer a powerful message showing the unbreakable link between indigenous history and existence to resistance against state violence:

"How can we stand in the face of violence? Because I was born to this land, because the roots grow out of my feet, because I love this land and I honor the water."

- LaDonna Bravebull Allard,
founder of Sacred Stone Camp

As we carry on in the struggle to abolish policing, imprisonment, surveillance, and all the other tools of the prison industrial complex, we recognize that the militarized response to Standing Rock is what policing looks like when people successfully organize to defend community and build power. Anti-colonial resistance is part and parcel of our fight for abolition, and we stand with all who are working toward a self-determined horizon.

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29th October 2016, 13:47

Add your name: Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline once and for all

Yesterday, militarized law enforcement agencies moved in with tanks and riot gear on water protectors who stand in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline—a massive pipeline project that would cut through four states, impact the water to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and violate sacred sites and ancient grounds. While native elders prayed in peace, they were attacked with pepper spray, rubber bullets, as well as sound and concussion cannons. By the end of the day, more than 140 people were arrested.1 Please, add your name and demand that President Obama reject this pipeline once and for all. (http://act.moveon.org/go/6452?t=1&akid=172399.7761820.Od0A2O)

Dear MoveOn member,

My name is David Archambault II, and I'm the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has long opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline project. This proposed pipeline presents a threat to our lands, our sacred sites, and our water. Current and future generations depend on our rivers and aquifer to live.

Will you stand in solidarity and urge President Obama to reject the Dakota Access Pipeline, once and for all? (http://act.moveon.org/go/6452?t=2&akid=172399.7761820.Od0A2O)

Reject the Dakota Access Pipeline and declare this land a cultural district, eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, to ensure its protection.

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Thousands of American Indians, from more than 300 tribes spanning the continent, have joined with us to stand against this violation of our tribe's rights under federal laws and regulations. More than nineteen city and county governments have also joined us to stand in opposition to this pipeline.2

We demand that the construction of this pipeline be stopped before any further damage is done.

While we engage in the long legal process to curtail construction of the pipeline, Dakota Access is still poised to begin construction. Halting the construction was an unprecedented step in response to our powerful movement—and now President Obama must reject the pipeline's permit outright.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends. (http://act.moveon.org/go/6452?t=4&akid=172399.7761820.Od0A2O)

The Dakota Access Pipeline jeopardizes the heath of our water and would affect our people, as well as countless communities who live downstream, as the pipeline would cross four states. The pipeline, as designed, would destroy ancient burial grounds, which is a violation of federal law.3

Over the past year, I have spent a great deal of time addressing our tribe's concerns about this pipeline. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to follow the law and has failed to consider the impacts of the pipeline on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and neighboring communities.

Last month, Dakota Access bulldozed two miles of burial grounds. Their private security sicced dogs on and pepper-sprayed those who tried to protect the site. This company cannot be trusted. Urgent action is needed to prevent Dakota Access from continuing to violate federal laws.4

We demand to be heard, and we will continue to stand together for our nation, and for all who live with and by the Missouri River, until justice is done.

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Thank you.

—David Archambault II
Chairman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Sources:

1. "North Dakota pipeline: 141 arrests as protesters pushed back from site," The Guardian, October 28, 2016
https://act.moveon.org/go/6481?t=7&akid=172399.7761820.Od0A2O

2. "Standing With Standing Rock: 19 Cities Express Solidarity Against DAPL," Indian Country, October 13, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/6454?t=9&akid=172399.7761820.Od0A2O

3. "What to Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests," TIME, October 28, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/6482?t=11&akid=172399.7761820.Od0A2O

4. "FULL Exclusive Report: Dakota Access Pipeline Co. Attacks Native Americans with Dogs & Pepper Spray," Democracy Now!, September 6, 2016
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31st October 2016, 15:29

Outrage at Standing Rock

Tell President Obama to conduct a full environmental impact statement and deny all permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Call the White House at 202-456-1111 TODAY.

Standing Rock Sioux

Take Action
Dear Chris,

Flashbang grenades. Sound cannons. Tear gas. Rubber bullets flying through the air. Attack dogs. The photos out of Cannon Ball, North Dakota look like scenes from a war zone.

Yet what we are seeing is the violence which police have used against members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies. For months, peaceful water protectors have endured violent repression as they block the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would cross below the Missouri River and endanger their water supply, sacred sites, and way of life.

Last Thursday, the assault by law enforcement authorities escalated as they arrested over 140 water protectors. Police forcibly evacuated a camp established on land that the Sioux say belongs to the tribe, affirmed in an 1851 treaty. Other camps are continuing their peaceful presence nearby. The violence and interference with tribal sovereignty must stop.

Call the White House at 202-456-1111 TODAY and tell President Obama to conduct a full environmental impact statement and deny all permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Widespread public pressure has already forced the Obama administration to pause construction at the location where the pipeline would cross the river. Standing Rock’s water protectors are now calling for pressure on President Obama to shut down the project once and for all.

Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline went forward without a full environmental impact statement — and completing one would be likely to be the final nail in the coffin for this project. In fact, an environmental review is what led Dakota Access to redirect the pipeline from its original route — where an oil spill would have threatened the water supply of the 92% white population of Bismarck. Now, the Standing Rock Sioux face the same threat.

The move to endanger Native communities is no accident. The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is one face of an ongoing struggle for Native American sovereignty and survival. Today, Native Americans are more likely to be killed by law enforcement than any other group. They are also more likely to experience sexual assault or rape than any other group. The poverty rate at the Standing Rock reservation is nearly triple the national average. The violence that originated from the European colonization of North America lives on today in many forms, including threats to Native American lands, water, and livelihoods. The Dakota Access Pipeline is only the latest example.

Support the Standing Rock Sioux in their peaceful struggle for self-determination and survival. Call President Obama and ask him to protect the rights of water protectors and stop the Dakota Access pipeline.

Truthfully yours,

Emily, Brant, Amanda, Brandy, Daniela and the rest of the ClimateTruth.org team

MORE INFORMATION

“Full Exclusive Report: Dakota Access Pipeline Co. Attacks Native Americans with Dogs & Pepper Spray,” Democracy Now!, 09-06-2016
http://act.climatetruth.org/go/1406?t=7&akid=4999.264981.wlW_gB

“North Dakota pipeline: 141 arrests as protesters pushed back from site,” The Guardian, 10-28-2016
https://act.climatetruth.org/go/1407?t=9&akid=4999.264981.wlW_gB

“How To Talk About #NoDAPL: A Native Perspective” by Kelly Hayes, Transformative Spaces, 10-27-2016
https://act.climatetruth.org/go/1408?t=11&akid=4999.264981.wlW_gB

“One-in-four Native Americans and Alaska Natives are living in poverty,” Pew Research Center, 06-13-2014
http://act.climatetruth.org/go/1409?t=13&akid=4999.264981.wlW_gB

“A History of Native Americans Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline,” Mother Jones, 09-09-2016
http://act.climatetruth.org/go/1410?t=15&akid=4999.264981.wlW_gB

“Why Native American women still have the highest rates of rape and assault,” High Country News, 06-07-2016
http://act.climatetruth.org/go/1411?t=17&akid=4999.264981.wlW_gB

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1st November 2016, 15:00

Obama: Protect Native American Protestors at Standing Rock

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Urge President Obama & Congress to protect Native Americans at Standing Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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1st November 2016, 15:50

Two sets of laws -- N. Dakota vs. Oregon

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Meanwhile a group of nonviolent activists led by Native American men and women are opposing the illegal construction of a fossil fuel pipeline through land belonging to Native American nations under the Horse Creek Treaty of 1851. They're seeking to nonviolently protect local water and land as well as the climate of the planet. They've been attacked with dogs, pepper spray, rubber bullets, tasers, sound cannons, mace, bean bags, and batons. They've been arrested and hooded and strip searched. Police and so-called National Guard forces from multiple states have been deployed against them. The corporate media has largely avoided the story.

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Momentum is building against Dakota Access Pipeline

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Last week, police brutally attacked Indigenous protectors in Standing Rock as they peacefully defended their land and water. Within days, over 1.5 million people checked in to Standing Rock on Facebook in solidarity with this fight.1 By all measures, this is a historic moment of resistance -- and the movement is growing stronger by the day.

Now, Indigenous leaders are calling on us to take to the streets one week after the election to demand that President Obama’s Army Corps of Engineers and the incoming Administration put a stop to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We need to show President Obama and the new president-elect that this resistance movement will not fade away.

The Army Corps can approve or deny the final permit needed to complete construction -- that’s why we must act now, and act strongly, to make sure the permit is rejected.

On Tuesday, November 15th, join a day of action across the country to demand that this Administration and the next reject this pipeline. Join an action near you - and if one doesn’t exist, organize an action in your community. (https://act.350.org/go/12752?t=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=17762.2455817.m0V7pH)

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The Army Corps fast-tracked the Dakota Access Pipeline without proper consultation, and now bulldozers are approaching Standing Rock. But with coordinated, massive demonstrations across the country, we’ll make it clear that we will not allow the Obama Administration or the incoming president to sacrifice Indigenous rights, our water, or our climate.

Water protectors in Standing Rock have withstood brutal police repression, freezing temperatures, and bulldozers destroying their sacred land -- yet they’re standing strong and determined.

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Resistance to fossil fuel projects is rising everywhere. Almost a year ago we stopped the Keystone XL pipeline; now, an even bigger movement is rising up to stop Dakota Access. This is one of the most courageous stands against a fossil fuel project this country has ever seen, and solidarity actions are popping up everywhere -- targeting Army Corps offices, banks financing the pipeline, and other Federal buildings.

Horrible images of people being tear gassed, attacked by guard dogs, and having their teepees torn down are not just remnants of this country's ugly past -- this is happening right now, and it's unconscionable. We can’t alter history, but together we can change the future.

We know that elections and individuals alone don’t create change -- movements do. That’s why we’ll continue to fight until native sovereignty is honored, Indigenous rights are protected, and our communities' water and climate matter more than fossil fuel profits.

Let’s get to work. Find an action near you on November 15th. (https://act.350.org/go/12752?t=4&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=17762.2455817.m0V7pH)

In solidarity,

Dallas Goldtooth on behalf of the Indigenous Environmental Network and 350.org

P.S. Want to take action today? Add your name to the petition calling on President Obama to stop Dakota Access Pipeline.

1 More Than 1 Million ‘Check in’ on Facebook to Support the Standing Rock Sioux, NPR

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ckaihatsu

4th November 2016, 14:25

FCC: Investigate Alleged Cell Phone Jamming at Standing Rock #NoDAPL

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Dear Chris,

Urge Obama & Congress to press FCC & DoJ to investigate whether police at Standing Rock are jamming communications or conducting unconstitutional surveillance.

Take Action (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Tcr1S6redEmOiq41yt9fBNDVEdKkep6m)

Protestors at the Standing Rock #NoDAPL protest have alleged that police have jammed their cell phone communications (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9%2BGztzPbcOvaqqdhNcAxvFZ86YXhuGCW) [1] and have spied on their communications (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mvl%2BDd5EeV%2FJOCJ%2FIHhorFZ86YXhuGCW). [2] Cell phone jamming by state or local authorities is illegal, and general surveillance of protesters without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

Urge President Obama & Congress to ask the FCC & DoJ to investigate by signing our petition at MoveOn (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eg1%2Fby3tHusV6flBaYPXbFZ86YXhuGCW).

Proving or disproving allegations about jamming is very difficult for anyone except the Federal Communications Commission [FCC]. Only the FCC (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MjZTwqxhgOljeH2nXQ6s2VZ86YXhuGCW) can work with wireless providers, protesters, and local law enforcement to find out definitively what’s going on. The FCC is the only expert agency with authority to require law enforcement to disclose their use of any wireless devices and the only agency with the expertise to assess what is actually happening. If the FCC investigates and finds there is no illegal jamming happening, it can settle this concern. If the FCC discovers there is illegal jamming happening, it has an obligation to expose the jamming and use its power under federal law to order local law enforcement to stop interfering with First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. [3]

Congress and the President may request the FCC to take appropriate action to determine whether illegal jamming is taking place, and whether law enforcement have violated the terms of the FCC license to use IMSI Catchers ("Stingrays") by expressly requiring local law enforcement to use IMSI Catchers in accordance with due process. The Administration can order the Justice Department to investigate whether local law enforcement have violated the civil rights of the protesters through unlawful surveillance and illegal disruption of their freedom to communicate and freedom of the press under the First Amendment.

Urge President Obama & Congress to act to protect the First and Fourth amendment rights of #NoDAPL protesters at Standing Rock by signing and sharing our petition (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y461LzYmLPtwqNWw%2By10alZ86YXhuGCW).

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ckaihatsu

7th November 2016, 13:29

Support Native peoples in their fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)! (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=9c0d6ec9dd&e=d323598fe4)

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By Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Thousands of Native people have rallied at Standing Rock, North Dakota, to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This is one of the largest protests by Native Americans in decades, as Native people and their supporters came from across the country stop the ecological disaster that DAPL would mean for Native lands and rivers.

Almost 100 Native American tribes have formally endorsed the protest, and representatives from more than a hundred different Native peoples have gone to Standing Rock. Massive civil disobedience to stop the DAPL is being met with armed force and mass arrests by the National Guard, along with local sheriffs and police mobilized from across the Midwest.

The DAPL is being built to bring oil from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. This more than a 1000-mile-long oil pipe, like the long opposed Keystone pipeline, is meant to bring oil from the upper Midwest and Canada to tank farms and refineries in the Midwest and Gulf coast of the U.S.

Many environmentalists oppose these oil pipelines, not only because of the danger they pose to the communities that they pass through, but also because they help perpetuate the production, distribution, and use of oil and its products, which is a major source of carbon dioxide, a leading contributor to climate change.

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization urges all progressive activist to take action to support the Native Americans in their fight against DAPL. Those who can provide direct support in person or with financial and material aid to protesters at Standing Rock should do so. Local solidarity protests aimed at local sheriffs and police departments that sent police and weapons to try to suppress the protests as well as the corporations and banks backing the DAPL have brought out thousands of people across the country.

In addition to standing in solidarity with the Native people fighting to protect their lands and waters, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization also supports the return of land, lakes, and rivers to Native peoples so that they can live their lives as they choose, free from the constant threat of giant corporations. Return of natural resources is only right, given that the U.S. was founded on the genocide of Native Americans and theft of their land.

Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline(DAPL)!
Support the struggle of Native Americans to protect their lands and waters from corporate greed!

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ckaihatsu

7th November 2016, 19:19

Police illegally blocking cell signals at #NoDAPL protests?? (pls sign)

Police at the #NoDAPL protests may be illegally blocking activists’ cell phone signals.

Tell the FCC: Launch an investigation into cell phone jamming and spying on #NoDAPL activists at Standing Rock!

SIGN THE PETITION (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-fcc-investigate-cell-phone-jamming-and-spying-standing-rock/?source=demandprogress&t=2&akid=4871.610737.jJILWT)

Chris,

Right before militarized police advanced on activists at the No Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL) protests last week, protestors cell phone signals suddenly disappeared. Their lifeline to the rest of the world was gone.

If the police at Standing Rock cut their cell signals it would be a MAJOR legal violation.

The law is crystal clear: It's illegal to jam cell phone signals. And spying on protesters without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

The only way to find out what’s going on is for the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to launch an immediate investigation – and stop any illegal actions they uncover.

Tell the FCC: Launch an investigation into cell phone jamming and spying at Standing Rock! (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-fcc-investigate-cell-phone-jamming-and-spying-standing-rock/?source=demandprogress&t=3&akid=4871.610737.jJILWT)

For years, activists have been standing with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to protect their sacred lands and drinking water from the massive DAPL crude oil pipeline.

The mainstream media has largely ignored their efforts, so posting cell phone footage of their peaceful protests – and confrontations with police – online has become their lifeline to document police abuses.

And because the Standing Rock Sioux Nation operates its own cell phone tower, it’s unlikely that these timely cell phone disruptions are from bandwidth overload.

Instead, experts are saying that the sudden breakdown in wireless signal could be a result of police illegally jamming cell phone signals, or using “stingray” surveillance devices that disrupt cell phone signals.1

The FCC is the only agency with the authority to require law enforcement to reveal if they're using wireless spying devices.

If the FCC finds illegal abuses by the police, it has the power to stop them.

With tensions between protestors and police escalating by the minute, the FCC needs to open an investigation NOW.

Tell the FCC: Launch an investigation into cell phone jamming and spying at Standing Rock! (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-fcc-investigate-cell-phone-jamming-and-spying-standing-rock/?source=demandprogress&t=4&akid=4871.610737.jJILWT)

Thanks for all you do,

Kate Kizer
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DONATE (https://act.demandprogress.org/go/2215?t=6&akid=4871.610737.jJILWT)

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ckaihatsu

18th November 2016, 19:39

Good news on Standing Rock

Chris,

Huge news! Yesterday, Bank DNB announced it is going to sell its assets in the Dakota Access Pipeline project!

It’s clear our message is having an impact. On Tuesday, we delivered hundreds of thousands of signatures right to the Bank’s offices in Norway, and thousands of us flooded its Facebook page with messages in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation.

Two days later, we won.

The Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council sent us this note:

We are pleased that Bank DNB is weakening its ties to DAPL. It was a wise decision, especially given Energy Transfer Partners’ continuous disregard for our land, water, and sovereignty. Recent comments by Energy Transfer Partners CEO indicate the company seems intent on ramping up aggression, which is why it is of the utmost importance that other banks follow the example of DNB.

This major milestone could only happen because all around the world, people like you stood in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and the courageous water defenders on the ground right now in North Dakota. And they need our support more than ever with the incoming Trump administration.

But our fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is not over yet -- we have plans to force other banks to pull out of DAPL, and we promise we won’t stop until we win.

Thank you for everything you’ve done to support this campaign so far. Can you please share this great news with your friends and family now? (https://act.sumofus.org/go/350835?t=1&akid=24710.859590.r9BOw_)

(Tip: More of your friends will see what you share if you include a comment or tag their names!)

Share this victory on Facebook now.

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Also, check out the photos of the delivery! You can click on the pictures to see coverage in the Norwegian press.

Greenpeace Norway delivering the petition:

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Greenpeace Norway and its allies outside, standing in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation:

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People all around the world flooding Bank DNB's Facebook page:

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Thanks for all you are doing in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux,

Angus, Paul, Nicole, Emma, Eoin, and the rest of the team at SumOfUs

More Information:

Largest Bank in Norway Sells Its Assets in Dakota Access Pipeline, EcoWatch, November 18th, 2016

Want to do more to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline Project? Here is a list of further actions that other SumOfUs members have taken, and you can too if you haven't already.

If you haven't already, join 210,000 other SumOfUs members and sign our petition (https://act.sumofus.org/go/350837?t=6&akid=24710.859590.r9BOw_)

Donate to support the people resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline

Donate directly to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe (http://act.sumofus.org/go/350481?t=7&akid=24710.859590.r9BOw_) to support their fight.

Read the Sacred Stone Camp Supply List (http://act.sumofus.org/go/350464?t=8&akid=24710.859590.r9BOw_) and contribute.

Contribute directly to the Sacred Stone Camp Legal Defense Fund (https://act.sumofus.org/go/350465?t=9&akid=24710.859590.r9BOw_).

Chip into the Sacred Stone Camp GoFundMe page (https://act.sumofus.org/go/350466?t=10&akid=24710.859590.r9BOw_).

If you are a customer of these banks, you can call their customers service or press contact lines and demand that they drop funding for the pipeline

Bank DNB
Customer service: +47 915 04 800
Press: +47 400 16 744, [email protected]

Deutsche Bank
Customer service: +1 212 250 2500
Press: +1 212 250 7171, [email protected]
Renee Calabro, Head of Press Office: +1 212 250 5525, [email protected]

Citibank
Customer service: +1 888 248 4226
Press: +1 212 793 0710

HSBC
Customer service: +1 800 975 4722
Press: +44 20 7991 8096, [email protected]

ING
Customer service: +1 877 886 5050
Press office: +31 20 576 5000
Raymond Vermeulen, Head of Media Relations: +31 20 576 63 69, [email protected]

Royal Bank of Canada
Customer service: +1 800 769 2553
Press contacts:
(Atlantic Canada) Lori Smith; Office: +1 902 421 8121, [email protected]
(Quebec) Denis Dube; Office: +1 514 874 6556, [email protected]
(Toronto) Mark Hamill; Office: +1 416 974 3900, [email protected]
(Ontario South West) Saira Husain; Office: +1 905 639 5404, [email protected]
(Ontario North and East) Anika Reza; Office: +1 613 291 3520, [email protected]
(Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario) Robb Ritch Office: +1 204 988 3516, [email protected]
(Alberta, NWT, Yukon and Nunavut) Pamela Brown; Office: +1 403 292 3372, [email protected]
(British Columbia) Ian Colvin; Office: +1 604 665 4031, [email protected]

TD
Customer service: +1 888 751 9000
Press contact: [email protected]

TD Securities
Customer Service: +1 866 222 3456
TD Corporate and Public Affairs, Alison Ford: +1 416 982 5401
TD Investor Relations: +1 416 308 9030

Credit Suisse
Customer service: +11 41 848 880 844
Press contact: Tel. +41 844 33 88 44
Email: [email protected]
(USA) Karina Byrne: +1 212 538 83 61
(EMEA/UK) Christiana Marran, Head Communications EMEA/UK: +44 207 888 89 11
(Switzerland) Christoph Meier, Head Media Relations: +41 44 334 58 88

UBS
Customer service: +1 800 354 9103
Press contact: +1 212 882 5857

Royal Bank of Scotland
Customer service: +11 44 118 373 2181
Press contact: +44 131 523 4205
Chris Turner, Director of Media Relations: +44 20 7672 4515

Société Générale
Customer relations: +33 1 42 14 31 69
Press contact: +33 1 42 13 23 49
Florence Schwob, Media Relations Manager: [email protected]

Credit Agricole
Customer service: [email protected], +33 1 44 73 26 74
LCL Banque et Assurance: + 33 1 42 95 70 00

BBVA
Customer Service: +1 800 266 7277
Christina Anderson, Press contact: +1 205 524 5214, [email protected]
Al Ortiz, Press contact: +1 281 433 5640, [email protected]

BNP Paribas
Customer Service: +33 157 082 200 (worldwide)
Press: [email protected],
Julia Boyce, Head of Media Relations: [email protected]

Scotiabank
Customer Service: +1 800 472 6842
Rick Roth, Media Relations: +1 416 933 1795, [email protected]
Kate Simandl, Media Relations: +1 416 866 6806, [email protected]

SunTrust
Customer Service: +1 800 786 8787
Sue Mallino, Chief Communications Officer: +1 404 813 0463, [email protected]

Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
Customer Service: +1 800 2121 1034 (international toll free, where available), +81 3 3512 5105, [email protected]
Press for MUFJ (financial group parent company):
Lauren Sambrotto: +1 212 782 4909, [email protected]
Daniel Weidman: +1 213 236 4050, [email protected]

Mizuho Bank
Customer Service: +120 324 638, [email protected]
Patrick Phalon, VP Media Relations: 212 282 3867

ABN Amro Capital
Customer Service: +31 10 241 1720
Hans van Zon, Head of Public Relations: +31 20 383 4483, [email protected]
Brigitte Seegers, Senior International Press Officer: +31 20 628 3365, [email protected]

Call the decision-makers to tell them to stop this pipeline

Army Corps of Engineers
Demand that they reverse the permit to build the pipeline: (202) 761-5903

Energy Transfer Partners (the company building the pipeline)
Lee Hanse, Executive Vice President: (210) 403-6455, [email protected]
Glenn Emery, Vice President: (210) 403-6762, [email protected]
Michael (Cliff) Waters, Lead Analyst: (713) 989-2404, [email protected]

North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple
Demand that he stop the use of state violence against peaceful protestors: (701) 328-2200.

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18th November 2016, 19:52

VIDEO - Chicago Stands with Standing Rock

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Along with many other U.S. cities, Chicago on November 15, 2016 held a big protest in the Loop against the Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL) and in solidarity with indigenous tribes in Standing Rock, North Dakota. At the end of the march, the organizers delivered 50,000 letters to the Army Corps of Engineers calling on them to reject the application for this pipeline, which threatens safe water supply in sovereign native territory, and also for the rest of the country downstream on the Missouri River. Interviews and speeches from indigenous spokespeople and Chicago-area environmental activists. Includes the new song “Water Is Life” by Angie Citlali. Length 8:18.

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ckaihatsu

19th November 2016, 14:29

New York stands with Standing Rock (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=2907da21fc&e=d323598fe4)

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By Michela Martinazzi

New York, NY - Around 800 people gathered at Foley Square, in lower Manhattan, Nov. 15, to stand in solidarity with Standing Rock and protest against the North Dakota Access Pipeline.

Brilliant signs were held by the protesters with the slogans "Water is life" and "Keep the oil in the soil." After the initial introductions from the organizers, people chanted, “Get up! Get down! Keep fossil fuels in the ground!" and "Street by street, block by block, we stand with Standing Rock!"

Nov. 15 marked a national day of action where over 200 U.S. cities participated and demanded that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deny Energy Transfer Partners, the company spearheading the pipeline, access to the Standing Rock territory. A small victory was won the night of the Nov. 14, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made a concession saying that they must have further discussions with the Lakota nation before allowing further work could occur near and in Lake Oahe, a part of the Missouri River.

This concession came after weeks of militant protests, led by indigenous people, at Standing Rock.

There was a heavy police presence at the New York action as approximately squad 30 squad cars lined the square where the protest took place. When protesters tried to take the streets, the cops retaliated immediately and arrested 12 activists. The rest of the people there chanted at them, "Who do you serve? Who do you protect?"

However, the arrests didn't hinder the rest of the protesters and the action continued. One of the attendees, Colleen Baublitz, spoke about why it’s necessary to have actions of solidarity , "It is essential that we stand with them and speak out against growth in fossil fuel infrastructure that risks drinking water quality in the short term as well as long-term public health by exacerbating climate change.”

The crowd left in high spirits at the end of the protest, knowing that while a small concession was made, there would be more organizing to come.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

ckaihatsu

29th November 2016, 14:58

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North Dakota is stretched thin in its battle to protect the Dakota Access pipeline construction: Costs are nearing $15 million, and police reinforcements are diminishing. Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be the latest agency assisting Morton County Sheriff Department deputies to guard Dakota Access pipeline construction as it prepares to drill under the Missouri River.

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North Dakota is stretched thin in its battle to protect the Dakota Access pipeline construction: Costs are nearing $15 million, and police reinforcements are diminishing.

Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be the latest agency assisting Morton County Sheriff Department deputies to guard Dakota Access pipeline construction as it prepares to drill under the Missouri River. But as tensions mount, along with costs to keep up with militarized attacks on water protectors, there are signs that North Dakota’s resources are stretching thin.
North Dakota’s resources are stretching thin.

Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier announced the aid of CBP officers Monday following the most violent confrontation yet near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Dozens of activists were hospitalized after Sunday night’s standoff when police sprayed water on hundreds of people in 26-degree temperatures and fired what has been described as concussion grenades. One activist, Sophia Wilansky, 21, may face the amputation of her arm.

Even before Sunday’s subfreezing assault on the Backwater Bridge, the escalating violence, the toll of mass arrests—528 as of Monday—and the routine response to demonstrations were taking their toll on local agencies. The policing costs have reached nearly $15 million. The courts are taxed. The jail is burdened. The 34 local law enforcement officers are stressed.

All this comes amid an increasingly loud public outcry against the militarized policing.

Organized campaigns to contact the people and agencies responsible for sending officers and equipment to aid Morton County in the assaults on water protectors have in some cases been effective. YES! Magazine published that contact information Oct. 31, and in less than a month, the Facebook post had reached more than half a million people with commenters trading stories about their experiences making complaints.

It was intense public response that led Montana’s Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin to literally turn his detail around. He and his deputies were en route to Morton County when Gov. Steve Bullock raised concerns about the potential misuse of the interstate statute. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact obligates law enforcement around the country to fulfill requests for aid under any form of emergency or disaster.

“I got messages from England, Poland, New Zealand, Australia,” Gootkin recalled. And he received phone calls and hundreds of emails from his constituents, too — people that may have elected him sheriff. They were concerned about the use of force on protesters, Oct. 27, he said, and also had been affected by the public outrage from Minneapolis’ Hennepin County.

Gootkin said the callers and emailers believed the EMAC was meant for natural disasters and catastrophic events like 9/11, not for protecting a corporation’s pipeline construction. All that caused Sheriff Gootkin to change his mind. He turned to Facebook to post his decision to stand down on Standing Rock: “Although my actions were well-intentioned, you made it clear that you do not want your Sheriff’s Office involved in this conflict. One of the biggest differences of an elected Sheriff from other law enforcement leaders is that I am directly accountable to the people I serve (YOU).”

It was not an easy choice to make, Gootkin said. “I wanted to go and help my fellow law enforcement.” Then, he raised a question that has begun to rattle many communities across America lately. “I just don’t understand where we separated from the public. It really breaks my heart. We are not the enemy.”

Sheriff Dave Mahoney from Wisconsin’s Dane County was also empathetic to those decrying deployment of his officers. “All share the opinion that our deputies should not be involved in this situation,” Mahoney told the Bismarck Tribune. He and his unit stood by Morton County officers for one week before pulling out and refusing to return.

This week, the ACLU released the most comprehensive list of law enforcement participating in the conflict at Standing Rock, 75 agencies total, all believed to be operating under the EMAC agreement. The ACLU’s current list of agency support to Morton County can be found here.

Of the $15 million spent so far to protect the pipeline construction , $4.4 million has been spent by Morton County alone, officials said. The figure also includes more than $10 million in state emergency funds, according to Cecily Fong, spokeswoman for the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services. Fong told the Associated Press that protest-related law enforcement costs reached $10.9 million dollars last week, including $6 million borrowed from the state-owned Bank of North Dakota in September and an additional $4 million on Nov. 1.

Nearly 1,300 officers have come from 24 counties.

Now it seems likely that the state will need to request even more money from its Emergency Commission. In a press conference two days prior to Sunday’s violence, Gov. Jack Dalrymple expressed frustration in the ongoing police action against protesters. “We’re incurring expenses every day,” Dalrymple said.

The governor has pressed the Obama administration for federal aid in responding to the escalating conflict. He has suggested the U.S. Marshal Service step in to evict thousands of protectors who have occupied U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land. “They are camped without a permit,” Dalrymple said of those occupying the mass encampment near the Backwater Bridge blockade. “In other words, they’re there illegally.”

But the Obama administration has refused to do that, opting to sit down with the Standing Rock Sioux and negotiate a solution. It has asked that construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline stop until one is reached, but Energy Transfer has refused. It is now suing the federal government and meanwhile continuing to advance the pipeline.

With the absence of federal assistance, Morton County has had to rely on the EMAC and support from police agencies nationwide. Since early August, the sheriff’s department says that nearly 1,300 officers have come from 24 counties, 16 cities, across nine different states.

The number of law enforcement agencies assisting Morton County has dwindled.

The farthest traveled was the president of the National Sheriff’s Association, Greg Champagne of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. He arrived Oct. 28, the day after Morton County led its heavily militarized removal of occupants from the “1851 Treaty Camp.” In a lengthy post on Facebook, Champagne commended the multiagency action while taking special care to praise Minnesota’s Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek. He said they were “protecting lives and property” that day.

But in the aftermath of the violent Oct. 27 raid, the number of law enforcement agencies assisting Morton County has dwindled — in some instances, because of the pipeline‘s polarizing effect.

Minneapolis’ Hennepin County has received some of the loudest public outrage as taxpayers, voters, even state lawmakers turned out to denounce Sheriff Stanek’s decision to send Minnesota personnel and equipment to Standing Rock. “I do not have any control over the Sheriff’s actions, which I think were wrong,” said Lt. Gov. Tina Smith in a prepared statement. “I believe he should bring his deputies home, if he hasn’t already. I strongly support the rights of all people to peacefully protest, including, tonight, the Standing Rock protest.”

Following a nine-day stint in North Dakota, Sheriff Stanek said enlisting 29 of his deputies to serve on Morton County’s front lines was “the right thing to do.”

But he also said his deputies would not be returning.

Jenni Monet wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Jenni is an award-winning journalist and tribal member of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico. She’s also executive producer and host of the podcast Still Here.

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29th November 2016, 15:36

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30th November 2016, 15:53

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More than 2,000 veterans have announced plans to assemble in an effort to protect protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota next week.

The effort, called Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, is meant to be a nonviolent intervention to defend protesters from what they described as "assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force."

Protesters have camped out for months at the Oceti Sakowin camp to protest the proposed 1,170-mile Dakota Access Pipeline. But law enforcement officials have threatened to impose fines and block supply deliveries.

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R) issued a mandatory evacuation for the hundreds of thousands of activists, citing "anticipated harsh weather conditions."

But protesters have vowed not to leave.

The veterans event was organized by Michael A. Wood Jr., who served in the Marine Corps, and screenwriter Wesley Clark Jr., according to the New York Times.

While Wood told the Times he initially hoped to attract 500 veterans, 2,000 now plan to come.

"We have every age, we have every war," he said.

The group has also launched a GoFundMe page to pay for food, transportation and supplies, and has raised $657,000 of its $1 million goal as of Wednesday morning.

Event organizers indicated it could have more "missions" in the future, including one as early as the second week of December.

"We're doing this to support our country so lets do it with honor, working together," event organizers wrote on the event's Facebook page.

"We can stop this savage injustice being committed right here at home. If not us, who? If not now, when?

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1st December 2016, 15:02

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“The Dakota Access pipeline would fuel climate change, cause untold damage to the environment, and significantly disturb sacred lands and the way of life for Native Americans in the upper Midwest. Declare a national monument at Standing Rock before you leave office and do everything in your power to protect sacred Native sites, defend the First Amendment and halt the pipeline’s construction.”

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Dear Chris,

The standoff to stop the Dakota Access pipeline is reaching a fever pitch, and this may be our last chance to halt construction before Donald Trump takes office.

Militarized law enforcement and private security firms are harassing, assaulting and jailing hundreds of non-violent protesters who are fighting for indigenous rights and to curb climate change. They are arresting journalists for doing their constitutionally-protected jobs and attacking non-violent water protectors with tear gas, concussion grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons. And now, North Dakota’s governor has issued an evacuation order for the protest area, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told protesters to leave by Dec. 5 or face criminal charges.1,2

President Obama can end this standoff now — before Donald Trump closes in on the White House — by declaring Standing Rock a national monument, forever protecting its cultural sites and halting the Dakota Access pipeline’s construction once and for all.

Tell President Obama: Declare Standing Rock a national monument, and stop the Dakota Access pipeline. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Standing_Rock_monument?t=4&akid=20700.247355.FQdfDy)

Without decisive action by President Obama before his term expires, it is all but certain that Donald Trump’s administration will allow pipeline construction to continue. During the campaign, Trump “vowed to ‘unleash’ unfettered production of oil and gas,” and his potential energy secretary picks are extremely close to the fossil fuel industry. 3

Making matters worse, Trump reportedly owns stock in Energy Transfer Partners, the primary developers behind the multi-billion dollar pipeline construction, and in Phillips 66, which owns a quarter share of the project.4

The push for a Standing Rock national monument is picking up steam and has the backing of progressive powerhouse Sen. Bernie Sanders. In a recent speech to #NoDAPL activists in front of the White House, Sen. Sanders called on President Obama to stop construction of the pipeline by whatever means necessary, saying “to President Obama, in any way that you can: stop the pipeline. And if there are other approaches, such as declaring Standing Rock a Federal Monument, let’s do that.”5

This is our last best shot to stop the Dakota Access pipeline once and for all. President Obama has a chance to do right by the indigenous community, environmentalists and the American people. By declaring Standing Rock a national monument, he can help stop the violence against indigenous people, slow runaway climate change, protect sacred Native sites and drinking water and stop Trump from profiting from this dangerous pipeline.

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References

Dana Farrington, “N.D. Governor Issues Evacuation Order For Pipeline Protest Area,” National Public Radio, Nov. 28, 2016.
Doualy Xaykaothao, "With camp set to close, protesters resolve to fight Dakota Access Pipeline,” MPR News, Nov. 28, 2016.
Matthew Daly, "Oil pipeline: Trump's stock in company raises concern,” Associated Press, Nov. 25, 2016.
Ibid.
Sydney Robinson, "Bernie Joins NoDAPL Protests And Urges Unique Solution: President Obama Should Declare Standing Rock National Monument,” The Ring of Fire Network, Nov. 16, 2016.
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2nd December 2016, 13:12

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Judge allows police to use grenades against Dakota Access Pipeline protesters

By Zaida Green

2 December 2016

Yesterday, Chief Judge for the District of North Dakota, Daniel L. Hovland, rejected a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent law enforcement agencies from using impact munitions against Dakota Access Pipeline protesters in the Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota.

The request was part of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of protesters injured by police on November 20, some of whom required hospitalization and surgery following burns, shrapnel wounds, retinal detachment, broken bones and loss of consciousness caused by head trauma. The munitions cited by the request include and are not limited to: rubber bullets, lead-filled beanbags, water cannons, directed energy devices, concussion grenades, and chemical agents.

The rejection is based on a technicality. According to Hovland, the Water Protector Legal Collective, which is representing the protesters, had failed to provide written proof that all the defendants—at least 76 law enforcement agencies from 10 states, including the North Dakota National Guard—were informed of the request.

“Illegal use of force against the water protectors has been escalating,” said one of the collective’s attorneys, Rachel Lederman, in a press release. “It is only a matter of luck that no one has been killed.”

The Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council issued a letter condemning the “war-like conditions” confronting protesters. Others injured on the night of November 20 include two Native American tribal elders who suffered cardiac arrest, a 13-year-old girl hit by a rubber bullet in the face, and 21-year-old Sophia Walinsky, whose left arm was blown apart by a concussion grenade launched by police.

Walinsky faces the possible loss of her arm. Her father, Wayne, speaking in an interview livestreamed to Facebook, pointed out, “You know this is America! Where she was hit by a grenade—she’s not in Iraq or Afghanistan. This is like the wound of... someone we send to fight in a war. It’s not supposed to be a war. She’s peacefully trying to get people to not destroy the water supply. And they’re trying to kill her.”

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier defended the use of impact munitions against unarmed protesters, telling that Bismarck Tribune that “these are lawful tools to quell the advancement” of protesters.

Hovland’s rejection of the temporary restraining order comes three days after an executive order on Wednesday from North Dakota’s governor, Republican Jack Dalrymple, ordering the immediate “evacuation” of the protest site issued out of concern for the oncoming winter and the “best interest of public safety.”

The governor’s order also specified that emergency services to the protest site would be approved only on a case-by-case by the Morton County Sheriff or the Superintendent of North Dakota’s State Highway Patrol. After public outrage, Dalrymple clarified yesterday that people would not be prevented from entering the protest area, nor stopped and fined for bringing supplies into the camps.

The protests have been led by the region’s Sioux tribes, which oppose the oil pipeline’s construction out of fear of water contamination and the further destruction of cultural sites. The $3.8 billion pipeline will transport up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the Bakken Shale field in North Dakota to existing pipelines in Illinois. Energy Transfer Partners, the company that owns the pipeline, has been responsible for more than 200 recorded pipeline leaks since 2010.

The protests have won support from broad layers of workers and youth, spreading through social media under the tag #WaterIsLife, with rallies being held in cities throughout the United States, including San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC. Other sympathy demonstrations have been held internationally by indigenous groups in New Zealand, Australia, and Mongolia.

Two thousand American military veterans are organizing a sympathy deployment to the Oceti Sakowin camp for December 4. The organizers, Veterans for Standing Rock, have begun organizing future mobilizations to lend continuous support to the Sioux throughout the winter.

“We agreed that the only ‘people’ we served overseas fighting were the likes of Halliburton, KBR, AECOM, DynCorp, Raytheon, Environmental Chemical, and so many more,” wrote Will Griffin, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. “We know that our own government lied to us. We know that the world is not a safer place than it was before the United States illegally occupied Iraq and Afghanistan; we understand that militaries don’t bring peace. Looking into the eyes of the police at Standing Rock, we saw ourselves.”

Police at the protest camp are supported by armored vehicles, which have been deployed in the US’ imperialist wars in the Middle East. The Federal Aviation Administration has declared the area a no-fly zone, banning the use of drones to capture aerial footage of the protest site. Barbed wire lines the shores of nearby Turtle Island, and the bridge on Highway 1806 near the protest site is littered with concrete barricades. Police floodlights light the camp every night.

The Democratic Party has largely remained silent on the protests, with Hillary Clinton releasing a mealy-mouthed statement during the campaign calling for the protesters to reach a compromise with the pipeline company, and Obama stating on November 1 that his administration would “let it play out for several more weeks,” presumably until President-Elect Donald Trump assumes the office.

The leaderships of Native American tribes, a privileged layer groomed by the Democratic Party, have sought to divert the protests into the dead-end of pressure politics, issuing toothless appeals to leading figures within the Democratic Party. On November 30, a dozen Sioux tribe leaders issued an open letter to President Barack Obama imploring him to protect the US Constitution. “[I]t is time for you as Commander-in-Chief to enforce the law,” they write.

The Obama administration is responsible for extrajudicial assassinations on a weekly basis, maintaining indefinite incarceration at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, torture, mass surveillance and more persecutions of whistle-blowers than all previous administrations combined.

It defends capitalist law, which means impunity for Wall Street bankers, giant oil companies and environmental criminals, and rubber bullets and worse for impoverished Native Americans and other sections of working people fighting for their rights.

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5th December 2016, 13:43

BREAKING: Dakota Access Pipeline construction halted!

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Dear Chris,

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.

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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.

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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.

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5th December 2016, 13:58

A Victory at Standing Rock (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=0c096459d9&e=d323598fe4)

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Canon Ball, ND - A roar of celebration spread through Camp Oceti Sakawin at Standing Rock as the water protectors and their supporters learned that the Dakota Access Pipeline had been stopped in its tracks.

The Army Corp of Army Engineers denied the pipeline company an easement permit and will begin a new environmental impact study. An alternative route will be considered. This occurred a day before the threatened eviction of the camp and the day that thousands of veterans from around the country answered the call to stand with Standing Rock.

Barry Riesch, of Vets for Peace Chapter 27 who organized the Twin Cities veterans’ contingent that traveled to Standing Rock, said, "This is true service to the American people."

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5th December 2016, 14:43

Victory! Thanks for Standing With Standing Rock

Chris,

Yesterday we were notified that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not grant the easement to cross Lake Oahe for the Dakota Access pipeline. Instead, they will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement regarding alternative routes for the pipeline. This action strongly vindicates what the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has been saying all along – that we all have a responsibility to protect our waters for future generations.

This is an historic moment. For centuries, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and tribes across the country, have faced fundamental injustice at the hands of the federal government - which time and again took our lands and tried to destroy our way of life. Our Treaties and our human rights were ignored, our interests in protecting lands and waters were considered unimportant, and our voices were not heard.

It was this shared history that led Tribes to come together as never before to seek the protection of our waters against the threat of the Dakota Access pipeline. With peace and prayer, indigenous people from hundreds of Tribes said: our future is too important. We can no longer be ignored. The goal was to protect these sacred waters, and to do so in the name of our children.

And, with yesterday’s decision, it is clear that our voices have at long last been heard.

Yesterday’s decision demonstrates that, despite all the challenges that Tribes face and all of the terrible wrongs the federal government has committed in dealing with us over the years, justice for Indian people still remains possible. My thanks to the Obama Administration, and particularly to Assistant Secretary Darcy, for upholding the law and doing the right thing.

Yesterday’s decision belongs in large measure to the thousands of courageous people who put their lives on hold to stand with Standing Rock in support of a basic principle -- that water is life. At Standing Rock, our youth played an important role in spreading our message and I am so proud of what they have been able to accomplish.

But Standing Rock could not have come this far alone. Hundreds of tribes came together in a display of tribal unity not seen in hundreds of years. And many thousands of indigenous people from around the world have prayed with us and made us stronger. I am grateful to each of you. And, as we turn a page with yesterday’s decision, I look forward to working with many of you as you return to your home communities to protect your lands and waters, and the sovereignty of your tribes.

My thanks to all of our allies, here and around the world, each of whom contributed to this effort. I want to give a special mention to the veterans who have come to Standing Rock in recent days. I am sure that the strength of your message in support of Standing Rock, and the rights of the Water Protectors, had a powerful impact as the Army made its decision. I appreciate all you have done.

While today is a great day, there is still much that needs to be done to protect Tribal rights and ensure justice for indigenous people everywhere. Using peace and prayer as our guideposts, and with the teachings of our elders and with inspiration from our youth, I believe there is much we can accomplish for the future.

Sincerely,
Dave Archambault, II, Chairman
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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5th December 2016, 15:48

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[T]he order does not prevent construction, but is rather a move by the Obama administration to put off a final decision until President-elect Donald Trump takes office next January 20.

Last week, the Trump transition team released a memo announcing the support of the president-elect for completion of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, which is financed by a consortium of US and global banks and would transport 50,000 barrels of oil a day from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to southern Illinois. The statement asserted that Trump’s position was not connected to his personal investment in Energy Partners, the Texas-based company leading the project.

“It’s not over. It’s never over,” one Standing Rock member told USA Today. “They say one thing and do another.”

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/05/dako-d05.html

ckaihatsu

8th December 2016, 17:29

This pipeline threatens over 600 waterways

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Chris,

You've probably heard that the Army Corps has REJECTED the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) permit, which would have allowed the pipeline to cross the Missouri River, jeopardizing the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's water and historic lands! This is a big win for water protectors and allies!

The fight against unsafe pipelines isn't over though. Meet DAPL's cousin, Bayou Bridge.

Bayou Bridge is being built by the same companies behind DAPL, and also threatens important waterways. The 160-mile-long pipeline would cross almost 700 waterbodies and destroy more than 600 acres of wetlands.

Louisiana's coastal wetlands are already in a crisis state, disappearing at the rate of a football field every hour, due in large part to the actions of the oil industry. It's insane to keep allowing the oil industry to destroy these critical marshes and swamps.

Bayou Bridge threatens an amazing natural treasure, the Atchafalaya Basin swamp - the largest intact bottomlands hardwood forest in the country. The Atchafalaya Basin supports half our nation's migratory waterfowl and is home to alligators, bears, bobcats and a huge variety of wildlife.

Our partners, the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper launched this Care2 petition to stop the pipeline and force more environmental review of the project. Please add your support to their efforts. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AWmiC/zs17/t8hl)

Atchafalaya Basinkeeper has already won an interim victory, forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold a public hearing on the pipeline. The hearing will provide a critical opportunity to show the Corps that the public doesn't want to sacrifice any more of Louisiana's disappearing wetlands for another dangerous pipeline.

We are closing in on 75,000 signatures, and we really want to hit 100,000 for the hearing. Please take a moment right now to speak up for the Atchafalaya Basin, and against Bayou Bridge. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AWmiC/zs17/t8hl) It will mean so much to have your voice with us at the hearing.

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ckaihatsu

6th January 2017, 13:37

#NoDAPL

Dear Chris,

On December 4, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other water protectors who've been fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) won an important, but temporary victory when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied an easement needed to finish drilling under the Missouri River.1

That welcome news came after months of protest, action, and prayer by Indigenous leaders, climate activists, and many others. The conflicts between local law enforcement and unarmed protesters were at times vicious and made headlines around the world.2

But DAPL was not stopped by the Army Corps' announcement. In fact, Energy Transfer Partners, the company that is building the pipeline, insists they "fully expect to complete construction of the pipeline without any additional rerouting."3

Tell these banks to stop supporting the Dakota Access Pipeline! (http://act.presente.org/go/2277?t=1&akid=1566.523110.X09H2q)

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There's only one sure way to stop DAPL for good: By shutting off the investment and loans paying for the bulldozers, drilling equipment, and private security who are only a few miles away from completing this climate-killing, racist pipeline. Most of that money comes from just 17 big banks4 — like Wells Fargo and Citibank that you know and know and may even do business with. That gives us the power to pressure the lending banks to take a stand. We've teamed up with a huge coalition of groups to demand they discontinue funding the Dakota Access Pipeline project.

Sign here to ask these banks to stop disregarding the inherent sovereignty and rights of Indigenous people. (http://act.presente.org/go/2277?t=3&akid=1566.523110.X09H2q)

ETP and their new corporate parent Sunoco are rushing to build a pipeline that is economically unnecessary today, and will become a stranded asset as the world moves away from climate-destroying fuels.5

The Morton County Sheriff's Department has violently repressed the water protectors in service of the corporate desperation to meet this timeline. Given further project delays as a result of the December 4 decision, their January deadline might not be met.

And the 17 banks haven't disbursed all the loan funds they’ve committed, yet. This means they now face a clear opportunity to reconsider further funding a project steeped in controversy and demonstrating material loss.

Sign now to support the sovereignty and rights of the Indigenous peoples of Standing Rock and hold the DAPL banks accountable. (http://act.presente.org/go/2277?t=4&akid=1566.523110.X09H2q)

Public pressure can force DAPL’s lenders to confront the reality that they are backing companies who are openly violating human rights, defying the rule of law, undermining the regulatory process, and threatening our planet with climate change. Now is the time to use our power as consumers and customers to demand these banks divest from DAPL.

Thank you for all you do and ¡adelante!

– Matt, Favianna, Oscar, Erick, Reetu, Erica and the Presente.org team.

P.S. Can you donate $5 to support our work? (https://act.presente.org/go/2287?t=5&akid=1566.523110.X09H2q) We rely on contributions from people like you to see campaigns like this through.

Sources:
1. "Dakota Access pipeline: US denies key permit, a win for Standing Rock protesters." The Guardian. December 5, 2016.
2. "VIDEO: Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray." Democracy Now! September 4, 2016.
3. "Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners Respond to the Statement from the Department of the Army." Business Wire. December 4, 2016.
4. "Who's Banking on the Dakota Access Pipeline?" Food & Water Watch. September 6, 2016.
5. "IEEFA Report: Dakota Access Pipeline Driven by ‘High-Risk Financing’ in Overbuilt Region; Little-Known Economic Weaknesses in Controversial Project." IEEFA.org. November 15, 2016.

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6th January 2017, 13:48

Call the US Army Corps Now: Standing Rock Still Needs You

Dear Water Protectors + Standing Rock Supporters,

On December 5, I announced to the world that the US Army Corps would not grant the the final easement necessary for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. You made that happen.

Now we need your help again.

The easement was not granted with the understanding that the Army Corps would now require an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

The EIS more fully assesses the risks of building a pipeline so close to our water supply than the previous survey method employed by Energy Transfer Partners.

The immediate next step following the announcement was for the Army Corps to publish a notice of intent to start the EIS in the Federal Register. Doing so helps solidify the decision, setting in motion a thorough regulatory process, thus making it harder for a new administration to reverse.

A month later, the Army Corps has still not taken this critical first step.

Time is now running out.

Join us in a collective call to action; call the Army Corps and ask them to take action (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4QA/ni0YAA/t.23r/_sQaS40VThK1sJHyPxsj0g/h2/h5edNghuIlZhHxYW8ostKKYT8-2FIMuZUdYsrM2WD9F1wvdt-2FG9qbxtEbqqvMjS8IOLravNtn-2BoG-2BSTDjHg4umWcceosX0RcRZj6VQ7vwqJgDL11SDQJkCmX4p0fL A11EnawbELEy8z1-2F1mh2Q4cd5vNnLfGUzx7Z6J09GBNWqS0YaZN2TWValzrOAfm0 hBcwzXK2iZ9yshNbjsdc2cWzecQfSEX5bq-2B29wCU-2FDaCV5o7jDu8Ovh-2BF98BaRF0Wi42djPcq69vABUbi2Mdt5O46Hm6G3QyhXY24cz3 y-2BugVt2cfar-2BYl61OBOv023vWgP0dlGy6b6jk-2BTXxrZjXa2OorXoax5UdedTEEjZjVeULGGCb5UzSdbJVX3ctR it7TE-2FsTSvyJVwmR-2BptcJp0TDcRicMenQJu9S0xqgfuctNgj-2BY-3D) - not only for us, the Standing Rock Sioux - but for the 17 million Americans who live downstream of the pipeline.

NOW is the time for an EIS. It must be in motion before the end of this administration.

With deep gratitude,

Chairman Dave Archambault II

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15th January 2017, 15:08

Signature needed: Stop financing the Dakota Access pipeline

CREDO action

Sign the petition: Defund the Dakota Access pipeline #NoDAPL (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/defund_dapl_m?t=1&akid=21257.247355.ZMViWv)

The petition to the 17 banks financing the Dakota Access pipeline reads:

"Divest from the Dakota Access pipeline project immediately."

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Dear Chris,

Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of CREDO activists who stood with our indigenous and climate movement allies in North Dakota, we temporarily blocked construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, but our fight to stop the pipeline once and for all is not yet over.

Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline, has indicated it plans to continue construction without rerouting, and Donald Trump, who supports the pipeline, could overturn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to deny final permits for the company to drill under the Missouri River.

But we have the collective financial power as consumers and account holders to stop the pipeline. Wells Fargo, TD Bank, Citigroup and 14 other banks, are financing the construction of the pipeline.1 We must call on these banks to divest from this massive project immediately before Trump can approve the construction of the pipeline.

Tell the 17 DAPL banks: Stop financing the Dakota Access Pipeline. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/defund_dapl_m?t=4&akid=21257.247355.ZMViWv)

As of Jan. 1, ETP has effectively failed to meet its contractual obligations to deliver oil through the Dakota Access pipeline. That now means the shippers and producers who entered into agreements with ETP will presumably need to renegotiate terms or cancel their contracts altogether, and the entire project could be in jeopardy.2

Coupled with declining global oil prices, massive public pressure on the banks financing construction of the pipeline could create a public relations nightmare that persuades the banks to end their investments in the pipeline.

By staying invested in these projects, these 17 banks are tacitly waging a coordinated campaign to destroy sacred Native lands and silence peaceful protest. As Hugh MacMillan, Food & Water Watch researcher, put it, these banks are funding “the heavily militarized response to the Standing Rock Sioux, including the attack dogs, sound-cannon trucks, heavily armed officers, and even a crop duster spraying undetermined chemicals over the camp.”3

This could be our last shot at stopping the Dakota Access pipeline before Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. We stood with the water protectors and our allies in the climate justice movement to put a halt to the pipeline once before, and we must stand with them again to shut this project down for good.

Tell the 17 DAPL banks: Stop financing the Dakota Access pipeline. Click the link below to sign the petition:

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/defund_dapl_m?t=6&akid=21257.247355.ZMViWv

Thanks for all you do.

Josh Nelson, Deputy Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References

Hiroko Tabuchi, “Environmentalists Target Bankers Behind Pipeline,” The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2016.
“"Financial Disaster": Could Dakota Access Pipeline Lose Its Contracts with Oil Companies on Jan. 1?,” Democracy Now!, Dec. 5, 2016.
Emily Fuller, “How to Contact the 17 Banks Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline,” YES! Magazine, Nov. 30, 2016.

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24th January 2017, 13:55

The EIS has been registered. Now we need your help!

Dear Water Protectors:

On January 18th, the Department of the Army published in the Federal Register its Notice of Intent to require an Environmental Impact Statement.

This is another small victory in defeating the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline.

The fight, however, is still not over.

While the EIS is exactly what we called for, we must ensure that it fully takes into consideration tribal treaty rights, natural resources, cultural and sacred places, socio-economical concerns, and environmental justice.

We need your continued support as this process moves forward.

Submit a comment to the Civil Works Division, and help us show the Army that #MillionsStandWithStandingRock

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25th January 2017, 14:35

BREAKING: Trump to ram through approval of DAPL

Dear Chris,

Donald Trump just confirmed that he is ramming through approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This is an unprecedented move by a sitting President. The approval and construction of this pipeline will wipe out the Sioux’s “most important cultural and spiritual areas.” The $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline will contaminate the reservation’s water and will constitute yet another attack on their sovereignty and way of life.

This is just the first of many actions Trump and the GOP plan to take to use infrastructure projects to destroy the lives of people of color. Today he’ll ram this pipeline through the Sioux community, tomorrow he will push through a lung-choking oil refinery in a Black neighborhood.

But this fight is far from over. The bureaucrats of the Army Corp of Engineers - the agency overseeing the pipeline construction - still have a lot of power to delay and block this project. We need to call on staff within Army Corp of Engineers to oppose Trump by throwing sand in the gears of this destructive project. With their help we can stall this out.

Call on the staff of the Army Corp of Engineers to defy Trump and help block the Dakota Access Pipeline! (https://colorofchange.org/campaigns/oppose-trump-dapl/)

Until justice is real,

Rashad and the rest of the team at Color Of Change

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ckaihatsu

27th January 2017, 14:35

What Trump actually did on Keystone XL and Dakota Access

Friends,

It's been 48 hours since Trump signed his executive actions on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and already more than 50,000 people have pledged to fight these projects to the end.

Trump made it seem like he was approving these pipelines, but he didn't. Both Dakota Access and Keystone XL face legal, procedural and financial hurdles -- not to mention the multi-million person opposition to his administration.

If you're ready and committed to take action to stop these projects, take the Pledge of Resistance to get plugged in to action opportunities to stop Keystone XL, Dakota Access and fossil fuel projects everywhere. (https://act.350.org/go/13371?t=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19602.2455817.UDYWPO)

We've stopped these pipelines before, and we can do it again. Here's what you need to know about Trump's actions on Tuesday:

He did *not* approve Keystone XL or Dakota Access. He briefly succeeded in confusing a lot of people on this point (including me, I will admit).

On Dakota Access, he told the Army Corps of Engineers that the pipeline is in our "national interest" and told them to "consider" revoking the environmental review placed on it by the Obama Administration.

On Keystone XL, he invited TransCanada to re-apply and if they do, mandated a final decision on the pipeline within 60 days and waived input from environmental agencies.

And when TransCanada does re-apply, they no longer have permits in Nebraska, and their permits in South Dakota are being challenged.

Trump also placed conditions on approval of the pipelines -- like limiting oil exports, and determining where the steel comes from -- that the oil companies might not accept.

And even if either pipeline moves forward, they will face a fierce, mobilized resistance from Indigenous communities and landowners who will bear the biggest impacts of spills and toxic pollution on their lands.

In other words: it ain't over until it's over -- and it's definitely not over. Every pledge is a demonstration that this mass movement is prepared and ready to resist. We, the signers, are a warning to any company, bank, or politician who chooses to support fossil fuel projects that will further tip our climate past its limits.

More than 50,000 people have already pledged. Together we can make a huge impact. Join the Pledge of Pipeline Resistance. (https://act.350.org/go/13371?t=2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19602.2455817.UDYWPO)

These pipelines will transport more oil that we don't need, and that our climate can't bear. We have the solutions to transform our energy system -- and we have the power and will to fight for them.

Onwards,

Duncan

Sources:

"Significant Obstacles Remain in Building Keystone XL" National Resources Defense Council

"The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Litigation on the Dakota Access Pipeline" EarthJustice

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ckaihatsu

2nd February 2017, 13:12

#NoDAPL: We fight on

Friends,

Last week Donald Trump told the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop their comprehensive environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline. It's up to us to deny that request. Sorry, Donald.

Yesterday, things got worse. This review moved one step closer to being scrapped as the Acting Secretary of the Army Corps directed them to grant the final permit needed. It could happen any time now and construction could resume - unless we flood the Army Corps with comments telling them to continue their full environmental review of the pipeline.

If we succeed, DAPL will be forced through a multi-month review of its impact on drinking water, tribal rights and the climate. The only way to approve this pipeline without conducting the review would be to to disregard the hundreds of thousands of comments from people like you.

Join the resistance: send a comment to the Army Corps of Engineers demanding a comprehensive environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (https://act.350.org/go/13428?t=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19709.2455817.8xlHQ5)

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose drinking water and sacred sites have been desecrated by this pipeline, already announced plans to sue to stop any action to expedite DAPL. Every comment we send bolsters their legal case that the federal government would be abandoning their own rules and procedures by illegally forcing the project through.

Not only is Trump's administration full of Big Oil cronies, he also owns stock in the company behind Dakota Access. Illegally forcing this project through is an obvious example of corruption -- not to mention a gross violation of Indigenous rights and the science of climate action.

To be honest, he's holding a lot of the cards in this fight. But he's also facing some of the most dedicated and most effective grassroots organizers in North America -- the indigenous leaders who brought over 500 tribes together in this historic fight, the hundreds and thousands of people who stood out in the cold in North Dakota with them, not to mention the millions of people supporting this fight around the country, and the rest of the world -- and I will never rule them out.

It's our job to have their backs, and we can do that by flooding the Army Corps with comments against DAPL and fighting Trump's plan to fast track this pipeline. (https://act.350.org/go/13428?t=2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19709.2455817.8xlHQ5)

If the first 10 days of Trump's administration have shown us anything, it's that people are ready to resist in unheard of numbers. Let's keep the pressure on.

Sara

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ckaihatsu

3rd February 2017, 14:51

Did Trump just shut down the public comments on DAPL?

Chris,

Did Trump just turn off the website for submitting public comments about the Dakota Access Pipeline?

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe won a huge victory when the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to halt construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline while they conducted an Environmental Impact Statement. The public was supposed to have until February 20 to submit our comments.

But last week, Trump ordered the Army Corps to greenlight DAPL. And now, the government’s comment webpage doesn’t even work.

Help us help the Feds do their job. We’ve built our own comment page, and now we’re working with the awesome folks at Iraq Veterans Against the War to personally deliver your comments to the Army Corps of Engineers. (https://click.everyaction.com/h/92199/1122769?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9UT05FSS9UT05FSS8xLzU3NzQ0IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ 1dGlvbklkIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1Z UlkIjogIjAxMWFiZjJmLTFiZWEtZTYxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTE yNTc1MCIsDQogICJFbWFpbE1lc3NhZ2VJZCI6ICIyMzgyOGE1Y S04MmU5LWU2MTEtODBjMy0wMDBkM2ExMjU3NTAiLA0KICAiRW1 haWxNZXNzYWdlQ29udGVudElkIjogIjc0ZWU0OTExLWYxZTktZ TYxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEyNTc1MCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJ lc3MiOiAiY2thaWhhdHN1QGdtYWlsLmNvbSIsDQogICJEaXN0c mlidXRpb25UcmFja2FibGVJdGVtSWQiOiAwDQp9&hmac=ys5GPcAITd2RnEf6-uvl_iutJd55AFi9nDKpU9cAqu0=&emci=74ee4911-f1e9-e611-80c3-000d3a125750&emdi=011abf2f-1bea-e611-80c3-000d3a125750&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=)

We don’t know what’s going on with the webpage, but we do know that this Environmental Impact Statement is crucial. It will buy us time to fight DAPL in the courts and bankrupt DAPL by driving away its Big Bank funders.

Whoever shut down the public comment form, they can’t shut us down that easily. And we've already heard from insiders that the Army Corps cares how Veterans feel about this dirty pipeline.

Write your comment to the Army Corps of Engineers and tell them exactly why this pipeline is a disaster waiting to happen. The vets at IVAW will make sure they get the message. (https://click.everyaction.com/h/92200/1122770?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9UT05FSS9UT05FSS8xLzU3NzQ0IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ 1dGlvbklkIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1Z UlkIjogIjAxMWFiZjJmLTFiZWEtZTYxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTE yNTc1MCIsDQogICJFbWFpbE1lc3NhZ2VJZCI6ICIyMzgyOGE1Y S04MmU5LWU2MTEtODBjMy0wMDBkM2ExMjU3NTAiLA0KICAiRW1 haWxNZXNzYWdlQ29udGVudElkIjogIjc0ZWU0OTExLWYxZTktZ TYxMS04MGMzLTAwMGQzYTEyNTc1MCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJ lc3MiOiAiY2thaWhhdHN1QGdtYWlsLmNvbSIsDQogICJEaXN0c mlidXRpb25UcmFja2FibGVJdGVtSWQiOiAwDQp9&hmac=ys5GPcAITd2RnEf6-uvl_iutJd55AFi9nDKpU9cAqu0=&emci=74ee4911-f1e9-e611-80c3-000d3a125750&emdi=011abf2f-1bea-e611-80c3-000d3a125750&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=)

We’re continuing to work directly with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as this plays out. So thank you for everything you’ve done for the Tribe, for the water protectors, and for this struggle. We’re just getting started.

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7th February 2017, 13:01

The Dakota Access Pipeline fight isn’t over

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Chris,

In his first week as president, Donald Trump signed an executive action clearing the way for the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). Sadly, his blatant disregard Native American sovereignty comes as no surprise.

BUT, just because the orange man sang doesn’t mean this fight is over.

The Army Corp of Engineers -- the agency overseeing the pipeline construction -- can still continue with the Obama Administration’s plan, find an alternative route for the pipeline, and avoid threatening the water of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and millions of people downstream.

Help us disrupt the completion of this catastrophic project by flooding their offices with public comments!

CLICK HERE to submit a comment through the (http://act.couragecampaign.org/go/4608?t=2&akid=3776.2053337.Ek0kOa)Standing Rock Sioux tribe (http://act.couragecampaign.org/go/4608?t=3&akid=3776.2053337.Ek0kOa)'s website and let the Army Corps know that the pipeline poses grave risks to the health, safety, and sovereignty of the tribe before the February 20 deadline! (http://act.couragecampaign.org/go/4608?t=4&akid=3776.2053337.Ek0kOa)

For nearly eight months, native men, women, and children, along with thousands of activists from around the country -- a.k.a. the water protectors -- have camped out along the Missouri River to fight the completion of DAPL, which will carry highly flammable crude oil under their main water supply. The pipeline would endanger the drinking water of millions downstream and threaten sacred native burial grounds.

We all rejoiced on December 4 when the Army Corps halted construction of the pipeline, requiring additional environmental review of the construction proposal, which includes evaluating alternative routes via an environmental impact statement, or EIS.(1) But President Trump’s recent executive order has the potential to make everything the water protectors endured -- the concussion grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas, and sub-zero temperatures -- have been for nothing. Now tribal leaders are asking the public to let the government know how they feel about the pipeline before the comment period closes on February 20.

We need to join together and make sure the Army Corps hears from people across the country about the dangers of this project. If enough of us bombard their offices with comments, we have a chance of helping the Standing Rock Sioux tribe keep Big Oil off of their sacred land.

Support the (http://act.couragecampaign.org/go/4608?t=5&akid=3776.2053337.Ek0kOa)Standing Rock Sioux (http://act.couragecampaign.org/go/4608?t=6&akid=3776.2053337.Ek0kOa) tribe by submitting comments with Army Corps via the tribe's website demanding they evaluate DAPL’s full impact. (http://act.couragecampaign.org/go/4608?t=7&akid=3776.2053337.Ek0kOa)

Yours in the fight,

Kelsey, along with Annie, Brenna, Caitlin, Eddie, Emma, Raquel, Scottie, Tim and William (the Courage team)

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8th February 2017, 13:26

URGENT: Dakota Access Pipeline approved, take action

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BREAKING: The Army Corps of Engineers stopped the environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline and issued the final approval. Hold them accountable by taking action now. (http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=eefe534004bbc8b9b62768e18b59ab75d427dfe86a6845 e4f2de21f79dff75b18ac881b939f065da20d5aab4cb1e515f af0f399f90a106c237e43e60e77373a3)

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Dear Chris,

Outrageous. The Trump administration just issued the final approval for the Dakota Access Pipeline, putting corporate profits above the safety and sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux. Trump is blatantly ignoring the environmental review and public comment period that the Army Corps of Engineers already started under the Obama administration.

The Standing Rock Sioux recently stated, "We stand ready to fight this battle against corporate interest superseding government procedure and the health and well-being of millions of Americans." We continue to stand with them.

Take action: Send a message to the Army Corps of Engineers to hold them accountable for putting Big Oil first by stopping the environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline! (http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=eefe534004bbc8b9b6eb530a8e7b0b74eb77b2fbd6a5bf 53fb2be3b4fdf623d26185e22699f36dcc1a3e504bd7638b4b daeb98cfbc6825420b6283f2e084ba98)

In December, the Obama administration ordered an environmental review of the pipeline to study the effect it would have on the Standing Rock Sioux's sacred land and Lake Oahe, the body of water the pipeline would cut through. The public comment period opened in January, and since then, the Water Protectors and their supporters have already submitted more than 200,000 comments opposing the pipeline that the Army Corps has now chosen to ignore in favor of helping Big Oil.

This blatant disregard for the rights of the Standing Rock Sioux, the need for an environmental review, and for the democratic process of considering public feedback is unacceptable. Send a message to the Army Corps of Engineers now to show them that we will not be silenced! (http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=eefe534004bbc8b91ccf32d77752ba6794723f9dfaa79d 39d1dc9f041073d7442a13abce28330966abcaec89f9754c07 2ba88f6c20dd96583e19ee32ce8d6962)

By casting people aside for corporate polluter profits, Donald Trump continues to show what his White House stands for: corruption, bigotry, and greed. More than 300 tribes and millions of Americans will continue to stand united in opposition to this reckless project, and we are not backing down. We will continue to stand in solidarity with the movement that is challenging the fossil fuel status quo in so many places - from the Tribes fighting the Trans Pecos Pipeline in Texas, to the First Nations and landowners fighting the Keystone XL pipeline, to the landowners challenging the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, to the Gwich'in people standing up for continued protection of the Alaska Refuge. Our movement is strong, and it cannot be silenced by this administration's blatant prioritization of corporate profits over people's wellbeing.

Last year, 15,000 people -- including veterans and hundreds of Tribes from around the world -- 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, dehumanize, and invoke fear.

There's no question that a fair and comprehensive environmental review would show that this pipeline will threaten the safety of every community it cuts through, including the ancestral lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We must hold the Army Corps of Engineers accountable for breaking their promise to Standing Rock and to the millions of people who supported them. Speak up by sending the Army Corps a letter now. (http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=eefe534004bbc8b9c4f037e09dae396f9a17b825b0f8b8 42c37b03258ba976ec1795ba4b50b86d729086b388e5bbb71f 994e82aab77e8a35e151e14daf4a2327)

This is just the first step in our fight to hold the administration and the Army Corps of Engineers accountable, and we will continue to let you know how you can fight back. We will not back down.

Thank you for standing with Standing Rock,

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8th February 2017, 18:49

Dakota Access

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The Trump Administration Just Moved to Approve the Dakota Access Pipeline

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It's outrageous — but our battle to stop this disastrous pipeline project is far from over. Tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reverse this appalling decision.

TAKE ACTION (http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=NsAxx7d7QtU0hgP_pPnOzA)

Chris,

It's a sad day for democracy.

Yesterday, the Army Corps of Engineers shut down the legally required environmental review process and moved to approve the Dakota Access oil pipeline —threatening our climate and the land, clean drinking water and the hard-won sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

More than 70,000 NRDC supporters sent messages to the Army Corps over the last week in opposition to the pipeline as part of that environmental review process. Thank you for making your voices heard. It always matters, even if the outcome isn't in our favor.

This is a deeply disappointing setback, as the Army Corps is expected to issue the easement within the next 24 hours allowing the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners, to resume construction. But it makes us only more determined to support the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies in fighting back harder than ever against this disastrous pipeline and for what we know is right.

Tell the Army Corps of Engineers that you're outraged by their decision to put Big Oil before the American people. (http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=BEAS9HEjAroKIe3OTIs-4Q)

Last week, President Trump issued an executive memorandum fast-tracking the Dakota Access pipeline. With yesterday's news, the new administration is sending another stark signal that they will continue to put the interests of big polluters ahead of the American public — and that the air, water, climate and hard-won sovereignty of Native tribes take a backseat to the profits of fossil fuel companies.

On top of that, the administration decided to abruptly curtail the lawful review process that gives all Americans an equal opportunity to make their voices heard — a brazen assault on our environment and on the very foundation of participatory democracy itself.

Tell the Army Corps to finish the environmental review of the pipeline as they promised — and let them know that we will hold them accountable. (http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=jnKmmzVa1J5Ie9UZAiwD_A)

Here's the thing: The brave resistance of the Standing Rock Sioux and the Water Protectors who joined them sparked a national movement on an unprecedented scale — a movement that cannot and will not be dismantled. NRDC fully supports the Standing Rock Sioux, who remain undaunted and have vowed to fight the Army Corps' decision in court.

Yesterday underscored how important it is — and will continue to be — to stand together, speak out with one voice and fight harder than ever for a safe and healthy environment that benefits every single one of us and future generations.

Send your message to the Army Corps right away. Tell them you'll fight for as long as it takes to slam the door on the Dakota Access pipeline for good. (http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=lFi-IRPmbORXic31lFJfTQ)

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Rhea
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ckaihatsu

8th February 2017, 19:00

Trump can't silence us

Friends,

I don’t know about you, but I am angry. Yesterday, Trump’s Executive Memorandum to approve and expedite the Dakota Access pipeline was realized.

The Army Corps of Engineers just announced that they will approve the final easement for the pipeline, throwing out the environmental review process started under the Obama Administration -- even though hundreds of thousands of people have already submitted public comments. Quite literally, the Army Corps of Engineers and Trump are silencing us.

We will not be silenced. Thousands will take to the streets today to show our resistance, and we need you to be one of them.

Click here to find an emergency rally happening near you, or organize one in your area if there's not already one planned. (http://act.350.org/go/13464?t=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19812.2455817.Xxw6m3)

Illegally forcing this project through is an obvious example of corruption as well as a gross violation of Indigenous rights, a direct threat to peoples' water, and a denial of climate science. Trump is putting people and water at risk in order to line the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.

But the resistance to the pipeline is still going strong. Just yesterday, the city of Seattle divested $3 billion dollars from Wells Fargo because of its role in financing Dakota Access.1 And the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe already announced plans to take legal action against this decision.

Now it’s our job to show that the massive movement fighting to protect Standing Rock hasn’t gone away. Be part of the national #NoDAPL stand. (http://act.350.org/go/13464?t=2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19812.2455817.Xxw6m3)

What we’ve seen from the Trump Administration over the last two weeks makes our job clear: we have to rise up and resist against an agenda that threatens people and the planet. No community is a sacrifice zone.

As hard as it is, we must keep fighting.

Mni Wiconi, Water is Life.

Kendall

P.S. To see all the #NoDAPL actions planned this month, check out this calendar of events (http://act.350.org/go/13471?t=3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19812.2455817.Xxw6m3) as well as the world map of actions (https://act.350.org/go/13472?t=4&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=19812.2455817.Xxw6m3) to add your own.

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9th February 2017, 13:05

100 Disruptions: #NoDAPL

Chris,

Today is an emergency day of action against the Dakota Access Pipeline — here’s how you can join an action near you (http://act.freepress.net/go/16650?t=1&akid=6080.9036884.Hk-mWS).

For months, water protectors and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have been using the internet to organize against the pipeline's construction — propelling an issue that the media largely ignored to national attention. Their activism prompted the Obama administration to halt the project without further review.

But one of Trump’s first orders as president was to issue a memo expediting the pipeline, and yesterday the Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will grant the final permit, skipping both the environmental impact assessment the Obama administration ordered and the legally required congressional notification period.1

If you aren't able to show up in person, consider this: Yesterday Trump said that he doesn't think the pipeline is controversial because he hasn't received any calls about it. Since we're not sure the White House switchboard is back up and running but we are sure he checks Twitter all day, click here to tell (https://act.freepress.net/go/16651?t=2&akid=6080.9036884.Hk-mWS) Trump that the Dakota Access Pipeline isn't just controversial: It's unacceptable.2

Thanks for all that you do—

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9th February 2017, 13:28

BREAKING: Dakota Access Pipeline to be approved

Dear Chris,

Yesterday, the Army Corps of Engineers announced to Congress they intend to approve the final permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The permit will allow Energy Transfer Partners to drill under the Missouri River and complete construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

Wells Fargo, Citibank, and TD Bank are among the 17 banks who are funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. The loan has not been fully disbursed — so there’s still time to let banks know you won’t tolerate bank funding for climate-killing pipelines and companies that trample on Indigenous and human rights.

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We’re at a critical turning point in the fight for Indigenous rights, for our communities, for our planet, and for our future against the very real threat of climate change. You have committed to resisting Trump’s pipeline agenda. Now, more than ever, we must resist.

For months the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Indigenous peoples, water protectors, and allies have been under siege while peacefully resisting DAPL. They have been blasted with water cannons in freezing weather, tear gassed, shot with rubber bullets, and arrested.

DAPL poses a direct threat to vital clean water supplies and sacred sites for the Standing Rock Sioux, who live less than a mile downstream. This disastrous project threatens the potability of the Missouri River, which provides drinking water to millions of people.

The companies responsible for the pipeline are Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics. They have a deplorable track record of pipeline spills and have shown a total disregard for tribal rights, land and water.

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9th February 2017, 14:01

Black Snakes on the Move: U.S. Pipeline Expansion Out Of Control

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Black Snakes on the Move: U.S. Pipeline Expansion Out Of Control (http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1367.php)

Teressa Rose Ezell

A Lakota prophecy tells of a mythic Black Snake that will move underground and bring destruction to the Earth. The "seventh sign" in Hopi prophecy involves the ocean turning black and bringing death to many sea-dwelling creatures. It doesn't take an over-active imagination to make a connection between these images and oil pipelines and spills.

It's troubling enough that the growing "Black Snake" has branched out at an alarming rate, forming a massive subterranean coast-to-coast web. But to make matters worse, the nefarious reptile seems to suffer from leaky gut syndrome, so that it functions as a toxic underground sprinkler system, spreading gas, oil, and poisonous by-products everywhere it goes -- including into waterways and drinking water sources.

Protest actions against major pipelines such as the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) have called attention to the potentially devastating effects of pipelines, but much of the general public still doesn't understand the scope of the existing and proposed pipeline network in the U.S. and around the globe. Executive actions by Donald Trump just four days into his presidency practically guarantee expedited approval for DAPL, as well as for Keystone XL. This indicates, among other things, that the maze of oil and gas pipelines in the U.S. will continue to expand at an unprecedented and reckless pace.

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13th February 2017, 14:56

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Dakota Pipeline Goes Before Judge

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., is hearing arguments on whether to stop work on the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline until a legal battle with American Indian tribes is resolved.

Feb. 13, 2017, at 8:55 a.m.
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This June 20, 2012, photo provided by ALM shows U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg in Washington, D.C. Boasberg is overseeing a lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux, two Dakotas tribes who maintain the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois threatens their drinking water and cultural sites.
U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg is overseeing a lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux, two Dakotas tribes who maintain the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois threatens their drinking water and cultural sites. (DIEGO M. RADZINSCHI/ALM VIA AP)

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., is hearing arguments on whether to stop work on the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline until a legal battle with American Indian tribes is resolved.

The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux argue the pipeline threatens drinking water and cultural sites. The tribes also say it threatens their freedom of religion, which depends on pure water.

[PHOTOS: Standing Rock Protesters Stay Strong (http://www.usnews.com/news/photos/2016/12/05/standing-strong-at-standing-rock)]

Developer Energy Transfer Partners last week received final approval from the Army to lay pipe under the Missouri River in North Dakota — the final chunk of construction for the 1,200-mile pipeline to move North Dakota oil to Illinois.

Work is underway. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is to hear arguments this afternoon on whether it should be stopped while the lawsuit plays out.

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ckaihatsu

15th February 2017, 14:48

Illegal construction of Dakota Access Pipeline is underway

The Trump administration is ignoring treaty rights and the legally required environmental review.

Earthjustice

Dear Chris,

Late last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrongfully terminated its environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline. As a result, construction of the Lake Oahe bore is underway right now.

This is both illegal and morally reprehensible, and we have been challenging that decision in court. Today we filed our strongest arguments. (http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=o8DYrIiBtGvarXRqKRyPbQ)

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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, represented by Earthjustice, filed a major challenge to the Trump administration’s hasty approval of the controversial Dakota Access crude oil pipeline, a project in which the president and his associates have had close financial ties.

The Trump administration is circumventing the law, wholly disregarding the treaty rights of the Standing Rock Sioux and ignoring the legally required environmental review. It isn't the 1800s anymore—the U.S. government must keep its promises to the Standing Rock Sioux and reject rather than embrace dangerous projects that undercut treaties.

The lawsuit challenges the Corps’ hasty and unexplained departure from its previous decision, and explains how the Corps ignored the Tribe’s treaty rights. It also explains how the Corps violated federal statutes requiring close environmental analysis of significant and controversial agency actions.

Construction is moving considerably faster than the pipeline company’s attorneys originally told the court, but we hope for a final decision to reinstate the environmental review before construction of the pipeline is completed.

On February 8, President Trump claimed that he had not received “a single phone call” opposing this widely criticized pipeline. This was unsurprising, because President Trump’s comments line had been closed until today. Since Trump's statement, over 50,000 Earthjustice supporters have written to the president by email, Twitter and Facebook, joining millions of people raising their voices in opposition to this project.

The members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters deserve to have their voices heard and their health protected. We will fight as long as it takes to ensure that this happens. (http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=EeD2kp8k9IS8Lr3Zsf9KnA)

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