Tag: Standing Rock Sioux
U.S. to Pay $492M to 17 American Indian Tribes
Even as the U.S. government pats itself on the back over these settlements regarding the abuse of American Indian land, a federal judge has ruled against the Standing Rock tribe’s request to halt construction of the crude-oil pipeline.
Native Youth Demand A Senate Hearing On Dakota Pipeline Impact
“We are protectors of water, and we will stand strong and protect the water for future generations.”
Cowboys and Indians 2016: Fight for the Planet
Perhaps it’s time to finally listen to and learn from people who lived here sustainably for thousands of years.
Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Temporarily Halted
A federal appeals court will consider whether to delay the project further.
Solidarity Strengthens at Standing Rock
Protecting the water and sacred sites brought people here. The experience of being here is changing lives.
Security Firm Guarding Dakota Access Pipeline Also Used Psychological Warfare Tactics...
North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board announced that it has opened up an investigation into the private security firms deployed to patrol the pipeline protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux.
Standoff at Standing Rock: Even Attack Dogs Can’t Stop the Native...
The battle against the Dakota Access pipeline is being waged as a renewed assertion of indigenous rights and sovereignty, as a fight to protect clean water, but, most importantly, as part of the global struggle to combat climate change and break from dependence on fossil fuels.
Resistance Spreading Like Water Across The Great Plains
In the coming weeks we have our day in court, and we are optimistic that a federal judge will agree with us that our peaceful exercise of free speech and civil disobedience is legal and cannot be restrained.
3 Reasons the Standing Rock Sioux Can Stop the Dakota Access...
For starters, this protest is about a competing idea for the future of the planet—and waves of people will show up to make that point.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.