Tag: Standing Rock
Life after Standing Rock
“The U.S. government is wiping out our most important cultural and spiritual areas. And as it erases our footprint from the world, it erases us as a people."
ING Bank just divested their DAPL financing – we all helped...
Last month, bank officials met face to face with leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux, and this week they announced the bank had sold the loan at the request of tribal leaders.
Water is life: The story of Standing Rock won’t go away
The Dakota Access pipeline is set and oil will flow. But this is not the only fight about water, and Standing Rock is only one chapter somewhere in the middle of a long story.
Tom Goldtooth: ‘They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started’
The camp may be gone, but the fight will continue. The seeds have been planted, and they will continue to grow.
10 arrested as deadline to evacuate Dakota Access pipeline protest camp...
“Allies around the world acting in solidarity with Standing Rock cannot stop now.”
Dakota Access pipeline ‘could be operational within 30 days’
Activists remain defiant, with three new camps springing up in recent days.
Pipeline resistance broadens: On the day Dakota Access oil flows, go...
Let’s do what it takes to remind the companies, and the government itself, who’s really in charge of the economy.
Veterans return to Standing Rock to act as human shields against...
This is a clear sign that the fight between water protectors and law enforcement is far from over.
Seattle becomes first city to cut ties with Wells Fargo over...
“When big cities such as this do the right thing, it sparks hope in the world.”
Defund DAPL spreads across Indian country as tribes divest
The Navajo Nation is making moves to join a growing number of tribes that have already respectfully, but conclusively, shown Wells Fargo the door.
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This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump
A multiracial crowd of all ages carrying witty signs and chanting: Their target was the commercial airline Avelo, which has proposed operating as an ICE subcontractor to carry out deportation flights.
Family sues fossil fuel giants for wrongful death in first climate disaster case of...
In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel...
Is Trump’s axis of the plutocrats marginalizing Israel?
President Trump managed to realign U.S. Middle Eastern policy to center on—and yes, it should be capitalized!—an Axis of the Plutocrats, Gulf sheikhs who are using their galactic fortunes to reshape the region.
US military vets and allies begin 40-day hunger strike for Gaza
The hunger strikers are gathering at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. for their action.
22 young Americans sue Trump administration to block executive orders pushing fossil fuels over...
In Lighthiser v. Trump, the youth plaintiffs say the administration’s actions violate their constitutional rights to life, health and safety and breach congressional mandates to safeguard public health and ecosystems.