Monday, June 5, 2023

Tag: Standing Rock

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.

Tribes find new ways to keep pipelines – and their oil – out...

The upcoming months promise intense new fronts of conflict as tribal nations are united as never before and taking action.

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This Pride month let’s remember: corporations are not allies

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The compulsion to intervene

Americans profess to care about the sacrifices of those who serve the nation in uniform. Why don’t we care enough to keep them from harm in the first place?