Tag: water protectors
Judge’s ruling on Standing Rock a second chance for justice
The federal court decision could start a new chapter in the DAPL saga, beginning with dropping prosecution of water protectors.
Dakota Access Pipeline begins service the same day Trump announces withdrawal...
This decision is not the first – nor will it likely be the last – from the Trump administration to move the United States backwards in climate action.
Newly leaked documents reveal insane counterterrorism tactics used against Standing Rock...
Surveillance tactics used by the company include social media information harvesting, aerial surveillance and radio eavesdropping and infiltration of camps and activist circles.
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."
Protests begin in DC after motion to halt Dakota Access is...
Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline company that owns Dakota Access, has already been drilling under Lake Oahe for weeks.
10 arrested as deadline to evacuate Dakota Access pipeline protest camp...
“Allies around the world acting in solidarity with Standing Rock cannot stop now.”
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.
Surviving at Standing Rock after Trump’s DAPL order
The original water protector camp has resolved to stay – even as Sioux tribe says no and Trump orders pipeline construction.
Media silence after water protectors and police clash on MLK Day
On MLKDay 2017 water protectors were shot at and tear gassed once again by law enforcement in riot gear.
North Dakota bill would let motorists ‘unintentionally cause injury or death’...
“It’s shocking to see legislation that allows for people to literally be killed for exercising their right to protest in a public space.”
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.