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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$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
Trump delivers lunch to Beijing
China is taking advantage of the fact that even the most even-tempered of allies have had it with Trump and his tantrums.
EPA reapproves drift-prone pesticide dicamba
This decision will allow farmers in 34 states to use the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton, following a 2024 court ruling that had previously vacated its use.
Omar says ICE drawdown ‘not enough’ as thousands of agents remain deployed in Minnesota
After Trump border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 federal immigration agents would leave Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, civil rights groups, and national coalitions said the move leaves an ongoing occupation intact while killings, constitutional violations, and international human rights complaints remain unresolved.