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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China retaliates against Trump tariffs with sweeping countermeasures as global markets plummet
Beijing responds to Trump’s aggressive new tariffs with 34% duties on all U.S. goods, rare-earth export controls, and sanctions on U.S. firms, signaling a major escalation in the global trade war
Only 15 senators back effort to block arms to Israel as Gaza deaths surpass...
Despite an escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza and allegations of war crimes, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly rejected resolutions to halt $8.8 billion in weapons sales to Israel, with only 15 senators supporting the effort.
Ending militarism in America
Taking on the MICIMATT(SH)!
The Homeless Garden Project is opening new doors to helping the unhoused
This one-year program provides transitional employment, job training, and housing resources for people experiencing homelessness.
10 organizing principles for defeating Trumpism 2.0
We need principles that build power now and for the long term.