Tag: water protectors
Standing Rock and the return of the nonviolent campaign
There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power.
Resistance at Standing Rock: The people from Oceti Sakowin camp
Water protectors answer a fundamental question: What happens if the pipeline gets completed?
7 things the Defund DAPL campaign has achieved so far (including...
Public and consumer pressure on banks to quit financing the Dakota Access pipeline companies is producing results.
Why I kneeled before Standing Rock elders and asked for forgiveness
“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
How Standing Rock’s divest campaign can stop future pipelines
As banks begin to respond, environmental movements are learning the importance of speaking clearly about the financial risks of fossil fuel investment.
Lawyers for Standing Rock water protectors are pleading for more help
Hundreds of DAPL water protectors have no lawyer at all.
Leaked audio: Dakota Access pipeline executive says “Election night changed everything”...
Big oil believes “We now are going into a transition where we are going to have a new President of the United States who gets it."
With pipeline losing $20 million a week, DAPL battle moves to...
In the meantime, organized resistance against DAPL continues.
After visiting Standing Rock, Swedish bank puts companies behind DAPL on...
“It is becoming increasingly clear that financial institutions view the Dakota Access pipeline as a liability.”
Standing strong as a rock
Stand with Standing Rock. December is Global Month of #NoDAPL Action.
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States
In fact, our research shows that street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest.
Millions face delays as Trump administration ends Social Security phone verification
A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.
New state-of-the-art aluminum smelter to increase aluminum production and cut emissions
The Green Aluminum Smelter project, led by Century Aluminum Company, will have the ability to emit 75 percent less climate pollution than the existing aluminum production facilities.
Judge blocks Trump EPA from clawing back $14 billion in climate grants
Judge Chutkan said the government’s “vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient.”
Trump’s policy toward Latin America: Even anti-communist zealots in Miami don’t like it
But just how committed is Trump to fighting communism in Latin America at this particular moment—in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua?