Standing Rock Pipeline Protest

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Published on Oct 29, 2016

Don't ever remembered voting on this, stop the pipelines
1. You can donate items from the Sacred Stone Camp Supply List:
http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/

2. Call the White House... (202) 456-1111. Tell President Obama to rescind the Army Corps of Engineers' Permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

3. Contribute to the Sacred Stone Camp Legal Defense Fund: https://fundrazr.com/d19fAf

4. Contribute to the Sacred Stone Camp gofundme account: https://www.gofundme.com/sacredstonecamp

5. Call the Army Corps of Engineers and demand that they reverse the permit: (202) 761-5903

6. You can sign the petition to the White House to Stop DAPL: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/peti...

7.Call the executives of the companies that are building the pipeline:

a. Lee Hanse
Executive Vice President
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.
800 E Sonterra Blvd #400
San Antonio, Texas 78258
Telephone: (210) 403-6455
Lee.Hanse@energytransfer.com

b. Glenn Emery
Vice President
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.
800 E Sonterra Blvd #400
San Antonio, Texas 78258
Telephone: (210) 403-6762
Glenn.Emery@energytransfer.com

c. Michael (Cliff) Waters
Lead Analyst
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.
1300 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77002
Telephone: (713) 989-2404
Michael.Waters@energytransfer.com


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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: Dakota Access Pipeline Donation Fund
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[thorfourwinds]

And now, a word from Corporate America.

Checking the facts once again

About Us
The Standing Rock Fact Checker (SRFC) is dedicated to promoting the truth about the Dakota Access pipeline project. Unfortunately, some are using an emotionally charged atmosphere to disseminate misinformation about the approved – and nearly complete – Dakota Access project.  The Dakota Access project, when operational, will be among the safest and most technologically advanced pipeline in the world helping to bring needed energy to communities across the country.

[Pimander]

Thanks for posting this.  I knew nothing about it. 

[thorfourwinds]

Published on Oct 27, 2016

Cecily Fong OF THE North Dakota Department of Emergency Services THAT as of Thursday, afternoon (Oct. 27. 2016), over a 100 protesters remained.

Construction for the pipeline will "destroy our burial sites, prayer sites and culturally significant artifacts," the Standing Rock Sioux tribe said. Opponents also cite environmental concerns, including possible contamination due to breaches and eventual greenhouse gas emissions.

Dakota Access Pipeline protesters have set fire to a bridge, tires and debris, North Dakota Department of Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong said. Authorities from seven other states have been called in to help remove protesters, she said. As of Thursday afternoon, about 100 protesters remained.

The months long protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline have come to a head, as North Dakota authorities have started removing illegal roadblocks and protesters they say are trespassing on private property.

"Protesters escalated unlawful behavior this weekend by setting up illegal roadblocks, trespassing onto private property and establishing an encampment (actions that) forced law enforcement to respond at this time," Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said Thursday.

The Truth Denied
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Bucky Harjo
Democracy Now
North Dakota Pipeline

[thorfourwinds]

Published on Oct 28, 2016

Police are increasing their use of violence against protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, North Dakota. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Ben Mankiewicz, and Michael Shure, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.

"In North Dakota, tension over the 1,200-mile Dakota Access oil pipeline is escalating. Police and National Guard troops arrested more than 140 protesters near a construction site Thursday.

The Standing Rock Sioux have sued to stop the pipeline from crossing under the Missouri River next to their reservation, claiming the project would destroy sacred sites and threaten the water supply. What started months ago as a dispute between a tribe and the federal government has escalated into clashes between protesters and police.

Hundreds of law enforcement in riot gear formed a line Thursday across the prairie and moved in on an encampment of tents and teepees. The protest camp was set up over the weekend along the pipeline route on land owned by the Dakota Access pipeline company. Officers were backed up by dozens of police cars, armored vehicles and aircraft.

Surveillance helicopters circled above a makeshift roadblock of beat-up cars, tires and wooden pallets. Protesters lit it on fire, trying to keep police out.

But police pushed protesters back, trying to get them to move further down the highway."*

Read more here: http://www.npr.org/2016/10/28/4997563...

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

And now, a word from Corporate America.

Checking the facts once again

About Us
The Standing Rock Fact Checker (SRFC) is dedicated to promoting the truth about the Dakota Access pipeline project. Unfortunately, some are using an emotionally charged atmosphere to disseminate misinformation about the approved – and nearly complete – Dakota Access project.  The Dakota Access project, when operational, will be among the safest and most technologically advanced pipeline in the world helping to bring needed energy to communities across the country.

Sounds reasonable to me. 

[thorfourwinds]

Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear 1851 Treaty Camp

28 October 2016
Cannonball, ND - Over 300 police officers in riot gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline camp just east of Highway 1806.  The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently purchased by DAPL.  Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Dakota territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851, was violently cleared.  Both blockades established this past weekend to enable that occupation were also cleared.

In addition to pepper spray and concussion grenades, shotguns were fired into the crowd with less lethal ammunition and a sound cannon was used (see images below).  At least one person was tased and the barbed hook lodged in his face, just outside his eye. Another was hit in the face by a rubber bullet.

A prayer circle of elders, including several women, was interrupted and all were arrested for standing peacefully on the public road.  A tipi was erected in the road and was recklessly dismantled, despite promises from law enforcement that they would merely mark the tipi with a yellow ribbon and ask its owners to retrieve it.  A group of water protectors was also dragged out of a ceremony in a sweat lodge erected in the path of the pipeline, wearing minimal clothing, thrown to the ground, and arrested.

A member of the International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) that had her wrist broken during a mass-arrest on October 22nd was hurt again after an officer gripped her visibly injured wrist and twisted it during an attempted arrest. At least six other members of the youth council verified that they had been maced up to five times and were also shot and hit with bean bags. In addition to being assaulted, an altar item and sacred staff was wrenched from the hands of an IIYC member by police. Several other sacred items were reported stolen, including a canupa (sacred tobacco pipe).

Two medics giving aid at front line were hit with batons and thrown off the car they were sitting on. Then police grabbed another medic, who was driving the car, out of the driver side while it was still in motion. Another water protector had to jump into the car to stop it from hitting other people.

Members of the horse nation herded around 100 buffalo from the west and southwest of the Cannonball Ranch onto the the DAPL easement. One rider was reportedly hit with up to four rubber bullets his horse was reported to be hit in the legs by live rounds. Another horse was shot and did not survive.

A confirmed DAPL private security guard was spotted among the protectors with an automatic rifle heading towards camp. Water protectors acted swiftly to stop the man who was attempting to flee the scene in his pickup. One protector stopped the assailant's vehicle with their own before the security guard fled to nearby waters, weapon in hand. Bureau of Indian Affairs police arrived on scene and apprehended him.

Three water protectors locked themselves to a truck in the middle of the road and surrounded it with large logs.   After several hours of standoff, the police advanced in a sweep line and moved people approximately 1 mile back down the highway towards the main encampment on the Cannonball River.  Water protectors then retreated to the bridge over Highway 1806  and erected a large burning blockade that the police were unable to cross.

Law enforcement from at least five states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Nebraska) were present today through EMAC, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.  This law was passed by the Bill Clinton administration and allows states to share law enforcement forces during emergencies.  It is intended for natural disasters and has only been used twice for protests; once in the summer of 2015 during the demonstrations in Baltimore and here on the Standing Rock Reservation. Over 100 were arrested today in total.

Kandi Mossett, Indigenous Environmental Network stated, "I went to the frontline in prayer for protection of the Missouri River & found myself in what I can only describe as a war zone. I was sprayed in the face with pepper spray, the guy next to me was shot by something that didn't break the skin but appeared to have broken the ribs & another guy beside me was randomly snatched violently by police shoving me into the officers who held me off with batons then tried to grab me.  I'm still in shock & keep waiting to wake from what's surely a nightmare though this is my reality as a native woman in 2016 trying to defend the sacred."

Ladonna Bravebull Allard of Sacred Stone Camp says, "My people stand for the water, and they attack us. My people stand up for the graves of our people, and they attack us. My people stand up for our sacred places, and they attack us. My people pray, and they stop us, dragging us from our prayer, and throw us in the dirt. I know this is America - this is the history of my people. America has always walked though the blood of my people.

How can we stand in the face of violence? Because I was born to this land, because the roots grow out of my feet, because I love this land and I honor the water. Have we not learned from history? I pray for each of the people who stand up. We can not live like this anymore. It has to stop - my grandchildren have a right to live. The world has a right to live. The water, the life blood of the world? has a right to live. Mni Wiconi, Water of Life. Pray for the water, pray for the people. Stop Dakota Access- killer of the world."

Eryn Wise of the International Indigenous Youth Council stated, "Today more than half of our youth council were attacked, injured or arrested. In addition to our brothers and sisters being hurt and incarcerated, we saw police steal our sacred staff. I have no words for what happened to any of us today. They are trying to again rewrite our narrative and we simply will not allow it. Our youth are watching and remember the faces of the officers that assaulted them. They pray for them."

[thorfourwinds]

22 October 2016

Live video from Standing Rock.

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some related articles..


Police evict North Dakota oil pipeline protesters from private land.



http://www.startribune.com/oil-pipeline-protesters-brace-for-confrontation-with-police/398815871/

Understanding the Controversy Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline

What to know as protesters and the oil company continue to clash




http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/understanding-controversy-behind-dakota-access-pipeline-180960450/?no-ist

Amnesty International USA Sends Human Rights Observers to Standing Rock




http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2016/10/amnesty-international-usa-sends-human.html

Real Video from Friday in North Dakota, for those who have strong stomachs and some sense of Justice.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Real-Video-from-Today-in-N-by-Stephen-Fox-Dakota-Access-Pipeline_Dapl_North-Dakota_Pepper-Spraying-And-Beating-Native-Americans-161029-998.html


U.S. Government Bans Native American Tribe From Protesting On Their Own Land – Send In Police To Remove




http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/08/u-s-government-bans-native-american-tribe-protesting-land-send-police-remove-protesters/

Amy Goodman on MSNBC with Joy-Ann Reid on Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance

this practice of strip-searching, particularly the Native Americans, it's a total humiliation of a group of people who are simply demanding the same dignity as the people in Bismarck, and Mandan, and other places outside North Dakota.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/21/coming_up_amy_goodman_on_msnbc


Anonymous Message to North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple

http://www.anonews.co/anonymous-north-dakota/

[zorgon]

[thorfourwinds]

Published on Oct 31, 2016

[zorgon]

So...

Are they protesting on PRIVATE LAND owned by the company or are they on INDIAN LAND?

There seems to be a LOT of confusion about that  and it may be an important issue

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Everything I've seen and read is that the construction of the pipeline is on privetly owned land which is next to reservation land. The main point of contention is water crossings that the tribe says will ruin their water.

[thorfourwinds]

Published on Nov 1, 2016
The Dakota Access pipeline, a $3.8 billion, four-state project designed to carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois, has become a rallying point for American Indian tribes and others determined to block it. Here's a look at the key players connected with the protest, which began in April, heated up during the summer and boiled over this month with some 400 arrests.

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THE PIPELINE COMPANY

Energy Transfer Partners, or ETP, is a Fortune 500 oil and natural gas company based in Dallas. It is the main owner of the pipeline, along with Sunoco Logistics Partners and Phillips 66.

Launched in 1995, the company now has about 71,000 miles of natural gas and crude oil pipeline. The Dakota Access project would add 1,200 more miles, and ETP has long had a goal of finishing it by the end of 2016. The company warned in court documents that a delay in construction would cost it $1.4 billion in lost revenue in the first year.They say the pipeline threatens water sources and will disturb sacred sites and artifacts, and there is a broader concern about tribal sovereignty and rights.

Many of the protesters are demonstrating peacefully and urging others to do the same. Others have been more militant. More than 140 people were arrested recently when law enforcement moved in to evict an encampment that had been set up on pipeline property.

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THE SHERIFF

The main face of law enforcement has been Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, who previously was a captain with the state highway patrol, a part-time police officer, a corrections officer and a soldier.

His department has been accused by protesters of being sympathetic to the pipeline's workers and private security. Though deputies were not at a violent Sept. 3 clash between protesters and private security guards on private land, Kirchmeier said in a news release that the guards were "ambushed and assaulted" by protesters. The tribe says the protesters were being provoked.

Kirchmeier has frequently cited the burden of the long-lasting protest on his small department. Morton County has had help from state troopers and National Guard members and, more recently, from sheriff's departments traveling in from several states to help out.In August, the company announced it had sold nearly 37 percent of the project to Enbridge Energy Partners, the company that developed the Keystone XL pipeline, and Marathon Petroleum Corp. in a deal worth $2 billion.

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THE TRIBAL CHAIRMAN

Dave Archambault II leads the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation on the North Dakota-South Dakota border sits close to the pipeline's path. The laconic 45-year-old, whose tribe helped build a lawsuit against ETP and the federal government, has himself been sued by ETP for interfering with the pipeline and been arrested.

Archambault has spoken for years about concerns among the leaders of North Dakota's five American Indian reservations about increasing "environmental incidents" in the state's western oil patch. He traveled to Switzerland to plead the tribe's case to the United Nations and urged President Barack Obama to step in.

After a federal judge declined to grant the Standing Rock tribe an injunction against the pipeline, three federal agencies ordered a halt to construction on Army Corps of Engineers-owned land while the permitting process was reviewed.

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THE PROTESTERS

Members of more than 200 tribes from across North America have come to the tribe's encampment at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers since August, the tribe says. Crowd estimates at the protest site have varied from a few hundred to several thousand depending on the day — enough for tribal officials to call it one of the largest gatherings of Native Americans in a century or more.
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1. Call North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple at 701-328-2200. When leaving a message stating your thoughts about this subject please be professional.
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5. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 or (202) 456-1414. Tell President Obama to rescind the Army Corps of Engineers' Permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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[zorgon]

I am confused... Your article says the following and is attributed to the Pipeline Company statements? If the compant admits that why is there even an issue?

THE PIPELINE COMPANY

The company warned in court documents that a delay in construction would cost it $1.4 billion in lost revenue in the first year.They say the pipeline threatens water sources and will disturb sacred sites and artifacts, and there is a broader concern about tribal sovereignty and rights.