If you get your news from television you’re probably not familiar with what has been going on in North Dakota and which is of great importance in these days of corporate trickery. The mainstream news wants to keep you ignorant. They’ll report on things but only when they cannot avoid it. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now was arrested and this brought attention to what is going on.
A pipeline is being built under Native American land in North Dakota which has the potential (as all pipelines do) to severely contaminate the water. Native Tribes from all over the country and overseas have been coming together for some weeks now, in an effort to cease the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). But the DAPL corporations are running out of time to meet their loan deadline and are getting desperate. They’re bringing in the big guns to tear down these noble “water protectors”. This is what the protestors call themselves (rather than protestors). The tribes are protecting the water and our environment. We need to be very aware of what is happening there. Here’s an article fyi:
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/10/cops-mass-arrest-brutally-pepper-spray-83-native-americans-praying-end-illegal-dakota-access-pipeline/
The protectos stand in prayer and song and refuse to use any violence while the costumed Darth Vader types come at them with vicious dogs, mace and heavy military equipment. Many are being arrested and roughed around. This is being done to peaceful protestors on Native land. Your taxes pay for these goons to do the bidding of corporations. Journalists too are being arrested for reporting stories of pipeline protests. A documentary filmmaker was arrested and (dig this) is facing a 45 year sentence. What does your favorite political candidate say about this? One can hardly call this democracy.
We who are comfortable in our fossil fuel lifestyles could be so much better off with renewable energy. Where are the policies to move to renewables? Where are the plans, the goals? It was said that fracking was a brdige to renewables, so where is the timeline for this? What is their true intention pray tell. Keeping you stupid, keeping you ignorant and busy so you won’t notice. That’s the plan.
We should be standing with the Native Americans. Everyone should know about what is happening at Standing Rock but the presstitutes don’t want you to know. Let’s not let another Wounded Knee traumatize our native peoples and by extension, ourselves. Let’s redirect history, create a better story. Please do what you can to help, go there and stand with them if you can. The weather is getting colder and the protectors could use warm clothing and other supplies. you could help them in that way if you can’t make the trip. Let your family and friends know. Don’t let the presstitutes make patsies out of us. Let’s not go by their agenda but by an agenda to do do what is healthiest, what is ideal. Let’s not settle for anything less.
The tribes stand for our wellbeing, they stand by Mother Nature. If we let the banks, the fossil fuel industry, and other vampires rape the planet, they will run with it. They need to be stopped and that’s what the water protectors are trying to do. Whatever we can do to support them is an expression of our gratitutde. Below are a couple of websites with more information.
Sacred Stone Camp – How I can help: http://sacredstonecamp.org/faq/#howtohelp
Banks supporting DAPL (boycott them!) : http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/how-to-contact-the-17-banks-funding-the-dakota-access-pipeline-20160929
additional news
here is an excerpt from an article by Sara Lazare of Alternate, Oct 27th.
Clear Evidence Emerges of Outrageous Militarized Police Collaboration with Oil Companies at Standing Rock
Against Protectors
Police departments around the country are sending reinforcements to North Dakota to support mining companies.
Today’s militarized crackdown on water protectors in Cannonball, North Dakota stems from high levels of coordination between the extractive industry, state officials and police departments. It was waged against a frontline camp seeking to block the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which would cross beneath the Standing Rock Sioux reservation’s main drinking water source and bisect the community’s burial grounds. The attack took place under cover of a media blackout, with reports emerging that police were disrupting cellular phone reception.
Water protectors have already endured dog attacks, military-style checkpoints, low-flying surveillance planes, invasive strip searches, national guard deployments and mass arrests. “What’s happening today is a travesty on the human rights of Indigenous people,” Tom Goldtooth, the executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, told AlterNet. “I see this as glaring evidence that the law enforcement of this county and state is more concerned about protecting corporate rights of the extractive industry than tribal nations.”
There is evidence of close coordination between the companies backing the $3.8 billion crude-oil Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and police departments. Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company for Dakota Access LLC, said Tuesday that it intends to work with police to forcibly clear a frontlines water protectors’ camp. Energy Transfer Partners threatened that “in coordination with local law enforcement and county/state officials, all trespassers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and removed from the land.”
Challenging the company’s charges of trespassing, the frontline Sacred Stone Camp says they are taking back “unceded territory affirmed in the 1851 Treaty of Ft. Laramie as sovereign land under the control of the Oceti Sakowin.”
“We have never ceded this land,” Joye Braun, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said in a press statement. “If DAPL can go through and claim eminent domain on landowners and Native peoples on their own land, then we as sovereign nations can then declare eminent domain on our own aboriginal homeland.”
Police today shot medics and arrested them
Peaceful protest is not allowed in America. Seems what is not ok for pee-ons is ok for “authority”. Who are these men in riot gear and equipped with military weapons getting into the faces of peaceful protesters? Are they ok with their children drinking contaminated water? What do they think will eventuate if those who protect our resources are obliterated? Please everyone, let everyone you know hear about this because the mainstream media is mute.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/10/standing-rock-medics-shot-by-police-and.html
https://www.facebook.com/dallasgoldtooth/videos/10105868266548603/
additional news
here is an excerpt from an article by Sara Lazare of Alternate, Oct 27th.
Clear Evidence Emerges of Outrageous Militarized Police Collaboration with Oil Companies at Standing Rock
Against Protectors
Police departments around the country are sending reinforcements to North Dakota to support mining companies.
Today’s militarized crackdown on water protectors in Cannonball, North Dakota stems from high levels of coordination between the extractive industry, state officials and police departments. It was waged against a frontline camp seeking to block the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which would cross beneath the Standing Rock Sioux reservation’s main drinking water source and bisect the community’s burial grounds. The attack took place under cover of a media blackout, with reports emerging that police were disrupting cellular phone reception.
Water protectors have already endured dog attacks, military-style checkpoints, low-flying surveillance planes, invasive strip searches, national guard deployments and mass arrests. “What’s happening today is a travesty on the human rights of Indigenous people,” Tom Goldtooth, the executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, told AlterNet. “I see this as glaring evidence that the law enforcement of this county and state is more concerned about protecting corporate rights of the extractive industry than tribal nations.”
There is evidence of close coordination between the companies backing the $3.8 billion crude-oil Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and police departments. Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company for Dakota Access LLC, said Tuesday that it intends to work with police to forcibly clear a frontlines water protectors’ camp. Energy Transfer Partners threatened that “in coordination with local law enforcement and county/state officials, all trespassers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and removed from the land.”
Challenging the company’s charges of trespassing, the frontline Sacred Stone Camp says they are taking back “unceded territory affirmed in the 1851 Treaty of Ft. Laramie as sovereign land under the control of the Oceti Sakowin.”
“We have never ceded this land,” Joye Braun, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said in a press statement. “If DAPL can go through and claim eminent domain on landowners and Native peoples on their own land, then we as sovereign nations can then declare eminent domain on our own aboriginal homeland.”
correction
The source is Alternet.org, not Alternate. The computer spell checked automatically.
stranded assets
Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein is among those arrested.
(Go Jill!)
The owners of fossil fuels are desperate to “off” that fuel while there’s still a market.
Can you say “stranded assets?”
Devolution's of compromise, not revolution
“I see this as glaring evidence that the law enforcement of this county and state is more concerned about protecting corporate rights of the extractive industry than tribal nations.”
Come on people. Get with the program. Of course, the “county and state is more concerned about protecting corporate rights…than tribal nations.”
Glaring evidence!! What hell did you think they would be doing. Look man, corporations are people too. They now have the same rights as us to survive. And, they damn well will.
We’re the ones, the voters and nonvoters, who put them in power. And, we’re just a bunch of “cry babies” because they are forcing their way on us.
They have the power, the money, the will, the family generations and the steady upper hand. At the very best, and you mark my words, there will only be dilutions and devolution’s of compromise, not revolution.
So we should all
just give up now? Is that what you are suggesting? If thought creates reality, then we should be trying to influence the ordinary people who are on the ground fighting the Native people. They need clean water too in order to live. What do they think is going to come of this? What will happen to them and their children if water is contaminated? The ones fighting on the ground are actually more culpable because they are doing the deed. The order givers can be told to take a hike but it’s the order followers who are the most dangerous.
"So we should all just give up now?"
“So we should all just give up now? Is that what you are suggesting?”
We? We? We who? There is no “we.” You really don’t know that most Americans don’t give a shit one way or the other. The main they care about is when they wake up in the dark that they can flip a switch and turn on the light. You have a disillusion that you have the ‘people’ at your back. You don’t. The corporations know that. How come you don’t?