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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Native</span></a> leaders draft bill to regain some of sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHills</span></a> </p><p>Tribal and treaty council representatives hope proposed legislative language to return federal lands in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthDakota</span></a>&#39;s Black Hills to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lakota</span></a> people can be turned into a Congressional bill</p><p>by Amelia Schafer, Dec 2, 2024</p><p>FORT YATES, N.D. – &quot;The Black Hills are not for sale and never will be was the central uniting message discussed during a meeting at the Prairie Knights Casino in Fort Yates, N.D. on the Standing Rock Reservation.</p><p>Representatives from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, a group of Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation elders and various treaty councils gathered on Nov. 13 to formulate a plan for regaining land in the Black Hills. </p><p>&quot;The group met to discuss the He Sapa Restoration Act, which includes a formal declaration from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oyate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oyate</span></a> (nation) and the tribal governments to demand that the United States return federal land in the Black Hills to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OcetiSakowin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OcetiSakowin</span></a> people. The group hopes to introduce the bill in 2025.</p><p>&quot;The bill would not affect the titles of private lands. Though those lands would be cataloged as part of the land identification process, they would remain in possession of the title holders. </p><p>&quot;&#39;Today we’ve gathered to discuss the Black Hills,&#39; Standing Rock Vice-Chairman Frank Jameson said. &#39;This fight has been ongoing for many decades before us and it will continue after us.&quot; </p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://ictnews.org/news/leaders-draft-bill-to-regain-some-of-sacred-black-hills" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ictnews.org/news/leaders-draft</span><span class="invisible">-bill-to-regain-some-of-sacred-black-hills</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiverSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CheyenneRiverSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrowCreekSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CrowCreekSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LowerBruleSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LowerBruleSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OglalaSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OglalaSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RosebudSiouxTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RosebudSiouxTribe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SissetonWahpetonOyate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SissetonWahpetonOyate</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpiritLakeSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpiritLakeSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredBlackHills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SacredBlackHills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Short film] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tahnaanooku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tahnaanooku</span></a>&#39;</p><p>Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)</p><p>&quot;A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam.</p><p>&quot;Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be &#39;the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.&#39;</p><p>&quot;Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come.&quot;</p><p>Watch: <a href="https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reciprocity.org/films/tahnaano</span><span class="invisible">oku</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arikara" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Arikara</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mandan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mandan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hidatsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hidatsa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arikara" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Arikara</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MissouriRiver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GarrisonDam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GarrisonDam</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DCEFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DCEFF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousStorytellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousStorytellers</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousFilms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReciprocityProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReciprocityProject</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reciprocity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousFilmMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousFilmMakers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousWisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousWisdom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reciprocity</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>BETRAYED!!! </p><p>Well, even though <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DougBurgum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DougBurgum</span></a> will want to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillBabyDrill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrillBabyDrill</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a> advocated for that as well. In the past, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Burgum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Burgum</span></a> had done some good stuff with regards to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> rights in his state of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NorthDakota</span></a>. However, some <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalLeaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TribalLeaders</span></a> are in the pockets of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extractive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>extractive</span></a> industries -- so that needs to change on a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> by First Nation basis!</p><p>North Dakota tribal leaders see Burgum as an ally in Interior, energy role</p><p>By: Mary Steurer - November 15, 2024 </p><p>&quot;This past June, Burgum acknowledged at an event that relations between the state and tribes were at a low point when he took office in 2016. At the time, protests against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a> in southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NorthDakota</span></a> were ongoing, involving thousands of demonstrators who flocked to the state to camp in solidarity with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> Tribe in opposition to the pipeline. </p><p>&quot;Burgum said one of the first things he did as governor was reach out to Dave Archambault, chair of Standing Rock at the time, and offer to come meet with tribal leaders. </p><p>&quot;&#39;That’s where we were starting from: with a commitment to each other to listen to each other,&#39; Burgum said during this year’s Strengthening Government to Government conference, an annual event started under his leadership that brings together state and tribal leaders.</p><p>&quot;U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said he thinks Burgum’s experience working with North Dakota tribal leaders makes him a good fit for leading Interior. He characterized the current <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BIA</span></a> as unresponsive and bureaucratic.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://northdakotamonitor.com/2024/11/15/north-dakota-tribal-leaders-say-burgum-will-be-ally-in-interior-energy-role/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">northdakotamonitor.com/2024/11</span><span class="invisible">/15/north-dakota-tribal-leaders-say-burgum-will-be-ally-in-interior-energy-role/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpAppointments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrumpAppointments</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheBlackHills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProtectTheBlackHills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From 2019: Criminalization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> Defenders of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> Resisting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> in the United States</p><p>Report to the Inter-American<br />Commission on Human Rights</p><p>Prepared by the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program on behalf of the Water Protector Legal Collective</p><p>6/24/2019</p><p>Introduction</p><p>1. Peaceful demonstrations are a catalyst for the advancement of human rights. Yet around the world governments are criminalizing dissent and suppressing public <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>protest</span></a>, often as a means to protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateInterests</span></a>. In this context, indigenous peoples increasingly find themselves as the subjects of arrests, criminal prosecution and police violence when defending the lands they rely upon for their existence and survival from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResourceExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResourceExtraction</span></a> by industries who are operating without the free prior and informed consent of the affected communities.</p><p>2. This report is submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IACHR</span></a>) in conjunction with a thematic hearing held during the 172nd period of sessions. At the hearing,<br />Commissioners heard directly from those involved in the indigenous-led resistance to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a> (DAPL) at Standing Rock, North Dakota. This report addresses the criminalization and suppression of protest by indigenous human rights defenders and their allies by United States (U.S.) federal, state and local governments, working hand-in-hand with private security forces [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blackwater</span></a>], specifically in relation to the construction and operation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DAPL</span></a> by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a><br />Partners and Dakota Access, LLC (Dakota Access) and the connected <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayouBridgePipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BayouBridgePipeline</span></a> (collectively the “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BakkenPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BakkenPipeline</span></a>”).</p><p>3. Standing Rock is an emblematic case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousResistance</span></a> to extractive industry that drew attention from around the world as water protectors met on the banks of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MissouriRiver</span></a> in peaceful assembly in what was the largest gathering of indigenous peoples in the U.S. in 100 years. Standing Rock is merely one example of how the U.S. government works with industry to approve energy projects carried out without the meaningful participation or consent of<br />indigenous nations. Indigenous peoples are left with no choice but to peacefully protest and then are criminalized for their efforts to defend their lands and resources.</p><p>4. Since Standing Rock, there has been an alarming trend by the United States government and state legislatures to criminalize opposition to pipelines and other energy projects. These <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AntiProtest</span></a> and so-called “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriticalInfrastructure</span></a> laws” progress towards criminalizing dissent and implicitly condone the use of excessive force towards human rights defenders, often including indigenous peoples and their allies who are at the forefront of resistance to extractive industries. As the international community has acknowledged, these laws are incompatible with domestic and international law. The governments’ use of excessive force and mass arrests to threaten, intimidate, and silence “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a>” seeking to defend their lands, resources, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>culture</span></a>, and the collusion with private security forces, violate fundamental human rights to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and Aassembly enshrined in international human rights law and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USConstitution</span></a>.</p><p>5. The information provided here builds on a 2016 request for Precautionary Measures filed by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRock</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CheyenneRiver</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YanktonSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YanktonSioux</span></a> tribes, past Commission hearings on similar matters that remain unsettled, and reports on Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Activities, and the Criminalization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRightsDefenders</span></a>. In addition, the United Nations has reported on the situation at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRock</span></a> through the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of of indigenous peoples. Despite condemnation from these international bodies and mechanisms, water protectors continue to suffer impacts from the criminalization of their dissent, while the United States moves forward permitting new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pipeline</span></a> projects on indigenous territories.</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://law.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/FINAL%20IPLP-WPLC%20Report%20to%20IACHR%20-%206-24-19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">law.arizona.edu/sites/default/</span><span class="invisible">files/FINAL%20IPLP-WPLC%20Report%20to%20IACHR%20-%206-24-19.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HR9495</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopHR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopHR9495</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Authoritanism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ErikPrinceColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRock</span></a> Files New Lawsuit Against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DAPL</span></a></p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> <br />Oct. 29, 2024</p><p>&quot;The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockLakotaNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockLakotaNation</span></a> has filed a new fedral lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers in Washington describing its threat to the water, and how Energy Transfer bulldozed the burial places of their elite warrior society. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe demands the immediate shut down of the pipeline. </p><p>&quot;In a separate lawsuit in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NorthDakota</span></a> state court, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a> is carrying out a fishing expedition, serving media and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> with third party subpoenas for the case slated in court for February 2025. </p><p>&quot;In this case, the pipeline company is suing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedWarriorSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RedWarriorSociety</span></a>, and two Red Warrior <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a>. Greenpeace refers to the lawsuit as a frivolous $300 million <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SLAPP</span></a> lawsuit. </p><p>&quot;Greenpeace now has a new report on the pipeline&#39;s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Environmental</span></a> Rsks, and the threat to the water of millions of people who live along the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MissouriRiver</span></a>. The new report strengthens Standing Rock&#39;s new lawsuit.&quot; </p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-day-they-brought-dogs-in-standing.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/the-day-they-brought-dogs-in-standing.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lakota</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockReservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockReservation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeOahe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LakeOahe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> Tribe files new lawsuit over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DAPL</span></a> </p><p>By: Mary Steurer - October 15, 2024 </p><p>&quot;The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Monday filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers arguing that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a> is operating illegally and must be shut down.</p><p>&quot;The tribe has long opposed the pipeline, also referred to as DAPL, due to concerns that it violates the tribe’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sovereignty</span></a>, endangers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sacred</span></a> cultural sites and threatens to pollute the tribe’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterSupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterSupply</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;The Army Corps of Engineers has jurisdiction over the section of the pipeline that passes under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeOahe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LakeOahe</span></a> — a reservoir on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MissouriRiver</span></a> — roughly a half-mile upstream from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockReservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockReservation</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;The tribe in a 34-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia argues the Army Corps flouted federal regulations by allowing the pipeline to operate without an easement, sufficient study of possible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmental</span></a> impacts or the necessary emergency spill response plans, among other alleged violations.</p><p>&quot;&#39;We are fighting for our rights and the water that is life for Oceti Sakowin tribes,&#39; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairwoman <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JanetAlkire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JanetAlkire</span></a> said during a news conference the afternoon of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoplesDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeoplesDay</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;The Army Corps of Engineers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p><p>&quot;The more than 1,000-mile-long pipeline carries crude oil from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BakkenOilFields" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BakkenOilFields</span></a> of northwest North Dakota to Illinois, and has been operating since 2017. Its pathway includes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unceded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unceded</span></a> land recognized as belonging to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SiouxNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SiouxNation</span></a> under an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1851Treaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1851Treaty</span></a> with the U.S. government.</p><p>&quot;The lawsuit was triggered in part by a 2024 engineering report that raised questions about the construction of the pipeline crossing below Lake Oahe, representatives of the tribe said Monday.</p><p>&quot;The report calculated that up to 1.4 million gallons of bentonite clay-based drilling mud used in the horizontal directional drilling process was not fully accounted for in construction records. The report notes that there is no clear indication where the fluid migrated, but that it could have seeped into the surrounding soil.</p><p>“&#39;The Corps has failed to act and failed to protect the tribe,&#39; Alkire said of the report’s findings.</p><p>&quot;The report was prepared by engineering consulting firm Exponent for environmental advocacy group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a> as part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by pipeline developer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a>. Greenpeace commissioned the report to defend itself against Energy Transfer’s allegations that Greenpeace defamed the pipeline during its involvement in protests against DAPL in 2016 and 2017.</p><p>[...]</p><p>&quot;Standing Rock’s complaint also emphasizes that the Dakota Access Pipeline has still been allowed to operate despite that it no longer has an easement authorizing it to cross under Lake Oahe.</p><p>&quot;The Army Corps approved the easement in 2017, but a federal judge later revoked it in 2020, finding that the Corps violated environmental law by granting it without properly researching the possible environmental impacts of the pipeline.</p><p>[...]</p><p>&quot;The ban was related to a criminal pollution case against Energy Transfer for two pipelines in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a>. Violations alleged in the criminal case included that Energy Transfer had used unapproved additives in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillingFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrillingFluid</span></a> used to construct one of the pipelines. The company was convicted of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalCrimes</span></a> under Pennsylvania law.</p><p>&quot;For this reason, Standing Rock wonders whether the drilling fluid used to bore under Lake Oahe truly contained no toxins.</p><p>&quot;&#39;That’s a question the tribe has — what was in the drilling fluid?&#39; Don Holstrom, an environmental consultant for Standing Rock, said Monday.&quot;</p><p>Full article:<br /><a href="https://dailymontanan.com/2024/10/15/standing-rock-sioux-tribe-files-new-lawsuit-over-dapl/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dailymontanan.com/2024/10/15/s</span><span class="invisible">tanding-rock-sioux-tribe-files-new-lawsuit-over-dapl/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KelcyWarren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRock</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>1.4M gallons of fluid leaked from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DakotaAccess</span></a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DAPL</span></a>] drilling, report says</p><p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> Tribe, which wants the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> shut down, says spills near <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeOahe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LakeOahe</span></a> were <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmental</span></a> violations.</p><p>By Mike Soraghan<br />10/01/2024 06:45 AM EDT</p><p>&quot;The tribe at the forefront of fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline has found evidence that more than a million gallons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillingFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrillingFluid</span></a> leaked as construction crews tunneled under the lake that is the tribe’s main source of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;Authors of an engineering report filed last year in a North Dakota lawsuit estimates that 1.4 million gallons of drilling mud escaped the confines of the tunnel in 2017 — at the same time authorities above ground were breaking up the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>protests</span></a> about the pipeline.</p><p>&quot;The report found no indication in the records of pipeline developer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a> that anyone checked to see if it had reached the lake, called Lake Oahe.</p><p>&quot;The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says that amounts to violations of the environmental rules laid out for the construction project. Among other things, those rules called on construction crews to stop drilling and investigate when there were signs of leaks.</p><p>&quot;Tribal officials say the Army Corps of Engineers, which controls the lake, never disclosed them.&quot;</p><p>Original article:<br /><a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/1-4m-gallons-of-fluid-leaked-from-dakota-access-drilling-report-says/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eenews.net/articles/1-4m-gallo</span><span class="invisible">ns-of-fluid-leaked-from-dakota-access-drilling-report-says/</span></a></p><p>Archived article:<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/VOism" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/VOism</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KelcyWarren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRock</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>I don&#39;t blame them!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> banned by two more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> tribes in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthDakota</span></a></p><p>Governor, plagued by dog-killing story, unwelcome in 20% of her state after she accused tribal leaders of benefiting from cartels</p><p>Dani Anguiano <br />Mon 13 May 2024 19.52 EDT</p><p>&quot;The move by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YanktonSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YanktonSioux</span></a> tribe and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SissetonWahpetonOyate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SissetonWahpetonOyate</span></a> tribe last week follows criticism from the governor who has – without evidence – accused tribal leaders of &#39;personally benefiting<br /> from drug cartels. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oglala" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oglala</span></a>, Rosebud, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CheyenneRiver</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> tribes banished Noem earlier this year.</p><p>&quot;In a statement announcing the ban in April, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RosebudSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RosebudSioux</span></a> said the decision was based not only on Noem’s recent comments but an &#39;ongoing strained relationship&#39; with the governor, who took office in 2019.</p><p>&quot;The tribe cited Noem’s support of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KeystoneXLPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KeystoneXLPipeline</span></a>, her opposition to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/checkpoints" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>checkpoints</span></a> on reservation borders established by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiverSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CheyenneRiverSioux</span></a> and Oglala Sioux during the pandemic, and her support of the removal of &#39;significant sections&#39; of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> history from state social-studies standards, among other issues.</p><p>&quot;&#39;Governor Noem claims she wants to establish meaningful relationships with tribes to provide solutions for systemic problems. However, her actions as governor show blatantly otherwise,&#39; the tribe said in a statement.</p><p>&quot;&#39;Her disingenuous nature towards Native Americans to further her federal political ambitions is an attack on tribal sovereignty that the Rosebud Sioux tribe will not tolerate.&#39;&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/kristi-noem-banned-tribes-south-dakota" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/may/13/kristi-noem-banned-tribes-south-dakota</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoKXL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoKXL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalErasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CulturalErasure</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRock</span></a>: FBI had up to 10 informants during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>resistance</span></a> to DAPL</p><p>The FBI&#39;s special agent in charge, reveals in his lengthy deposition, his search for the motivation of Standing Rock <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> to make their stand -- and he fails to find the most obvious -- The Protection of the Sacred</p><p>by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 15, 2024</p><p>&quot;In a new court case, the State of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NorthDakota</span></a> claims it didn&#39;t have enough resources during the Standing Rock resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline, and wants the U.S. to pay up. The testimony reveals that the FBI had up to 10 informants, not just FBI informant Heath Harmon, in the camps. </p><p>&quot;&#39;Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a> in 2016,&#39; Alleen Brown reports today at Grist. </p><p>&quot;&#39;The new details about federal law enforcement surveillance of an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalMovement</span></a> were released as part of a legal fight between North Dakota and the federal government over who should pay for policing the pipeline fight. Until now, the existence of only one other federal informant in the camps had been confirmed.&#39; </p><p>&quot;&#39;The FBI also regularly sent agents wearing civilian clothing into the camps, one former agent told Grist in an interview. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, operated undercover narcotics officers out of the reservation’s Prairie Knights Casino, where many pipeline opponents rented rooms, according to one of the depositions.&quot;</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/standing-rock-fbi-had-up-to-10.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/standing-rock-fbi-had-up-to-10.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmericanActivists</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Footing the $15 Million Bill for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PrivateArmy</span></a></p><p>Sen. John Hoeven added monies to the Department of Justice’s budget for FY 2017 to reimburse <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NorthDakota</span></a> for incurred costs.</p><p>By Ruth Hopkins , <br />IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork</p><p>Published: May 23, 2017 </p><p>“Last fall, the eyes of the world were fixated on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRock</span></a>.</p><p>“Among the images burned into the brains of so many abroad were those of Morton County sheriff’s department, joined by law enforcement officers from across the country, bedecked in military gear and armed to the teeth, brutalizing defenseless water protectors for expressing their first amendment rights and freedom of religion. Eyes were opened when mercs sicced vicious attack dogs on women and children guarding sacred burial grounds with their lives. Folks thousands of miles away watched in horror as they witnessed concussion grenades being thrown into crowds and elders being maced in the midst of sweat lodge raids. People will never forget live stream video picked up by mainstream media, showing hundreds of civilians being shot with water cannons in subzero temperatures by a corporate police state army. Some photos of injuries were judged too graphic to post by social media, as they revealed a young woman with a near severed limb and another who’d been blinded in one eye.</p><p>“This was not Iraq or Afghanistan. There was no foreign enemy invading our shores. These events occurred in the middle of the United States, on Lakota treaty lands; and the only thing these innocent people had done was dare to stand in the way of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the same one Bismarck, North Dakota residents rejected due to fears it would contaminate their water supply. This war zone created by Dakota Access and Morton County was meant to subdue Standing Rock residents and water protectors and force them to accept an unwarranted risk to their fresh water and the desecration of ancestral graves, under the barrel of a gun.</p><p>“Here in the states, hundreds of Native Nations and the American public sided with Standing Rock. Scores came to camp along the shores of the Mni Sosa (Missouri River). Others rallied in the local cities, signed petitions, and called the White House. Millions were outraged by the injustice.</p><p>“Yet who is paying for the corporate police state brutality I just mentioned? You are.</p><p>“Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), who accepted money from Energy Transfer Partners (the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline) and has been vocal in his support of both the Dakota Access Pipeline as well as the Keystone XL pipeline, has announced that North Dakota will receive $15 million in federal funds to reimburse the state for costs incurred as a result of militarizing Barney Fife and company while they pushed the pipeline through for ETP and engaged in the violent, forced removal of water protectors. Hoeven slid said monies into the Department of Justice’s budget as part of Fiscal 2017 funding legislation.</p><p>“By the way, Hoeven sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee and is now the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Welcome to Custer’s wet dream.</p><p>“The distinguished Senator from North Dakota would have us believe his state was alone in its mission to extinguish <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a>. Nothing could be further from the truth.</p><p>“When Morton County requested backup, law enforcement officials from across the nation came to North Dakota via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). The Sheriff’s Association also showed up in full force.</p><p>“New York Daily News writer Shaun King obtained audio where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnergyTransferPartners</span></a> freely admitted that they worked closely with the Sheriff’s Association, and wow, did they ever. They became one and the same.</p><p>“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> who lived at camp can attest to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ETP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ETP</span></a> and law enforcement’s collusion and fraternization, but the record speaks for itself.</p><p>“The Sheriffs’ Association has a $3.46 million budget, according to tax forms. Some of this funding comes from corporate sources, like TigerSwan. TigerSwan maintains offices in Iraq and Afghanistan. TigerSwan’s CEO is a former adviser to the multinational private security firm, Blackwater. Blackwater was founded by Erik Prince, a Trump campaign donor and the brother of Betsy DeVos, the US Secretary of Education. Besides funding the Sheriff’s Association, TigerSwan is in charge of Dakota Access intelligence and supervising overall security for the company. Tigerswan works for Dakota Access, while funding and partnering with the Sheriffs’ Association.</p><p>“The Sheriff’s Association purchased military gear from the US Department’s Defense Logistics Agency thanks to the Defense Department’s 1033 program. Think corporate welfare for the defense industry.</p><p>“Wait, there’s more. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnergyTransferPartners</span></a> CEO <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KelcyWarren</span></a> offered to reimburse North Dakota and Morton County for costs due to defending the Dakota Access Pipeline.</p><p>“So why are US taxpayers forking over $15 million to North Dakota?</p><p>“Despite the fossil fuel industry’s wishes, America is not an oil company with an army. We should not be bankrolling our own oppression.”</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/footing-</span><span class="invisible">the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TigerSwan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ErikPrinceColonialism</span></a></p>

Owner Slaps with New Subpoenas -- Third-party subpoenas allow to obtain evidence, from individuals or organizations, who are not part of the lawsuit

Energy Transfer attempts to drag and advocates into meritless lawsuit with third-party subpoenas

The operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer, is attempting to drag Indigenous and environmental justice advocates into this meritless lawsuit to stifle voices.

By Greenpeace USA, via Censored News, November 27, 2023

WASHINGTON – "In response to recent third-party subpoenas issued by Energy Transfer, which target Indigenous and environmental justice advocates, Ebony Twilley Martin, Executive Director of said: “The operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer, is attempting to drag Indigenous and environmental justice advocates into this meritless lawsuit to stifle dissenting voices.

"'For over six years, USA has been fighting lawsuits brought by Energy Transfer over the Indigenous- led resistance movement at . This type of legal , known as , is part of the playbook to and who lack the financial means to fight these lawsuits.

"Energy Transfer is now attempting to expand this playbook by targeting Indigenous and environmental justice activists through the use of third-party subpoenas. Now is the moment for us all to come together to send a message to Energy Transfer, and other corporations considering this tactic, that we will not be silenced and we will not tolerate legal bullying.'

"'These legal actions are an insult to the many Indigenous water protectors who continue to lead the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and the continual threats and degradation of their historic lands. These attacks are a threat to our First Amendment rights to speak out, a threat to , and a threat to the rights of . We will not let this meritless lawsuit silence us and distract our movements from all our work to win a , , and joyful future for all.'

"Contact: Gujari Singh, Greenpeace USA Senior Communications Specialist, gsingh@greenpeace.org, (631) 404-9977

"Greenpeace USA is part of a global network of independent campaigning organizations that use and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country’s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people first. Learn more at www.greenpeace.org/usa "

Source:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/11

bsnorrell.blogspot.comDakota Access Pipeline Owner Slaps Water Protectors with New Subpoenas Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

How to your dinner in observance of

Meredith Clark
Wed, November 22, 2023

"Thanksgiving is almost upon us, a time when many gather together to eat turkey and talk about what they’re most thankful for. Growing up in the , almost everyone can recall the 'First Thanksgiving' story they were told in elementary school: how the local sat down with the of Colony in 1621, in what is now present-day , for a celebratory feast.

"However, this story is far from the truth - which is why many people opt out of celebrating the controversial holiday.

"For many communities throughout the US, Thanksgiving remains a National Day of Mourning - a reminder of the devastating and that occurred at the hands of European following their arrival in the Americas.

"Every year since 1970, and their allies have even gathered near to commemorate a National on the day of Thanksgiving. 'Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the erasure of Native cultures,' states the official website for the United American Indians of New England. 'Participants in National Day of Mourning honour Indigenous and Native resilience. It is a day of and connection, as well as a against the and that Indigenous people continue to experience .'

"This year, the 54th annual National Day of Mourning takes place on 23 November - the same day as Thanksgiving. While not everyone can support the event in person, there are still many ways people can raise awareness toward issues affecting Indigenous communities from wherever they are - by '' their Thanksgiving dinner.

" can be defined as the active resistance against and a shifting of power towards Indigenous sovereignty. Of course, it’s difficult to define decolonisation without putting it into practice, writes Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang in their essay, Is Not a Metaphor. Rather, one of the most radical and necessary moves toward decolonisation requires imagining and enacting a future for Indigenous peoples - a future based on terms of their own making.

"Matt Hooley is an assistant professor in the department of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College, where he teaches about US colonial powers and Indigenous cultural production. 'Decolonisation is a beautiful and difficult political horizon that should guide our actions everyday, including during holidays like Thanksgiving,' he tells The Independent. 'Of course, Thanksgiving is a particularly relevant holiday to think about decolonisation because the way many people celebrate it involves connecting ‘the family’ to a colonial myth in which colonialism is inaccurately imagined as a peaceful event in the past.'

"By decolonising our Thanksgiving, we can celebrate the holiday with new traditions that honour a future in which Indigenous people are celebrated. This year, we can start by understanding the real history behind Thanksgiving as told by actual Indigenous communities.

"While Americans mainly dedicate one day a year to give thanks, Indigenous communities express gratitude every day with the Thanksgiving Address - often called: 'The words that come before all else.' The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is the central prayer and invocation for the , which comprises the - , , , , , and . When one recites the Thanksgiving Address, they’re giving thanks for all life and the natural world around them.

"According to Hooley, one of the most straightforward actions people can take to decolonise their Thanksgiving includes supporting Indigenous land acknowledgments and land back movements. is an ongoing Indigenous-led movement which seeks to return ancestral lands to Indigenous people and the recognition of Indigenous . While the movement is nowhere near new, it received international attention in 2016 during protests against the - which continues to disrupt land and sources belonging to the Tribe.

"This year, sit down with family and friends to discuss an action plan and highlight the concrete steps you plan on taking to support Indigenous communities. 'Another, even simpler way would be to begin participating in what’s called a ‘Voluntary Land Tax,’ whereby non-Indigenous people contribute a recurring tax to the tribal communities whose land you occupy,' said Hooley.

"Food is perhaps the most important part of the Thanksgiving holiday, with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes taking center stage. However, there are many ways we can make sure our dinner tables honour Indigenous futurisms too. Donald A Grinde, Jr is a professor emeritus in the department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. Grinde - who is a member of the - tells The Independent that crops such as , , , , and are central to and future.

"'A good thing is to be thankful for the abundance in the fall and note that Native people created over 60 percent of modern ,' he said. 'People can be thankful for the crops that Native people created, created, and traditions about , and rights.'

"Rather than buying food from major corporations this year, Hooly also recommended people consciously source their Thanksgiving dinner from Indigenous producers. 'Industrial agriculture is one of the most devastating contributors to the destruction of land and water everywhere, including on Indigenous land,' he said. 'Instead of buying food grown or made by colonial corporations, people could buy their food from Indigenous producers, or even simply make a greater effort to buy locally grown food or not to buy meat harvested from industrial farms.'

"Thanksgiving is just a day away. While it’s important that we’re actively working toward highlighting Indigenous communities on this special holiday, decolonisation efforts are something that should be done year-round.

"'People can also learn about political priorities of the Indigenous communities near them and support those priorities by speaking to their representatives, participating in a protest, or by making sure that their local school and library boards are including Indigenous texts in local community education,' Hooley said."

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Yahoo Life · How to decolonize your Thanksgiving dinner in observance of National day of MourningBy Meredith Clark

After infiltrating , pitched its ‘’ playbook to other oil companies

More than 50,000 pages of newly released documents detail how the security firm targeted opponents and tried to profit off its tactics.

by Alleen Brown & Naveena Sadasivam
Apr 13, 2023

"The Intercept and Grist contacted TigerSwan, , the National Sheriffs’ Association, as well as Thompson, the group’s executive director. None of them responded to requests for comment.

"To TigerSwan, the emergence of -led social movements to keep oil and gas in the ground represented a business opportunity. Reese anticipated new demand from the industry for strategies to undermine the network of his company had so carefully gathered information on. In the records, TigerSwan expressed its ambitions to repurpose these detailed records to position themselves as experts in managing pipeline protests. The company created marketing materials pitching work to at least two other energy companies building controversial oil and gas infrastructure, the records show. TigerSwan, which was staffed heavily with former members of military special operations units, branded its tactics as a 'counterinsurgency approach,' drawing directly from its leaders’ experiences fighting the so-called War on Terror abroad.

"TigerSwan did not just work in . Energy Transfer hired the company to provide security to its in and , the documents confirm. By spring 2017, TigerSwan was also assembling intelligence reports on opponents of Energy Transfer and ’s Pipeline in .

"The documents from the North Dakota security board paint a detailed picture of counterinsurgency-style strategies for defeating opponents of oil and gas development, a War-on-Terror security firm’s aspirations to replicate its deceptive tactics far beyond the Northern Great Plains, and the cozy relationship between businesses linked to the fossil fuel industry and one of the largest law enforcement trade associations in the U.S. The impetus for spying was not simply to keep people safe, but to drum up profits from energy clients and to allow fossil fuels to continue flowing, at the expense of the communities fighting for clean water and a healthy climate.

"'For them, it was an opportunity to help create a narrative against our tribe and our supporters,' said Wasté Win Young, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the one of the plaintiffs in a class action civil rights lawsuit against TigerSwan and local law enforcement. Young’s social media posts repeatedly showed up in the documents. 'We weren’t motivated by money or payoffs or anything like that. We just wanted to protect our homelands.'"

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Grist · After infiltrating Standing Rock, TigerSwan pitched its ‘counterinsurgency’ playbook to other oil companiesBy Alleen Brown

After Spying on Protest, Shopped Info to Oil Firms

by Alleen Brown and Naveena Sadasivam
04/17/2023

""More than 50,000 pages of documents were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret."

"Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access pipeline."

"A new business model for breaking down environmental movements was being hatched in real time. On Labor Day weekend in 2016, private security dogs in North Dakota attacked opponents led by members of the Tribe as they approached earth-moving equipment. The tribal members considered the land sacred, and the heavy equipment was breaking ground to build the Dakota Access pipeline. With a major public relations crisis on its hands, the pipeline’s parent company, Energy Transfer, hired the firm TigerSwan to revamp its security strategy.

"By October, TigerSwan — founded by James Reese, a retired commander of the elite special operations Army unit Delta Force — had established a military-style pipeline security strategy.

"There was one nagging problem that threatened to unravel it all: Reese hadn’t acquired a security license from the North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board. Although Reese claimed TigerSwan wasn’t conducting security services at all, the state regulator insisted that its operations were without a license."

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The Intercept · After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest “Counterinsurgency” to Other Oil CompaniesBy Alleen Brown

Security Firm Running Intelligence Has Ties to U.S. Military Work in and

By Steve Horn
Oct 28, 2016

" is one of several security firms under investigation for its work guarding the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota while potentially without a permit. Besides this recent work on the protests in , this company has offices in Iraq and Afghanistan and is run by a special forces Army veteran.

"According to a summary of the investigation, TigerSwan 'is in charge of Dakota Access intelligence and supervises the overall security.'

"The Morton County, North Dakota, Sheriff’s Department also recently concluded that another security company, Frost Kennels, operated in the state while unlicensed to do so and could face criminal charges. The firm’s attack dogs bit at a heated Labor Day weekend protest.

"Law enforcement and private security at the North Dakota pipeline protests have faced criticism for maintaining a militarized presence in the area. The American Civil Liberties Union () and National Lawyer’s Guild have filed multiple open records requests to learn more about the extent of this , and over 133,000 citizens have signed a petition calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene and quell the backlash.

"The Federal Aviation Administration has also implemented a no-fly zone, which bars anyone but law enforcement from flying within a 4-mile radius and 3500 feet above the ground in the protest area. , an organizer on the scenes in North Dakota with the , said on Facebook that ' private security planes and choppers were flying all day' within the designated no-fly zone.

"Donnell Hushka, the designated public information officer for the North Dakota Tactical Operation Center, which is tasked with overseeing the no-fly zone, did not respond to repeated queries about designated private entities allowed to fly in no-fly zone airspace.

"What is TigerSwan?

"TigerSwan has offices in Iraq, Afghanistan, , , , and and has headquarters in North Carolina. In the past year, TigerSwan won two U.S. Department of State contracts worth over $7 million to operate in Afghanistan, according to USASpending.gov.

"TigerSwan, however, claims on its website that the contract is worth $25 million, and said in a press release that the State Department contract called for the company to 'monitor, assess, and advise current and future nation building and stability initiatives in Afghanistan.' Since 2008, TigerSwan has won about $57.7 million worth of U.S. government contracts and subcontracts for security services.

"Company founder and CEO James Reese, a veteran of the elite Army Delta Force, served as the 'lead advisor for Special Operations to the Director of the CIA for planning, operations and integration for the invasion of Afghanistan and Operation Enduring Freedom' in Iraq, according to his company biography. Army Delta partakes in mostly covert and high-stakes missions and is part of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the latter well known for killing Osama Bin Laden.

"One of TigerSwan’s advisory board members, Charles Pittman, has direct ties to the . Pittman “served as President of Egypt Oil Company, Amoco Eurasia Petroleum Company, and Regional President BP Amoco plc. (covering the , the Caspian Sea region, Egypt, and India),' according to his company biography.

'Sad, But Not Surprising'

"Investigative journalist told ! in a 2009 interview that TigerSwan did some covert operations work with USA, dubbed the 'world’s most powerful army' in his book by the same name. Blackwater has also guarded in central , according to Scahill’s book.

"Reese advised Blackwater and took a leave of absence from TigerSwan in 2008 in the aftermath of the , a shooting in Iraq conducted by Blackwater officers which saw 17 Iraqi civilians killed. TigerSwan has a business relationship with Babylon Eagles Security Company, a private security firm headquartered in Iraq which also has had business ties with Blackwater.

"'It is sad, but not surprising, that this firm has ties to the US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq,' Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the women-led peace group and the co-founder of the human rights group , told DeSmog. 'It is another terrifying example of how our violent interventions abroad come home to haunt us in the form of repression and violation of our civil rights.'

"The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Private Investigation and Security Board are also conducting parallel investigations to the one recently completed by Morton County. TigerSwan did not comment on questions posed about their contract."

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DeSmog · Security Firm Running Dakota Access Pipeline Intelligence Has Ties to U.S. Military Work in Iraq and AfghanistanTigerSwan is one of several security firms under investigation for its work guarding the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota while potentially without a permit. Besides this recent work on the Standing Rock Sioux protests in North Dakota, this company has offices in Iraq and Afghanistan and is run by a special forces Army veteran. According to a summary […]

Feds leave future of Dakota Access pipeline's controversial river crossing unclear in draft review

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released its draft environmental impact statement of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, but said it's waiting for more input before deciding the future of the line’s controversial river crossing in North Dakota

Jack Dura
Friday 08 September 2023

"Federal officials on Friday released a draft environmental review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, but said they're waiting for more input before deciding the future of the line’s controversial river crossing in North Dakota.

"The draft was released over three years after a federal judge ordered the environmental review and revoked the permit for the Missouri River crossing, upstream of the Tribe's reservation. The tribe is concerned a pipeline oil spill could contaminate its water supply.

"The environmental review is key for whether the federal government reissues the permit. The pipeline has been operating since 2017, including during the environmental review."

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The IndependentFeds leave future of Dakota Access pipeline's controversial river crossing unclear in draft reviewBy Jack Dura

Background on the litigation:

Standing Rock Litigation

About the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit challenging the Dakota Access Pipeline.

"The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, represented by Earthjustice from 2016 to 2022, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for violating the National Historic Preservation Act and other laws, after the agency issued final permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a massive crude oil pipeline stretching from North Dakota to Illinois.

"The FAQ and timeline is currently under construction — we apologize for the inconvenience!

"Archival resources related to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit challenging the Dakota Access Pipeline:

- Legal documents about the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit
- Press releases and statements about the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit
- Feature stories and videos about the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit

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EarthjusticeFAQ: Standing Rock LitigationAbout the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit challenging the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Injured protesters press 8th Circuit to revive suit

Attorneys for protesters said the use of "less-lethal" munitions and firehoses in subfreezing temperatures was unnecessarily brutal despite a federal judge's ruling otherwise.

by Andy Monserud / September 19, 2023

"'Water protectors' Vanessa Dundon, David Demo, Guy Dullknife, Frank Finan, Mariah Bruce and Crystal Wilson were at a prayer camp established by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe just south of the Backwater Bridge, near a construction site for the Dakota Access Pipeline, in late November 2016. All six suffered injuries during a confrontation between police and protesters on the night of Nov. 20, when police made headlines by spraying water at the protesters in sub-freezing temperatures alongside stinger grenades, beanbag rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas.

"The protesters brought suit against two North Dakota counties and their sheriffs, plus the city of Mandan and its police chief and up to a hundred John Does, shortly afterward but were shot down first by U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland and then by U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor, who took over the case after Hovland took senior status in 2019. Traynor, in his order granting summary judgment to the law enforcement officers, found that they had not committed a “seizure” of the protesters, that if they had they would be entitled to qualified immunity, and that the protesters’ First Amendment rights had not been infringed upon because they were trespassing on private property at the time.

"In her arguments before the Eighth Circuit Tuesday, attorney Rachel Lederman said Traynor had taken far too much of law enforcement’s side of the story at face value. 'This case is fundamentally about disputes of fact,' she said. 'The story defendants have put forth to justify their use of force is hotly disputed.'

"By cutting off the case before discovery could be conducted, Lederman said, Traynor had deprived the protesters of the chance for a jury to look at the evidence and resolve those disputes, particularly whether protesters posed enough of a threat to law enforcement to justify the use of force.

"'Defendants’ use of force caused serious injuries, such as broken bones and detached retina,' Lederman said. 'Only a single officer was even slightly injured, without requiring medical attention. There’s no evidence whatsoever that any of the named plaintiffs were threatening in any way.'

"The use of water hoses or cannons in particular raised concerns for Lederman and for attorney Michael Avery, of the National Police Accountability Project, who pointed out that the last time water cannons were used on protesters in the United States was in the apartheid south during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Officers, moreover, were “ensconced in a multi-layered barricade” of armored vehicles and concertina wire, and drastically outnumbered protesters at the time, Lederman argued. Furthermore, she said, construction had already been halted on the pipeline, neutralizing any threat protesters posed to that project."

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www.courthousenews.comInjured Standing Rock protesters press 8th Circuit to revive suitAttorneys for protesters said the use of

Federal Appeals Court Heard Arguments Today in Law Enforcement Brutality at Backwater Bridge at

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 19, 2023

"ST. LOUIS -- A federal appeals court heard arguments in the class action lawsuit filed for excessive force at Backwater Bridge at Standing Rock. The issues argued included whether water protectors were free to leave, whether law enforcement feared for their lives, and whether the use of munitions, including bean bags filled with shot, and water sprayed on water protectors in temperatures below freezing, was justified or legal."

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