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DoomsdaysCWFrom 2019: Criminalization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> Defenders of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndigenousPeoples</a> Resisting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ExtractiveIndustries</a> in the United StatesReport to the Inter-American Commission on Human RightsPrepared by the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program on behalf of the Water Protector Legal Collective6/24/2019Introduction1. 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">#protest</a>, often as a means to protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateInterests</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">#ResourceExtraction</a> by industries who are operating without the free prior and informed consent of the affected communities.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">#IACHR</a>) in conjunction with a thematic hearing held during the 172nd period of sessions. At the hearing, 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">#DakotaAccessPipeline</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">#Blackwater</a>], specifically in relation to the construction and operation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DAPL</a> by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EnergyTransfer</a> Partners and Dakota Access, LLC (Dakota Access) and the connected <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayouBridgePipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BayouBridgePipeline</a> (collectively the “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BakkenPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BakkenPipeline</a>”).3. Standing Rock is an emblematic case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndigenousResistance</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">#MissouriRiver</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 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.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">#AntiProtest</a> and so-called “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CriticalInfrastructure</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">#WaterProtectors</a>” seeking to defend their lands, resources, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#culture</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">#FreeSpeech</a> and Aassembly enshrined in international human rights law and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#USConstitution</a>.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">#StandingRock</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CheyenneRiver</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YanktonSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#YanktonSioux</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">#HumanRightsDefenders</a>. In addition, the United Nations has reported on the situation at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StandingRock</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">#pipeline</a> projects on indigenous territories.Read more: <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">https://law.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/FINAL%20IPLP-WPLC%20Report%20to%20IACHR%20-%206-24-19.pdf</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HR9495</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopHR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StopHR9495</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Authoritanism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CharacteristicsOfFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ErikPrince</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StandingRockSioux</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LandDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WaterDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WaterProtectors</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DefendTheSacred</a>

DoomsdaysCWI don't blame them!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KristiNoem</a> banned by two more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NativeAmerican</a> tribes in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SouthDakota</a>Governor, plagued by dog-killing story, unwelcome in 20% of her state after she accused tribal leaders of benefiting from cartelsDani Anguiano Mon 13 May 2024 19.52 EDT"The move by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YanktonSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#YanktonSioux</a> tribe and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SissetonWahpetonOyate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SissetonWahpetonOyate</a> tribe last week follows criticism from the governor who has – without evidence – accused tribal leaders of 'personally benefiting from drug cartels. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oglala" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Oglala</a>, Rosebud, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CheyenneRiver</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StandingRockSioux</a> tribes banished Noem earlier this year."In a statement announcing the ban in April, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RosebudSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RosebudSioux</a> said the decision was based not only on Noem’s recent comments but an 'ongoing strained relationship' with the governor, who took office in 2019."The tribe cited Noem’s support of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KeystoneXLPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KeystoneXLPipeline</a>, her opposition to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/checkpoints" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#checkpoints</a> on reservation borders established by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiverSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CheyenneRiverSioux</a> and Oglala Sioux during the pandemic, and her support of the removal of 'significant sections' of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NativeAmerican</a> history from state social-studies standards, among other issues."'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,' the tribe said in a statement."'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.'"<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">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/kristi-noem-banned-tribes-south-dakota</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoKXL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoKXL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalErasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CulturalErasure</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FirstNations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NativeAmericanNews</a>

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