There are thousands of people camped out, whole families, to protect their water and lands. It is a last stand by indigenous Americans. You would think, where the BBC has sent reporters across the ocean to cover this story as historic and major, that the Boston Globe could at least give it a paragraph. Nah. The Dakota governor has stock in DAPL – wonder if the Globe’s billionaire owner does as well?
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Bernie Sanders is right: The Dakota Access Pipeline must be stopped.
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Here is the link http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/09/06/construction-dakota-access-pipeline-halted-again-non-violent-direct-action-165694
NA issues seldom get national notice.
For coverage, Huffington Post, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-dakota-pipeline-tribe_us_57cf3702e4b03d2d4597288f?
Here is Lawrence on MSNBC describing his experience http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-visits-standing-rock-759206979622
at a TD Bank office in Cambridge.
So now the Globe will be able to ignore the protests without having to go so far.
“The Dakota Access Pipeline is vandalism on steroids”
up in South Dakota by accident.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/green-party-jill-stein-flies-wrong-city-ohio-article-1.2776222