BREAKING STORY 11/20/16: STATEMENT FROM DALLAS GOLDTOOTH WHO PROVIDED THIS PHOTO: “Water protectors are done with the military-style barricades. We are done with the flood lights and the armored military trucks. We are are done with it!
So thats why tonight, water protectors decided to take a first peaceful step and remove the burned out vehicles that police put in place on Oct 27th to block our access heading north on hwy 1806. It was to open up the road so in the daylight the world can see the face of militarized law enforcement and state oppression. This is at the “back water bridge” north of the Oceti Sakowin camp.
Police in response are using a water cannon, tear gas and concussion grenades on the crowd!!
Its 25 degrees Fahrenheit and they are using a f**king water cannon!
Prayers and energy to our water protectors! #NoDAPL #KeepItInTheGround ”
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Water Cannons turned on Water Protectors in 25 degree wweather
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Last night the police and National Guard violently attacked peaceful water protectors at Standing Rock. Police used tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, sound grenades, and sprayed them with water cannons in subfreezing conditions, hundreds of people were injured. Our solidarity efforts are needed now more than ever.
The financial footing of the Dakota Access Pipeline is in jeopardy if they do not complete the project by January 1st. If this deadline is missed, a majority of the stakeholders with contracts to ship oil through the pipeline will be able to renegotiate or cancel their contracts. This could be devastating to Energy Transfer Partners and the other pipeline companies behind DAPL.
Solidarity actions are having a measurable impact and Dakota Access is facing a major deadline. With its vulnerabilities exposed, our solidarity efforts are needed now more than ever.
We are calling for a week of action beginning on November 25th culminating with a Global Day of Action on December 1st. We are asking people to target the banks funding Dakota Access Pipeline and the Sheriff Departments that have been brutalizing peaceful water protectors. Click here to locate a target near you.
Please help us spread the word about this Global Day of Action by sharing this meme on Facebook, and retweeting this image.
Taking Action Against the Banks
We are calling for direct actions, demonstrations and other disruptions targeting the banks behind the pipeline. We also ask that people use this date to close their accounts with these banks. Here is a guide on how to close and switch your bank account.
In August, a group of banks agreed to lend $2.5 billion to Dakota Access. But $1.4 billion of this loan is still on hold until the Army Corps grants the final permits for the pipeline. This means that there is still time for the banks involved in this loan to cut their line of credit.
TD Bank and Citi Bank are two of the main banks on this loan, but we need to target all of the lenders involved:
If you are organizing a public action, please register it. Find targets in your area using our targets map.
Pressure Sheriff Departments to Withdraw from Standing Rock
Sheriff Departments and Police Departments from across the Midwest have sent officers to violently attack and suppress Water Protectors.
We are calling on these Departments to permanently withdraw their officers from Standing Rock. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office withdrew after facing protests in Minneapolis.
Here is a list of Sheriff and Police Departments that have deployed at Standing Rock:
Morton County Sheriff Department
Mandan ND
701-667-3330
Michigan City Police Department
Michigan City, IN
(219) 874-3221
North Dakota Highway Patrol
Offices across North Dakota
(701) 328-2455
Hammond Police Department
Hammond, IN
219-852-2900
Munster Police Department
Munster, IN
(219) 836-6600
Griffith Police Department
Griffith, IN
(219) 924-7503
Anoka County Sheriff’s Office
Andover, MN
(763) 323-5000
Washington County Sheriff’s Office
Stillwater, MN
651-430-6000
Marathon County Sheriff’s Department
Wausau, WI
(715) 261-1200
La Porte County Sheriff’s Office
La Porte, IN
(219) 326-7700
Newton County Sheriff’s Office
Kentland, IN
219-474-3331
South Dakota Highway Patrol
Pierre, SD
605-773-3105
Jasper County Sheriff
Rensselaer, Indiana
219-866-7344
Lake County Sheriff Sheriff’s Department
Crown Point, IN
219-755-3333
Laramie County Sheriff’s Department
Cheyenne, WY
307-633-4700
Wyoming Highway Patrol
Cheyenne, WY
307-777-4301
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Columbus, Ohio
614-466-2660
Nebraska Emergency Management Agency
Lincoln, NE
(402) 471-7421
Thank you for all that you do. We looking forward to continuing to build with you and making December 1st a memorable day.
-#NoDAPL Solidarity Team
1. NYT coverage http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protesters-police.html?_r=2
2. One Stop Shopping for every newspaper in Massachusetts, our radio stations, and most national news outlets – websites and email addresses to use: http://www.masshome.com/
#mediawhiteout #NoDAPL
Those that bemoan the sin past generations of this country have done to the native peoples are dead silent about today’s transgressions. Of course, no action may change the past and actions today would anger powerful corporate interests. How noisy would be our politicians were this struggle being played out in Russia?
Sometimes we join a side by just being quiet.
“The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.” –William S. Burroughs
When their children ask them, what did YOU do when numbers were written on the arms of Native Americans and they were locked in cages, and hosed down with water cannons and hundreds given hypothermia…they will say, standing a bit taller, “I was there” or “I was there as a legal observer” or “I stepped up and was hosed too”.
THIS is the most shameful, definitive even of this decade and right up there with the civil rights movement of the 60s when I was gassed….though never hosed with a water cannon.
I am not there. But what I can do is fight the white washing by the media, at least where I can, and the silence generally.
Please sign this ACLU Action petition to demilitarize Standing Rock.