I teared up this morning watching a 30-second video of indigenous women singing at yesterday’s Women’s March. An indigenous women's march makes its way down Constitution Ave., to cheers. pic.twitter.com/Z9hH3kfgdx — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) January 21, 2017 Deborah Parker, a Tulalip Tribes organizer and policy analyst from Washington, explained to Pearce that she and the […]
Water is life, we say.
There’s some good news from Standing Rock this week: good in the way that mere bureacracy always looks heroic when set beside rank cruelty and neglect. The US Army Corps has agreed to prepare an environmental impact statement on the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline otherwise known as DAPL. This impact statement, as Natives have said for […]
The latest from Standing Rock
The story of the Dakota Access Pipeline continues: The pipeline is planned from Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to Illinois, where it would tie in with an existing pipeline to refineries in the Midwest and on the Gulf coast. The project was never examined under an environmental impact review but instead was approved under […]
Read: #NoDAPL, Sea levels, Organizing
On #NoDAPL: the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline “What the Trump victory means for Standing Rock.” (Jenni Monet for Common Dreams) Now that Trump has won the election and has said he would steer energy policy toward more oil production rather than less, [Energy Transfer Partner’s] plans to ignore the Obama administration and advance the […]