After nearly a year of putting their bodies on the line to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect sacred land, there are still water protectors being held as prisoners for standing up for sacred water and land. It is essential that we continue to support them to remind them that they are loved.
The water protector camp that for months formed a beachhead against Dakota Access Pipeline construction was destroyed midday Thursday, February 23rd.
Early this morning, people associated with the Two Rivers Camp blocked Pumpco gates in Alpine, Texas to interfere with the ongoing construction of the Trans Pecos pipeline
State repression continues unabated with five people facing federal charges regarding alleged October 27 activities. Michael “Rattler” Markus and James “Angry Bird” White are in custody while three remain at large, may they remain forever free
Over the last month many of you responded to the call Sabal Trail Resistance (STR) put out to mobilize around the Suwannee River pipeline drilling site over the MLK Day weekend…
A group of water protectors are occupying a Citibank branch at Washington and Dearborn Ave in Chicago to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline and the push by the Trump administration to grant the final permit without regard to tribal and public consultation.
“I’m hoping for an avalanche of people – a downpour of water protectors.”
Our ancestors did not abandon the Pȟežísla Wakpá (the Little Bighorn River), when we last unified the Oceti Sakowin and defended our land from the Seventh Calvary; we too must not abandon Mni Sose (the Missouri River). We must not sell our people’s blood, land, and water to uphold the dysfunction we live under now. We have no choice but to break the cycle of trauma so our future generations can have a better life. I believe it starts with the water and ends with the water. Water is life. Will you stand with us?
from Water Protector Anti-Repression Crew via It’s Going Down Rattler is a Water Protector who is currently being held pre-trial on federal felony charges produced through a grand jury indictment. Rattler’s home is at Pine Ridge and he comes from a long legacy of struggle that he continued at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline […]