Focus on Lakota Pipeline Protests (Standing Rock)

Native American protesters are currently conducting protests against a pipeline being across Lakota lands. The Dakota Access Pipeline project was recently approved by the U.S. Congress and will run over a thousand miles from North Dakota to Illinois.

In the summer of 2016, a group of young activists from Standing Rock ran from North Dakota to Washington, D.C., to present a petition in protest of the construction of Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline, which is part of the Bakken pipeline, and have launched an international campaign called ReZpect our Water. The pipeline which goes from North Dakota to Illinois, the activists argue, would jeopardize the water source of the reservation, the Missouri River. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has filed an injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop building the pipeline. In April 2016, three federal agencies -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Interior, and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation—requested full Environmental Impact Statement of the pipeline. In August 2016, protests were held near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

Peaceful protests at pipeline site continued and drew indigenous people from throughout North America as well as other supporters. A number of planned arrests occurred when people locked themselves to heavy machinery. On September 3, 2016, the Dakota Access Pipeline brought in a private security firm. The company used bulldozers to dig up part of the pipeline route that subject to a pending injunction motion; it contained possible Native graves and burial artifacts. The bulldozers arrived within a day from when the tribe filed legal action. When unarmed protesters moved near the bulldozers, the guards used pepper spray and guard dogs to protect the site they were told to guard. At least six protesters were treated for dog bites and an estimated 30 protesters were pepper sprayed before the security guards and their dogs exited the scene in trucks

Protesters stand at the front barricades of the protest zone, holding signs that read “Water is sacred” and “Mni Wiconi” (“Water is life” in Lakota).

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Latest News - 2-23-2017

• German Bank BayernLB seeks to Divest $120 million from Dakota Access Pipeline
• Standing Rock is burning – but our resistance isn't over
• Taxpayer-Funded Horror at Standing Rock
• Standing Rock Will Be Raided Today
• SRST Update: 2/22/17 - The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is closely monitoring law enforcement activity at the camp. No matter what happens, we encourage everyone to remain peaceful and reiterate that our utmost concern at this time is the safety and wellbeing of all parties.
• Live video
• Protesters Ordered To Disband Main Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp
• In solidarity with Standing Rock, City moves forward to cut ties with Wells Fargo
• Dakota Access Pipeline protesters block freeway in Bellingham
• Veterans Are Heading Back to Standing Rock
• Army veterans return to Standing Rock to form a human shield against police
• Seattle City Council committee will vote to divest and cancel $3 Billion contract with Wells Fargo for investing in the Dakota Access Pipeline.
• We Need You Now: Final Easement for DAPL Appears Imminent
• ILWU pledges solidarity with Standing Rock
• The Youth Group That Launched a Movement at Standing Rock
• The Spirit of Standing Rock on the Move
• Army Corps Opens Public Comment on Dakota Access Pipeline
• Dakota Access pipeline activists say police have used 'excessive' force
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe welcomes publication of Notice of Intent for EIS
• Police Restart Propaganda Campaign Against Standing Rock Water Protectors
• NoDAPL Updates 1/18/2017
• Standing Rock activists are looking to hit the Dakota Access pipeline's finances to cement their win
• #NoDAPL banner drop at MN Vikings game aimed at getting US Bank to divest from the ecocidal pipeline project.
• $3.1 million in supplies raised for Standing Rock in 24 hours
• While Eyes Were On Standing Rock, The Dakota Pipeline Was Being Drilled Under Another Water Source
• Activists Vow to Continue Blocking Trains Shipping Fracking Sands to North Dakota Oil Fields
• Meet the Brave, Audacious, Astonishing Women Who Built the Standing Rock Movement
• Why the Dakota Access Pipeline protest continues
• The Legal Reasons DAPL Is Not Dead
• Face of a Nation: Bronson Koenig embracing prominent role among Ho-Chunk people
• Victory at Standing Rock, but the Struggle Goes On
• Nebraska Supplied State Troopers, Surveillance Aircraft to North Dakota Under EMAC
• Energy Transfer Partners May Have Misled State to Secure Tax Break
• ‘I Will Never Submit To Any Pipeline To Go Through My Homeland’
• How Standing Rock Has Changed Us
• Obama Admin Halts Dakota Access Pipeline Construction after Months of Resistance
• Inspired by Standing Rock, West Texans Take Action to Fight Another Pipeline
• Energy Transfer Partners Seeks Court Ruling on Dakota Access Pipeline
• Tribe sees Dakota Access Pipeline as just latest in long history of violations
• 12-4: Obama administration and U.S. Army deny Corps permit for pipeline construction under Lake Oahe
• Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing
• The victory at Standing Rock could mark a turning point
• Dakota Access Pipeline Will Be Re-Routed In A Victory For Standing Rock Tribe
• Standing Rock: US denies key permit for Dakota Access pipeline, a win for tribe
• 112 Navajo/Dine veterans going to Standing Rock
• Bismarck Residents Didn’t Even Have to Fight to Re-Route the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Dakota Access Pipeline protesters refuse to leave as snowstorm hits
• North Dakota officials hope to quell pipeline protests with fines
• #NoDAPL Indigenous Land Defense & Strategic Solidarity: Pressuring Power and Capital
• Neil Young Begs Obama To Step In And End The Violence At Standing Rock

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• North Dakota Governor Dalrymple orders mandatory evacuation of DAPL protest camp on Army Corps land
• US authorities: Dakota pipeline protesters can stay
• Water Protectors file class action suit for retaliation and excessive force against brutal police
• After A Month of Conflict, Mass Media Arrives in Force at Standing Rock
• Devotion, despair fill teeming Standing Rock protest camp
• N Dakota pipeline protest is a harbinger of many more
• Standing Rock: 100+ Injured After Police Attack with Water Cannons, Rubber Bullets & Mace
• 167 DAPL protesters injured in altercations with N. Dakota police - reports
• Water Cannons Fired at Water Protectors in Freezing Temperatures Injure Hundreds
• In Subfreezing Night, DAPL Protesters Hit With Water Cannons, Mace, Rubber Bullets
• Police deploy water hoses, tear gas against Standing Rock protesters
• Police in North Dakota pummel DAPL opponents with tear gas, water cannons in sub-zero temperatures
• Veterans are planning a 'deployment' to Standing Rock to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Jeremy Scahill: TigerSwan Security, Linked to Blackwater, Now Coordinates Intel for Dakota Access
• How to Contact the 17 Banks Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Dakota Access is in Financial Jeopardy
• What Standing Rock Tells Us About Civil Disobedience
• Obama administration cancels oil and gas leases on Blackfeet tribe’s sacred grounds
• Shot in the Back at Standing Rock
• Inside the Battle Over the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Obama Approved 2 Pipelines to Mexico Amid Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
• Over 1 Million People Remotely 'Check in' at Standing Rock
• Thousands of Facebook users check into Standing Rock to confuse police monitoring pipeline protest
• Photos from the Front Lines of the Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance
• Money Is Pouring Into The Dakota Pipeline Protest
• Mark Ruffalo Delivers Solar Panels to Standing Rock To Help Them Get Through Winter
• Why Police From 7 Different States Invaded a Standing Rock Camp—and Other Questions
• Dakota Access pipeline protests: UN group investigates human rights abuses
• Temporary holding cells used for some arrested DAPL protesters come under fire
• Spiritual Leaders Negotiate Impasse With Morton County Sheriff
• Ohio troopers headed to N.D. pipeline protest
• Riot Police Raid Sacred Ground Camp
• A Thousand New Water Protectors Headed to Standing Rock
• Anonymous Message to North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple
• North Dakota pipeline activists say arrested protesters were kept in dog kennels
• Standing Rock Is a Two-Front War—Big Oil and Big Banks—But Maybe That’s Good News
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair: DOJ Must Investigate Use of Force Against #DAPL Resistance
• "A Shameful Moment for This Country": Report Back on Militarized Police Raid of DAPL Resistance Camp
• Video: Police Viciously Attacked Peaceful Protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Dakota Access Pipeline: More Than 100 Arrested as Protesters Ousted From Camp
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe releases statement addressing escalation at DAPL protest site
• Armed With Riot Gear, Militarized Police Begin Forcibly Clearing DAPL Protest Camp
• This Natural Disaster Assistance Law Is Why Other States Are Policing Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
• Nearly $6 million spent in response to protest movement
• How far will North Dakota go? The illogical conclusion is too terrible to think about #StandingRock
• New phase for Dakota Access pipeline protest
• Dane County Sheriff recalls deputies from North Dakota pipeline protests
• HCSO Faces Backlash After Sending Deputies To Standing Rock
• Road closed, drone shot, 83 arrested at Dakota Access Pipeline protests
• Standing Rock: Police Arrest 120+ Water Protectors as Dakota Access Speeds Up Pipeline Construction
• "The Police Killings No One Is Talking About": Native Americans Most Likely to be Killed by Cops
• Authorities highlight criminal histories of some pipeline protesters
• New Encampment in Pipeline Path and 2 Blockades Established on Unceded Territory
• Clinton’s Troubling Silence on the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Why Is North Dakota Strip-Searching Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Charged with Misdemeanors?
• Why We Are Singing for Water—In Front of Men With Guns and Surveillance Helicopters
• Why I Dropped Everything to Head to Standing Rock
• Dakota Access Construction Equipment Set Ablaze In Iowa
• Environmentalists: Make Your Stand Like Standing Rock
• Four Unicorn Riot Journalists Face Charges For Covering #NoDAPL
• Charges Dropped Against Amy Goodman–No Thanks to Corporate Media
• A Strategy to Stop the Funding Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Dallas Goldtooth, Arvol Looking Horse and Kandi Mosset Stand Up for the Sacred in Stunning Video by Matika Wilbur and Myron Dewey
• ND Prosecutor Seeks "Riot" Charges Against Amy Goodman For Reporting On Pipeline Protest
• Court Denies Tribe's Appeal to Block Dakota Access Pipeline
• DAPL Construction Shut Down by Water Protector
• Felony charges filed against 2 women arrested during Minnesota pipeline protest
• Dakota Access Opponents Thinking Bigger, Aim to Halt Entire Pipeline
• Federal Appeals Court Rules to Allow DAPL Construction
• Victory! Coalition of Tribes and Environmentalists Defeat Proposed Shell Oil by Rail Facility in Washington State
• Military-Style Raid Ends Native Prayer Against Dakota Pipeline
• Oil CEO Says Bribing Native Americans Will Stop Dakota Protests
• Canadian and US tribes band together to fight Alberta oil sands pipelines
• Republicans Block House Amendment to Assess Environmental Impact of Dakota Access Pipeline
• No fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth
• Seneca Nation Joins North Dakota Protests
• Dakota Access Blackout Continues on ABC, NBC News
• Archaeological Experts Appalled at DAPL Sacred Site Destruction: 1,281 Sign Petition
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Wins Expanded Halt to Pipeline Construction
• 43 people were arrested during Dakota Access Pipeline protest
• Here’s what you need to know about the Dakota Access Pipeline and #NoDAPL
• TD Bank finances the Dakota Access Pipeline, activists respond
• Nebraska: Dakota Access Pipeline Opposition Continues to Grow
• This Moment at Standing Rock Was Decades in the Making
• Department of Emergency Services requests $6 million for protest response
• Sacred Stone Camp Wishlist
• Security Firm Guarding Dakota Pipeline Used Psychological Warfare Tactics for BP
• A Pilgrimage Among the Crow Creek Sioux & Ancient Missouri River
• From Standing Rock, North Dakota to Atenco, Mexico: Imposing Petro Culture by Force
• Call in the National Guard to Protect Against Native American People in North Dakota?
• The Dakota Access Pipeline will lock-in the emissions of 30 coal plants
• #NoDAPL Day of Action – Tuesday Sep. 13
• Arrest warrant issued for journalist Amy Goodman after reporting on Dakota Access oil pipeline protests
• N.D. Pipeline Protester: 'It's About Our Rights As Native People'
• Why Wisconsin's Bronson Koenig is joining the Dakota Pipeline protest
• Some Urbana Residents Want a Resolution Passed in Opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline
• G4S Admits It Guards Dakota Pipeline as Protesters Get Attacked
• Are Environmentalists Using Native Americans, and Does It Matter?
• A Pipeline Fight and America’s Dark Past
• UPDATE: Medics confirm 6 people bit by dogs total, and 12 people treated for pepper spray. ---Up to 30 people were sprayed, and the 12 confirmed were treated. Just talked to a guy with video who was there and says many were "misted" by the spray too. No signs posted- "Attack dogs at work" and illegal to use dogs on land not owned by Dakota Access. No ID or Verbal warnings. A Young girl bit by a dog, in hospital now, and another Pregnant woman bit on the shoulder. Everyone on front line pepper sprayed, including woman and children.
• Dakota Access LLC's number is 844-708-2635. Call them and press "1" for the North Dakota office and tell them to STOP using dogs and violence to abuse and maim innocent protesters!
• And Then the Dogs Came
• Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
• Native Activist Winona LaDuke: Pipeline Company Enbridge Has No Right to Destroy Our Future
• Why There’s a Media Blackout on the Native American Oil Pipeline Blockade
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Condemns Destruction and Desecration of Burial Grounds by Energy Transfer Partners
• Life in the Native American oil protest camps
• Why the Founder of Standing Rock Sioux Camp Can’t Forget the Whitestone Massacre
• Dakota Access: Photographer Matika Wilbur Captures Video of Pepper-Sprayed Water Protectors
• Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Protesters With Dogs and Mace
• Dakota Access Pipeline: Three Federal Agencies Side With Standing Rock Sioux, Demand Review
• The Largest Native American Protest in HISTORY is Happening Right Now
• Red Warrior Camp: Six Water Protectors Bitten by Vicious Dogs of DAPL Pipeline
• With Helicopter Overhead, Security Used Tear Gas and Dogs to Move Standing Rock Land Protectors
• This afternoon construction began again and a lone protector blocked a backhoe. They were tackled and taken away.
• Linda Black Elk: "They were scrambling to reach highway 1806. They were using their machines to rape our mother earth. All the women were crying. My auntie and I held eachother and cried. But we prayed and walked together and Dakota Access ran scared...scared of our songs and prayers. We stood strong in the face of their pepper spray, barking dogs, and huge men who were throwing our people to the ground."
• Indigenous and Latino Activists Take Dakota Protests to Dallas
• 'Our cause is just,' says tribal leader in pipeline protest
• Tribal consent at heart of court arguments over pipelines below lake
• Members of Maine tribes taking part in North Dakota pipeline protest, and we should all care
• Where Movements Meet: Black Lives Matter Organizers Visit #NoDAPL
• One Man's 6-Hour Fight Against Dakota Access
• Iowa: 30 Arrested Blocking Dakota Access Pipeline Construction
• Needed Supply List for Camp
• Far-reaching tribal solidarity displayed at pipeline protest
• Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Now Part of Dakota Access Pipeline Lawsuit
• San Francisco Bay Area American Indian Community Rallies to Say #NoDAPL
• Can’t make it to Sacred Stone Camp? Here’s how to help #NoDAPL in your home state
• Mid-Missouri activists join fight against crude oil pipeline
• With echoes of Wounded Knee, tribes mount prairie occupation to block North Dakota pipeline
• North Dakota Oil Pipeline Battle: Who’s Fighting and Why
• Taking a Stand at Standing Rock
• Dakota Access pipeline wrecking soil, farmers complain
• Tribal Gathering Against Dakota Access Faces Aggressive State Repression and Media Manipulation
• Authorities Remove Water Supply to Dakota Pipeline Protest Site
• 3 Reasons the Standing Rock Sioux Can Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Occupying the Prairie: Tensions Rise as Tribes Move to Block a Pipeline
• Dakota Access: Democracy Now! Profiles Water Protectors at Sacred Stones Camp
• Protesters settle into camp life
• State & Local Police Terrorize Lakota With Traffic Checkpoints to Stop Dakota Pipeline Blockade Support
• Stopping the Snake: Indigenous Protesters Shut Down Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline
• 'We are protectors, not protesters': why I'm fighting the North Dakota pipeline
• 800 Indians and Allies Halt Dakota Access Pipeline Work—For Now
• American Indian Protesters Dispute County Sheriff Calling Protest Unlawful
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Chairman Responds to Lawsuit filed by Dakota Access Owners
• In North Dakota, people vs. oil pipeline protest strengthens
• ND PSC defends approval of Dakota Access Pipeline despite controversy
• 1,500 join Standing Rock oil pipeline protest
• North Dakota Pipeline Construction Halted Until Court Date
• In North Dakota, People vs. Oil Pipeline Protest Strengthens

Solidarity Resources

• How to Contact the People Who Sent Militarized Police to Standing Rock
• #StandingRockSyllabus

Solidarity Groups & Events

• Bangor, ME: Wabanaki Solidarity with Standing Rock
• Buffalo: Buffalo Solidarity with Standing Rock
• Charlotte:  Charlotte in Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux
• Chicago: Chicago in Solidarity with Standing Rock #nodaplchi
• Chilliwack, BC: Standing Rock Support
• Colorado Springs: Stand With Standing Rock: Colorado Springs
• Corvallis, Oregon: Water is Life: Stand in Solidarity with Standing Rock
• Detroit: Detroit Solidarity Action with Standing Rock! NO DAPL!
• El Paso: El Paso Stands with Standing Rock
• Fairbanks, AK: Solidarity with Standing Rock
• Kansas City: Kansas City Stands In Solidarity With Standing Rock | Kansas City Stands With Standing Rock - We Care About Our Missouri River Group
• Miami: Stand with Standing Rock - MIAMI
• New York City: NYC Stands with Standing Rock #nodapl
• Northampton, MA:  Solidarity With Standing Rock! No DAPL
• Oklahoma: Native Oklahoma Stands with Standing Rock
• Oklahoma City:
• Phoenix: Phoenix Solidarity Gathering
• Philadelphia:  Standing Rock Solidarity Fundraising DInner
• Portland, OR:  PDX $raiser for Sacred Stone!
• Rockford, IL: Standing by the Rock
• San Bernardino, CA:
• Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Standing Rock Coalition
• Seattle: Standing Rock Sioux Fundraiser
• Tulsa: Tulsa standing with Standing Rock

Live - Bismarck, North Dakota - October 17, 2016

September 13, 2016

Via Unicorn Riot ~ Around 20 people have just been arrested at the site of the #NoDAPL lockdown, including medics and two Unicorn Riot journalists. Police have shut down all road access to the site and are carrying assault rifles and less-lethal weapons.

September 3, 2016 ~ Private security use dogs to terrorize protectors.

From Idle No More (8-24):

In regards to the hearing that happened today in DC: The Standing Rock Sioux tribe with solidarity from other tribes and their lawsuit against The Army Corps of Engineers for the Dakota Access Pipeline

Judge could not make a decision and would decide by September 9th, if appealed the decision would be made by September 14th

The UN just submitted their racial discrimination elimination which is because of the original route change from Bismarck to Standing Rock.

Talks are still in process on what's next but we hold peaceful space always in all ways.

All through the morning we held powerful ceremony with the pipes and released the Eagle. Prayers were sent east to DC to strengthen our brothers and sisters there and to open the minds and hearts of those who are trying to push DAPL and those who are to be the decider of the lawsuit.