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The entire nuclear fuel chain involves the release of radioactivity, contamination of the environment and damage to human health. Most often, communities of color, indigenous peoples or those of low-income are targeted to bear the brunt of these impacts, particularly the damaging health and environmental effects of uranium mining. The nuclear power industry inevitably violates human rights. While some of our human rights news can be found here, we also focus specifically on this area on out new platform, Beyond Nuclear International.

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Wednesday
Feb082017

Urgent action today in D.C. against Dakota Access

Action alert from Kendall Mackey at 350.org:

Friends,

I don’t know about you, but I am angry. Yesterday, Trump’s Executive Memorandum to approve and expedite the Dakota Access pipeline was realized.

The Army Corps of Engineers just announced that they will approve the final easement for the pipeline, throwing out the environmental review process started under the Obama Administration -- even though hundreds of thousands of people have already submitted public comments.

We will not be silenced. Thousands will take to the streets today to show our resistance, and we need you to be one of them.

Join the #NoDAPL emergency rally happening today at 5:00PM at the White House in Washington DC.

Here are the details:

What: Trump Can't Build Dakota Access Without a Fight!
When: Today, February 8 at 5:00PM
Where: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC
Who: Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, 350.org, Sierra Club, the International Indigenous Youth Council, and NoDAPL Medic and Healer Council.

RSVP to the Facebook event here.

Illegally forcing this project through is an obvious example of corruption -- not to mention a gross violation of Indigenous rights, and the science of climate action. Trump is putting people at risk in order to line the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.

But the resistance to the pipeline is still going strong. Just today, the city of Seattle divested $3 billion dollars from Wells Fargo because of its role in financing Dakota Access. And the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe already announced plans to take legal action against this decision.

Now it’s our job to show that the massive movement fighting to protect Standing Rock hasn’t gone away. 

What we’ve seen from the Trump Administration over the last two weeks makes our job clear: we have to rise up and resist against an agenda that threatens people and the planet. No community is a sacrifice zone.

As hard as it is, we must keep fighting.

Mni Wiconi, Water is Life.

Kendall

Wednesday
Feb082017

Indigenous Environmental Network: Trump Can’t Build DAPL Without a Fight

IEN action alert:

Dept. of Army Approves DAPL Easement

#NoDAPL Last Stand Call to Action

Tuesday February 7, the US Army Corps gave notice of intent to grant the final easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Mni Sose (Missouri River).
 
They are skipping the EIS ordered in December, and skipping the congressional notification period required by law.  This is a response to President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum directing the Corps to expedite approval of the project.
 
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe will likely sue and ask for a temporary restraining order to halt construction while the legality of this decision is reviewed in court.  In the meantime, DAPL will likely start drilling immediately.  The media recently reported that DAPL says their best case scenario timeline is 83 days from easement to oil flow.

Call to Action!

 
The Indigenous Coalition at Standing Rock is calling for an international day of emergency actions to disrupt business as usual and unleash a global intersectional resistance to fossil fuels and fascism.  Connect with other struggles.  Think long-term movement building.  We are in this for the long haul.  
We are calling for emergency actions all over the world. Please visit everydayofaction.org to find or register an action wherever you are. Check out our world action map to join the mass distributed actions TODAY, February 8th and for the next four days.
 
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has consistently asked for people to go home, and we understand this.  Regardless, water protectors remain on the ground at the Sacred Stone Camp, determined to stop the black snake, and we support them.  If you go, expect police violence, mass arrests, felony charges for just about anything, abuse while in custody, targeted persecution and racial profiling while driving around the area, etc.
 
We encourage groups across the globe to connect our prayers for the water with other fights against fascism and the domination of people and Mother Earth (deportations, Muslim ban, attacks on labor, deregulation of Wall Street, other fossil fuel projects, censorship of the press and academia, etc)
 
Choose the target that is most strategic for building long-term collaborative resistance in your local area.  Potential targets may include:  fossil fuel transportation hubs, city halls, federal buildings, Army Corps offices, banks profiting off DAPL, sheriff's offices that have come to Standing Rock, labor union offices, and other sites intersectional struggle like ICE detention centers, etc.

MESSAGING:  

  • #RisewithStandingRock….against violations of sovereignty, crimes against Mother Earth, fascism, violation of law, etc.
  • Unify the People
  • DAPL is Violating Human Rights
  • Normalize resistance / We Will Not Be Governed by Tyrants
  • Support Tribes’ request for TRO (Temporary Restraining Order)/injunction!
  • Continue to elevate what’s happening on the ground in ND -- demonstrate that this is something serious that resonates to all peoples in the face of Trump administration tyranny.
  • Resist Trump’s direct attack against indigenous communities with his executive orders re: DAPL & KXL
  • Police violence seems inevitable and mass casualties are very likely.   The only way to keep people safe is to do the EIS.  If not, any blood spilled is on Trump’s hands and the hands of the Corps.   

We #Resist to #Thrive.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2017
 
CONTACT:

 
Cannon Ball, ND -- Yesterday, February 7, 2017, the Army Corps of Engineers notified Congress that it will grant an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline in the next 24 hours, trampling a planned environmental and tribal consultation review process.
 
Statement from Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network:
 
“Donald Trump will not build his Dakota Access Pipeline without a fight. The granting of an easement, without any environmental review or tribal consultation, is not the end of this fight -- it is the new beginning. Expect mass resistance far beyond what Trump has seen so far.
 
“The granting of this easement goes against protocol, it goes against legal process, it disregards more than 100,000 comments already submitted as part of the not-yet-completed environmental review process -- all for the sake of Donald Trump’s billionaire big oil cronies. And, it goes against the treaty rights of the entire Seven Councils Fires of the Sioux Nations.
 
“Donald Trump has not met with a single Native Nation since taking office. Our tribal nations and Indigenous grassroots peoples on the frontlines have had no input on this process. We support the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and stand with them at this troubling time.”
 
You can read that notification letter here: Dakota Access Pipeline Notification - Grijalva
 
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The Indigenous Environmental Network is an international environmental justice nonprofit that works with tribal grassroots organizations to build the capacity of Indigenous communities. Find out more at: www.ienearth.org

Wednesday
Feb082017

Today's Midwest Energy News headlines/links re: DAPL

PIPELINES:
• The U.S. Army approves construction of the Dakota Access pipeline across a disputed section in North Dakota, clearing the way for the project’s completion; the Standing Rock Sioux vow to challenge the decision in court. (Associated Press)
• A federal judge says Dakota Access pipeline protesters involved with violent confrontations with police in November are unlikely to succeed in a lawsuit alleging excessive force and civil rights violations. (Associated Press)

Wednesday
Feb082017

A Violation of Tribal & Human Rights: Standing Rock Chair Slams Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline

Tuesday
Feb072017

Resist Trump Network: DAPL rallies in San Francisco, DC, etc.

Action alert from Ben Schreiber at Friends of the Earth, on behalf of the Resist Trump Network:

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Standing Rock. The decision by the Army Corps to permit the Dakota Access pipeline without even an environmental assessment wasn’t surprising, but it still hurts.  Activists are targeting the banks that are financing the project. Standing Rock has put out a call for rallies across the country. You can find a rally near you here. [Click on the "Learn more" link, then enter your Zip code.] Links to the rallies in San Francisco and Washington, DC.

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