#NoBlackSnakeFriday: Water Protectors Fighting Dakota Access Pipeline Declare Global Day of Action
Hundreds more across the U.S. are planning protests on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, which is considered a major shopping day in the United States. In Chicago, activists are planning a Black Friday boycott along Michigan Avenue to demand police accountability. Water protectors fighting the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota have also declared a global day of action on Friday, calling for protests at banks financing the $3.8 billion pipeline and at the offices of sheriff’s departments who have sent deputies to police the ongoing resistance, which is led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota.
[The photo above shows Beyond Nuclear's Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps (with the ball cap on; Kevin's tee shirt reads "I Stand with Standing Rock"), and Ted Conwell, Founder & Lead Organizer, Climate First!, Inc. (like Beyond Nuclear, also based in the Nuclear-Free Zone of Takoma Park, Maryland!), after delivering a letter to, and speaking briefly with, management at a Citi Bank branch in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. Climate First! organized a day of action on Nov. 14th in solidarity with Standing Rock, which included handing out fliers to passersby about the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance. The call has gone out from many -- including actress Susan Sarandon, a Beyond Nuclear Launch Partner -- for divestment from and boycott of banks providing the capital for the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.]
November 23, 2016