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Action Alert from Power Shift Network:
Friends,
October could be a pivotal month for resistance against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Somewhere in Washington D.C., an Army Corps of Engineers official is preparing to make the decision as to whether to enforce proper review of the pipeline. On the banks of the Missouri River, the Sacred Stone Camp is preparing for the cold North Dakota winters. And on campuses around the country, students are making plans to take action.
Whether you can raise a ruckus to resist a local pipeline, or raise awareness about the Dakota Access fight, the time is now.
The new toolkit has three parts:
Immediate Actions: Educate yourself, raise awareness on your campus, and collect petitions to encourage a local figure of authority to publicly oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Stand In Solidarity: Plan a trip to literally stand with Standing Rock at the camps in North Dakota over your Fall Break! (Or any other weekend). Check out the toolkit resources on cultural sensitivity, planning, and more.
Bring It Home: Stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline ultimately means stopping the exploitative and oppressive companies that own it, like Enbridge Energy. By eroding the capacity, financial resources, and social legitimacy of these companies, we can do our part in dismantling the problem at its root, and stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
I’m excited to see where these resources take each of our campuses and communities. The #NoDAPL movement has permanently redefined what pipeline resistance can be, and what we can accomplish.
Young people have been and will continue to be at the forefront of these fights. Our generation refuses to be cursed with inheriting crumbling and poisonous pipelines.
In solidarity,
Akilah Sanders-Reed
Oil Free Organizer
Power Shift Network
PS— I’ll be sending out more information about ways you can take action against Enbridge and the Dakota Access pipeline soon. If you want to be the first to hear about opportunities to act—on the frontlines or in your community—you should sign up for the Pipeline Resistance Rapid Response Team by clicking here!
As reported by Democracy Now!:
We speak with 350.org’s Bill McKibben about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of hundreds of other tribes from across the U.S., Canada and Latin America have resisted construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, even as police carrying assault rifles responded to them with armored vehicles, tear gas and helicopters. "We cannot pump more oil," McKibben says. "Frontline communities, and particularly indigenous people, have been in the forefront of this climate fight." He also discusses Hillary Clinton’s failure to take a stance on the project and how some unions have supported the resistance. [More.]
As reported by Democracy Now!:
And in North Dakota, 21 people were arrested Wednesday by police in riot gear, while the group was conducting Native American ceremonies to block construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. The pipeline has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of hundreds of other tribes from across the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Land defenders say police carrying assault rifles responded to the ceremonies with armored vehicles, tear gas and helicopters. This is a Sicangu Lakota grandmother.
Land defender: "We had a really nice ceremony. And then we looked, and over that way, and the police—there was a few police. And the next thing I knew, there were like 40 police, and they were all dressed in riot gear. We did exactly what we were told to do, except the ones who were in the road, just to tell everybody, 'Keep moving. Keep moving. Keep moving.' And I’ve never in my life seen a gun in real life. And I’ve never had a gun pointed at me. And we all went—I went into shock."
September 30, 2016