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A small battle has been won in the current war protestors are facing with the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on Saturday. Private hired security forces began to attack Native-American activists with dogs and pepper spray, all of which was caught on camera by Democracy Now! (video below). The protestors were able to successfully push security and construction crews out for the meantime, but the war is ongoing.
For months, thousands of citizens of various Native Tribes from both the U.S. and Canada have been resisting the construction of the pipeline, which cuts through sacred Native locations, including burial grounds, and has the potential to contaminate drinking water supplies. The Saturday attacks on protestors comes during a holiday weekend, after an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order was filed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and while the judge is still in the process of considering that motion. The judge is to reach a decision on the 9th.
In a statement from Tribal Chairman David Archambault II:
“On Saturday, Dakota Access Pipeline and Energy Transfer Partners brazenly used bulldozers to destroy our burial sites, prayer sites and culturally significant artifacts. They did this on a holiday weekend one day after we filed court papers identifying these sacred sites. The desecration of these ancient places has already caused the Standing Rock Sioux irreparable harm. We’re asking the court to halt this path of destruction.”
According to reports, the motion “seeks to prevent additional construction work on an area two miles west of North Dakota Highway 1806, and within 20 miles of Lake Oahe until a judge rules on the Tribe’s previous motion to stop construction.” Attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux, Jan Hasselman, had this to say:
“Destroying the Tribe’s sacred places over a holiday weekend, while the judge is considering whether to block the pipeline, shows a flagrant disregard for the legal process. The Tribe has been seeking to vindicate its rights peacefully through the courts. But Dakota Access Pipeline used evidence submitted to the Court as their roadmap for what to bulldoze. That’s just wrong.”
The Red Warrior Camp released this statement in response to Saturday’s attacks:
“Red Warrior Camp remains nonviolent and unarmed… we ask that supporters keep focus on the fact that this corporation feels justified in using this level of force against unarmed and nonviolent water protectors and the state is allowing it!”
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B.S. 1. Most of the protestors ARE NOT Native Americans. They are environmental, college student, crybabies. 2. They tore down a fence to get to the construction site. Criminal trespassing is a sure way to get pepper sprayed and/or dog bit. 3. There is probably not 6 square inches of dirt on this continent that someone did not die on or be buried under in the past 100,000 years. Progressives want progress, but they don’t want anything to progress to get it. Although they all have iphones that were made with hydrocarbons and were made by someone making $3 per day.
God, I hate people from Texas. When America gets nuked, I hope that state and all the inbred ignorant hillbillies in it goes first. Just aim that shit at Bush’s ranch.
Think water don’t need to be clean to live? What’s the address you live at if you think differently? Where is your family buried? Where are your generations at?
Not one issue till it hits your home?
Stop being unarmed
shut up Zainal, the site is called anonymous you fucking moron. and as for DRTexas, people like you are what’s wrong with the world, go die in a corner somewhere.