Standing Rock: Cautiously Optimistic as International Solidarity Builds
This morning, the water flows a little easier in the Cannonball River.
This morning, the water flows a little easier in the Cannonball River.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has defied history.
Heavy snow and winter cold settled this month on thousands of Native Americans and their supporters encamped on the banks of the Cannonball River, some 30 miles south of Bismarck, North Dakota.
I am moving slowly and deliberately and thinking about the world we need to build together, on a much larger scale.
Justin Trudeau announced the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline Tuesday, saying the project is integral to meeting Canada’s climate commitments.
In early November, the Trudeau government tabled a ministerial panel report on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project proposed by Kinder Morgan, a Houston-based energy corporation.
Standing Rock is an unpredicted history lesson for all of us.
The entire system must be put into question, not just who joins the new executive committee.
November 15 was a momentous day for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its allies in the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL.
The history of social reform in America is inextricably tied to civil disobedience.
What a Trump victory may spell for the continued battle over the Dakota Access pipeline—and for indigenous rights, in general—is alarming.
President Barack Obama, in an interview with Versha Sharma of NowThis News, said that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may consider a reroute of the hotly contested Dakota Access Pipeline, one which would presumably not cross sacred Native American sites.