Native Americans protest building of pipeline through their lands...

[dannno]

Reminds me of Ernest Goes to Camp

 

[osan]

"Their" lands...

Oh wait... you mean they're serious?

 

[osan]

It was not me , I would have scalped the dogs and the security guards while they were still alive .

I'm cool with handling the guards, but leave the dogs out of it, OK?

Dogs are good people.

 

[Ender]

I'm cool with handling the guards, but leave the dogs out of it, OK?

Dogs are good people.

Agree with you on that.

 

[Lucille]

You can see the security goons attacking.

North Dakota v. Amy Goodman: Arrest Warrant Issued After Pipeline Coverage
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/12/north_dakota_v_amy_goodman_arrest

...Morton County, North Dakota, issued an arrest warrant for Amy Goodman. The charge: criminal trespass, a misdemeanor offense. The case, State of North Dakota v. Amy Goodman, stems from Democracy Now!’s coverage in North Dakota over the Labor Day weekend of the Native American-led protests against the Dakota Access pipeline. On Saturday, September 3, Democracy Now! filmed security guards working for the Dakota Access pipeline company using dogs and pepper spray to attack protesters.

Protester: "These people are just threatening all of us with these dogs. And she, that woman over there, she was charging, and it bit somebody right in the face."

Amy Goodman: "The dog has blood in its nose and its mouth."

Protester: "And she’s still standing here threatening us."

Amy Goodman: "Why are you letting their—her dog go after the protesters? It’s covered in blood!"

Democracy Now!'s report went viral online and was viewed more than 13 million times on Facebook alone, and our footage was rebroadcast on many outlets, including CBS, NBC, NPR.org, CNN, MSNBC and Huffington Post. Also charged was Cody Hall for his alleged presence at the September 3 land defense action and for a subsequent protest on September 6. Hall is considered a lead organizer in the movement against the Dakota Access pipeline and was arrested at one of the checkpoints that have been erected by North Dakota authorities to restrict access to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the growing pipeline opposition camps. Hall was denied bail and remained in jail throughout the weekend. Hall's attorneys and several others we spoke to confirmed that it is highly unusual for a defendant charged with misdemeanor trespass to be jailed and denied bail.

According to the criminal complaint against Goodman, the charges are based on a viewing of Democracy Now!'s video report of the incident, conducted by the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Special Agent Lindsey Wohl's sworn affidavit states that Goodman was there as a journalist. Wohl wrote, "Amy Goodman can be seen on the video identifying herself and interviewing protestors [sic] about their involvement in the protest." The criminal complaint was approved by Assistant State’s Attorney for Morton County Gabrielle J. Goter. To date, none of the private security personnel shown in the video both assaulting protesters and commanding their dogs to attack them have been charged or arrested. Democracy Now! is consulting with attorneys in North Dakota as well as at the Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy said, "This is clearly a violation of the First Amendment … an attempt to repress this important political movement by silencing media coverage."

 

[Lucille]

Breaking: Riot Police Begin Mass-Arrests at Dakota Access Pipeline, FedBook Censors Video
http://theantimedia.org/police-arrests-dakota-access-pipeline/

(ANTIMEDIA) North Dakota — It didn’t take long after the National Guard was activated in North Dakota for militarized law enforcement to descend upon the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Today, mass arrests began as riot gear-clad police attempted to break up Native American opposition to the construction of the pipeline, which has been halted at one location but continues elsewhere.

According to independent news outlet Unicorn Riot, at least 20 protesters, or “water protectors,” have been arrested at gunpoint along with medics and two journalists. Police issued a one-time warning to “water protectors” that any trespassers would be arrested. The warning came after several people locked themselves to construction equipment in acts of civil disobedience on Tuesday.
[...]
A surveillance plane was also seen patrolling the protest site, reports Unicorn Riot.

http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=8994

UPDATE: Both Unicorn Riot journalists have been bonded out for jail after being booked on misdemeanor charges of Criminal Trespass. Our understanding is that most of the arrested water protectors got out of jail Tuesday night as well.
[...]
Approximately 100 riot police arrived to at least one site, armed with assault rifles and less-lethal weapons. Around 20 people were arrested at the site of the #NoDAPL lockdown, including medics and two Unicorn Riot journalists. As arrests were under way, Facebook censored our live video stream.

https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja

 

[Ender]

Criminal Trespass charges against people on THEIR property.

Pretty sick.

 

[PierzStyx]

Criminal Trespass charges against people on THEIR property.

Pretty sick.

Seriously.

And most of the forums are obsessed with arguing over Trump in endless circles. I know I have been. All while the government does this.

 

[Ender]

Seriously.

And most of the forums are obsessed with arguing over Trump in endless circles. I know I have been. All while the government does this.

Yep.

Great way to keep everyone distracted while forcing them more and more into The Matrix.

 

[Carlybee]

One issue I have with this is that the Sioux will protest this and then turn around and align themselves with the same government doing this to them. And OT, they also think sucking up to Obama will get Leonard Peltier freed. They are never going to free him because they stick up for their own.

 

[Lucille]

Media Silent as Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Spread, Construction Blocked in Iowa
http://theantimedia.org/media-silent-dakota-access-pipeline-iowa/

(ANTIMEDIA) Sandusky, IA — The media blackout of opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline continues as widening protests, which have now blocked pipeline construction in Iowa, go unreported by the national corporate media.

The “Mississippi Stand” water protector encampment in Sandusky, Iowa, successfully blocked Dakota Access Pipeline construction as of Saturday, September 24th. The protests are taking place where the pipeline is planned to cross the Mississippi River.

Water protectors attached themselves to construction equipment in acts of civil disobedience until they were eventually arrested — but police failed to corral them before they halted the pipeline’s construction. Law enforcement arrested a total of 12 people on Saturday at the Mississippi Stand site, according to independent media outlet Unicorn Riot. At least 44 people have been arrested at the Iowa protest site in previous weeks.

At issue is the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline that Native American tribes, led by the Lakota Sioux, say will endanger tribal and public fresh water across an area that spans several states. In a statement to Unicorn Riot, the Mississippi Stand confirmed their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline:

“Mississippi Stand comes together in solidarity with Standing Rock, because we acknowledge the importance of the protection and preservation of Native Land. It’s crucial that all water protectors rise up together to fight for our Mother Earth, and all who inhabit this beautiful planet. This begins with defending our most valuable life source, water.”

Meanwhile, protests continue near the Standing Rock camp at the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site in North Dakota despite the Justice Department’s order to stop construction on Army Corps of Engineer land. Twenty-one water protectors were arrested on Wednesday alone as militarized police with armored vehicles and shotguns descended upon peaceful protesters. The protesters were arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest, among other charges, Rob Keller of the Morton County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to Anti-Media.

But local Native Americans are not alone in this fight. Tribes from all over the country have joined together in one of the largest shows of indigenous solidarity in history — and they are joined by climate activists, farmers, and landowners who have had their land confiscated through the force of eminent domain in order make room for the pipeline.

Since the corporate media has repeatedly shown it is unwilling to cover the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, stay up to date by checking out Anti-Media’s coverage here.

 

[Lucille]

The protesters insist they aren't armed, like that's a good thing.

Heavily Armed Cops Drop TEAR GAS On Peaceful Standing Rock Protesters.

Things are heating up at Standing Rock. After police spread lies yesterday about armed protesters who simply didn’t exist and they had no proof of, today they moved in with machine gun-wielding officers, and others loading shotguns as they descended on protesters

Thomas H. Joseph II, one of the protesters on site, says the following:

We need everyone able to come join us at Standing Rock.

Today’s action where uncalled for, the police was a direct threat to woman and children.

We gathered in prayer un-armed, prayed, sang songs, and attempted to leave. No threats, No vandalism, No violence was taken on our part.

Flood the White House with phone calls and demand Obama to act and enforce his previous declaration of no construction. With state police protecting Dakota Access Pipeline his words are meaningless.

White House Phone Number: 202-456-1111

Watch the video below, make the call and help SPREAD THE WORD till this is HEADLINE NEWS!

[...]
Hours More of Today’s Dramatic Video Footage Can Be Seen Here..

–> – http://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/6419548- <—

From above, the “Water Protecters” say that the police dropped what was “either mustard or tear gas.”
See for yourself…

 

[Lucille]

Caught On Tape: Militarized Police Turn Peaceful Native American Protest Into War Zone
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...urn-peaceful-native-american-protest-war-zone

Following the activation of the North Dakota National Guard on September 8, peaceful Dakota Access Pipeline protests quickly became flooded with militarized law enforcement. Native American activists, or “water protectors,” have been standing in the way of the pipeline’s construction for months, successfully blocking it at the Sacred Stone camp near the Missouri River.

When the situation initially took a turn for the worse earlier this month, journalists on the ground who were broadcasting live video complained Facebook was blocking their streams. Now, videos and images from Wednesday are emerging that show an overwhelmingly militarized response to the peaceful prayer and protest.

[...]
In the video, law enforcement can be seen using armored vehicles (MRAPs), shotguns, assault rifles, riot gear, tear gas, and helicopters to disperse the protesters. The police have turned peaceful prayers and acts of civil disobedience into a what now resembles a war zone. The Morton County Sheriff’s department confirmed to Anti-Media that 21 water protectors were arrested Wednesday. Several water protectors at the scene said a plane was used to drop tear gas — or some other form of crowd dispersants — on the group, though the Morton County Sheriff’s department has denied these allegations.

The protests are rooted in the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s concerns that the Dakota Access Pipeline would pollute the area’s water supply and violate tribal treaties. Hundreds of Native American tribes have joined the blockade in solidarity. Landowners also joined the ongoing demonstrations after their land was seized through eminent domain to build the pipeline.

The protests received mainstream news coverage after the Department of Justice ordered a halt to construction on land owned by the Army Corps of Engineers. However, construction continues outside that area, and protests are growing more frequent and direct.

 

[AZJoe]

Drop of few excerpts of Native American wisdom here:

I am a king in my own land, and will never become a vassal of a mortal like myself. Vile and pusillanimous is he who will submit to the yoke of another when he may be free. As for me and my people, we choose death--yes! A hundred deaths--before the loss of our liberty and the subjugation of our country. - Acuera (Timucua Tribe ), (C. 1539), said to Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto as relayed by captured native emissaries sent to meet Acuera.

We prefer to stay here and die, if necessary, to loss of liberty. We are free now and have plenty of beef, can dance all the time in obedience to the command of Great Wakantanka. - Short Bull, Tatankaptecelan (Sioux) (1890).

A hundred years of submission and servitude, of protectionism and paternalism have created psychological barriers for Indian people that are far more difficult to break down and conquer than are the problems of economic and social poverty. - David Courchene, Leading Thunderbird (Manitoba) (1969).



Most members of the National Indian Youth Council can remember when we were children and sent many hours at the feet of our grandfathers listening to stories of the time when the Indians were a great people, when we were free, when we were rich, when we lived the good life. At the same time we hear stories of droughts, famines, and pestilence among Indian people. But it is only recently that we realized that there was surely great material deprivation in those days, and that our old people felt rich because they were free. They were rich in the things of the spirit. But if there is one thing that characterizes the Indian life today it is poverty of the spirit. … we are poor in spirit because we are not free …

We are not free. We do not make choices. Our choices are made for us … these choices and decisions are made by Federal administrators, bureaucrats, and their yes men, euphemistically called tribal governments. … We have many rulers. They are called social workers, cops, school teachers, churches, et cetera, and recently OEO employees … they tell us what is good for us and how they programmed us … there is a struggle going on in America now between those who want more “local” control of programs and those who would keep the power and the purse in the hands of the Federal Government. … no one is arguing that the dispossessed, the poor , be given any control over their own destiny. …

Nor have those of us on the reservations fared any better under the paternalistic control of Federal administrators. … Some of us fear that this is the shape of things to come in the War on Poverty effort. … We are told in the not-so-subtle racist vocabulary of the modern middle class that our children are “deprived.” Exactly what they are deprived of seems to be unstated. We give our children love, warmth, and respect in our homes and the qualities necessary to be a warm human being. … Perhaps they have a hard time reconciling themselves to being a number on an IBM card. Nevertheless, many educators and politicians seem to assume that we, the poor, the Indians, are not capable of handling our own affairs and even raising our own children, and that the State institutions must do that job for us and take them away from us as soon as they can. My grandmother said last week, “Train your child well now for soon she will belong to her teacher and the schools.” …

Fifty years ago the Federal Government came into our communities and by force carried most of our children away to distant boarding schools for ten or twelve years. My father and many of my generation lived their childhoods in an almost prison-like atmosphere. Many returned unable even to speak their own language. Some returned to become drunks. … Very few ever became more than very confused, ambivalent, and immobilized individuals, never able to reconcile the tensions and contradictions built inside themselves by outside institutions. As you can imagine we have little faith in such kinds of Federal programs devised for our betterment, nor do we see education as a panacea for all ills. …

We must be free men and exercise free choices. We must make decisions about our own destinies. We must be able to learn and profit from our own mistakes. Only then can we become competent and prosperous communities. We must be free in the most literal sense of the word, not sold or coerced into accepting programs for our own good …

Freedom and prosperity are different sides of the same coin and there can be no freedom without complete responsibility. …
The solution to Indian poverty is not government programs, but in the competence of the person and his people. … - Clyde Warrior (Ponca) (February 3, 1967).

 

[phill4paul]

POLICE FROM 5 STATES ESCALATE VIOLENCE, SHOOT HORSES TO CLEAR 1851 TREATY CAMP

Cannonball, ND - Over 300 police officers in riot gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline camp just east of Highway 1806. The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently purchased by DAPL. Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Lakota territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851, was violently cleared. Both blockades established this past weekend to enable that occupation were also cleared.

In addition to pepper spray and percussion grenades, shotguns were fired into the crowd with less lethal ammunition and a sound cannon was used (see images below). At least one person was tased and the barbed hook lodged in his face, just outside his eye. Another was hit in the face by a rubber bullet.

A prayer circle of elders, including several women, was interrupted and all were arrested for standing peacefully on the public road. A tipi was erected in the road and was recklessly dismantled, despite promises from law enforcement that they would merely mark the tipi with a yellow ribbon and ask its owners to retrieve it. A group of water protectors was also dragged out of a ceremony in a sweat lodge erected in the path of the pipeline, wearing minimal clothing, thrown to the ground, and arrested.

A member of the International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) that had her wrist broken during a mass-arrest on October 22nd was hurt again after an officer gripped her visibly injured wrist and twisted it during an attempted arrest. At least six other members of the youth council verified that they had been maced up to five times and were also shot and hit with bean bags. In addition to being assaulted, an altar item and sacred staff was wrenched from the hands of an IIYC member by police. Several other sacred items were reported stolen, including a canupa (sacred tobacco pipe).

Two medics giving aid at front line were hit with batons and thrown off the car they were sitting on. Then police grabbed another medic, who was driving the car, out of the driver side while it was still in motion. Another water protector had to jump into the car to stop it from hitting other people.

Members of the horse nation herded around 100 buffalo from the west and southwest of the Cannonball Ranch onto the the DAPL easement. One rider was reportedly hit with up to four rubber bullets his horse was reported to be hit in the legs by live rounds. Another horse was shot and did not survive.

A confirmed DAPL private security guard was spotted among the protectors with an automatic rifle heading towards camp. Water protectors acted swiftly to stop the man who was attempting to flee the scene in his pickup. One protector stopped the assailant’s vehicle with their own before the security guard fled to nearby waters, weapon in hand. Bureau of Indian Affairs police arrived on scene and apprehended him.

Three water protectors locked themselves to a truck in the middle of the road and surrounded it with large logs. After several hours of standoff, the police advanced in a sweep line and moved people approximately 1 mile back down the highway towards the main encampment on the Cannonball River. Water protectors then retreated to the bridge over Highway 1806 and erected a large burning blockade that the police were unable to cross.

Law enforcement from at least five states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Nebraska) were present today through EMAC, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. This law was passed by the Bill Clinton administration and allows states to share law enforcement forces during emergencies. It is intended for natural disasters and has only been used twice for protests; once in the summer of 2015 during the demonstrations in Baltimore and here on the Standing Rock Reservation. Over 100 were arrested today in total.

Kandi Mossett, Indigenous Environmental Network states, “I went to the frontline in prayer for protection of the Missouri River & found myself in what I can only describe as a war zone. I was sprayed in the face with pepper spray, the guy next to me was shot by something that didn't break the skin but appeared to have broken the ribs & another guy beside me was randomly snatched violently by police shoving me into the officers who held me off with batons then tried to grab me. I'm still in shock & keep waiting to wake from what's surely a nightmare though this is my reality as a native woman in 2016 trying to defend the sacred”

Eryn Wise of the International Indigenous Youth Council stated, “Today more than half of our youth council were attacked, injured or arrested. In addition to our brothers and sisters being hurt and incarcerated, we saw police steal our sacred staff. I have no words for what happened to any of us today. They are trying to again rewrite our narrative and we simply will not allow it. Our youth are watching and remember the faces of the officers that assaulted them. They pray for them.”

http://sacredstonecamp.org/blog/201...olence-shoot-horses-to-clear-1851-treaty-camp

 

[Ender]

Drop of few excerpts of Native american wisdom here:

I am a king in my own land, and will never become a vassal of a mortal like myself. Vile and pusillanimous is he who will submit to the yoke of another when he may be free. As for me and my people, we choose death--yes! A hundred deaths--before the loss of our liberty and the subjugation of our country. - Acuera (Timucua Tribe ), (C. 1539), said to Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto as relayed by captured native emissaries sent to meet Acuera.

We prefer to stay here and die, if necessary, to loss of liberty. We are free now and have plenty of beef, can dance all the time in obedience to the command of Great Wakantanka. - Short Bull, Tatankaptecelan (Sioux) (1890).

A hundred years of submission and servitude, of protectionism and paternalism have created psychological barriers for Indian people that are far more difficult to break down and conquer than are the problems of economic and social poverty. - David Courchene, Leading Thunderbird (Manitoba) (1969).



Most members of the National Indian Youth Council can remember when we were children and sent many hours at the feet of our grandfathers listening to stories of the time when the Indians were a great people, when we were free, when we were rich, when we lived the good life. At the same time we hear stories of droughts, famines, and pestilence among Indian people. But it is only recently that we realized that there was surely great material deprivation in those days, and that our old people felt rich because they were free. They were rich in the things of the spirit. But if there is one thing that characterizes the Indian life today it is poverty of the spirit. … we are poor in spirit because we are not free …

We are not free. We do not make choices. Our choices are made for us … these choices and decisions are made by Federal administrators, bureaucrats, and their yes men, euphemistically called tribal governments. … We have many rulers. They are called social workers, cops, school teachers, churches, et cetera, and recently OEO employees … they tell us what is good for us and how they programmed us … there is a struggle going on in America now between those who want more “local” control of programs and those who would keep the power and the purse in the hands of the Federal Government. … no one is arguing that the dispossessed, the poor , be given any control over their own destiny. …

Nor have those of us on the reservations fared any better under the paternalistic control of Federal administrators. … Some of us fear that this is the shape of things to come in the War on Poverty effort. … We are told in the not-so-subtle racist vocabulary of the modern middle class that our children are “deprived.” Exactly what they are deprived of seems to be unstated. We give our children love, warmth, and respect in our homes and the qualities necessary to be a warm human being. … Perhaps they have a hard time reconciling themselves to being a number on an IBM card. Nevertheless, many educators and politicians seem to assume that we, the poor, the Indians, are not capable of handling our own affairs and even raising our own children, and that the State institutions must do that job for us and take them away from us as soon as they can. My grandmother said last week, “Train your child well now for soon she will belong to her teacher and the schools.” …

Fifty years ago the Federal Government came into our communities and by force carried most of our children away to distant boarding schools for ten or twelve years. My father and many of my generation lived their childhoods in an almost prison-like atmosphere. Many returned unable even to speak their own language. Some returned to become drunks. … Very few ever became more than very confused, ambivalent, and immobilized individuals, never able to reconcile the tensions and contradictions built inside themselves by outside institutions. As you can imagine we have little faith in such kinds of Federal programs devised for our betterment, nor do we see education as a panacea for all ills. …

We must be free men and exercise free choices. We must make decisions about our own destinies. We must be able to learn and profit from our own mistakes. Only then can we become competent and prosperous communities. We must be free in the most literal sense of the word, not sold or coerced into accepting programs for our own good …

Freedom and prosperity are different sides of the same coin and there can be no freedom without complete responsibility. …
The solution to Indian poverty is not government programs, but in the competence of the person and his people. … - Clyde Warrior (Ponca) (February 3, 1967).

This is EXACTLY what public schools were formed and what their mission is- most of us are to submerged in The Matrix to even recognize it.

 

[Origanalist]

I'm cool with handling the guards, but leave the dogs out of it, OK?

Dogs are good people.

Not when they're biting you.

 

[Origanalist]

Someone Just Donated $2.5 Million To Bail Out Everyone Arrested At Standing Rock

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/11...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Origanalist]

 

[phill4paul]

Yeah, that was some fucked up shit.