Pray for the protesters at Standing Rock, and for the oppressors, too.
They are peaceful, non-violent protesters. We need justice.
-Angela
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demonstrations are calling on banks to divest from the controversial
Dakota Access Pipeline, citing human rights abuses against water
protectors.
Standing Rock Pipeline Protesters, Ordered to Leave, Dig In
CANNON
BALL, N.D. — Lee Plenty Wolf knows the government wants him to clear
out of the snowbound tepee where he stokes the fire, sings traditional
Oglala songs and sleeps alongside a pair of women from France and
California who came to protest an oil
pipeline in the stinging cold. But he and thousands of other protesters
are vowing to make what may be their last stand at Standing Rock.
The
orders to evacuate the sprawling protest camp on this frozen prairie
just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation came down last week
from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the North Dakota governor’s office. After
four months of prayer marches and clashes with law enforcement
officials who responded with tear gas and water cannons, the protesters
now have until Monday to leave.
The government said it would not forcibly remove anyone, but could cite people for trespassing or other offenses.
At
the camp, defiance is rising like smoke from the stovepipe of Mr.
Plenty Wolf’s tepee. People are here to stay. They are building yurts
and hammering together plywood for bunkhouses and lodges. The communal
kitchen stops serving dinner at 9:30 p.m.; it reopens a half-hour later
as a sleeping space.
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