“In the interim, the departments of the Army, Interior, and Justice have reiterated our request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe.” Earlier in the day, Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II had requested a DOJ investigation into civil and human rights abuses by police and other authorities against the protectors. “While the Army continues to review issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members, it will not authorize constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe,” Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle told the news station in an e-mail on Tuesday October 25. Its mission is to protect,ĭefend and gaincivil rights by leveling the economic and educational playing fields while promoting peace and justicearound the world. RPC is dedicated to improvingthe lives of all people by serving as a voice for the voiceless. With headquarters in Chicago and offices in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Detroit,Houston, LosĪngeles, New York and Oakland, the organization works to make the American Dream a realityfor all citizens while advocating for peace and through merging of two organizations he founded Operation PUSH People United to Serve Humanity (estab.ġ971) and the RainbowCoalition (estab. Rainbow PUSH Coalition is a multi-racial, multi-issue, progressive, international organization thatwas formed in December 1996 by the We will go to jail together to stop the pipeline. We will protect the water together and if need be, Return to this prairie of hope as soon as I can. I hope our nation does not continue to abandon our Native brothers and sisters. It represents an indigenous resistance movement, a It was an unnecessary and ugly confrontation – and a tremendous waste of police resources.īut this struggle is about more than a pipeline. One of the officers had his finger near the trigger of his rifleĭuring the entire 20 minutes of negotiations it took for them to allow us to pass. The officers were armed with assault rifles and grim faces as Leaving the camp, headed for the airport, my colleagues and I Some days during the months-longĬampaign to safeguard the environment, three times that number has lived in the camp. I was repeatedly greeted with warmth and prayer in the camp dotted withĬooking fires, teepees and tents, home to more than 1,200 Native Americans from dozens of tribesĪnd their allies from across the country and the world. Heard today one of the proudest and most determined to defend Mother Earth. The Standing Rock reservation is one of the poorest areas in the country and from what I saw and Life expectancy for Native men and women is not much beyond middle-age. Youth, I was told today, are eight times more likely to commit suicide than other American youth. The police are used as threat and intimidation. The Native American plight is one of protracted genocide and dishonored treaties. The waterĬrisis in Flint, Michigan, as dangerous and disgraceful as it continues to be, impacted about The river is also the source of water for 17 million peopleĪ pipeline leak into the Missouri could be an environmental disaster of epic proportions. Missouri River, the tribe’s water source. A stretch of the pipeline is scheduled to run below the Yet, they do not fight just for themselves. The construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline – which will carry 500,000 gallons of crude oil a dayĪcross four states – threatens the tribe’s sacred lands, burial sites and drinking water.īut the people of Standing Rock are not mere protesters. The people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their courageous nonviolent crusade to stop the I spent the day not far from here, as a proud member of the coalition of conscience, standing with It was shouted by young children and ancient grandmothers, by a white man from Florida and four – Everywhere I went today, I was greeted with a simple but profound Water is Life, Stop the Dakota Access PipelineĪ statement by Rev.
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