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Veterans apologize to Indigenous on behalf of U.S. Army at Standing Rock

December 7, 2016
By Amanda Froelich
Nation of Change

Today, hundreds of veterans from across the United States took a knee and begged for forgiveness for crimes committed toward indigenous people in the name of the U.S. military.

Why Standing Rock Is About Way More Than a Pipeline

December 7, 2016
By Jordan Chariton
Mediaite

Growing up in a land of white privilege on Long Island, I had it fairly good. I wasn’t rich nor poor; I was middle class with two loving, working parents.

Neither my family nor tribe of relatives were slaughtered; my land wasn’t stolen in the name of another race and class colonizing their own country from the burnt ashes of...

Rowan Williams Keynote Speaker at 2018 Yale Liturgy Conference

December 5, 2016
Yale University Institute of Sacred Music

Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) has announced that Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, will be the keynote speaker at the fifth international liturgy conference at Yale University, to be held June 18 – 21, 2018.  The theme of the conference is “Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation.”

'Would you go and tear up St. Peter's in Rome?'

December 6, 2016
By Maureen Fiedler  
National Catholic Reporter

While Eyes Were On Standing Rock, The Dakota Pipeline Was Being Drilled Under Another Water Source

December 6, 2016
By Adele Peters  
Fast Co.Exist

While the pipeline may have been halted in North Dakota, construction workers just finished drilling under the Des Moines River, which supplies the water for half a million people in Iowa.

The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Doctrine of Native Genocide

December 6, 2016
By Tim Scott
Truthout

Indigenous Activists at Standing Rock Told a Deep, True Story

And that’s why they won at least a temporary victory.

By Bill McKibben
The Nation
December 5, 2016

All organizing is story-telling, and the story that got told at Standing Rock was so powerful that ultimately the Obama White House had little choice but to go along.

New MAPTING App Launched to Increase Youth Participation in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

December 5, 2016
Soka Gakkai International (SGI)

Tokyo: A new app has been created to track and map activities that contribute to actualizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development launched at the UN in September of last year.

"We beg for your forgiveness": Veterans join Native elders in celebration ceremony

Wes Clark Jr. was among the veterans celebrating the DAPL news and asking forgiveness

Salon
December 5, 2016

Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO Wesley Clark Sr., was part of a group of veterans at Standing Rock one day after the Army Corps announcement. The veterans joined Native American tribal elders in a ceremony...

The victory at Standing Rock could mark a turning point

December 4, 2016
By Bill McKibben
The Guardian

The defeat of an energy company by indigenous activists shows what nonviolent unity can accomplish. There are lessons here as we enter a challenging new age

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