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Army Corps Blocks Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Route

The Corps’ decision is a victory for several thousand protesters camped near the construction site

By James MacPherson
NBC Washington
December 4, 2016

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday that it won’t grant an easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota.

The decision is a victory for the several thousand camped near the construction...

Obama Administration Halts Construction Of Dakota Access Pipeline

The “historic” decision comes as thousands of protesters gather on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

By Chris D’Angelo
Huffington Post
December 4, 2016

Iran 'serious' about fighting climate change

UpFront
Al Jazeera
December 2, 2016

Iran’s Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar discusses her country’s latest environmental policies.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Pens An Urgent Letter: "I'll See You at Standing Rock"

December 3, 2016
By Alexa Erickson
Collective Evolution

Environmental attorney and activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put in decades of work to protect the environment, so having him publicly show his support in the fight against Energy Transfer Partners and the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) is of massive importance.

Veterans and elders ignore eviction notice, arrive at #NoDAPL camp in North Dakota (video)

By Chris Stewart
APTN National News
December 2, 2016

As the Dec. 5 eviction date at the North Dakota camp trying to shut down construction of a pipeline, new groups of supporters have arrived on the scene.

Watch the video here:

http://aptn.ca...

Water Protectors Deliver Donations to Morton County Officers

December 2, 2016
By Jade Begay
Indigenous Environment Network

MANAND, ND - On Friday December 2nd at approximately 2pm CST Water Protectors from Oceti Sakowin camp will fulfill a ...

Standing Rock: A Change of Heart

December 2, 2016
By Charles Eisenstein
charleseisenstein.net

I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath.

Restoring Paradise One Watershed at a Time

December 2, 2016
Genesis Farm

Perhaps Paradise was never lost.  Earth can’t be lost.

She can be desecrated and abused.  She can be diminished severely in her beauty, health and creativity, yet still endure.

 

Prophets, poets and wise people from earlier times also mourned the loss of people, lands and things they loved.  They did their best to explain the...

Fake Cowboys and Real Indians

December 2, 2016
By Timothy Egan
New York Times

For most of this past week, a winter storm has lashed at the North Dakota prairie camp where the Standing Rock Sioux are making a stand to keep an oil pipeline away from water that is a source of life for them.

The sight of native people shivering in a blizzard, while government authorities threaten to starve them out or...

Pope Francis, the Interfaith Movement and Global Environmental Ethics

By Kusumita P. Pedersen

Interreligious Insight: A journal of dialogue and engagement

Vol. 14, no. 2 (December 2016): 62-73.

http://fore.yale.edu/files/Pedersen_Pope_Francis.pdf

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