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The Standing Rock victory you didn't hear about

The day 40 to 50 Native water protectors kept 250 militarized police from attacking camp.

By Desiree Kane
Nation of Change
November 5, 2016

Last week, the world watched in horror as a massive militarized police force attacked prayerful indigenous water protectors fighting for the water of 18 million people. Over and over, people were brutalized, pulled out of sweat...

The White Horse and the Humvees—Standing Rock Is Offering Us a Choice

Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures.

By Robin Wall Kimmerer and Kathleen Dean Moore
YES! Magazine
November 5, 2016

Here's what no one understands about the Dakota Access Pipeline crisis

Understanding “sacred” sites.

By Rosalyn R. LaPier
The Washington Post
November 4, 2016

In recent weeks, protests against the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline across North Dakota have escalated. Native American elders, families and children have set up tepees and tents on a campsite near the pipeline’s path in the hope of stopping its construction.

Why understanding Native American religion is key to resolving Dakota Access Pipeline crisis

November 3, 2016
By Rosalyn R. LaPier, Religion News Service
National Catholic Reporter

In recent weeks, protests against the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline across North Dakota have escalated. Native American elders, families and children have set up tipis and tents on a campsite near the pipeline’s path in the hope of stopping the pipeline’s construction.

A Prayer for People and Planet: 500 Clergy Hold 'Historic' Mass Gathering for Standing Rock

Roughly a hundred protesters and clergy members shut down the North Dakota state Capitol with a lawn prayer circle

By Lauren McCauley
Common Dreams
November 4, 2016

Why understanding Native American religion is important for resolving the Dakota Access Pipeline cri

November 2, 2016
By Rosalyn R. LaPier
The Conversation

In recent weeks, protests against the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline across North Dakota have escalated. Native American elders, families and children have set up tipis and tents on a campsite near the pipeline’s path in the hope of stopping the pipeline’s construction.

Image Gallery: 500 interfaith clergy and laity answered the call to stand with Standing Rock

November 3, 2016
By Lynette Wilson
Episcopal News Service

Cannon Ball, North Dakota - In a historic show of interfaith support and solidarity, more than 500 interfaith clergy and laity answered a call to come to North Dakota to stand in peaceful, prayerful and lawful solidarity Nov. 3; and to bear witness with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation as they continue to protect the...

NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective

2016

#StandingRockSyllabus

https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/

Why Dakota Is the New Keystone

October 28, 2016
By Bill McKibben
New York Times

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The Native Americans who have spent the last months in peaceful protest against an oil pipeline along the banks of the Missouri are standing up for tribal rights. They’re also standing up for clean water, environmental justice and a working climate. And it’s time that everyone else joined in.

Armed With Riot Gear, Militarized Police Begin Forcibly Clearing DAPL Protest Camp

‘We will be peaceful, we will be prayerful, we will not retreat’

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Common Dreams
October 27, 2016

Arrests have begun at the recently erected frontline camp in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), as police and military move in on Indigenous water protectors and their allies in North Dakota.

With law enforcement seemingly...

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