News Items

The Forum regularly posts news articles of interest here from a variety of sources and news outlets. You can check back here or view the most recent ones from the homepage. We also archive these articles here, for those doing research, with news going back to 2006. Use the menu on the right to explore the archived articles.

News

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...

Indigenous Youth Travel from Standing Rock to Clinton Headquarters to Demand Answers on Dakota Acces

October 27, 2016
Greenpeace Press Release

Planning to Travel to Standing Rock? Now Is The Time

October 24, 2016
By Sarah Sunshine Manning
Indian Country Today

“Non-violent direct action has been vilified in the media, but it’s a major way that things have gotten done in this country,” said Marty Aranaydo, Mvskoke of Oakland, California.

Speaking from the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, Aranaydo, who is Tohono O’odham, Akimel O...

83 arrested at Standing Rock yesterday, Dakota Access Pipeline wants war. Native drones shot down!

October 23, 2016
By Navajo
Daily Kos

How Far Will North Dakota Go to Get This Pipeline?

The militarized response is escalating, Dakota Access construction is accelerating. To be clear: North Dakota is acting as trustee for the company, using what it considers the powers of state to make this project so.

By Mark Trahant
Yes! Magazine
October 23, 2016

CANNON BALL, N.D. | A peaceful protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline ended in the arrests of 83...

Canadian Supreme Court Prepares to Hear Inuit Case With Global Implications

October 19, 2016
By Chris Williams
Truthout

'Do it for the water': Native Americans carry Potomac water on prayerful, 400-mile journey

October 16, 2016
By Julie Zauzmer
Washington Post

It’s noon on a Thursday, and Reyna Davila-Day would ordinarily be sitting in her AP Human Geography class, memorizing the rivers of the globe.

Instead she’s stumbling in and out of a gully alongside a busy road, ignoring the cars and trucks that whiz past, walking as fast as her 14-year-old legs can carry her. Instead of...

Standing Rock: A New Moment for Native-American Rights

October 12, 2016
By Sierra Crane-Murdoch
The New Yorker

More news...