Decolonizing Environmentalism
We are witnessing a historical push toward the dismantling of imperialism, the decentralization of power, and the welcoming of non-White, non-European values into conservation. Whenever you talk about race relations…
Dakota Access Pipeline
“We’ll Meet Them Out in the Fields”: Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere
Recent polls suggest that the bonkers, even barbaric, rhetoric coming from far-right MAGA candidates could be undermining Republicans’ chances of capturing both chambers of Congress in November. Now, the greater…
Indigenous-Led Organization Opens New Salvo in Fight for Climate Justice
NDN Collective, inspired by the Standing Rock Sioux movement, releases a report on Dakota Access Pipeline. Climate justice means something different to everyone but when it brings to mind images…
From The Ashes of Standing Rock, A Beautiful Resistance Is Born
If you’re like me, you are probably feeling a deep sorrow in your heart over the news that oil will soon flow through that black snake of death, the Dakota…
Dakota Pipeline: The Best Way Forward!
The Lakota, my people in spirit, fighting the Dakota pipeline know. Whatever else is best for us to do as a life aim than to serve helpfulness? Seven generation stewardship…
Water Is Life: The Story of Standing Rock Won’t Go Away
Every day I write rhymes on Twitter. I get a kick out of reducing complicated ideas and events down to 140 characters. So yesterday I wrote: Powers That Be think…
As Police Evict Water Protectors, Tribes Vow to Continue the Fight
On Thursday, as North Dakota police moved in with a fleet of bulldozers, Humvees, and armored MRAP vehicles, Gov. Doug Burgum signed into law four bills that would bring harsher…
DAPL Opponents Vow to ‘Rise’ From Ashes of Oceti Sakowin and Keep Fighting
As the Army Corps of Engineers forcibly evicted the last of the remaining water protectors from the Oceti Sakowin protest camp on Thursday, Indigenous opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline…
Violent Arrests As Police Begin Evacuating Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp
Riot police began violently arresting the remaining Dakota Access Pipeline protesters in the Oceti Sakowin Camp, following yesterday’s eviction deadline set by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. The first arrests…
How Powerful Could We Be If We Agree To Stand Our Ground On Our Treaty Land
The police came to Last Child Camp in broad daylight, with armored vehicles and guns drawn, to rip our people from our land. Many water protectors were on prayer walks…
Seattle Just Divested Billions From Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline
The movement to stop the controversial Dakota Access pipeline through financial activism took an important step forward today, as the Seattle City Council voted 9-0 to approve a bill that…
A Universal Revolution Or End-Of-World Scenario?
In the waning months of 2016, as the Standing Rock Sioux’s protest raged against the Dakota Access Pipeline (NODAPL), an historic Back To The Future journey was begun anew for…
Dakota Access Pipeline Construction To Proceed
On Tuesday, the United States Army Corps of Engineers filed documents with the US District Court in Washington, DC stating that it intends to grant an easement to Energy Transfer…
Please Help Sioux In Water And Climate Change Protection!
When my daughter was five years old, I put three cardboard boxes one day in her bedroom. With a fat marking magic marker, I labeled one "A," a second one…
A Universal ‘Trump – Style’ Revolution or End of World Scenario?
In the waning months of 2016, as the Standing Rock Sioux’s protest raged against the Dakota Access Pipeline (NODAPL), an arduous, historic Back To The Future journey was begun anew…
Police, National Guard Raid Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp, Arrest 76
With assistance from the National Guard, police raided a protest camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota near the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) site on February 1, evicting and arresting seventy-six…
Black Snakes On The Move: Pipeline Expansion Out of Control
A Lakota prophecy tells of a mythic Black Snake that will move underground and bring destruction to the Earth. The “seventh sign” in Hopi prophecy involves the ocean turning black…
Don’t Let Trump Distract You: Public Comment On DAPL Is Now Open
It’s been a tumultuous few days for anyone following the ongoing battle against the Dakota Access pipeline. Within the course of just over a week, the project’s backers tried to…
Trump Executive Orders Approve Dakota, Keystone Pipelines
President Donald Trump has ordered US government agencies to expedite approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, running roughshod over opposition by environmentalists and Native American tribes. The…
The Never-Ending Indian Wars: Spotlight Returns To Standing Rock
The world has been shocked by North Dakota’s violent reaction to the anti-oil pipeline resistance at Standing Rock. For the better part of a year, people have watched via social…
Standing Rock And The Return Of The Nonviolent Campaign
Nonviolent campaigns are often dramatic and catch the attention of millions—think of Standing Rock water protectors resolute in the face of a brutal police force. All the more puzzling that…
The Standing Rock DAPL Protest: 2016’s Arduous Journey Back To The Future
Before the Standing Rock Sioux’s historic protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline (NODAPL) fades from the world’s collective memory - and the next tumultuous phase begins for the world to…
Standing Rock: A Template For Resistance
A little after Thanksgiving break, I got a message from my friend Deborah Duguid-May, who is a priest at Trinity Episcopal Church here in Rochester, NY. She wanted to know…
20 Photos: My Seven Months Of Living At Standing Rock
The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle. I arrived at Standing Rock in the very last days of…
Black Snake Bleeding Out: How DAPL Is Duping Investors
The Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) is yet another violent variable in the equation of environmental racism that plagues the United States, and the world—to the peril of Indigenous and low-wealth…
Seattle Takes Steps To Divest $3 Billion From Wells Fargo Over Standing Rock
Over the past few months activists opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline have ramped up pressure on the pipeline company’s financiers, and now the city of Seattle is showing what…
At Standing Rock, No One Goes Hungry: The Kitchen That Serves Traditional Lakota Food And Values
Hundreds of water protectors gathered in a solar-powered 200-foot geodesic dome nestled on the plains amid tipis and waited three hours to join a traditional Lakota dinner on Thanksgiving. Ancient…
How Standing Rock’s Divest Campaign Can Stop Future Pipelines
Sasja Beslik, head of sustainable finance at Nordea, one of the largest banks in Europe, recently traveled to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on a fact-finding mission. Originally from Bosnia,…
Indigenous Rights And The Fight For Life At Standing Rock
by Frank Barat & Vidal Cuervo With the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, the water protectors at Standing Rock might have won a battle but they…
How Standing Rock Has Changed Us
At the Oceti Sakowin camp there were celebrations into the night when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision was announced. Fireworks lit up the sky, which is normally dominated…
America’s Final Solution For The Sioux: It Was A Close Call!
Before the NODAPL Sioux Protest passes into the next phase of America squarely addressing the larger issue of Climate Change and how to more quickly convert from fossil fuels to…
Veterans Help #NoDAPL Resistance Achieve Significant Victory
Over the past eight months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota have been joined by more than 200 allied tribes and tens of thousands of non-Native activists for…
The Numbers That Tell The Story Of This Standing Rock Victory
The federal government on Sunday denied the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access pipeline’s route under the Missouri River. The announcement by the Army Corps of Engineers came as…
#NoDAPL Scores Major Victory: No Final Permit For Pipeline
Co-Written by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Cannon Ball, North Dakota (Oceti Sakowin or Council of the Seven Fires Camp) – Today, the people won a major victory in the…
Singular Sentiments On The Standing Rock Victory
Co-Written by Rachel Olivia O'Connor and Richard Martin Oxman We won't state the obvious points about what was accomplished, or anything concerning who should be praised. Rather, below, I give…
Victory At Standing Rock: Dakota Access Pipeline Permit Denied
In a long-awaited victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline, tribal leadership announced late Sunday.…
Naomi Klein, Tulsi Gabbard Travel To Standing Rock Alongside Thousands Of Veterans
The number of veterans traveling to North Dakota to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline has swollen to over 3,000, an astonishing…
Trump Declares Support For Dakota Access Pipeline Ahead Of Evacuation Order Against Protesters
US president-elect Donald Trump expressed his support for the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) ahead of an evacuation order, due to go into effect on Monday, against thousands…
Veterans Arrive At Standing Rock To Act As ‘Human Shields’ For Water Protectors
As tensions grow in North Dakota, with multiple eviction orders facing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, U.S. military veterans on Friday began…
The Many Ways to Help Standing Rock
Even if you can’t show up at the wintry encampments, you can join water protectors in other ways: from calling the North Dakota governor to breaking up with your bank.…
Standing Rock Stand From A Distance
At the very end of an interview on RT News focused on the two thousand military vets who are slated to act as human shields for the protesters at Standing Rock this…
“My Whole Heart Is With You Tonight”: A Letter To The Dakota Access Front Line
I write these words on what’s a cold night in my city, and a much colder night where my heart is—with my friends in Standing Rock. My writing, which typically…
Water, History, And Finance Converge As Sioux Nation Mounts Storied Battle Over Oil Pipeline
Dakota Access pipeline could be stranded asset in the making. Heavy snow and winter cold settled this month on thousands of Native Americans and their supporters encamped on the banks…
Moving Slowly And Deliberately At Standing Rock: A Report On Life In The Camp
In this report, I will try to give you a sense of what being at Standing Rock is like. Tonight completes my third day here. The weather has been mostly…
The Beginning Is Near: The Deep North, Evictions And Pipeline Deadlines
Standing Rock is an unpredicted history lesson for all of us. More than any moment I recall since Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War, or the time of Martin Luther King,…
#NoDAPL, The Sioux And America’s Real Story: An Old Sad Tale Retold Ad Infinitum
The underbelly of America’s story of empire, greed and expansion, at the constant expense of Indians, Mexicans, former Black slaves and poor whites, is the same ol’, same ol’ constant…
Standing Rock Eviction Countdown: Will You Keep Fighting With Us?
Update Nov. 28: North Dakota Gov. Dalrymple late Monday issued an immediate order for the removal of thousands of water protectors camped at #OcetiSakowin, which is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…
Police Attack On Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Results In 300 Injuries
Another violent clash between Dakota Access Pipeline protesters and police late Sunday night led to approximately 300 injuries among the protesters, 26 of whom required professional medical attention. Some of…
Four Ways To Look At Standing Rock: An Indigenous Perspective
A couple of weeks ago, as I stood before climate scientists, advocates, and world policy leaders at the COP22 in Morocco, I felt the increased importance of my message as…
From Across The Country, Gifts of Tiny Houses Arrive for Standing Rock
Eleven days ago, when Matt Musselwhite pulled into an encampment at Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in a 5-ton flatbed truck, he had no idea how he would unload the three…
#DAPL: A Thanksgiving Day 2016 Open Letter To President Barack Obama
Mr. President I am writing to you on this sad day of Thanksgiving in response to the despicable, un-American conduct of Governor Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota, North Dakota’s state…
Police Blast #NoDAPL Activists With Water Cannons in Sub-Freezing Temps
Law enforcement unleashed percussion grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures on peaceful water protectors battling the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota late Sunday.…
Sioux Already Battling On The Front Lines: Why Is The Rest Of America Still AWOL or MIA?
As each precious day goes by, the intensity of the confrontation grows ever more feverish and grave between the peaceful, weaponless Sioux and their allies now pitted against the imposing…
#NoDAPL :The Battle Cry For A New America
44 years ago this ExPat fled to Canada in search of emotional, spiritual and political solace following the election of Richard Milhous Nixon as America’s 37th President. The shocking election…
On The Knife-Edge of Western Globalization: A Stint At Standing Rock
Armed men in jackboots, some masked and toting assault rifles, stand mockingly, defiantly, heavily on the mound of graves – a sacred indigenous burial ground. A site non-natives can understand…
Standing Rock Sioux Protest: Something To Teach Us About Living Well
As efforts to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline grow, communities across the country are hearing from activists on their return from North Dakota and sending off fresh teams to…
What the Trump Victory Means For Standing Rock
Less than 12 hours after Donald Trump walked onto a New York City stage as the newly elected president, the stock price for Energy Transfer Equity shot up 15 percent.…
U.S. Election: The Only Choice Isn’t Just Between The Evil Of Two Lessers
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election has all but come and gone and the predictable outcome has been limited to a choice between the evil of two lesser candidates, but it…
Turning Point At Standing Rock? Resistance And Renewed Hope Against Dakota Access
Is this the turning point for the Dakota Access Pipeline? Word spread through the camp on Friday of a discussion between the Army Corps of Engineers and the Standing Rock…
Armed Police Descend On Water Protectors At DAPL Site
Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday, as images on social media showed a dramatic standoff along a creek that borders a construction site for the long-opposed…
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