Natives in ND Being Attacked by Military Police Right Now
The people standing against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline are being attacked by militarized police, the National Guard, and private security right now in North Dakota. People are being arrested and pepper-sprayed, and tents and tipis are being destroyed. Sacred land (where ancestors are buried) has been desecrated and the construction continues while the people fight for clean water and their lives -- and all of our lives. We all live downstream.
Livestreams and other media are continually being blocked. Right now, the feed that's working best for me is https://www.facebook.com/cempoalli.twenny/videos/vb.1551483589/102108407...
Follow the #NoDAPL hashtag on Twitter for ongoing updates.
Alternative media Unicorn Riot has some videos you can watch. http://livestream.com/unicornriot
Ignore all the mainstream media that says the water protectors are "trespassing." The pipeline is being built on unceded treaty land, and telling indigenous people that they are "trespassing" on "private property" just adds insult to injury.
Sorry I don't have time to write more, but please please pass this information around, post on social media, witness and report on what's happening.
This is settler colonialism in action today. Not in the 1800s or even the 1900s, but today. Native people being attacked on their own land. Concussion grenade just thrown into crowd, people being treated for pepper spray attacks.
This is horrible.
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man in photo has been arrested /eom
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
screen capture from livestream
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
DAPL has used eminent domain on 9 farmers in ND
I haven't seen this reported on anywhere else, but our government used eminent domain on at least 9 farmers to build the pipeline.
Usually ED is when the city or state used it to build roads or schools or other things that will help the community, not a private company.
The farmers are trying to sue over this but we know that the banks and others that are behind the pipeline have unlimited funds to fight the lawsuit.
And if the TPP passes then even the right to sue over this type of action is going to be taken away from us.
Damn the whores in our government that continually sell us out to the highest bidder.
This woman was arrested on her own property when she tried to stop them from digging up her own land.
I don't see how this can be constitutional.
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/10/cops-arrest-woman-property-opposin...
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
I remember when GWB signed this into law
I was incredulous at the time. "The community really needs tar sands bitumen." That gunk is going to Asia. More terminals, more tank farms, on the west coast all for export.
To thine own self be true.
GWB and eminent domain
To thine own self be true.
Thanks for the link, Marylyn
So what this company is doing is illegal.
So unless Obama recinded this executive order, then what this company is doing to the farmers and the Native Americans is illegal.
Besides the NAs own the land where the pipeline is going through.
This gives Obama the right to shut this down and tell the sheriff that he is breaking the law. Not just ask them to voluntarily to stop the building of the pipeline.
So where the hell is he? Hiding?
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
It's not Constitutional - all
It's not Constitutional - all such laws contravene the US Constitution, the principles of democracy and of sane law.
That's why US courts are packed with corrupted judges willing to distort the intent of law - protection of the public interest - and misinterpret the Constitution to make a pretense of law out of criminality.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
And the corporate media headline will be "protest turns violent"
Tonight on cable TV there will be no coverage because it's all Trump all the time. Down at the bottom of the screen the scroll will say "Pipeline protest turns violent." That will also be the newspaper headline tomorrow.
Just once I'd like to see, "Peaceful protesters attacked by police."
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
The sheriff is using a blow horn and telling people to quit
using bows and arrows. Seriously? If that isn't stereotyping and that is what the evening news is going to report tonight.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Maybe they finally realized
Maybe they finally realized that screaming 'stop resisting' at the motionless peaceful protester they're jumping on doesn't work on the ubiquitous phone cams from a distance while using concussion grenades on peaceful protesters?
I find it so hard to believe that so many people are voting for this to continue and - at best - drastically worsen...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
They sure aren't going to report...
The Cops Rioting again...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
thanks for posting this.
Four dead in Ohio, It doesn't change, the ruling elite
will always find chump ass fascists to do their dirty work. These poor excuses for humans aren't on our side, they're clearly on the side of the corporations, the banks and the ruling class.
We can't roll over on this man.
30 million dead on the Plains and it doesn't change
That's a rough estimate of how many Bison were slaughtered to starve the Plains Natives.
They couldn't beat them so they starved them.
One of my videos...
Incredibly moving, JtC
What was done to the Native Americans is heartbreaking and to see what's happening to the protesters now is equally heartbreaking.
The cops have no right to use LRADS against peaceful protesters nor attack dogs. Plus there are snipers on the hills surrounding the protest area.
That's what has pissed me off the most about Obama's silence on this. Attack dogs were used during the civil rights protesters and if they haven't put their lives on the line then he would not be president today.
But he grew up in a white affluent family and didn't have to go through what many Blacks are going through today.
He's Black in skin color only, IMO!
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
thanks JtC, I will watch this. If you have not read it
Empire of the Summer Moon is a must read. On my top ten list.
Story about Quanah Parker and his mom Cynthia Ann.
Long story short she is kidnapped by the Comanche and then rescued, and spends the rest of her life trying to escape back to live with the Comanche.
I am on the last chapter, dakrle
The most moving book I have read since Mari Sandoz's "Crazy Horse". I highly recommend both.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Beautiful montage and great tune, JtC.
Thanks for putting that together. Poignant paintings and music for this next episode in this continuing saga.
Power to the People!
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Great pictures
Where did you curate them from?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
I put that together...
a couple of years ago for the folks at The Evening Blues when it was still at DailyKos. I can't remember specifically where every painting came from but I do remember perusing, for many hours, the archives of famous artists of Western art from the late 1800s and early 1900s to find just the right images for the presentation. George Catlin, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell are just a few that quickly come to mind. Google their names, you'll get lost for hours in some excellent works of art.
This is beautifully done
Thanks for sharing them, along with the artists who created these haunting images.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
It was a genocide. And this is how they make up for it?
Instead of reparations for what was done to Native Americans, they now try to steal "the land people walk on."
To thine own self be true.
All this on Obama's watch
This is a fucking national disgrace!
Luckily it's not yet Clinton's watch.
There'd be dead people by now. Remember Bill and Waco?
Is there something we can do
Is there something we can do right now? Call the White House?
Sure
Call the White House (202-456-1111), the Dept of Justice (202-353-1555), Morton County sheriff's office (701-667-3330).
It certainly can't hurt.
Plus, share the info far and wide. The more people see what's happening, the better
Longer term, the main camp needs supplies and funds http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/
Thx, crescentmoon
**edited to add phone numbers**
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Heard about this on twitter, here's my response
(And of course my twitter handle, damn I regret it these days)
First the tweet I responded to
MY RESPONSE
When I was a kid, Republicans used to red scare people, now it's the Democrats. I am getting too damn old for this crap!
Democrats are on the corporation's side
Obama met with Cheyenne River Sioux chairman Harold Frazier on Tuesday. Didn't do anything (and he has approved two more pipelines since the NoDAPL protests began). http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/26/police-presence-gro...
A group of Native youth tried to deliver a letter to Hillary's representatives in New York today -- and the Clinton people refused to even accept the letter.
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/10/27/indigenous-youth-travel-...
They are showing who they are by their actions. Make America Native Again!
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
It's safer to protest Republicans
Have a fun time protesting the Democrats, MIC, Big Wall St, and the elites. They are far more nastier.
This pipeline bullshit is all on Dems, Obama and HRC. They OWN it. Blood and Pipeline Poison in on their hands.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Hey blaze,
Are you a refugee from TOP ? I see you live in the Old Pueblo, wanna' meet-up some time ?
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
never joined TOP
I was always too left-wing for them, but I did read there a lot. But not any more.
I'm a bit of a hermit, but I might be open to a Tucson hangout. (Just happily mailed in my ballot for Stein/Baraka)
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
I'll send you a message.
We're mostly progressives too, although some of us are liberals and big D democrats. We're talking about a meet-up after the election.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Time to stand together
They want to silence those speaking out.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Leo diCaprio on twitter says volunteers have provided
the means for solar power to the protestors. This must be very offensive to the
"authorities." I don't believe the government is going to win this one.
To thine own self be true.
No law abridging/peaceably assemble/petition gov't/grievances
What was that 1st Amendment stuff?
Oh, I'm sorry I was mistaken. Thought we hold these "laws" sacred or something.
Posted this video in another essay today but it seems appropriate again.
"Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry":
Thanks for putting together this Breaking News essay and bringing it to our attention, blaze.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Helicopters, MRAPs, And Cops In Military Gear
They are not there just to clear away "trespassers" . They are there to serve their Oligarch masters and SEND A F**KING MESSAGE.
Protesting is dead in America. It will no longer be tolerated. That's the message.
Some coverage and photos on democracy now
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/27/developing_100_militarized_police...
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Also Journalism Is Now A High Crime
Edward Snowden tweeted that by contrast he would only serve 30 years if convicted for the charges against him.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
In other news
Oregon Standoff Leaders Acquitted For Malheur Wildlife Refuge Takeover
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-standoff-refuge-not-guilty_us...
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Unfuckingbelievable. Not guilty?
Wow, I don't know what to say about that verdict.
What the hell went through the minds of the jurors?
They definitely were guilty of the charges against them.
Is this another example of white privelage or because they had guns? Look at how many years it took the government to even bring charges against them,
They pointed weapons at federal officials and nothing happened to them, meanwhile the people who don't have any weapons are met with attack dogs, pepper spray, aLRAD device and are threatened by snipers.
This country's justice system if totally FUBARED,
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Interesting contrast isn't it?
They did spend a few months in jail waiting for trial, so they got more than nothing, but I expected more.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
The defense attorneys maintained it was a protest
I wonder if what is happening in North Dakota, that protest, influenced the jurors? I was surprised. I think a lot of people will be. But if the reason for the not guilty verdict is because the jurors felt they had a right to protest, that would be a positive, I think.
TPTB want to destroy faith in
TPTB want to destroy faith in government by corrupting government intended to be of, by and for the people, so that people demand less or no democratic government, rather than a democratic government;
they want to destroy faith in law and order by corrupting those who are intended to dispense justice in protecting the safety and interests of the public so that people instead demand their own weapons to defend themselves rather than the public service they pay for and are entitled to;
they wish to destroy faith in a shared and interdependent society where we all have equal rights, treatment and opportunity and look out for one another by corrupting our perceptions into seeing an every-man-for-himself, dog-eat-dog world of hazard.
They are evil.
This is what corporations have freely and even more violently done in countries where the people and environment have no protections, as will be the case in all involved countries as off-shored corporate court 'law' is illegally and unconstitutionally claimed under Trojan Horse 'trade agreements' on the basis of a traitor's signature.
Never vote for evil. Vote non-corporate/billionaire coup, non-TPP-supporting Green, for life. And don't be fooled by bad, TPP-supporting or billionaire imitations!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Holy crap.
This is going to motivate some action.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
They could have been charged with terrorism
The Bundy Gang could have been charged with terrorism. They could have been charged with murder under the felony murder rule. But noooo... "interference with federal employees." What if Native Americans had tried to take back the Malheur NWR? It was their land originally. I think the FBI would have shut that down on day one!
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
Where is Hillary? Where is Trump? Where is Obama?
Where is Bernie for that matter? Only Jill is there for us.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Here is Hillary's statement
I have no idea what she is even trying to say with it.
People need to find a path forward? WTF does that even mean? The Native Americans don't get the chance to 'find the way forward' you stupid twit! They are being shot with rubber bullets, pepper sprayed, being subjected to the LRAD machine and being f'cking arrested.
This is the worst non statement ever she has said.
Oh well, I can look forward to what Obama is going to say. I wonder if he can top her statement?
Jesus!
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
And people mocked Sarah Palin's word salads?
Please vote for Jill. Otherwise the it looks like all the women who get close to the White House are twits.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Allow me to translate
"The tribes are only one of many of the parties involved, and we don't really give a shit what they think. We need to find a path forward that puts the most money in my pocket, and the tribes don't have any money. It's important that the tribes be allowed to demonstrate peacefully in their designated free speech zone with hundreds of rifles trained on them at all times while the workers get the damned pipeline finished. If they step outside, fucking shoot 'em. If any press show up, fucking shoot 'em. There's a new sheriff in town, and she ain't taking shit from no broke-ass citizens."
That about cover it?
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Yep WoodsDweller
that's what I thought she was saying, you have to be good at reading between the lines when the shill is speaking.
Thanks for the translation WD
I didn't include the link to her statement
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/happening_now_police_facing_off_aga...
As the arrests were happening news broke about how the Bundy group was acquitted.
Go to the article to read the tweets about how the protesters feel about the news.
They too are saying that this was white privelage.
The commentary in the huffpo article are saying the same thing.
Bundy's group destroyed federal property and didn't allow federal workers to go to their jobs, terrorized the town and left threats to the sheriff and other people and they were found not guilty?
Yet the dapl protesters are on their own land and being arrested.
Damn if this doesn't show that there are two different justice systems in this country I don't know what would.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Not White privilege - blatant
Not White privilege - blatant, terrifying and sickening discrimination. Just as a lighter-skinned person shooting an unarmed darker-skinned person for breathing/walking or driving in various States is invariably found to be 'standing their ground' in some (non)sense, while the darker-skinned person is typically not considered to merit having any ground to stand on at all.
Going to shut up now.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Beautifully, thanks,
Beautifully, thanks, Woodsdweller.
I could actually smell those steaming words you more accurately wrote even while reading the spoken, original and strategically garbled translation Her Raving Craziness produced, but it's good to know that we're all on the same page here.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Never too early to start kissing up to Wall Street
Yeah those are her "public" words
What's she saying in private?
Beware the bullshit factories.
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 9:55pm —
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 9:55pm — Timmethy2.0
What WoodsDweller said, just upthread.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Contrast that with the Green campaign statement
Stein/Baraka Campaign Condemns Police Actions, Calls to Honor Treaties with Standing Rock Sioux
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
They're asking that everyone share this video. The guy running
the video feed that they are doing this for all the people of North Dakota. The Facebook feed works for me.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Obama is busy signing new oil and gas projects
So much for him spending 8 years fighting climate change. And people think that Bush was a puppet for the corporations.
What an empty suit he has been for the 99%
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
That suit's full of something
That suit's full of something... I can smell it, too.
Edit: can't seems get most of my recs to stick at all today, though, and so often need extra here.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Where is Obama in all this?
He's in charge of this mess. Why isn't he doing something to stop this?
Why aren't we calling him out on this abuse of power?
"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, take their money and then vote against them you've got no business being in Congress."
Betty, people have been calling the WH all day
Navajo wrote a diary on DK and many of the members wrote that they were calling the WH.
But it doesn't look like he is going to do anything about this.
If the land does belong to the Native Americans, then instead of 'asking' the company to voluntarily stop he could sign an executive order and make them stop.
But we saw how he let BP push him around on using corexit.
And I think he has a say about the use of the national guard being used to help arrest people. That goes against Posse Comitatus IIRC.
Hillary's statement was so garbled she doesn't address the fact of the police brutality.
I recently read an article that says the security guards might be brought up on charges of assault and battery when they let the dogs bite people for no reason. That is the definition of assault and battery.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
... If the land does belong
those responsible should be charged appropriately and arrested, as would just about any other group of thugs be.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
It's unbelievably frustrating
He's allowing this abuse to happen. He, more than anyone else in government, has control of the outcome.
Yes, I've gotten the emails and made a call myself. Bernie's been to the WH a couple of times. Still nothing. Obama has a real knack for shutting out the public when he wants to.
"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, take their money and then vote against them you've got no business being in Congress."
report from Facebook I just saw
from a protestor: they're even shooting the horses. One died so far. *RAGE*
This shit is bananas.
horses
I saw one post about the horses, but then couldn't find any confirmation. Do you have a source? (not doubting you, I'm just a skeptic about the huge amounts of misinformation being put out by the MSM and the sheriff)
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
I'll see if I can find it again.
This shit is bananas.
Here it is.
https://www.facebook.com/greg.g.cloud/posts/10154690114383035
This shit is bananas.
thank you
I too ended up seeing confirmation that one horse had died.
If the rounds being aimed at the horses are enough to kill them, what happens when they hit human beings?
I don't know how those cops look at themselves in the mirror without being deeply ashamed.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Videos Of Police Violence At This Link
The Oligarch's Thugs (aka police in military gear) really trying to incite a violent reaction from the unarmed crowd by beating the fuck out them. Disgusting to see what america has become.
Pretty awful shit - pepper spray, tazers, billy clubs, snipers
http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=10476
Hourly updates posted here
https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.