This is posted on FB (the pic is grayed, you have to click on it)
https://www.facebook.com/remi.graber.14/posts/10154832499835559?pnref=story

Please share, tweet, and notify all those in power by phone, fax and/or email of your opposition to these Gestapo tactics:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call
https://www.governor.nd.gov/contact-us
National Guard 701.333.2000
Army Corp of Engineers 202.761.8700
Amnesty International 212.807.8400
Morton County Sheriff’s Department 701-667-3330
POTUS 202-456-1111
U.S. Dept of Justice 202-353-2555
White House situation Room 202-456-9452
FBI Bismark ND office 701-223-9875
WPR's Audience Services at 1-800-747-7444
WPR Email listener@wpr.org
Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier 701.667.3330 kyle.kirchmeier@mortonnd.org
States Attorney Allen Koppy 701.667.3350 allen.koppy@mortonnd.org
ND Governor's office 701.328.2200

Water Protector in Critical Condition After DAPL Police Grenade Blew Apart Her Arm

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/water-protector-dapl-grenade-destroys-a...

UPDATE: We have been informed that Sophia is in surgery and will be going through amputation. Our prayers go out to Sophia and her loved ones as her life will never be the same due to the careless actions of Morton County Sheriff’s Department and other law enforcement agencies that took part in last night’s savage attack against water protectors.

In related inbox petitions, while I can't find this on the internet to give a separate URL, this is from Alex Neve
Secretary General Amnesty International Canada and there may be a different one people can access.

The point is that this is happening everywhere although it's just starting to worsen in the US, home of a number of such ruthless corporations, and it must be stopped everywhere. As must the corporate coups labelled as 'trade deals' illegally and unconstitutionally handing domestic law and human/citizen rights over to such corporations and the billionaires ruining the world.

... The campaign of violence and intimidation against Máxima is emblematic of a disturbing trend. Women and men around the world who stand up to corporate power to defend their land rights face grave danger. Many are forced to pay with their lives. ...

TAKE ACTION!
Máxima Acuña is courageous and determined. She's also in danger.

Máxima is a small farmer in Peru. She’s standing up to the mining giant that wants to take over her land.

Máxima refuses to yield, despite violent attacks by company security guards and police. They’ve damaged her property, destroyed her crops and beaten her so badly she had to be rushed to hospital. They’ve even beaten her children.

Máxima is a leader in her community, defending the right to food, health and to a healthy environment amidst fears about the impact of mining exploitation. In April, her courageous efforts were recognized with the Goldman Environmental Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for defenders of the environment.

Yet the threats and violent intimidation have not stopped. The situation is urgent. ...

Link given leads to the petition (Bolding mine)

PROTECT LAND DEFENDER MÁXIMA ACUÑA

“I will never kneel before Yanacocha," says Máxima Acuña, respected land defender and winner of the 2016 Goldman Prize for environmental activism.

She is engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the US and Peruvian owners of the Yanacocha mine, one of the largest gold and copper mines in the world. Máxima and her family, small farmers in northern Peru, are taking on the mining giant over ownership of the land in Tragedero Grande where she lives. She has braved violent attacks for refusing to leave and believes that campaign of intimidation and harassment, perpetrated by both local police and Yanacocha security personnel, is an organized attempt to drive her from her home so the mining company can use her land.

But she will not give in.
"I WILL NEVER KNEEL
BEFORE YANACOCHA."

Police and security guards working for Yanacocha have attacked Máxima and her family numerous times. An attack in September 2016 was so bad that Máxima had to be rushed to hospital. In other attacks, police even beat her children. They damaged her house and took away vital belongings, including crops, food, cooking pots and beds.

The campaign of violence and intimidation against Máxima is emblematic of a disturbing trend. Women and men around the world who stand up to corporate power to defend their land rights face grave danger. Many are forced to pay with their lives.

Máxima’s community has united to try to protect her. We must join them.

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It's time for us to say #MáximaIsNotAlone #MáximaNoEstáSola by calling on the Peruvian government to ensure Máxima is able to defend her rights without fear of harm.

More you can do:

- Send Máxima a solidarity message
- Sign up for Write for Rights to join our global action for Máxima on December 10!
- Learn more about Máxima's case

This is what corporations routinely do where people and the environment are not protected against their predation, and they've worsened, as have politicians, because they've been getting away with it. And our stinking-corrupt governments are fine with such as this being done by corporations based in our countries, now at home as well as abroad where little is heard of this by citizens. This must be fought, tooth and nail by any country these corporations wish to do business in.

(This one is older, past deadline now. Emphasis mine, although too much of too many horrors to make a point of them all.)

http://www.rightsaction.org/action-content/solidarity-ang%C3%A9lica-choc...

Solidarity With Angélica Choc & Other Women In Danger For Defence Of Land, Water, Life
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Please consider signing this statement – as an individual and/or organization – concerning recent attacks against Angélica Choc in Guatemala, Máxima Acuña in Peru, and other women struggling in defense of land, water and life, in the face of large-scale mining and hydroelectric projects in different parts of Latin America.

Deadline: Tuesday, September 23, 2016
Send your sign-on to: Jen Moore, Mining Watch Canada,jen@miningwatch.ca
Share this Statement widely
Send this Statement to your Member of Parliament, Congress and/or Senate, urging them to sign on

This statement will be presented to Angélica Choc on September 29th when the life and struggles of her murdered husband Adolfo Ich will be commemorated. It will form the basis for an appeal to governments demanding respect for Indigenous rights, safety for those who are fighting mega-projects in defense of land, water and life, as well as an end to impunity for North American corporations and investors implicated in repression, violent evictions, corruption and impunity abroad.

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Statement
Solidarity With Women Defenders & All Defenders of Water, Land, Life & Territory

We, the undersigned, express our solidarity with Angelica Choc and family after gunshots were fired against her home on Friday, September 16, 2016. The attack occurred just after midnight. Four bullets impacted the walls of her home where Angelica and two children were sleeping.

This most recent attack comes as the criminal trial in Guatemala for the murder of Angelica’s husband Adolfo Ich - which took place on September 27, 2009 - nears its conclusion, and as the civil case in Canada against HudBay Minerals for negligence in connection with this and other serious human rights violations moves forward.

We are deeply concerned about the rising number of attacks against human rights and land defenders throughout Latin America, particularly at the hands of multinational extractive companies, as recently reported by Amnesty International. An alarming number of these victims are Indigenous women.

We hold responsible not only the companies implicated in these acts of violence but also the home countries for supporting in multiple ways the expansion of corporate and investor interests while turning a blind eye to repression, human rights violations and environmental harms linked to those same economic interests.

The serious threats against Angelica and others involved in the case have been repeatedly denounced both nationally and internationally. We continue to support her courageous and dignified struggle for justice in the murder of her husband.

Angelica’s husband, Adolfo Ich, was a Maya Q’eqchi’ ancestral authority and teacher in his community of La Union, El Estor. On the day he was murdered, he heard gunshots from a nearby soccer field, where protesters had gathered in response to fears of further illegal land evictions to be carried out by police and private security guards on behalf of the Canadian company HudBay Minerals and its then Guatemalan subsidiary, Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel (CGN).

As a respected member of his community, Adolfo went to the area to restore calm. He was recognized as an outspoken opponent to the mine, and according to eyewitnesses, was attacked upon arrival by mine security, led by Mynor Padilla, former military colonel and head of security for HudBay Minerals/CGN at their Fenix nickel mine project at the time. Adolfo was beaten, attacked by machete and shot. He died from his injuries.

The criminal trial against Mynor Padilla, accused of murdering Adolfo and causing serious injury to German Chub, has dragged on for more than one and a half years in Guatemala. Earlier this year, the judge – claiming that she felt threatened - ordered a closed-door trial, and since then, no press or international or national observers have been allowed to attend. The trial has been riddled with procedural and substantive irregularities, as well as allegations by the plaintiffs of racism by the judge. The long and arduous proceedings have caused serious personal and economic hardship to Angelica, her family and supporters, and lawyers. This is not the first attack against Angelica and she has denounced others since the criminal trial opened in Guatemala in March 2015.

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Throughout Latin America, on a regular basis, people defending water, land and life are being killed, attacked, threatened, and persecuted.

In Brazil, Nilce de Souza Magalhães, known as Nicinha, was murdered in January 2016 after continually denouncing human rights violations committed by the consortium responsible for the Jirau hydro-electric project, Energia Sustentável do Brasil (ESBR). Nicinha, a leader from the Movement of Persons Affected by Dams (MAB), was part of a fishing village that was trying to protect the river and their livelihoods. As a result of her leadership and struggle, she was tortured, bound and murdered before being tied to a rock in the river.

In Honduras, Indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres, winner of the prestigious Goldman Prize was murdered in March 2016 for her work defending rivers in Lenca Indigenous territory against the Agua Zarca dam project. Fellow activist and head of Otros Mundos/Friends of the Earth Mexico, Gustavo Castro Soto, narrowly escaped a point-blank range shot in the same attack. Berta was the leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and since her murder, two other members of COPINH, Nelson García and Lesbia Janeth Urquía, have been killed. Threats and attacks against COPINH for their resistance to multinational hydro-electric dams and mining concessions in their territory continue. As part of a marred and unsatisfactory investigation, six men have been arrested so far for Berta’s murder, including two with direct ties to the Honduran Energy Corporation (DESA). Berta’s family and COPINH question the investigation, worried that it will not lead to convictions or the real intellectual authors of her assassination – who they believe are in the highest levels of government and the military – being identified and held to account.

In Peru, on the same weekend Angelica Choc’s home was attacked, another Goldman prize winner was beaten and left in serious condition after an armed attack at her home. Farmer and outspoken opponent to South America’s largest gold mining project, Maxima Acuña de Chaupe, and her partner Jaime, were severely hurt by armed men on September 18. Acuña’s daughter reports that the attack was lead by security of Yanococha, a subsidiary of US-based mining company Newmont. The World Bank is a longtime investor in the Yanacocha mine.

In Mexico, Esperanza Salazar, the coordinator of Bios Iguana A.C., and a member of the Mexican Network of Mining Affected Peoples, was recently forced to abandon her home and work in the state of Colima because of constant threats and intimidation. Esperanza and other members of Bios Iguana have faced stigmatization and threats from businessmen and state actors over the last few years as a result of their work with the Indigenous Council in Defense of Territory in Zacualpan, Colima. The Indigenous Council faces serious ongoing threats and aggression as a result of their opposition to mining and hydroelectric concessions on their land.

In Guatemala, just two months ago, Aura Lolita Chavez, from the K’iche’ Peoples Council in Defense of Life, Mother Nature, Land and Territory, who has received numerous death threats and attacks, was publically threatened for speaking out against massive clear- cutting taking place in K’iche’ territory.

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September 27, 2016 is the seventh anniversary of the murder of Adolfo Ich. On this day, we reiterate our solidarity with Angelica Choc and her family and express our grave concern for her and the many others who are courageously defending their lives and territory against large-scale extractive projects despite the serious risks they face for doing so. We urge respect for communities’ rights to say “no” to such projects and we condemn the use of force - political, legal and physical - to implement projects against the will and without the consent of those affected.

We wholly reject the use of threats, intimidation and violent attacks by governments and companies to repress and try to deter legitimate resistance to their projects. We demand that justice is served for attacks against land and rights defenders, and that the intellectual authors of such attacks are also prosecuted. Furthermore, we call for all necessary measures to be taken to ensure the safety of Angelica Choc and all the brave women and men who are fighting to defend their land and the wellbeing of their communities.

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Your Funds At Work

Rights Action has supported the community, land and Mother Earth defense struggles of Berta Caceres and COPINH since 1998, and Angelica Choc and the Mayan Q’eqchi’ people since 2004. Rights Action is sending on-going funds to the families of Berta Caceres and COPINH and the families of Angelica Choc and German Chub, so they can take extra measures of family safety, and continue to seek justice for the repression and crimes. To donate, make check payable to "Rights Action" and mail to:

U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8

This is the corporate party evil people keep voting for because they swallow the 'Green Party can't get enough voters to win' - as they can't, as long as people don't vote for them...

And of course it comes home to roost, as well, since we're all expendable to the mindlessly greedy psychopathic predator-parasites killing life/life support on the planet, apparently believing that the oxygen production will last long enough to suit them or believe that all of the money in the world will buy them a new Earth to ruin or that copying their superficial characteristics or even brain-waves into a program will somehow give them immortality or that nanoparticles can rebuild them into what - still inhuman Borgs?

These are our countries and we outnumber them by far more than 99 to 1%.

Edit: and we know why mercenaries/police are going after journalists/people shooting videos, trying to eliminate publicity in North America and elsewhere. How long until the deliberate murders, beyond even the deliberate hazard to life and the hundreds of injuries already inflicted, begins in places like Standing Rock to the pacific and brave Water Protectors praying in protest for us all?

And further edit to add emphasis.