Standing Rock: Indigenous Youth Show Sheriffs How to Be Human Beings
MANDAN – Sheriff’s deputies in riot gear welcomed gifts donated by Oceti Sakowin and International Indigenous Youth Council Friday when the No DAPL activists delivered boxes filled from the department’s winter donation list.
Police in Riot Gear Welcome Native Winter Gifts The word "welcome" is generous: although the cops had asked the "community" to support them (despite having been given $10 million -- so far -- of taxpayer money to fund their assault on the water protectors), they were in full gear when the indigenous youth and a few veterans came to deliver their donations. The cops wouldn't even let them in the building (pic in the link), showing their cowardice and inhumanity to all.
“They seemed pretty caught off guard,” [LZ] Amsterdam said. “They wouldn’t let us inside, even though they have asked the public to bring supplies to them. We showed compassion and humanity today and they had the opportunity to do the same, which they did not.”
Raeford Davis, former police officer and libertarian, speaks to police: stand down (my bold in the quotes below)
It is you, the individual police officer, that will be bear[ing] the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual burdens of the harm you inflict on others in furtherance of this unnecessary conflict. Others will reap the profits. When the inevitable excessive force and abuse complaints arise, those same “leaders” will quickly do an about-face and throw you to the crowds to be torn apart. It won’t be them. Speaking of profits, honestly ask yourself, would you be on that front line if you were not getting paid.
It is easy to look back in history and see how our government, law enforcement, and corporations have often repeatedly conspired against disenfranchised peoples. As members of those same organizations today. You, an armed government agent, (rightfully) carry that stigma. Maybe you should reflect for a moment and imagine how your tactics today enforcing edicts from these same historically oppressive powers will look through the lens of history. Alas your violent actions will be shown like all the other times to be equally unjust.
Unfortunately, the sheriff doesn't seem to care and he shows his ignorance in his tweets. What's really horrible here is using the water protectors' artwork to bolster his own violence. Which side of that picture do you stand on?
Solidarity Actions
Link to the links: How to Help Standing Rock: Links for Donations, Phone Numbers to Call, Talking Points
Seattle supporters build "tarpees" for Standing Rock.
In Iowa, the group Mississippi Stand continues to be very active. Here's an update from Unicorn Riot with text, pix, video.
Pray with Standing Rock website
Austin water protectors “built a pipeline” at Energy Transfer Company’s offices. For some reason, the owners of DAPL didn’t want a pipeline built there.
Investors Take Stand on Dakota Access Pipeline (my bold in quote below).
The uproar over the pipeline is part of a broader environmental and social debate over whether there is a need for more fossil fuel conduits across the U.S. and whether these projects trample over the rights of indigenous people. About 250 companies globally in the oil, gas, mining, forestry, paper and agriculture industries, with a combined market value of about $2.7 trillion, have a risk of running into indigenous rights issues, according to a risk analysis in 2009 by Experts inResponsible Investment Solutions, a London-based non-profit that researches ESG issues.
There's now a website, Defund DAPL, keeping track of people moving their money. Almost $13 million has been withdrawn so far -- and you can add your own withdrawal to the total! Move your money, and tell them why.
Cuba-trained doctors head to Standing Rock “to humbly serve in solidarity with the Sacred Water Protectors on the front lines of the current human rights and ecological crisis occurring right now in North Dakota.”
Veterans Update
Our own leftvet explains why he is going to Standing Rock. http://caucus99percent.com/content/why-i-am-going-standing-rock#new
Tulsi Gabbard, Wes Clark Jr., and Michael Wood Jr. (the most vocal leaders of this self-deployment) are on the ground in ND. There is a constant stream of vehicles arriving. Wood said on the Jimmy Dore show that at least 500 veterans have signed up for an "ongoing" mission. They plan to stay.
Veteran Chris Turley walked all the way from Oklahoma to Standing Rock. Watch 3 minutes of him being greeted at camp with drums, singing, hugs, handshakes, and horses.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxfqBfOlYf0]
Facts to Counter Misinformation
The Standing Rock Sioux made their objections to the pipeline known -- two years ago!
Recently released audio from a 2014 meeting between the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access Pipeline executives contradict the company’s statements that it knew nothing of the tribe’s concerns about the new pipeline.
Link to the links: How to Help Standing Rock: Links for Donations, Phone Numbers to Call, Talking Points
Comments
Thx
For all the good info.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Like sticking a flower in the end of a gun pointed at you.
"Stay strong my fellow officers, we have all the guns"
Pardon my French, but fuck you Sheriff Nobody. I cannot handle that attitude. There has always been and will always be a neverending supply of fascist wannabes who will willingly do the dirty work for the corporations and government.
I can't help but lump them all together, good, bad or indifferent. After things like this go on for some time, you see the pigs get even more defiant, like they're in a war battle. That tells me there are very few who push back internally.
"we have the guns"- hah!
So, he wants to brag that his guys are armed against unarmed praying people. Good luck with that in the annals of history. (see: civil rights movement) Or, he might keep in mind that little Second Amendment is a two-way street and oppressed people have a long history of fighting back. i am humbled by the continuing moral strength of the water protectors, keeping their side non-violent.
I gave the Sheriff a piece of my mind on Twitter.
I could get to love Twitter. There is also a petition to remove him at change.org. He won't last long, I predict.
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This one?
Impeach North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple and Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier
Currently at 28,198 signatures.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
That's it! Hop on board, y'all
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There is a sub category for Standing Rock on the
right-hand side of the page that has a lot of other petitions also. I filled a bunch out. Hint, hint: Always try to add a comment as that adds a lot of weight.
Lol, I am not sue if I have any Twitter followers left. It has been so long since I posted last. but I have a couple of ideas for some more messages, so might get on that soon.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
OMG, the picture he used in his tweet
Is that real?
I loved what the ex cop said to the cops on the front line.
From the corporations are only using you for profit to would you be doing this if you weren't getting paid?
One day it's going to happen to everyone else who has been cheering on these police brutalities because of what our government has planned for us.
If you have time watch the videos in the
Some patterns are starting to appear essay.
Count on it, and remember this saying
First they came for......
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Indeed, life is cheap to some
Indeed, life is cheap to some, when it's others paying the price, but when you lie down with psychopaths, someday you won't get up.
We are all part of life and in life together. May the enemies of life break themselves on the strength and unity of Standing Rock, just as too many of them have broken their oaths to their people and country.
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.
Stole the picture for Fakebook
Thanks!
Progressive to the bone.
Off topic: I LOVE your avatar! n/t
I was asked to represent some KXL trespassers
a year or so ago. Pro bono. I got my ass up at 5 a.m. to drive to court, meet with them, chat with the prosecutor.
He is a Republican. He was supposed to be an up and coming state rep. His 4 years as county attorney was a launch pad.
He and I spoke about a rational plea bargain, a rational fine upon pleas of no contest, and he just went nuts about how corporations are entitled to make profits, and goof balls like these protesters cost money.
I asked him why he felt it a duty to protect Canadian corporations. He just went off on me.
At any rate, he low balled the fines, lowered the criminal classification, and before we left the courtroom, the judge left the bench and shook the hands of my 3 perps.
The prosecutor did run for state rep this year, was poured out because he wasn't radical enough for the right. He was willing to ruin the lives of these 3 college students for a Canadian corporation that would not have hired more than a dozen locals permanently.
The prosecutor was in his late 20's, early 30's. So young to be so indoctrinated.
Wesley Hench.
He is now struggling to get a client to come into his office.
Wonder if he is still a Republican to the hilt.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I, a pessimist I thought, have proved to be an optimist
Maybe he has had his 'Come to Jesus' moment.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I hope so.
The state rep, Rep Otto, supported him.
It was supposed to be a done deal.
A guy in my county raised $700,000. He won. He is married into the Hightower family. In Texas, think Jim Hightower, et al.
Historic Hightower Democrats backed the young guy who ran as a republican.
He runs a small dairy farm, does artificial insemination on white tail deer.
$700,000.
E. J. Bailes IV. I represented EJ Jr., and my dad and EJ 1st were great friends, both farmers, both WWII vets.
There is fracking going on where the young EJ lives.
There ya go.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Wait, why is anyone artificially inseminating deer?
I thought the reason we have "Deer Season" in Texas was to keep down the population.
I'm so confused.
Does he own a ranch where city slickers pay to cruelly shoot, wound, and eventually get a rack to mount after they've stalked a wounded animal until it just gives out from exhaustion?
He owns a small dairy farm.
I have no idea if he has fenced off part of it for canned hunting. He might have some patent pending/intellectual property protection on his insemination technique.
I think most of his funding came from oil companies, such as Famcor Oil.
In his community of Shepherd, Texas, fracking and pumps and water supplies are inside at least one subdivision. Their lawsuit against Famcor failed miserably.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I can think of one reason for messing with deer DNA,
and that's to try to breed a strain resistant to various endemic diseases that make deer meat inedible by humans.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Good point
I'm cautiously cool with that, as long as some patent holder doesn't break in to hunters' houses and steal their venison to have it tested for the patented gene(s), and sue for violating or absence of a contract to possess venison with that DNA. A la Monsanto style.
If they're releasing wild
If they're releasing wild animals into the wild with altered 'novel' genes to interbreed with wild herds, the ownership claim will doubtless be merely one portion of the problems created, but a lucrative one. Monsanto et al do want and are working on a global monopoly on food, and this would give them a 'legal' excuse to pull their patents (the food supply) out of a rebellious population once they have that food monopoly, making for compliant peasants.
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.
Please...
Every mouthful of meat you eat, or ever have eaten has been killed at the hand of mankind. Yes, the act of hunting is corrupted by thoughtless, careless, ill-equipped, and un-compassionate humans. But don't complain with your mouth full.
A deer farm is another form of agriculture, though I loath the thought of killing a fenced animal, regardless of naturally, or artificially inseminated, reproductive methods.
I cringe as I pass hundreds of deer every year dead on the roadside...Don't complain if you drive. Ask your insurance company about the cost of deer /car incidents.
If you live in the burbs in many parts of the country, you know, and see the consequences of deer overpopulation. I advise you to consider overpopulation of the human race, the elimination of natural predators, and the brutality of a wolfpack taking down a solitary elk, or deer, ...or lions. hyenas, etc., eating an animal alive...or running it to death. Nature is cruel as well. Terribly, terribly cruel.
As a hunter, I understand the disgust non hunters may hold for me, or my love in being a part of the natural process, and seeing the outdoors up close and personal, in all kinds of weather and terrain. Do understand that there are poor drivers, bad doctors, unethical judges, lawyers, businessmen and women, pedophile religious figures,...you name it, but not all are bad, and all are a necessary part of life on earth as we know and expect it to be.
Also realize that a lions share of support, habitat, and protection of non-game species, and recreational opportunities are because of the monies provided by those who hunt and fish.
I'd rather those who chose to shoot an animal strictly for a trophy, in a fenced game farm, do it there, rather than hiring an unethical guide to kill a protected species within our National Parks, or endangered species anywhere on the globe.
Also... I suggest if you want to stop unethical treatment of animals, start by protesting at your local Pet Shop, The National Zoo, and donate to every foundation out there that strives to end illegal trade in ivory, rhino horn, bear gall bladders, claws and other animal parts, and trade in endangered wild animals. Support Greenpeace as they do battle against whaling operations, recycle, wear a sweater at home, buy a new refrigerator, don't buy a new cellphone, or laptop, or flatscreen TV, don't do FaceBook, Google, or other products and services that consume incredible amounts of water, and leave poison behind.... then that guy artificially inseminating deer for farmers who otherwise would sell out to giant agribusinesses will seem inconsequential in the larger scheme.
Live simply; that others may simply live. Peace
Excuse me? ASSume much? Wtf?
I'm in rural Texas (so driving is mandatory). I've taught my kids to be very wary of the sides of the country roads we drive on - because deer are squirrelly, spook easily, and hitting one can kill both them (kids), and the animal. We also recycle, and I'm wearing layers as I type this on my phone. Oh yeah, my son is a vegetarian, and I just made vegan refried beans from a batch of crock pot bean leftovers for our tacos tonight.
I never said I don't like hunters. Wtf? While I don't hunt, myself, I certainly support skilled hunting.
However, I'm a firm believer in, 'If You Kill it, You Eat it.' That's exactly what I told my son when he got his first firearm (before he became a veggie head) - a pellet gun with the power of a .22. He shot a rabbit, cleaned it, and I grilled it. Only animal he's ever killed - and he made a bad first shot, so he ran up and put it down, with a shot to the head.
What I don't support are rich assholes sport killing, or wounding an animal and stalking it until it gives its last breath simply for a trophy, and doing so with a "guide" who doesn't give them any type of guidance or training about WHERE to shoot an animal in order to kill it quickly. That's sickening - whether within a fence, or not.
Might want to ask folks for clarification before sounding like a condescending asshole from now on.
This may have been noted elsewhere: treatment of the Bundy
Clan versus treatment of these peaceful protesters. Anyone else see a difference?
The guys with guns sure can move fast when protecting a corporation instead of wildlife, Indian burial grounds and non profit natural refuges.
Corporations rule apparently.
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Sun, 12/04/2016 - 3:58am —
Sun, 12/04/2016 - 3:58am — LeChienHarry
Lol, just wait until the Bundys discover that they also depend upon unpoisoned water and try defending (with firearms against the tanks and weaponry of ruthless corporate mercenaries and civil/military forces) their personal water supply against profitable-for-The-Right-People corporate poisoning, rather than merely taking over public property the government seems more concerned with selling off than protecting for the use of the public which their public offices actually exist to serve.
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.
Pray with Standing Rock in <30 minutes
The video is in this essay.
Or, you can just do it yourself, now or at 10 central time. Collective thought has power, in my opinion. It doesn't have to be to an entity, just a common wish, with concentration focused on the outcome/wish.
Edit: it's not a video, but a Facebook link, so I'll just be sending positive thoughts and energy to all at Standing Rock - including the cops, in that they will refuse to do what they've been told to do.
And Obama is "rappin" xmas carols or some such BS
Seems to me Obama likes Bundy Gun Nuts who take over refuge centers, steal/destroy artifacts while endangering an entire town and threatening the Sheriff. They even had roadblocks that citizens had to endure.
Seems Obama doesn't like people who depend on unpoisoned water, Native Americans or Veterans.
Fuck pigs, politicians and the 1%.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison