caucus99percent

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I have written much about the drastic changes we need to make if we are to survive our self- made crisis. There is no need to point these things out to the water protectors at Standing Rock. I only wonder if the rest of us really understand this.
Today there was a pause in construction announced. This is a victory for all people on the planet. It has significance in many ways. Surely the protection of the water is the obvious one.

It looks like the Army Corps of Engineers has denied permission to Energy Transfer Partners to drill under Lake Oahe.

I have seen confirmation from Dallas Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network, and David Archambault, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, has issued a statement (I'm looking for the exact text). Text is below i comments in two parts

As a college professor, I hear a lot of excuses for poor academic performance. They sometimes reference circumstances outside the students control, such as, "I was sick," or "My boss made me work on my day off". My all time favorite was when a student told me that his grandparents forced him to schedule a trip to the Bahamas over an exam.

Heard this on my community radio station and have been unable to confirm. The ruling has to do with the environmental impact statement and perhaps redo-ing it? I've been checking and no luck confirming so I thought I'd ask.
Thanks!

peace

edit to add; didn't know where to put this for the most eyeballs, so here ya go! Still looking, but it being Sunday, well, you know how it is.

Oceti Sakowin from the air, December 3

This video, less than 5 minutes long, deserves to stand by itself.
The money quotes is 3:20 in, when Thomas Frank is asked how the Democrats can win back the working class.

Nah, they would never do that, a war with China. Would they? Certainly not Trump right? Trump doesn't want to attack other countries, he wants to do business with them.

Ya they would. This is the big game they're playing. I think people forget that.

First, no.

I’m going to be blunt: Democratic Party performance for labor and the middle class has been deplorable. Those of us all upset over the divide in the party need to realize that you created us.

Yes, that divide is a direct consequence of ongoing support for now failed “Third Way” and “New Democrat” neo-liberal economic policy.

Guys, it doesn’t work. I think we all need to admit that now.

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.

The stench of the malevolent extreme right wing "thinkers" manoeuvring is becoming stronger as the days goes by, as the buffoon in the china shop merrily tweets his latest narcissistic neediness for all the world to see. No doubt with a little push from the Heritage Foundation. I said awhile ago it wasn't the buffoon that worried me but the inhabitants of that fetid swamp that is Washington DC.