https://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/7046185

The amount of tanks and riot-gear-clad cops and National Guard, etc., is astonishing. There are still people in the camps, and there are concerns for their safety. Helicopters circling. Things are tense.

Please share and witness.

**livestream camera 1: https://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/7046185
camera 2: https://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/7046188

Government and military authorities, working on behalf of an oil company, have issued an ultimatum to the water protectors at Standing Rock. Leave the Oceti Sakowin camp today (February 22) by 2pm Central Time or be forcibly removed (which probably means arrested). Chase IronEyes posted some evacuation resources yesterday:

For those who choose to not be arrested after 2pm 2.22.2017.
Evacuation resources:
Buses will be at cannon ball bridge today at 8 am til feb 22, 2017@ 2 pm.
Motels provided
Bus tickets provided
Wellness and holistic provided
Gas cards
Please contact melaine 701-339-7896

Yesterday, a group of water protectors set up a small new camp on Lakota Sioux treaty land -- and within hours, the cops and mercenaries came through in force and arrested more than 70 people, including Chase IronEyes. I watched quite a lot of livestream yesterday and there are numerous videos of the invasion and the capture of the people standing up for clean water and their treaty rights as a sovereign nation. Since the water protectors often post unedited video, many are quite long, and I therefore haven't watched everything I'm posting today. If you have time, please bear witness to what is being done to Native people again.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR1Mk2VjSQQ]

The federal and North Dakota governments are not complying with their own regulations and laws. One part of the army has written to another part of the army and asked for the easement to be granted so that Energy Transfer Partners can install pipe under Lake Oahe. In response, Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) has started a disinformation campaign, claiming that construction has been approved. Construction has not been approved and the comment period for the Environmental Impact Statement is open until February 20 (scroll down to the section "Do What You Can" for how to add your comment). Construction isn’t legally approved, but it isn’t stopped either. The collusion between the government, the cops, and ETP has allowed the illegal pipeline construction to continue.

Until the Dakota Access Pipeline is stopped, there are close to a thousand water protectors who have committed to remain at the camps at Standing Rock. And if you're able-bodied, self-sufficient, and unafraid, you are invited to join them now.

Sacred Stone [camp] is not closing. We will be standing, and we ask you to continue to stand with us. All of you are welcome to my home and my land.

You are welcome to come back to stand with us.

Listen to Lakota leader LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard (4:14, posted Jan. 25, 2017)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s80FkNCHIZk]

The Indigenous Environmental Network responds to Trump’s support for the KXCL pipeline and DAPL (my bold):

These actions by President Trump are insane and extreme, and nothing short of attacks on our ancestral homelands as Indigenous peoples. The executive orders demonstrate that this administration is more than willing to violate federal law that is meant to protect Indigenous rights, human rights, the environment, and the overall safety of communities for the benefit of the fossil fuel industry. These attacks will not be ignored, our resistance is stronger than ever before and we are prepared to push back at any reckless decision made by this administration. #NoDAPL

If you have time right now (from 8:59am MST until 12 noon MST), we're being asked to log in to www.energynet.com and help to flood their server. Activists are trying to prevent an auction of sacred lands in Chaco Canyon, NM, to allow fracking. The people don’t want it.

About 200,000 litres of oil spilled near Stoughton, Sask., last week, the biggest pipeline breach in the province since the Husky Oil spill last summer.

It happened on First Nations land near Stoughton, about 140 kilometres southeast of Regina.

Quotes are from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/stoughton-oil-spill-cleanup-1.... Emphasis is mine.