The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It's Also Centuries Old) [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/22/163:00 PM

As resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, N.D., concludes its seventh month, two narratives have emerged:

We have never seen anything like this before.
This has been happening for hundreds of years.
Both are true. The scope of the resistance at Standing Rock exceeds just about every protest in Native American history. But that history itself, of indigenous people fighting to protect not just their land, but the land, is centuries old.

Over the weekend, the situation at Standing Rock grew more contentious. On Sunday night, Morton County police sprayed the crowd of about 400 people with tear gas and water as temperatures dipped below freezing.

[For more of this story, written by Leah Donnella, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/co...s-also-centuries-old]

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Robert OlcottMember

A colleague in the southern New England American Friends [Quakers] Service Committee office (in Providence, Rhode Island) posted a facebook entry noting that a number of Rabbis and Jewish Lay activists had been arrested at TD Bank in Providence-for peacefully protesting TD Bank's financing of the Dakota Pipeline, and supporting our Indigenous 'Protectors' at Standing Rock, North Dakota.

Since President Obama signed an Executive Order, 'Pausing' the Pipeline construction, the Morton County Sheriff's Department [and unlicensed 'private security' contractors] have engaged in questionable practices, including arresting of journalists [Amy Goodman of Democracy Now had her case dismissed by a judge in Morton County,...], causing me to question why the U.S. Justice Dep't. has not taken action. This most recent use of spraying water [and tear gas] on protesters during sub-freezing temperatures is unconscionable, and perhaps warrants the involvement of United Nations Human Rights officials.

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