Colorado college students to spend Thanksgiving at Standing Rock protest

“This is devastating to me”, Allmer said.

In what is now a months-long demonstration, thousands have joined the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s opposition to the $3.7 billion pipeline that would carry crude oil 1,172 miles from North Dakota to IL. “Eighteen million people have water access from the Missouri River … these snake lords – oil lords – are illusionists”, Davis said.

Alternatively, project leaders and supporters say the pipeline is safer than other methods of oil transportation and would ultimately boost the economy.

She is being joined by Debra Hamilton, an attorney in Charleston, who turned down the chance to spend the holiday in NY with her family watching the West Virginia University band march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Police used a variety of “less lethal” weapons on the activists demonstrating in below-freezing conditions, including tear gas, an LRAD sound cannon, and water cannons.

Sophia Wilansky, of New York City, underwent surgery at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Wayne Wilansky said at a news conference Tuesday.

It is reported to be the most serious injury since the protests began. I’m frustrated with their continued escalation of violence.

On Dec. 4, Clark Jr. and Wood Jr., along with a group of veterans and other folks in the “bravery business”, as Wood Jr. puts it [.] will muster at Standing Rock. “That is our water here in St. Joseph and that is the water of millions of people”. “He obviously only cares about the personal profit that he seeks by laying pipelines over public, private and treaty lands for his benefit alone”.

The station’s presence has become vital to protesters amid complaints that the Standing Rock protest has drawn minimal coverage from the mainstream news media.

Standing Rock officials disputed that claim, saying grenade fragments were removed from her arm. This is solidarity. We hear their cries: “‘Water is life'”. If not us, who?

Liz Rog of Decorah, Iowa, who will travel to Standing Rock this week, sang a song she wrote about the protest. Ahead, a breakdown of the key players and the conflict in the Dakota Access Pipeline. Standing Rock, specifically, is an ongoing struggle, and Thanksgiving dinner could be the chance to talk to family members who may not be informed on the conflict. They also passed out food.

“We wanted to go down there and provide supplies”, Stuck said. Her main goal was to teach the Sioux how to treat their horses during an emergency and how to look for illnesses.

“The violence did come from the police”, he said. Hindsley described a peaceful atmosphere complete with sounds of singing and scents of cedar and sage rolling through the open fields.

“One of my passions is advocating for people who don’t oftentimes have a voice that is heard and so for me this was a great opportunity to practice allyship”, said first year Quest student Emily Cole, who is making the trip south with fellow student Wesley Lapointe on November 28. It’s a very lovely and powerful experience.

Maile Hampton, a member of Party for Socialism and Liberation, has been at Standing Rock for several weeks. Davis burned sage and led the group in a sun dance prayer and song that rendered the day’s action in prayer and showed alliance with the camps at Standing Rock. Keller said between 350 and 400 protesters eventually gathered at Turtle Island.

To be sure, these are novel legal arguments that haven’t been thoroughly tested in the Federal Court system, but it’s widely accepted that when rights are trampled anywhere they are trampled everywhere.

“That’s when I first really saw her arm”.

As the nation watched the World Series this Fall, Native people were being mocked as Cleveland fans reduced them to a mascot.