Wichitans deliver supplies to pipeline protesters in ND

There are also many solidarity actions you can take on your own: Donate to sustain the encampment for the months ahead. “Water protectors’ efforts to clear the road and improve access to the camp for emergency services were met with tear gas, an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), stinger grenades, rubber bullets, and indiscriminate use of a water cannon with an air temperature of 26 degrees Fahrenheit”. “The Standing Rock protest camp represents that struggle for freedom, and the future of a people”.

It’s unclear what sparked that use of force.

Two people were arrested, one of whom would be charged with felony reckless endangerment, police said.

Photos distributed by the activists showed Wilansky with a large, gaping wound in her left arm. Her family says she is facing multiple surgeries in an attempt to save the limb.

Also this week, there have been reports that a 21-year-old woman from NY may have to have her arm amputated after she was caught in an explosion. Police have denied the allegation, saying protesters were responsible, but Basillas insisted otherwise. And they are showing us a path for the future that should inspire us for the hard times ahead: a future based on respect for Mother Earth and all species, cooperation, generosity, nonviolence, humility and love.

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said the department was not responsible for Wilansky’s mangled limb.

“The disproportionate corporate security and militarized police actions reveal a risky pattern in the United States of using state sponsored violence to enrich corporations and accelerate damaging climate change”, Santos-Lyons told OPB via email. “We are here to protect the water”, Spitz said. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said Monday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be providing some Border Patrol agents to help his department, the state Highway Patrol and officers from other states, though he didn’t say how many. “It’s a humanitarian issue where humans life is not being respected by law enforcement”, Stuck said.

Sterling says people arrived with sheets of ice hanging off them.

The casualties of this one-sided battle against peaceful protesters on a bridge were enormous, with some 300 of the estimated 400 protesting water protectors, both native people and non-native supporters, injured, 26 of them seriously.

At one point in Gilbertt’s video, a boom is heard and sparks can be seen flying into the air.

This is reportedly the most serious injury since the protests began.

“I have no words for that”, he said. Powell’s friends made more than 4,000 dinner rolls. Other vigils are planned in Minneapolis and NY in the coming days.

For months, North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline’s planned crossing under the Missouri River, adjacent to their lands, in part due to worries about contamination of their primary water source.

The 1,172-mile (1,890 km) pipeline, which crosses three major rivers, is being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners.