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Oct. 29, 2016 08:26AM EST
30 Powerful Photos Show Standoff Between Militarized Police and Dakota
Access Pipeline Protestors
Annie Leonard
The 2,000 water protectors who have gathered to oppose the pipeline's
construction were met today by the Morton County Sheriff Department, who
removed people and their camping gear.
Heavily armed authorities pushed through a supply area for the Water
Protectors blockade Thursday. The public witnessed a new level of
escalation that day in the Native struggle at Standing Rock, as police
swept through an encampment in the direct path of the Dakota Access
pipeline. The resulting standoff with the National Guard, and police
officers from various states, led to 141 arrests. Advancing authorities
attacked Water Protectors with flash grenades, bean bag launchers,
pepper spray and Long Range Acoustic Devices. It is crucial that people
recognize that Standing Rock is part of an ongoing struggle against
colonial violence. The Dakota Access pipeline is a front of struggle in
a long-erased war against Native peoples—a war that has been active
since first contact, and waged without interruption.
Greenpeace stands in solidarity with and lends full support to the water
protectors at Standing Rock, and we recognize the rights and sovereignty
of the Standing Rock Sioux, accorded by the Fort Laramie Treaties of
1851 and 1868. We call on President Obama to use his executive power to
revoke the permits for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
immediately. And we reject the actions of North Dakota law enforcement
in favoring the interests of Energy Transfer Partners and the fossil
fuel industry over the rights of this land's inhabitants. We join in
proclaiming the sacred power of water and the responsibility we have to
protect it at all costs. And we urge our government to respect the
sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux, whose constitutional right to
peacefully protest has been unjustly met by a militarized police force.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is a direct threat to the life, rights and
water of the Standing Rock Sioux. It is unconscionable that a
militarized force was deployed to serve a massive pipeline to move
dirty, fracked oil that would threaten our climate and the
life-sustaining water of the Missouri River. And, despite law
enforcement's effort to jam video feeds coming out of the camps today,
seeing those forces moving against Indigenous people will only galvanize
the public rejection of the Dakota Access Pipeline and all it stands for.
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