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Ta'Sina Sapa Win Smith and Tara Houska |
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Eriel Deranger and Tara Houska |
DEMOCRACY NOW!
January 13, 2020
Powerful words by Native women about Keystone Pipeline, Standing Rock, climate change and Indigenous rights. Read the transcript below.
In a related article, a TSA agent pulled the braids of Native attorney Tara Houska and ridiculed her, as Tara was on her way to this event.
Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as “Fire Drill Fridays,” since October. For her last and 14th protest, actors Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix, indigenous anti-pipeline activist Tara Houska, journalist Naomi Klein and dozens more lined up to get arrested as they demanded a mass uprising and swift political action to thwart the climate crisis.