Lakota Mama Julz Locked Down, Arrested, in Jail, Fighting Appalachian Pipeline

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Lakota Mama Julz Locked Down, Arrested, in Jail, Fighting Appalachian Pipeline

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 2, 2024

"Find your Warrior Spirit," said Mama Julz, Oglala Lakota, who locked down, was arrested, and is now in jail, for fighting the pipeline in Appalachia.

"Without water there in no life. Violence against Mother Earth is violence against our sisters."

"In my culture, the women are the backbone of our society.It is the women who are standing up on all these frontlines," Mama Julz said as she locked down.

Photo Appalachians Against Pipelines

The Appalachians Against Pipelines said on Thursday:

The Mountain Mamas continue to show up and throw down for the land and water out in occupied Indigenous lands!! Land defender and water protector Mama Julz is locked down to a helicopter that is used to transport Mountain Valley Pipeline workers onto a remote work site on Poor Mountain, where MVP is causing an immense amount of damage pushing the pipeline through rugged lands.

Join us in support of Mama Julz at the corner of Cove Hollow Rd and 460 in Elliston.

"Without water there is no life," stated Ogala Lakota land defender Mama Julz. 

"Violence upon our Mother Earth is violence against our sisters. These man camps bring violence, all mothers everywhere need to join this movement and stand up. Find your warrior spirit and get here."

Mama Julz makes great sacrifices for the land, and she's putting out a call to action to everyone to find their warrior spirit and fight this pipeline. As the founder of Mothers Against Meth Alliance and an active voice in the MMIWG2ST (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit) movement, she has fought meth dealers in her homelands and in particular the ways that pipeline workers prey upon women and other relatives.

The red dress on the helicopter represents these missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, and trans folks. 

 

"In my culture, the women are the backbone of our society, and right now its the women who are standing up in all these frontlines. I keep coming here because this land reminds me of my ancestral lands in the Black Hills, the rivers, the streams, the waterfalls."

This morning's action is another in a series of actions this week to fight the ongoing destruction of MVP. This site is just 2 miles from the site of the Yellow Finch tree sits, which prevented tree clearing in the path of the pipeline from 2018 - 2021.