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| Photos by Tonia Stands, Lakota Whiteclay Liquor Sales Protest in Nebraska this Week The Nebraska Supreme Court is deciding the issue of liquor sales in Whiteclay, Nebraska, on the border of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. |
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Showing posts with label Nebraska. Show all posts
September 1, 2017
Shutdown Whiteclay Protest Photos by Tonia Stands
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August 10, 2017
Pipeline Fighters 'Giving KXL the Boot' in Nebraska Photos
Greg Grey Cloud said, "Sungwatogda at the NoKXL rally in Lincoln NE! Our warriors are holding it down and representing well" Photo credit Shannon Graves.
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Photo by MK seedingsovereignty.org
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| Joye Braun, Cheyenne River Lakota. Photo by Christine Nobiss |
Photo by Christine Nobiss
Pipeline Fighters Giving KXL the Boot in Nebraska Photos
By Christine Nobiss
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| Heather Pearson and Christine Nobiss at rally |
By Christine Nobiss
Censored News
I'm at the "Give KXL the Boot" Pipeline Fighter Summit in Lincoln, NE. It's a diverse mix of activists/organizers and I'm happy to see a lot of Native faces.
Glad to see Joye Braun and so many youth. Glad to see Native women up at the front talking. Glad to see how proudly our men carry themselves.
Together we can can do this. This is not just about "another pipeline", this is about our future. As John Schmidt, from The Climate Reality Project just said to me, "The only thing worse than a leaking pipeline is a working pipeline. We need to protect the unborn."
It made me pause.
Not only do we need to protect the water and our sovereignty, but we need to transition as soon as possible to renewables. This is not impossible. We need to force our governments to listen to us and make them sever their corrupt ties with these corporate conglomerates and revamp this entire economy.
We rely on fossil fuels for essentially all that we do and make. Everything is made of plastic. We use, oil, natural gas and coal to power our homes, infrastructure and our means of travel. It's insidious. But it's not impossible to untangle ourselves from it. We just need to work together.
Glad to see Joye Braun and so many youth. Glad to see Native women up at the front talking. Glad to see how proudly our men carry themselves.
Together we can can do this. This is not just about "another pipeline", this is about our future. As John Schmidt, from The Climate Reality Project just said to me, "The only thing worse than a leaking pipeline is a working pipeline. We need to protect the unborn."
It made me pause.
Not only do we need to protect the water and our sovereignty, but we need to transition as soon as possible to renewables. This is not impossible. We need to force our governments to listen to us and make them sever their corrupt ties with these corporate conglomerates and revamp this entire economy.
We rely on fossil fuels for essentially all that we do and make. Everything is made of plastic. We use, oil, natural gas and coal to power our homes, infrastructure and our means of travel. It's insidious. But it's not impossible to untangle ourselves from it. We just need to work together.
More photos of the rally at Censored News
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/08/nebraska-theyre-back-ready-to-stop.html
April 26, 2016
'Run For Your Life' Against Dakota Access Pipeline
April 26, 2016 On Tuesday, runners ran through Chamberlain and headed
to Lake Andes, South Dakota, for buffalo soup and to rest for the night. Photo Waniya Locke
Update Thursday from Marty, South Dakota, on the road to Santee, Nebraska, at:
(Photo above) Runners near Fort Thompson. Photo by Demaris Mexican.
Tonight's photo by Waniya Locke
Running out of Eagle Butte on Monday morning, running toward Lower Brulé, South Dakota.
Runners made it to Eagle Butte, South Dakota and received a warm welcome on Sunday, after running across Standing Rock. Photo today by Joye Braun, Cheyenne River Lakota.
Eagle Butte runners on Monday, April 25, 2016
By Joye Braun
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Near Eagle Butte Photo by Joye Braun
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| Standing Rock Photos by Waniya Locke |
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| Photo by Waniya Locke |
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| Zackary Moran by Waniya Locke |
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Run for Your Life! Protect Sacred Water!
By Waniya Locke
Censored News
For months, both Native and non-Native peoples in the Midwest have been battling the construction of the Dakota Access/Bakken pipeline, a project that will go from North Dakota to Illinois and cross the 12,000 year old Missouri River, which is the main water resource for millions of people. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making the final decision on whether or not to issue the last permit that Dakota Access, LLC needs to construct the Dakota Access/Bakken pipeline on May 4th, 2016. The spirit relay run is from Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to the office of the Army Corps of Engineers in Omaha, Nebraska, to deliver the message to the Army Corps that we resist a pipeline crossing beneath sacred water needed for life. The run will be approximately 500 miles and take about a week, with the runners passing off the run to one another, relay style.
For the latest photos and videos from the run, go to the Homepage of Censored News!
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, at NAIS:
http://www.denaisgazet.be/nieuws/neen-dakota-access-pijleidingVIDEO: Tribute Song for Runners 'Run for Your Life'
'Run for Your Life' No Dakota Access Pipeline
Runners Made it to Fort Thompson
April 26, 2016
Photo by Demaris Mexican
Click arrow below to wach and listen to Lakota Honor Song for Runners
More photos of runners from Standing Rock and Eagle Butte at:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/04/run-for-your-life-against-dakota-access.html
VIDEO 'Run For Your Life' NO! Dakota Access Pipeline!
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Photo Joye Braun Runner April 25, 2016
April 26, 2016 Posted by Panda Kim
More photos of runners from Standing Rock and Eagle Butte:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/04/run-for-your-life-against-dakota-access.html
April 24, 2014
Reject Keystone: Ponca Casey Camp 'The white man has turned on its own'
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| Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, screen capture by Censored News |
Ponca Casey Camp-Horinek: The white man has turned on its own, seizing the land of farmers and ranchers
By Brenda Norrell
WASHINGTON DC -- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said the white man has turned on its own. White farmers and ranchers on the route of the Keystone XL pipeline are having to face the same seizure of the land and destruction that Native Americans have always faced.
Speaking during the Cowboy and Indian Alliance’s Reject and Protect action in DC, Camp-Horinek said the tar sands have already devastated First Nations relatives in Canada and is now targeting Native Americans and their relatives to the south.
Joined by ranchers from Nebraska, Camp-Horinek said, “They are having to face the same thing as we did in all these centuries of the devastation of our earth, where the white man would come through and just take what he wanted.”
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Camp-Horinek said a powerful alliance has been formed between Native people, farmers and ranchers in the Cowboy and Indian Alliance.
As Native women raised tipis on the National Mall, Camp-Horinek said, “We are women of power. We are going to change the structure because we have a vested interest in the generations to come.”
“We are going to make a difference. They will listen to us, or they will die the same deaths. They will suffocate in their same nests.”
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| Reject and Protect tipi raising: Screen capture Censored News |
Camp-Horinek is a long-time Native rights activist, environmentalist, and actress. As traditional Drumkeeper for the Ponca Pa-tha-ta, Woman’s Scalp Dance Society, Camp-Horinek helps maintain the cultural identity of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma for herself, her family, and her community.
Camp-Horinek recently testified before the Rights of Nature Tribunal in Ecuador. In her defense of Mother Earth, she has traveled worldwide and spoke to gatherings at the UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico in 2010.
As an expert witness at the Rights of Nature Tribunal in Ecuador in January, Camp-Horinek described the responsibility of the caretakers and defenders of the Earth. She testified on the oil and gas drilling, and fracking, that is devastating Indian lands in the US.
The Ecuador Tribunal followed the Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2010. Following the gathering of Indigenous Peoples from around the word in Bolivia, both Bolivia and Ecuador created new laws stating the Rights of Nature.
In Ecuador, Camp-Horinek said, "Our prophecies and teachings tell us that life on Mother Earth is in danger and is coming to a time of great transformation. As Indigenous Peoples, from the global South and North, we are accepting the responsibility designated by our prophecies to tell the world that we must live in peace with each other and Mother Earth to ensure harmony within Creation."
Watch the following video from the Reject and Protect action currently in DC. Listen to the words of Camp-Horinek and Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe founder of Honor the Earth. LaDuke describes the dream that brought her with her sister, and fighting on horseback the flow of the pipeline. http://www.idlenomore.ca/reject_and_protect_day_1
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http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/04/reject-keystone-ponca-casey-camp-white.html
Schedule for Reject and Protect in Washington on Saturday, April 26, 2014:
http://rejectandprotect.org/the-plan-for-saturday-the-26th/
French translation by Christine Prat, thank you!
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2332
Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, screen capture by Censored News
CASEY CAMP-HORINEK, PONCA, DECLARE : L’HOMME BLANC S’EST RETOURNE CONTRE LUI-MEME, EN REQUISITIONNANT LES TERRES DE FERMIERS ET D’ELEVEURS
Par Brenda Norrell
Censored News
See original article in English
Jeudi 24 avril 2014
Traduction Christine Prat
Censored News
See original article in English
Jeudi 24 avril 2014
Traduction Christine Prat
WASHINGTON D.C. – Casey Camp-Horinek, une Ponca, dit que l’homme blanc s’est retourné contre lui-même. Des fermiers et éleveurs blancs se trouvant sur le trajet prévu pour le pipeline Keystone XL doivent faire face aux mêmes réquisitions de terres et destruction que les Autochtones.
Dans un discours prononcé dans le cadre de l’action ‘Rejeter et Protéger’ de l’Alliance Cowboys-Indiens à Washington, C. Camp-Horinek dit que les sables bitumineux avaient déjà dévasté les territoires de leurs parents des Premières Nations au Canada et visaient maintenant les Autochtones et leurs parents du sud.
Rejointe par des éleveurs du Nebraska, C. Camp-Horinek a déclaré « Ils doivent faire face à la même chose que nous, pendant tous ces siècles de dévastation de notre terre, quand l’homme blanc arrivait et prenait ce qu’il voulait ».
« Maintenant il s’est retourné contre les siens. Il va chez les éleveurs et les fermiers et fait la même chose avec eux ».
« Maintenant il s’est retourné contre les siens. Il va chez les éleveurs et les fermiers et fait la même chose avec eux ».
C. Camp-Horinek dit qu’une alliance puissante s’était formée entre les Autochtones, les fermiers et les éleveurs au sein de l’Alliance Cowboys-Indiens.
A propos des femmes Autochtones qui ont monté des tipis sur le National Mall, Casey Camp-Horinek dit « Nous sommes des femmes de pouvoir. Nous allons changer les structures parce que nous avons un intérêt particulier dans les générations à venir ».
« Nous sommes déterminées à ce que nos petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-enfants puissent manger, boire et respirer ».
« Nous sommes déterminées à ce que nos petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-enfants puissent manger, boire et respirer ».
Casey Camp-Horinek est une activiste Autochtone de longue date, une écologiste et une actrice. En tant que Gardienne du Tambour pour la Pa-tha-ta Ponca, la Société de la Danse du Scalp de la Femme, C. Camp-Horinek aide à maintenir l’identité culturelle de la Nation Ponca d’Oklahoma pour elle-même, sa famille et sa communauté.
C. Camp-Horinek a récemment témoigné devant le Tribunal pour les Droits de la Nature en Equateur. Elle a voyagé dans le monde entier pour la défense de Notre Mère la Terre et s’est adressée à des rassemblements lors de la Conférence sur le Climat des Nations Unies à Cancun, au Mexique, en 2010.
Lorsqu’elle a témoigné en tant qu’expert au Tribunal pour les Droits de la Nature en Equateur, en janvier, elle a expliqué la responsabilité de ceux qui prennent soin de la Terre et ceux qui la défendent. Elle a témoigné sur les forages pétroliers et gaziers, ainsi que sur la fracturation hydraulique, qui dévastent des terres Indiennes aux Etats-Unis.
Le Tribunal en Equateur faisait suite à la Conférence sur Notre Mère la Terre de Cochabamba, en Bolivie, en 2010.
Suite au rassemblement de Peuples Autochtones du monde entier en Bolivie, la Bolivie et l’Equateur ont adopté des lois affirmant les Droits de la Nature.
Lorsqu’elle a témoigné en tant qu’expert au Tribunal pour les Droits de la Nature en Equateur, en janvier, elle a expliqué la responsabilité de ceux qui prennent soin de la Terre et ceux qui la défendent. Elle a témoigné sur les forages pétroliers et gaziers, ainsi que sur la fracturation hydraulique, qui dévastent des terres Indiennes aux Etats-Unis.
Le Tribunal en Equateur faisait suite à la Conférence sur Notre Mère la Terre de Cochabamba, en Bolivie, en 2010.
Suite au rassemblement de Peuples Autochtones du monde entier en Bolivie, la Bolivie et l’Equateur ont adopté des lois affirmant les Droits de la Nature.
En Equateur, Casey Camp-Horinek avait dit « Nos prophéties et enseignements nous disent que la vie sur notre Mère la Terre est en danger et atteint une époque de grande transformation. En tant que Peuples Autochtones du Sud et du Nord, nous acceptons la responsabilité indiquée par nos prophéties de dire au monde que nous devons vivre en paix les uns avec les autres et notre Mère la Terre pour assurer l’harmonie dans la Création. » (voir article du 19 février 2014)
Dutch translation by NAIS
http://www.bloggen.be/natam/
Ponca Casey Camp-Horinek: “De blanke man keert zich tegen de zijnen door het land van boeren en ranchers in te palmen.”
Door Brenda Norrell ,Censored News: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Nederlandse vertaling door A. Holemans voor de NAIS Gazette: www.bloggen.be/natam
Washington DC- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca zei dat de blanke man zich nu tegen de zijnen keert. Blanke farmers en ranchers die langs de Keystone XL pijpleiding route wonen zien nu voor hun ogen het ontglippen en de destructie van het land, net als de Native Amerikanen.
Tijdens de ‘Reject and Protect’ actie in DC zei Camp-Horinek dat de teerzanden reeds hun vuile werk gedaan hebben bij hun First Nations verwanten in Canada en dat nu Native Amerikanen en hun verwanten in het zuiden als doelwit gekozen zijn.
Voor de ranchers uit Nebraska die zich bij de actie voegden zei Camp-Horinek: “ Nu moeten zij hetzelfde meemaken wat wij reeds eeuwenlang meegemaakt hebben: de verwoesting van onze aarde waar de blanke man doorkomt om te grijpen wat hij wil”.
“Nu heeft hij zich tot de zijnen gekeerd. Hij gaat naar de ranchers en boeren en doet hetzelfde met hen.”
Camp-Horinek zei dat er nu in de Cowboy-Indian Alliance een krachtig verbond gesloten is tussen Natives, boeren en ranchers.
Terwijl de vrouwen de teepees optrokken op de National Mall, zei Camp-Horinek: “Wij zijn krachtige vrouwen. Wij gaan de structuur veranderen omdat wij investeren in de toekomstige generaties”
“Wij gaan het verschil maken. Zij zullen naar ons luisteren. Wij zijn vastbesloten om ervoor te zorgen dat dan onze achter- achter- achter-achter- kleinkinderen zullen kunnen eten, drinken en ademen”.
Camp-Horinek is een jarenlange Native Rights activiste, milieu- activist en actrice. Als traditionele drumkeeper voor de Ponca Pa-tha-ta, ‘Woman’s Scalp Dance Society’, helpt Camp-Horinek de culturele identiteit van de Ponca Natie van Oklahoma in stand te houden voor haarzelf, haar familie en haar gemeenschap.
Onlangs heeft Camp-Horinek een getuigenis afgelegd voor de’ Rights of Nature Tribunaal in Ecuador.’ In haar verdediging voor Moeder Aarde heeft zij de wereld afgereisd en op de conferentie van de VN over de klimaat verandering in Cancun, Mexico gesproken.
Voor meer over haar werk als ‘expert witness’ : Rights of Nature Tribunal
Bekijk de volgende video van de ‘Reject and Protect’ actie in DC. Luister naar de woorden van Camp-Horinek en Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe, stichter van Honor the Earth. LaDuke beschrijft haar droom die haar samenbracht met haar zuster en vecht tegen de pijpleiding.
April 21, 2014
Cowboy Indian Alliance in DC: Reject and Protect fighting Keystone tarsands pipeline
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| Photo by Farhad |
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| Cowboy and Indian Alliance tipis up and ready for action on the National Mall in DC! |
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| Lakota Joye Braun halting megaload. |
Lakotas van in accident enroute:
Joye Braun and others from Cheyenne River in South Dakota found out their bus wouldn't make it to the Reject and Protect action in DC.
They headed out in their van and hit a deer. They made it back home safely in the busted van this weekend.
Hopefully, non-profits or others can fly the group to DC!
Joye said a second vehicle from Cheyenne River, with Robin LeBeau and grassroots Lakotas, is on its way. Joye recently halted an oilfield megaload on Cheyenne River Lakota land all by herself. -- Contact Joye at: floyd.braun@gmail.com
Censored News, brendanorrell@gmail.com
By Brenda Norrell
Photo by Farhad
Censored News
French translation by Christine Prat
Watch on MSNBC, the Ed Show
http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-sh
French translation by Christine Prat
Watch on MSNBC, the Ed Show
http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-sh
WASHINGTON DC -- Native Americans, farmers and ranchers united with grassroots and environmental groups and pitched their tipis on the National Mall today, sending a spiritual message to President Obama to say, “No!” to the Keystone XL pipeline. The coalition is in DC as a voice to protect sacred water and land for future generations.
In the "Reject and Protect" campaign, there's a week of actions against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, in Washington and in local communities, from April 22-27, 2014.
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance and allies invite folks from across the country to visit the tipi camp on the National Mall and participate in the actions.
“We need all hands on deck to bear witness all week. Join us in showing the strength of our communities. We call upon President Obama to take this historic step in rejecting Keystone XL in order to protect our land, water and climate,” organizers said.
If you can only make one event during the week, the most important day is Saturday, April 26, when thousands will be gathering at the Camp for a tipi presentation ceremony and procession.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader among the Dakota, Lakota, Nakota people, said, “Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of mankind. Do you think that the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of danger? Know that you are essential to this world. The biggest cancer spreading upon Mother Earth is the tar sands.”
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe, blessed the tarsands resistance spiritual camp on Cheyenne River in South Dakota. A second Spiritual Camp is set up on Rosebud Lakota land in South Dakota to protect the water and land from the threat of the Keystone XL pipeline.
United in struggle, Chief Reuben George, Tsleil-Waututh, said, “One thing I can say right off the bat is that we are winning. When we come together like this, we become stronger. There is no price for our water and lands. The lessons we receive from Mother Earth is to become better human beings. We give back to the earth and the land. The pipelines do not do that. We are going to win!”
General Schedule — all events will be at the tipi camp, located between 9th and 12th Streets on the National Mall, unless otherwise noted.
April 22, Tuesday
Opening Ceremony – US Capitol Reflecting Pool, 11am-2pm
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
Documentary showing, 8pm: Pipe Dreams, “Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in what has become the most controversial environmental battle in the U.S. today: The Keystone XL Pipeline.”Director: Leslie Iwerks
April 23, Wednesday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Walk to various federal agencies for meetings/actions, 10-11am
Meetings/actions with federal agencies, 11-1pm
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
Documentary showing, 8 PM: Tipping Point — Through the story of a people forced to the brink and the revelation of what ‘dirty oil’ will do to our environment, this immensely powerful documentary helps us to really understand the trade-offs we make for our energy as we approach the end of the age of oil. Introduction by and Q and A with Francois Paulette
April 24, Thursday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Meetings with allied groups 11am-1pm
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
#sosEPAnoKXL, 8pm: Giant light projection action to tell the EPA to intervene and say no to Keystone XL — hosted by the Other 98%. RSVP here
April 25, Friday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Prayer and song at Sec. Kerry home, 11am-noon
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
Award-winning photographer Garth Lenz presents slides of the tarsands, joined by Crystal Lameman of the Beaver Lake Cree First Nation, 8-9pm
April 26, Saturday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Painting of tipi canvass liner with general public’s thumbprints, 9:00 am-10:30 am
Group ceremony and procession with tipi, 11am-2pm
Music and sharing stories at tipi camp, 6-8pm
Documentary, 8 PM: H2Oil “H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tarsands expansion.” Director: Shannon Walsh, courtesy of Loaded Pictures / Dark Hollow Films
April 27, Sunday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Interfaith prayer ceremony – Lafayette Park, 10-11am
Closing ceremony – Lafayette Park 11am-noon
On April 22nd, our alliance of pipeline fighters — ranchers, farmers, tribal communities, and their friends — called the Cowboy Indian Alliance will ride into Washington DC for the next, and perhaps final, chapter in the fight against Keystone XL.
On that day, we will set up camp nearby the White House, lighting our fire and burning our sage, and for 5 days, we will bear proud witness to President Obama’s final decision on Keystone XL, reminding him of the threat this tar sands pipeline poses to our climate, land, water and tribal rights. Throughout those 5 days, we will show the power of our communities with events ranging from prayers at Sec. Kerry’s home and an opening ceremony of tribes and ranchers on horseback in front of the White House.
On April 26th (note new date) we invite our friends and allies against the pipeline to join us as we conclude our camp and make our final, unmistakable message to President Obama. Our community of pipeline fighters just sent 2 million comments against the pipeline in just 30 days. We must follow this up with action in the streets on April 27th as we march with tribal leaders and individuals currently living with the risk tar sands to show all the beauty and power we represent. Everyone is needed and everyone is welcome.
With his decision closer than ever, President Obama must know what is truly at stake, and see once more the power of the alliances that have turned Keystone XL into a turning point for our movements, and for our future.
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance (C.I.A) brings together tribal communities with ranchers and farmers living along the Keystone XL pipeline proposed route. Farmers and ranchers know the risk first-hand. They work the land every day. Tribes know the risk first-hand. They protect the sacred water, and defend sacred sites of their ancestors every day. They have united out of love and respect for the land and water on which we all depend.
This is not the first time Cowboys and Indians have come together to stop projects that risk our land and water. In the 80s, they came together to protect water and the Black Hills from uranium mining and risky munitions testing. In the American imagination, cowboys and Indians are still at odds. However, in reality, opposition to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has brought communities together like few causes in our history. Tribes, farmers and ranchers are all people of the land, who consider it their duty as stewards to conserve the land and protect the water for future generations.
The C.I.A. asks President Obama a simple question: Is an export pipeline for dirty tar sands worth risking our sacred land and water for the next seven generations?
On June 25, 2013, President Obama said, “Our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” Anyone with common sense knows the Keystone XL pipeline would exacerbate the climate crisis: an 830,000 barrel per day pipeline filled with tar sands and chemicals like benzene will make it easier for tar sands companies to dig up and burn more of the world’s dirtiest oil than they could with any other feasible alternative.
Our actions next month will show President Obama that we are living up to his call to “be the change we wish to see,” and that we stand with him to say no to Big Oil. Together we will make a clear promise that if President Obama goes back on his word and approves the Keystone XL pipeline, he will be met with the fiercest resistance from our Alliance and our allies from all walks of life. Bryan Brewer, President of the Oglala Sioux, speaks for us when he says, “We are ready to fight the pipeline, and our horses are ready.”
Please join us this April to tell President Obama to Reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and protect our land, water, and climate.
-The Cowboy Indian Alliance
September 5, 2013
White Clay Photos Blockade and Women's Day of Peace
Photos Blockade and Women's Day of Peace
Censored News
WHITE CLAY, Neb. -- On Monday morning, September 2, protesters swarmed and created a road block for cars leaving Whiteclay. Activists marched through the town and blocked entrances into the various liquor stores. Today’s action is part of an ongoing campaign to stop liquid genocide on the Pine Ridge Reservation.The town of Whiteclay is less than 300 feet from the border of Pine Ridge, where the sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited. While Whiteclay has a population of 14, there are 4 liquor stores in the town, selling 13,000 can of beer each day mostly to the Oglala Lakota in Pine Ridge making $34 million in revenue annually.
Lauren Lorenruiz came from Salt Lake City, Utah to stand in opposition to liquor sales, “The reason I am here today is because Whiteclay is poison. What we are seeing is a place of exploitation, a place of wrong-doing. These kinds of establishments are designed solely to destroy people so its profit over people and its inherently wrong. It has been tearing apart the Lakota people for over 100 years and we’re ready for it to stop.”A protestor from Connecticut said, “As an ally to the Lakota people I think that solidarity is in sacrifice. As a non- native white person I have a form of privilege that I can bring attention to these issues.”
Two days earlier, people from all over the country marched into White Clay for the second annual Women’s March and Day of Peace to bring awareness of the harms caused by alcoholism.
Even with the highly contentious vote to legalize alcohol in Pine Ridge Pine Ridge activists remain undeterred. Present at the Women’s Day of Peace, Oglala Lakota activist Olowan Martinez spoke to how alcohol has had a devastating impact on the people of Pine Ridge and continues to be used as a chemical weapon of genocide against the Lakota people and their culture to this day, “They use alcohol to trick us and now we trick ourselves.”Episode 10: Pine Ridge, South Dakota from Radical Resistance Tour on Vimeo.
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