Water Protectors and Journalist Celebrate Victory: All Charges Dropped for Bayou Bridge Pipeline Protests

Local District Attorney Rejects All Criminal Charges for Alleged Violations of ALEC-inspired Anti-Protest Amendments to Critical Infrastructure Law

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MARTINVILLE, Louisiana – Sixteen pipeline protesters and a journalist who had been arrested and charged with felonies in 2018 celebrated a major victory for the First Amendment after a local district attorney in Louisiana rejected all charges and vowed not to prosecute them under Louisiana’s controversial amendments to its critical infrastructure law.

In 2018, in the midst of fierce opposition to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline and at the urging of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, the Louisiana legislature added pipelines to the definition of critical infrastructure to significantly heighten the penalties for people protesting pipeline projects. The amendments made it a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, with or without hard labor, for being on or near pipelines or construction sites allegedly without permission. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline, built by Energy Transfer Partners, is the tail end of the same network of pipelines that includes the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Mohawk Nation News 'Mary and Rosie Assigned to Complete Genocide'

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MNN. July 11, 2021. Both Mary Simon, the new Governor General, and Rose Ann Archibald, the new president of the Assembly of First Nations Inc., know that the Crown murdered us and our kids. They work for the corporation of the government of Canada that committed the worst crime against humanity ever, murder and genocide of almost all indigenous people. Mary and Rose, you are being well paid and promoted to help the Crown save the admitted murderers, Canada and United States, from automatic dissolution for the genocide they committed on us.

Zapatistas Arrive in France on Tour for Life

In Paris on Saturday, the Zapatistas Delegation was celebrated.
Tour for Life in Europe 
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Assassinated Tomas Rojo: Yaqui was a defender of water rights, not interested in petty disputes

Tomas Rojo, Assassinated Yaqui Water Rights Defender

Motive for Tomás' crime, simplified conjecture

The coordinator of the Citizens' Movement for Water, Alberto Vizcarra Ozuna, questions the versions of the Sonora Prosecutor's Office about the conflict over the installation of a toll booth as the motive for the murder of Tomás Rojo, because that was not on the list of priorities of the Yaqui leader.

His fight was not against the criminal underworld, he says, but against the criteria of a water policy. "It is evident that the motivations for this crime transcend the simple dispute over a toll booth in Yaqui territory," says Vizcarra in the text we share here.