Water Protector Legal Collective Challenges DAPL SLAPP Subpoena

Casey Camp-Horinek, InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, Jamiacia, Photo by Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Casey Camp Horinek, Ponca, testifying in Jamaica before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Casey said today, “I was among hundreds who were attacked by a militarized police force and pepper-sprayed, zip-tied, had numbers written on our arms, put in dog cages in the freezing basement of Morton County jail along with my son and other relatives."

WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE CHALLENGES ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS/DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE’S SLAPP SUBPOENA

By Water Protector Legal Collective
Censored News
March 18, 2021

French translation by Christine Prat

Contact: Michelle Cook, Board Member, Water Protector Legal Collective, michellecook@email.arizona.edu Natali Segovia, Staff Attorney, Water Protector Legal Collective, defense@waterprotectorlegal.org

BISMARCK, North Dakota - Five years after Standing Rock, the #NoDAPL struggle continues and the fight is not over for the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC).

WPLC is an Indigenous-led legal non-profit organization formed in the legal tent at Standing Rock. There, attorneys provided legal support and services to thousands of Water Protectors who had responded to the call from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and were engaged in prayer, peaceful assembly, and protection of the water for future generations. WPLC provided free legal defense to more than 840 Water Protectors and successfully defeated the vast majority of charges.

Now, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), has served WPLC with a SLAPP subpoena seeking access to confidential records and legal documents that are protected by the First Amendment and attorney-client privilege. WPLC has filed an objection to this subpoena in North Dakota District Court and will continue to fight it.

'Warrior Women' Discussion and free film screening March 25 and 28, 2021

 

Warrior Women

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

You're invited to TWO events with the Warrior Women Project Matriarchs to take us out of #WomensHistoryMonth with swagger.

Join us on Thursday, March 25 for an evening with matriarchy at South Dakota State University, or you can catch us for a special #MeetTheMatriarchs on Sunday, March 28 broadcasted live from Rapid City, SD!

The Cactus Boneyard: Ecocide on the Border, the Commands of a Madman

Quechan Running for the Sacred to Indian Pass

 

Photos by Helena Quintana Arrow-Weed, Quechan
Censored News

Running to protect sacred land and water from the threat of a gold mine at Indian Pass in the southern California desert, March 20, 2021.

Preston J. Arrow-weed, Quechan 

Preston J. Arrow-weed and Brian Golding preparing
for the run to Indian Pass.

Thomas Jefferson documenting the run.

Photos copyright Helena Quintana Arrow-weed, published with permission at Censored News.

MOUNT RUSHMORE: All charges dropped against land defenders during Trump fireworks

An Indigenous woman raises her fist on July 3 in the Black Hills. Photo by Arlo Iron Cloud.

 

MOUNT RUSHMORE: All charges dropped against land defenders during Trump visit 

By NDN Collective

March 22, 2021

Censored News

RAPID CITY, South Dakota — Today, NDN Collective announced that the charges against Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective President and CEO, and all other Land Defenders arrested on July 3 in the Black Hills will be dropped. This announcement comes after months of political pressure from grassroots groups, including petitions, social media campaigns, and local and national media coverage of the cases.

VANCOUVER BC: Activists occupy Lithium Americas in solidarity with Nevada land protectors

Thacker Pass Protection Camp photo by Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson

Photo by Illhee Spirit Runners 

Protect Thacker Pass -- On Friday, March 19, 2021, members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Nation and other Native People finished a 273-mile prayer walk at Thacker Pass. The prayer walk concluded with ceremony and prayers for Thacker Pass and all exploited lands around the world. Many members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone tribe oppose the proposed Thacker Pass open-pit lithium mine and feel like they were never offered adequate consultation about the mine. Locally, people are also concerned about man camps and the inevitable violence against women that follows mining projects such as these.

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Vancouver activists occupy Lithium Americas head office today

Protecting Thacker Pass today in Vancouver BC.

By Protect Thacker Pass

Censored News

Monday, March 22, 2012

VANCOUVER, BC — Activists are occupying the front steps of Lithium Americas’ head office at 900 West Hastings on Monday, March 22nd from 8:00 am in solidarity with American counterparts aiming to stop an open-pit mine in intact sagebrush habitat in Nevada.

 
“We want to make the public aware that lithium mining is extremely harmful to nature and even though lithium is an element destined for smartphones and electric cars, its extraction is the opposite of sustainable,” explains Nicola Rodriguez of Surrey.