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artfilmfan · 8 months

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Chase Iron Eyes & Tokata Iron Eyes in Oyate (2022)

#native american #oglala lakota #dapl #indigineous people #indigenous #tokata iron eyes #chase iron eyes #biodiversity #dakota access pipeline

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femmeidiot · 5 months

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Reminder if you live in the US and you haven't done it do this today and watch the video on there!!!! Comment period for the DAPL environmental impact statement draft ends December 13th. Do it now!!!! It autofills a draft to send you don't hardly have to do anything to use your voice to tell the USACE to take the pipeline one and protect the people of standing rock and everyone else downstream on the Missouri River!!!!

#I'll keep it short this time #but I couldn't find my original post #DAPL #standing rock #native rights

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jadeseadragon · 6 months

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Take action to make your voice heard ahead of the November 13, 2023 deadline by signing our petition to the US Army.

#dapl #standing rock #water is life #petition #indigenous land #indigenous rights

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shamandrummer · 8 months

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Let's Stand Again With Standing Rock

It's time to take action and stop the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL)! It's been over six years since DAPL began carrying oil and nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the pipeline operator Energy Transfer's attempt to avoid producing a required Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Today, in violation of a separate court order, DAPL continues to operate illegally, without a federal easement. Finally, after interminable delay, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has finally released an extremely problematic draft EIS for public input.

That's where you come in. You now have just a few weeks to submit your public comment demanding the Corps shut this pipeline down and require a new, valid EIS. Please stand with Standing Rock in this critical moment and write to the Army Corps right now.

Now that the EIS has been released, we can confirm what we already suspected. Prepared by a member of the American Petroleum Institute -- clear conflict of interest -- the EIS addresses none of Standing Rock's many grave concerns about DAPL. Those include DAPL's imminent threat to the Missouri River, big problems with Energy Transfer's emergency response plans, Energy Transfer's horrendous safety track record, continued lack of transparency with Standing Rock throughout the environmental review process, inaccurate characterizations of tribal consultation, and sensitive habitat and sacred burial sites along the riverbank.

Earlier this year, four U.S. senators including Bernie Sanders submitted a letter to the Corps seeking an explanation. The reply from Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael Connor did not adequately or honestly address the tribe's complaints. Standing Rock replied, pointing out the flaws in approach and demanding redress.

For now, it's up to us to lend a hand. We must flood the Army Corps with a single, unified message: This illegal pipeline's operations must be terminated and the Army Corps must start over with a legitimate environmental review. In the midst of a climate emergency, let's defend sacred ground and safeguard Unci Maka (our Grandmother Earth). This may be our last, best chance to end DAPL once and for all. Please take action now.

#standing rock #dapl #indigenous rights #lakota #public comment #environmentalism #fossil fuels #big oil #pipelines #climate crisis

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fernreads · 2 years

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A panel of three Trump-appointed judges this week upheld an excessive eight-year prison sentence handed down to climate activist Jessica Reznicek, ruling that a terrorism enhancement attached to her sentence was “harmless.”

The terror enhancement, which dramatically increased Reznicek’s sentence from its original recommended range, set a troubling precedent. Decided by a lower court in 2021, it contends that Reznicek’s acts against private property were “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government.” The appellate justices’ decision to uphold her sentence, callously dismissing the challenge to her terrorism enhancement, doubles down on a chilling message: Those who take direct action against rapacious energy corporations can be treated as enemies of the state.

Reznicek, an Iowa-based member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a participant in the Indigenous-led climate struggle, engaged in acts of property damage in an attempt to stop the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016 and 2017. Along with fellow activist Ruby Montoya, Reznicek took credit for various acts of sabotage, which harmed no humans or animals but burnt a bulldozer and damaged valves of the pipeline. The damaged equipment was property not of the U.S. government, but of private pipeline and energy companies.

Following Reznicek’s guilty plea to a single charge of conspiracy to damage an energy facility — which brought a recommended sentencing range of 37 to 46 months — Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, in allegiance with prosecutors, added the terrorism enhancement. This increased her sentencing range to 210 to 240 months, making the eight-year sentence Reznicek ultimately received fit comfortably below the accepted range, though it’s more than double the previous recommendation. (Montoya, who also pleaded guilty, has filed a motion to withdraw her plea, claiming that it was coerced.)

Both courts’ decisions on Reznicek’s sentence reflect unsurprising but deeply troubling priorities in our criminal legal system. It would be unempirical to the point of foolishness to expect the courts, stacked as they are with right-wing justices, to side with individuals taking risks to stop environmental devastation rather than those corporations making millions on the back of it. Yet Reznicek’s appeal was on a point of law: Terrorism enhancements are only supposed to be applicable to crimes that target governmental conduct; Reznicek’s targets were private corporations.

The collapsing of government and corporate interests signified by Reznicek’s terrorism enhancement is worthy of profound challenge, but the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges did not even address the substance of the activist’s appeal. In a short, unsigned opinion, the court wrote that even if there had been an “error” in applying a terrorism enhancement, it was “harmless,” because Ebinger had stated on the record that she would have imposed an eight-year sentence with or without the terrorism enhancement.

It is a cynical move indeed to sidestep the chilling effect of labeling such acts as “terrorism,” as if it carries no material consequences for the future of water and Indigenous land protection and other social movements. As Reznicek’s support team wrote in a statement Monday, “Federal prosecutors only pursued terrorism enhancements against Reznicek after 84 Congressional representatives wrote a letter in 2017 to Attorney General Jeff Sessions requesting that Reznicek and other protesters who tamper with pipelines be prosecuted as domestic terrorists.” These members of Congress, note Reznicek’s supporters, have together received a combined $36 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry.

Determinations over which actions are labeled “terrorism” are always political, and in this case nakedly so given the clear pressure applied on prosecutors by politicians and their industry backers. Ebinger’s claim — that she would have imposed the excessive eight-year sentence with or without the terror enhancement triggered — cannot be considered the final word here. Reporting on Reznicek’s case, ABC News — an outlet hardly aligned with the environmental left — noted that neither white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof or avowed neo-Nazi James Fields, who plowed his car into anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, received a terrorism enhancement when sentenced.

Reznicek’s legal team will continue to challenge her sentence in court, especially since the question of the misapplication of a terrorism enhancement remains open, despite the judges’ decision this week. A full court hearing by the 8th Circuit, an appeal to the far-right Supreme Court, or a request for clemency from President Joe Biden are all technical options, but hardly are any of these sites of optimism.

As her legal battles continue, Reznicek, whose acts of sabotage place her firmly on the right side of history, if not the law, deserves full-throated public support. As she noted in her 2017 statement claiming responsibility for the actions against the Dakota Access pipeline: “We acted from our hearts and never threatened human life nor personal property. What we did do was fight a private corporation that has run rampant across our country seizing land and polluting our nation’s water supply.”

#article #full article #bolding mine #environmental justice #nodapl #dapl #us politics #us justice system #terrorism #state violence

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cozybearz · 4 months

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I don’t know if anyone will see this but it’s important and super easy! They have less than 800 letters left to go and theres a template right there on the site!

#dakota access pipeline #standing rock #water rights #indigenous rights #environmentalism #environmental activism #climate change #petition #petitions #lots of tags bc i dont rlly have any following idk #DAPL

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rhodoforwinter · 7 months

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The Dakota Access Pipeline (or DAPL) is a federally commissioned pipeline carrying ~19 million gallons of petroleum oil per day.

DAPL receives the crude oil through the Bakken Oil Field, a major site for hydraulic fracturing—fracking.

The pipeline runs along the Missouri River's watershed, which provides drinking water for millions of people, including members of the Standing Rock Reservation.

Against the fierce protests of Indigenous people, former president Donald Trump signed an executive order that endorsed its construction in 2017. That year, DAPL leaked at least five times.

A review of the pipeline's effects has never been conducted. Sioux activists (of Standing Rock and other Indigenous reservations) have been repeatedly brushed off—or worse. Multiple videos illustrate the police's use of force—rubber bullets, water cannons, and concussion grenades.

The federal government of the United States of America has yet again decided to rear its ugly head and make clear its apathy to the sovereignty and rights of Indigenous people.

Stand with Indigenous people, environmentalists, social advocates of all kinds.

Please.

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philososquid · 7 months

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#dakota access pipeline #dapl #water protectors #water is life #water #indigenous cultures #native american #intersectional environmentalist #enviromental #climate change

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omg-whathaveidone · 7 months

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Please join me in standing with Standing Rock and send your public feedback on DAPL’s deeply flawed draft Environmental Impact Statement to the Army Corps of Engineers today.