URGENT Attention Needed: Homeland Security Pulls Water Supply of Dakota Protestors Despite Sweltering Heat (Appeal For International Observers)

August 25th, 2016

Awake Goy

Tribal members from across the nation have streamed to the Standing Rock Sioux protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, with thousands coming to the peaceful “prayer camps” in recent days, prompting state officials on Monday to remove the demonstrators’ drinking water supply.

Standing Rock spokesman Steven Sitting Bear hinted that the protest is only just beginning, as he’s received “notifications from tribes all over the country that have caravans in route, so it’s continuing to grow.”

And in Washington D.C., high-profile activists and supporters are rallying outside the U.S. District Court, where members of the Standing Rock Sioux will argue that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted Energy Transfer Corporation permission for the pipeline without tribal consent.

In July, the environmental group Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, seeking an injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who signed off on the pipeline’s construction. “The construction and operation of the pipeline, as authorized by the Corps, threatens the Tribe’s environmental and economic well-being, and would damage and destroy sites of great historic, religious, and cultural significance to the Tribe,” the lawsuit notes.

According to the tribe, the pipeline puts the sacred waters of the Missouri River at great risk.

The demonstrators held signs during a rally last Thursday in Bismarck that read, “No Dakota Access Pipeline” and “ReZpect our Water,” while they chanted, “We can’t drink oil. Keep it in the soil.”

Climate campaigner and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben supports the protest, even penning an op-ed on Monday titled “After 525 years, it’s time to actually listen to Native Americans.”

He believes that in recent years, it has been Indigenous people like the Standing Rock Sioux who “have been the vanguard of the movement to slow down climate change.” He also implied that stopping the pipeline process would send a message that, after 525 years, someone actually paid attention to the good sense the Native Americans have had from the start.

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