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How Indigenous Activists in Norway Got the First Bank to Pull Out of the Dakota Access Pipeline

9/28/2016 - Truthout

DNB, a direct investor and loan provider to the Dakota Access pipeline, loaned $120 million to the Bakken pipeline project and extended $460 million in credit lines to companies with ownership stakes, specifically Energy Transfer Partners, Sunoco Logistics, Phillips 66 and Marathon.

"I went to that meeting knowing that to succeed, we needed independent documentation of the human rights abuses," Niillas said. "We needed something to convince the bank that the abuses weren't just found on social media. Five hours before the meeting, I had the report I needed in my hands."

That report came to Niillas unexpectedly from law school graduate Michelle Cook, who had worked at the Standing Rock camp to develop a legal infrastructure to support the tribe and its allies.

"There [were] four people, big shots in a big company," Niillas said. "None of us knew what to expect. They seemed confident at the start and then uncomfortable as we started talking about what was happening at Standing Rock. By the end, I could see they realized the severity of the situation that they were in."

Shortly after that meeting, on November 17, 2016, DNB sold off $3 million in assets. Although the bank is still responsible for offering the pipeline companies hundreds of millions of dollars in credit -- about 10 percent of the credit needed for the project -- Sámi activists are confident this is just the start of complete divestment of Nordic countries from the pipeline, and they recently scored yet another victory: On November 24, Odin Fund Management, a major fund manager in Norway, also announced that it sold $23.8 million worth of shares that were invested in the companies that are part of the Dakota Access pipeline.

Solidarity:

"Norwegian and Sámi people settled in North Dakota and settled the lands that the [Sioux] people were removed from," Jensen told Truthout. "We have a responsibility to help them. My people know their struggle. I am in Norway and can't fight on the front lines, but I need to do everything I can from here."

[buenobuttons]

#nodapl #stopthepipeline #peopleoverpipelines #waterislife #standingrock #buttons #buenobuttons #badges #pins #etsy #etsyseller (at Bueno Buttons)

[indigenous-scholar]

"We Are Still Here"~Solidarity with Standing Rock

I don't usually do something like this, but getting the message out there is something very important to me. Nawáh, sšúxu`. KatatAxaáA Gidybaus. Taatačitaá'A káNIt, wiitatshánu na sahnish. Hello, my relatives. My name is Bright Eyes. I come from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes. I am a Standing Rock activist within the state of Montana and I am originally from North Dakota. I go to Montana State for paleontology and Native American studies. I have been to the Oceti Sakowin and Sacred Stone camps numerous times before this and I am currently sitting in one of my afternoon classes as I write this. Today has been particularly hard for me since the evictions are still taking place at Standing Rock. Innocent people are being arrested and this is all for an oil pipeline. A pipeline. A piece of machinery. I don't know about you, but this is just wrong. Since when have human beings stooped to a level where a man-made structure is more important than people's lives and wellbeing? Where did the love for people of different religion, sex, color, etc. go in this short of time? This pipeline has affected my view on the entire world and it saddens me that law enforcement would rather protect a black snake rather than men, women, children, two spirits, elders, etc. North Dakota has turned from my home state to something I don't even recognize anymore. I don't talk about race here because it's not about that. This is about human decency and we have lost that as a species. Only when we cut down the last tree, killed the last animal, and polluted our last water source will people realize that we cannot eat or drink money. My Indigenous brothers and sisters, along with people of all different colors and genders are standing against the creed of oil companies and state governments. I stand with Standing Rock and I ask you to stand up. Aho! ✊🏽

[kopns]

The most important thing on this planet, is the planet. . . . #istandwithstandingrock #westandwithstandingrock #standingrock #miniwiconi #waterislife #peopleoverpipelines #peopleoverprofit #sandiego #nopipelines #nodapl #nokxl #solidaritywithstandingrock #ALLONE

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[margauxlesourd]

I get to play this ol’ beaut tonight! Come out to #theroyalroomseattle to fight the Trans-Mountain pipeline and hear some good tunes. #cantdrinkoil #peopleoverpipelines #stopkindermorgan #seattletonight #showstonight #columbiacity #columbiacityseattle (at The Royal Room)

[girlsmakintrouble-blog]

Now We’re Fucked

I can’t express the frustration and heart ache I felt, that I still feel, when I heard that President Trump is advancing the Dakota Access Pipeline. Trump is doing so to create jobs but it is completely unnecessary. Trump is cutting taxes for companies as well, so lets see when and if those outsourced jobs come back to the US before we start risking our environments health and the health and safety of Native Americans. Let’s get down and dirty with Trump because the US is not just a business! The pipelines that these companies are prepared to build are not funded by people who are living in these communities and that is why they are being built. So the people with the money can sit safely at home and just rake in the cash, these people don’t care about what they cannot or will not see. We need to rise, open their eyes, make them see that the US is not just a business. We will make them see and by whatever means necessary! (nothing that leads to deaths though) :D

[tomeidlsoup]

Any and all money that I make from selling these products will be matched and then given to the Water Protectors at Standing Rock. Anything helps, and you can get stickers for it! #nodapl #antitrump #peopleoverpipelines #standingrock https://www.redbubble.com/people/tomeidlsoup/works/24605545-water-is-life-all-profits-matched-and-go-to-water-protectors

[plantsexuall]

#Repost @_nativeindc Our Message: WE ARE STILL HERE. Banner drop and amazing act of solidarity early this morning at Union Station in DC. Honored to stand with our women, in prayer and voice to the public the harm DAPL poses to indigenous people, our lands, every person and the protection of our indigenous women. This is a fight to stop the pipeline and all pipelines. This is about protecting our rights and protecting clean water. Having the Trump heckler further proved our point of what this nation (and not every person) has become in light of the campaign and elections. Proud to stand with everyone this morning. Continue with the national solidarity actions, looking forward to checking my social medias! Keep your voice up, be loud, be strong! ✊ #NoDAPL #WeAreStillHere #IndigenousRising #HonorTheSacred #ProtectOurWomen #MniWiconi #WaterIsLife #HonorTheTreaties #PeopleOverPipelines #KillThePipeline #SaveTheLand #TheNTVS #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #ReclaimYourPower #NationalSolidarityDay #ShhhTrumpHeckler #CantDrinkOil #KeepItInTheSoil #BannerDrop #ShutItDown

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Will an oil pipeline proposed for tribal lands destroy the Ramapough Lenape Nation along the New Jersey-New York border? Or will it be the catalyst that once again unites the tribe?

4/14/2017 - NY Times, The Ramapoughs vs. the World

In 2014, Pilgrim Pipeline Holdingsreleased plans to construct a pair of oil pipelines that would pass through Ramapough territory. According to the proposal, the pipelines would each stretch 178 miles underground, running from Albany to Linden, N.J. Heading south, the channel would carry 200,000 barrels each day of crude Bakken shale, a volatile variety of oil from Montana and North Dakota. Gasoline and aviation fuel would flow north.

Pilgrim executives say that the $1 billion project would provide a stable supply of petroleum products to a region starved for direct access to refineries. But many environmental experts caution that the pipeline poses a risk of widespread safety hazards and pollution, with the possibility for a spill that could taint several critical sources of drinking water for New York and New Jersey. “Even a relatively modest oil spill could wipe out the water supply of millions of people for up to a year,” said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.

In the heart of the affected zone would be the Ramapoughs, who say their sacred sites could be violated, along with the risk to their river. (George Bochis, vice president for development with Pilgrim, said that his company had met with the tribe to discuss their concerns and that they were developing “a mitigation and protection plan for any artifacts discovered.”)

The tribe’s concerns were also spiritual: For generations, Ramapoughs have passed along a prophecy warning that their section of the highlands would someday face a grave threat to its waters and land. At that time, the earlier elders always advised, the Ramapoughs would have to band together to pray in the night and protect the earth.

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The Pilgrim pipeline faces months of reviews before approval can be granted, but the Ramapoughs are already leading a forceful resistance. Soon after the pipeline was proposed, Mr. Perry marshaled the tribe to action, organizing rallies, lobbying local politicians and packing a series of raucous public meetings.

Their efforts intensified last fall. Inspired by protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline that drew thousands of indigenous people and their allies to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota last year, the tribe began holding demonstrations at Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp, the main ceremonial grounds of its 14-acre territory. They have also erected several tepees that serve as a popular hub for prayer and organizing, and a small number of people have been staying in tents on the property.

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“I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations,” Mr. Trump said.

Later, at a congressional hearing on Indian gambling in October, he said, “They don’t look like Indians to me.”

The Bureau of Indian Affairs rejected the tribe’s application.

“Trump ran a smear campaign, plain and simple,” Mr. Perry, the chief of the tribe, said. “And now we’re still dealing with the consequences of the racist lie he perpetuated.” (Mr. Trump’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)

Without federal designation, the Ramapoughs are excluded from a variety of rights and services, such as financial loans, health care access, allotted land and tribal governance.

But before they can take on Mr. Trump, the Ramapoughs must contend with their neighbors. Ever since the tribe began demonstrations on its campground, residents and local officials from Mahwah have been at loggerheads with the Ramapoughs. In late November, a neighbor called the police to report the tribe for constructing tepees on the land, in apparent violation of the town’s zoning regulations. A week later, neighbors again called, now claiming excessive noise. The complaints continued for weeks, with neighbors objecting to a range of issues, like parking enforcement and the tribe’s setting mulch on its property.

Around the same time, Ramapoughs reported to the police that they found their property had been defaced with bigoted messages, including a swastika. The graffiti allegations followed episodes earlier that year, in which the tribe reported that several of its religious items had been stolen or vandalized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/nyregion/ramapough-tribe-fights-pipeline.html

[lamadhousewife]

#NoDAPL #RespectOurExistenceOrExpectResistance #PeopleOverPipelines

[minister-erik]

The Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation, along with environmental organizations in NYC  and national organization Rainforest Action Network stood together on October 15,2018 to demand JPMorgan Chase divest from fossil fuels. Six women leaders, from the frontlines of pipeline battles across the nation, spoke out and disrupted Chase Bank’s Private Client offices in the landmarked 28 Liberty building downtown.

#Activism #Chase #ChaseBank #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climatejustice #CorporateGreed #DefendTheSacred #DefundTarSands #divest #FossilFree #IndigenousRights #IndigenousRising #IndigenousWomen #JPMorgan #JPMorganChase #KeepItIntheGround #mniwiconi #NewYork #NoBayouBridge #NoDAPL #noKXL #NoPipelines #NoTarSands #NYC #PeacefulProtest #PeacefulResistance #peopleoverpipelines #ProtectTheSacred #RainforestActionNetwork #StopLine3 #stopLine3pipeline #StopTheBlackSnake #StopThePipeline #WaterIsLife

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

[fionavocado]

Thanks to everyone who bought my People Over Pipelines print: I just sent $120 to Standing Rock! While yesterday's victory is important, the fight is not over. ETP and SXL still intends to drill and pay a fine, and soon we will have a shithead administration that favors the pipeline. I still have prints left and all proceeds will continue to be donated to Standing Rock. #nodapl #peopleoverpipelines

[thingsbeyoncetaughtus-blog]

Standing Rock Water Protectors Are Fighting More than Oil. They Are Fighting Racism Against Natives

The Coronado in Phoenix recently did a fundraiser night at their restaurant where they donated all their profits to the Standing Rock efforts to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. Their proceeds went to the legal defense fund and medic tents at the camp following the public outrage over the Morten County police and private security details using violent force on unarmed water protectors this past weekend including a water cannon, rubber bullets, and tear gas in sub-freezing temperatures.

There was a huge turnout for the Coronado from locals in Phoenix who lined the block to give their business to support the Standing Rock water protectors. Standing Rock’s efforts are without its critics including the non-indigenous locals around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation who bombarded the Coronado’s social media pages with negative reviews and comments that reflected their vitriol for the indigenous peoples who have amassed an international movement focused on protecting their water, respecting treaty rights, and the denouncing fossil fuel industry on indigenous livelihood. These non-indigenous locals most likely never even been to the Coronado but used their ability to denounce a business that supported the movement. 

So something that I’ve learned over the years is how much hate and animosity white residents of the Dakotas have toward the indigenous people there including the Dakota Sioux. My friends have told me about how their presence in border towns on the reservations are often met with racist confrontations or general animosity because locals have grown up with a view that Natives in their area are drunks, beggars, lazy, violent, and anti-white. This is reflective of the violent history that tribes in the Dakotas had to endure fighting white settler expansion, assaults on their culture, beliefs, food source, and livelihood that was state sanctioned by the US government. 

So with that history in mind, including the Wounded Knee massacre, indigenous people live in a state of fighting dangerous efforts of the fossil fuel industry to poison our already dying planet but also to survive and preserve our culture and identity . Years of oppression and broken treaties have taken a toll on Native livelihood that is often met with poverty, depression, suicide, domestic violence, alcoholism and substance abuse. These struggles are seen through non-Native eyes as social problems that Natives just have as a racialized conditions fueled by racist ideology that promotes white ideology embedded in capitalism and imperialism as superior. This is a problem that exists for all Native people that deal with the toxic and confrontational border towns that surround reservations who hold racist stereotypes about us. So we see this playing out with Standing Rock as Native mobilize to protect their water. 

Remember this history and what indigenous people at Standing Rock are up against. It is against corporate organizations who are blinding by profits over people and chase money over the wellbeing of the earth and those who depend on her health. It is up against our efforts to preserve our identity as Native people of being stewards to the Earth and standing up for those that cannot speak which have souls and spiritual meaning to our lives including the water and soil and sky. To resist and protest and stand up for our selves and be resilient is in our blood and spirits. It is the fight that our ancestors made to make sure we are here to write on this blog and fight in solidarity for all Native people fighting to survive and one day thrive. Fight and support Standing Rock!

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