We have a backlog of updates to report on Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). (The blog didn’t get much attention the past few days as Healing Minnesota Stories was participating in an incredibly powerful three-day Bearing Witness Retreat, an interfaith event organized by Clouds in Water Zen Center. It witnessed to Minnesota’s participation in the Native American genocide.
Here are DAPL updates from the past few days:
- As tension escalates, a court decision on the pipeline might not come until 2017
- Under freezing conditions, law enforcement uses water cannons against water protectors
- Pressure on banks financing DAPL has first success
- U.N. Human Rights expert denounces abuse of free assembly rights
- North Dakota legislators cancel annual “State of the Tribes” address amid security concerns, damaging tribal relationships
- Scores arrested nationwide in DAPL protests
- Energy Transfer Partners CEO Can’t Promise Pipeline Won’t Leak
- Water is Life: Drought kills 102 million trees in California
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