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As Pipeline Construction and Repression Grows, DAPL Protest is Looking More Like a Mass Movement
Ortega, Oliver
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/02/as-pipeline-construction-and-repression-grows-dapl-protest-is-looking-more-like-a-mass-movement/Date Written: 2016-11-02 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20097 A look at the escalating conflict between the DAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, and the native tribes and activists who are resisting it. The issue is centered around the construction of a pipeline which risks the destruction of a river that serves as a main water source to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the more than 17 million people downriver. Abstract: Excerpt: As they seek to block construction on the 1200-mile long pipeline, water protectors -- as the activists call themselves -- are getting arrested by the hundreds in North Dakota, victims of a police force now virtually indistinguishable from an occupying army. In the latest round of mass arrests Thursday, more than 300 cops raided a recently-erected teepee camp near highway 1806; as they rolled through, officers used the tips of their automatic weapons to push open teepee doors, a scene witnesses likened to US Army raids on native villages in the 1800s. ... The protectors want the pipeline rerouted -- if not cancelled outright, which is looking more unlikely by the day -- in order to protect the main water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the more than 17 million people downriver. |