#Dakota Pipeline

[nando161mando]

The energy company behind Dakota Pipeline is still trying to get documents from @UnicornRiot and reporter Niko Georgiades about their coverage of protests against the pipeline project.

The subpoenas were quashed, but now it’s appealing the decision.

[artfilmfan]

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

[probablyasocialecologist]

Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016. The new details about federal law enforcement surveillance of an Indigenous environmental movement were released as part of a legal fight between North Dakota and the federal government over who should pay for policing the pipeline fight. Until now, the existence of only one other federal informant in the camps had been confirmed.  The FBI also regularly sent agents wearing civilian clothing into the camps, one former agent told Grist in an interview. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, operated undercover narcotics officers out of the reservation’s Prairie Knights Casino, where many pipeline opponents rented rooms, according to one of the depositions.  The operations were part of a wider surveillance strategy that included drones, social media monitoring, and radio eavesdropping by an array of state, local, and federal agencies, according to attorneys’ interviews with law enforcement.

[sam-blackbird]

Here’s my 9/11 pipeline, inspired by the work of @gender-luster and @lena-cant (and completed with researches on my own)

IF YOU USE IT, PLEASE CREDIT ME!

(Please ignore the red underlining, i haven’t found out how to fix it yet; will update if I success to remove it)

[angryrdpanda]

March 11, 2024 — Appalachians Against Pipelines activists prevented drilling of Poor Mountain in Virginia for 8 hours as part of an effort to stop the Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) project.

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Mountain Valley Pipeline is a fracked gas pipeline that "stretches from the shale fields of so-called 'West Virginia' into central 'Virginia' with a possible extension into 'North Carolina.' The hazardous project will disrupt delicate ecosystems, harm communities, and increase international dependence on fossil fuels, pushing the planet further into climate chaos."

Activists face arrests and jail time trying prevent completion of MVP and the inevitable environmental disasters caused by pipelines like Keystone, which has had 23 spills since it began operating in 2010.

2013 Keystone pipeline spill in Arkansas

➡️ Support the Appalachian Legal Defense Fund

[charring58]

#Waterprotectors are activists, organizers, and cultural workers focused on the defense of the world's water and water systems. The water protector name, analysis and style of activism arose from Indigenous communities in North America during the #DakotaAccessPipeline protests at the #StandingRockReservation, which began with an encampment on LaDonna Brave Bull Allard's land in April, 2016.[1

[libraryleopard]

i just watched the unknown country and it was such a lovely film–gorgeous cinematography and soundtrack and an interesting storytelling style (i think it mixes in a bit of documentary storytelling with the characters the main character meets on her roadtrip being real people playing themselves). lily gladstone also gives such a naturalistic and warm performance in it, her presence on the screen is just, like, completely luminous?!

[taylor14firefly]

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."

—Winona LaDuke, "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" (2013)

[homiebromantic]

Hellooo everyone in the US im linking a petition to stop the dakota access pipeline here . please take a few minutes to sign it and share it! the comment period ends on the 13th of December [in two days as of me writing this!!] and is very nearly to their comment goal. it does look like you need a US address to do so so if you arent in the US please just share it [: thank youu

[rhodoforwinter]

[Crossposted from Instagram]

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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.

[probablyasocialecologist]

According to documents obtained by Grist and Type Investigations through a Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI’s Minneapolis office opened a counterterrorism assessment in February 2012, focusing on actions in South Dakota, that continued for at least a year and may have led to the opening of additional investigations. These documents reveal that the FBI was monitoring activists involved in the Keystone XL campaign about a year earlier than previously known.  Their contents suggest that, long before the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines became national flashpoints, the federal government was already developing a sweeping law enforcement strategy to counter any acts of civil disobedience aimed at preventing fossil fuel extraction. And young, Native activists were among its first targets. “The threat emerging … is evolving into one based on opposition to energy exploration related to any extractions from the earth, rather than merely targeting one project and/or one company,” the FBI noted in its description of the Wanblee blockade. The 15-page file, which is heavily redacted, also describes Native American groups as a potentially dangerous threat and likens them to “environmental extremists” whose actions, according to the FBI, could lead to violence. The FBI acknowledged that Native American groups were engaging in constitutionally protected activity, including attending public hearings, but emphasized that this sort of civic participation might spawn criminal activity.  To back up its claims, the FBI cited a 2011 State Department hearing on the pipeline in Pierre, South Dakota, attended by a small group of Native activists. The FBI said the individuals were dressed in camouflage and had covered their faces with red bandanas, “train robber style.” According to the report, they were also carrying walking sticks and shaking sage, claiming to be “Wounded Knee Security of/for Mother Earth.” “The Bureau is uncertain how the NA group(s) will act initially or subsequently if the project is approved,” the agency wrote.  The FBI also singled out the “Native Youth Movement,” which it described as a mix between a “radical militia and a survivalist group.” In doing so, it appeared to conflate a specific activist group originally founded in Canada in the 1990s with the broader array of young Native activists who opposed the pipeline decades later. Young activists would play an important role in the Keystone XL campaign and later on during protests against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock, but the movement had little in common with militias or survivalists, terms typically used to describe far-right groups or those seeking to disengage from society.  The FBI declined to respond to questions for this story. In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for the Minneapolis field office said the agency does not typically comment on FOIA releases and “lets the information contained in the files speak for itself.”

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Environmental activists and attorneys who reviewed the new documents told Grist and Type Investigations that law enforcement’s approach to the Keystone XL campaign looked like a template for the increasingly militarized response to subsequent environmental and social justice campaigns — from efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock to the ongoing protests against the police training center dubbed “Cop City” in Atlanta, Georgia, which would require razing at least 85 acres of urban forest.  The FBI’s working thesis, outlined in the new documents, that “most environmental extremist groups” have historically moved from peaceful protest to violence has served as the basis for subsequent investigations. “It’s astonishing to me how such a broad concept basically paints every activist and protester as a future terrorist,” said Mike German, a former FBI special agent who is now a fellow at the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice.

[sam-blackbird]

Currently designing a diagram of the 9/11 pipeline. Interested if any of you have any related event (after 9/11, I don’t do before) to share so I can add it.

So far i have reunited: MCR, Twilight, The Batman, Oppenheimer, Fifty Shades of Grey, the end of the Ellen show, Good Omens (including Michael Sheen and Neil Gaiman), Brazilian YouTube/ Brazilian Portuguese, and 9-1-1.

[sillyguy-supreme]

i think some of you forgot about the dakota access pipeline way too quickly ngl

[skinnerhousebooks]

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector by Karen Van Fossan. It's available at shopinspirit.org and wherever books are sold.

This is a story of becoming and un-becoming. When the living waters that crisscrossed the Standing Rock reservation came under threat, minister of the nearby Unitarian Universalist congregation Karen Van Fossan asked herself what it means, as a descendent of colonialism, to resist her own colonial culture. When another pipeline, Line 3, came to threaten Anishinaabe ways of life, the question became even more resounding.

In A Fire at the Center, Van Fossan takes readers behind the scenes of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, to penitentiaries where prisoners of war have carried the movement onward, to the jail cell where she was held for protesting Line 3, to a reimagining of decolonized family constellations, and to moments of collective hope and strength.

With penetrating insight, she blends memoir, history, and cultural critique. Guided by the generous teachings of Oceti Sakowin Camp near Standing Rock, she investigates layers of colonialism—extractive industries, mass incarceration, broken treaties, disappearances of Indigenous people—and the boundaries of imperial whiteness.

For all those striving for liberation and meaningful allyship, Van Fossan’s learnings and practices of genuine, mutual solidarity and her thoughtful critique of whiteness will be transformational.

Karen Van Fossan is an abolitionist, ordained minister, licensed professional counselor, and former defendant in the Line 3 pipeline resistance. As director of Authentic Ministry, she serves as a street chaplain committed to relational spirituality and restorative justice. She has studied at Naropa University, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and Pacific School of Religion. Matriarch to a rambunctious chosen family, she lives in Fargo, North Dakota, on the traditional lands of Anishinaabe, Lakota/Dakota, and many Indigenous peoples.