Standing Rock Earth Warriors +9 years
This rap song gives peaceful truth against caterpillar bulldozers, water canons, plastic rounds and worst of all ... media lies!
https://watch.otherwise.one/w/ggom2LkWwrRukiqPTLNcK7
#StandingRock #DAPL #oil #corruption #modernity #EndofFossil
Police closed public roads and conducted the first #DAPL mass arrest at the site.
North Dakota authorities also decided to arrest two of our reporters clearly labeled as press (a judge dismissed the charges at trial for lack of evidence).
[Livestream Archive, Sept. 13, 2016]:
That evening, Red Warrior Camp held a radical Indigenous hip-hop show to center militant Native resistance perspectives & celebrate recent direct actions that delayed #DAPL construction.
The show was well attended by young people from other parts of the Oceti Sakowin encampment.
[Archive, Sept. 9, 2016]: US Govt. Overrules Federal Judge, Orders Pipeline Construction Halted at Lake Oahe: https://unicornriot.ninja/2016/us-govt-overrules-federal-judge-orders-pipeline-construction-halted-lake-oahe/ #DAPL/#NoDAPL
Today 9 years ago - after the Sept. 3 #DAPL dog attacks, Native people and their allies from all around the world began flocking to Standing Rock.
UR's original on-the-ground 9/04/16 tweet text:
"100s gathering for prayer near burial sites disturbed yesterday by Dakota Access workers. #noDAPL #NativeLivesMatter"
Months earlier in April 2016 a caravan led by 40 riders on horseback announced the opening of the “Iŋyaŋ Wakȟáŋaǧapi Othí” (Sacred Stone Camp), a Spirit Camp on the Standing Rock Nation, to bring attention to the proposed route of the Dakota Access Pipeline [#DAPL]:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2016/tribal-citizens-prepare-blockade-direct-access-oil-pipeline/
Non-Violent Direct Action Stops #DAPL Construction for Over 6 Hours [Livestream Archive, August 31, 2016]
YIKES! Please read and share this!
via @UnicornRiot
"We’ve been forced to spend around $55,000 to date because of Energy Transfer’s legal campaign against our freedom of the press.
"We’ve only raised back $38,916 of this so far.
"Your donation helps us keep operating despite corporate attempts to silence us"
https://donorbox.org/unicorn-riot-nodapl-legal-defense
#EnergyTransfer #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #MutualAid #LegalDefenseFund #SilencingDissent #Resistance #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #Authoritarianism #EnergyTransfer #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRockSioux #IndigenousResistance #IndigenousAllies #DAPL #NorthDakota #StandWithStandingRock #SLAPPsLawsuits #FossilFuel #BigOilAndGas #Academi #ErikPrince #Blackwater #ACAB #PrivateSecurity #BigOil #KelcyWarren #Oiligarchy #WaterProtectors #CorporateFascism #StandingRockReservation
#StandingRock Chair on #Greenpeace Verdict -- False, Self-serving Narrative in Insulting Lawsuit
"If Greenpeace can be held liable for telling the truth about #SiouxNation Treaty rights, then we are all in trouble."
By Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire, via #CensoredNews, March 27, 2025
"As Chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, I take offense to the jury verdict in the #EnergyTransfer #SLAPP lawsuit against Greenpeace. We expect more from #NorthDakota judges and members of the jury from our neighboring communities.
"#EnergyTransfer’s claims in this case were ridiculous. They were wholly disrespectful of the #StandingRockSioux Tribe, our ancestors, and our youth, who started the movement in 2016 to protect our water from an oil spill from #DAPL. Neither Greenpeace nor anyone else paid or persuaded Standing Rock to oppose DAPL.
"Our young people and our elders urged us to protect our water and #UnciMakah (grandmother earth). That is what happened, and is happening still. Energy Transfer’s false and self-serving narrative that Greenpeace manipulated Standing Rock into protesting DAPL is patronizing and disrespectful to our people.
"We understand that many Morton County residents support the #OilIndustry, even out-of-state #pipeline companies such as Energy Transfer. But we are your neighbors, and you should not be fooled that easily. Energy Transfer does not know us. They don’t know who we are – an Indigenous Nation that has survived every attack because our ancestors are with us.
"Greenpeace did not manipulate Standing Rock, but #EnergyTransfer has manipulated #MortonCounty. DAPL crosses our Treaty and aboriginal land for hundreds of miles.
"Our ancestors occupied this land for thousands of years before #NorthDakota came into existence. The land between the Heart and Missouri River are our #unceded Treaty lands under the 1868 and 1851 Fort Laramie Treaties. Our aboriginally-occupied territories extend east to the James River and beyond. That is a historical truth. If Greenpeace can be held liable for telling the truth about Sioux Nation Treaty rights, then we are all in trouble.
"The construction of Fort Rice on our northern boundary in 1864 was a violation of the Fort Laramie Treaties. This required our Tribe to be vigilant. No one should be surprised that warrior society burials are found in this area, near the pipeline route.
"And do not insult our cultural experts, who have wisdom over matters most residents of Morton County or bureaucrats at the State Historical Society know absolutely nothing about. Energy Transfer and its lawyers should be ashamed of themselves. Everyday North Dakotans on the jury should know better.
"When it comes to the excessive police and private security response to the generally peaceful protests at #CannonBall, believe your eyes. The scenes of guard dogs menacing Tribal members are reminiscent of the violence of #WhiteSupremacists in the #DeepSouth during the 1950’s and 60’s, but it was in North Dakota, in this day and age. It was on the news and on the internet.
"Many of the protesters were Native American veterans of the United States armed forces. Energy Transfer used attack dogs against peaceful protesters and war heroes. But the jury sided with the out-of-state, unlicensed security with the attack dogs, instead of North Dakota veterans who supported Standing Rock.
"A Texas oil company has come to North Dakota, and its lawyers and propaganda machine are weaving stories about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and our supporters have lied, and how the poor pipeline company, a trillion dollars richer than in 2016 when this all started, should receive extra millions from non-profit organizations. It’s a funny thing about liars – they always accuse everyone else of lying. The Greenpeace trial was marked by secrecy.
"The court is not making the transcript public. The documents obtained by Greenpeace about Energy Transfer’s terrible safety record are protected by a secrecy order and are not available to the public. The judge exhibited so much bias in favor of Energy Transfer that a team of international human rights lawyers felt compelled to monitor the trial. One prominent monitor stated 'In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as the one against Greenpeace that just ended in the courts of North Dakota.'
"Standing Rock has tried to work for greater transparency on DAPL. It is our experience with the Army Corps of Engineers and Energy Transfer that all documents relating to DAPL pipeline safety are heavily redacted, and kept secret. What are they hiding? Who is looking out for the communities that may be affected by an oil spill? And why didn’t the North Dakota court allow Greenpeace to address these questions at the trial?
"DAPL is a dangerous pipeline. It crosses our unceded Treaty and aboriginal land. Energy Transfer destroyed Tribal burials as identified by our cultural experts, and committed violence against our people. That is the history that North Dakota and Morton County must reckon with. After the Greenpeace verdict, that day seems farther off than ever."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/standing-rock-chair-on-greenpeace.html
#StandWithStandingRock #SLAPPsLawsuits #SLAPPs #FossilFuel #BigOilAndGas #Academi #EricPrince #Blackwater #ACAB #PrivateSecurity #BigOil #KelcyWarren #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #WaterProtectors #StevenDonziger #EnvironmentalRacism #ReaderSupportedNews #CorporateFascism #SilencingDissent #StandingRockReservation
"I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking. Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota #climate #climatecrisis #protest #DAPL #greenpeace
#Gifsartidote:
#Capitalists can't be fought through the justice system. Hit them where it hurts: assets, money and reputation - #sabotage #boycotts and #ReportingTheTruth
#Press #news #BreakingNews #DAPL #US #CorporateCrime #IndigenousRights #educate #organise #resist
#Gifsartidote:
#Capitalists can't be fought through the justice system. Hit them where it hurts: assets, money and reputation - #sabotage #boycotts and #ReportingTheTruth
#Press #news #BreakingNews #DAPL #US #CorporateCrime #IndigenousRights #educate #organise #resist
"It is our collective assessment that the jury verdict against #Greenpeace in North Dakota reflects a deeply flawed trial with multiple due process violations that denied Greenpeace the ability to present anything close to a full defense. Attorneys on our team monitored every minute of the proceedings and found multiple violations of due process that denied Greenpeace its right to a fair trial. "
https://www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of-independent-trial-monitors-on-verdict-in-greenpeace-trial
#DAPL
"Greenpeace representatives have said the lawsuit is a critical test of First Amendment #freespeech and protest rights and could threaten the organization’s future." https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/greenpeace-found-liable-for-millions-in-damages-over-pipeline-protests-00239672
Greenpeace ordered to pay more than $660 million over Dakota Access Pipeline protests
"#Greenpeace has described Energy Transfer’s case as a clear-cut example of SLAPPs, referring to a lawsuit designed to bury activist groups in legal fees and ultimately silence dissent. SLAPP is an acronym for “strategic lawsuit against public participation.”"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/greenpeace-ordered-to-pay-660-million-over-dakota-access-protests.html
#DAPL
#DAPL Pipeline Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Also Aims to Silence Indigenous Protest
Trump allies circulate #MassDeportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘#army’
The group, led by #Blackwater veteran #ErikPrince, has close #Trump ties.
By Dasha Burns and Myah Ward
02/25/2025 05:55 AM EST
"Prince declined to comment, and the other contractors and former immigration officials listed as key personnel in the document also declined to comment or could not be reached.
"The founders of the new special entity called #2USV have a long history with the U.S. government. Blackwater was formed by Prince in 1996 to provide training services to law enforcement, military personnel and other government agencies. It gained widespread attention for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing security services for U.S. officials and military personnel, with critics viewing its rise as a result of the U.S. military’s overextension in the Middle East.
The military contractor came under scrutiny in 2007 following the #NisourSquareMassacre, when #Blackwater contractors opened fire and killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded 20 others — raising questions about oversight and accountability of private contractors. Several contractors were charged with manslaughter, and four were convicted in 2014. Trump pardoned them at the end of his first term in December 2020.
"Trump’s pardon was just one example of the influence of Prince’s family during the first Trump administration. #BetsyDeVos, Prince’s sister, served as the president’s #Education secretary, while Prince used his Trump connections as he chased business ventures in the U.S. and abroad.
"In 2018, he reportedly helped raise money for an effort to spy on progressives and Democratic organizations opposed to Trump." [As well as #DAPL #WaterProtectors!]
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
#Blackwater
#ErikPrinceColonialism
#SilencingDissent
#USPol #Project2025 #CriminalizingActivism
#ClimateActivists #NoDAPL #Crapitalism
#Fascism #Trump #ChristoFascist
#CorporateFascism #SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists #Activists #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent
#CrackdownOnProtests #AntiProtestLaws #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #ErikPrinceColonialism #Academi #TripleCanopy #SilencingDissent #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal
Energy Transfer is trying to force Unicorn Riot to release information to the company to help them in their lawsuit against Greenpeace for the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. The MN Supreme Court might not let them have it. #DAPL #Journalism https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-supreme-court-balks-at-bid-to-strip-reporter-protections-in-dapl-lawsuit/
Energy Transfer is trying to force Unicorn Riot to release information to the company to help them in their lawsuit against Greenpeace for the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. The MN Supreme Court might not let them have it. #DAPL #Journalism https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-supreme-court-balks-at-bid-to-strip-reporter-protections-in-dapl-lawsuit/
It sure looks like fracking billionaire Kelcy Warren sent fake newspapers to entire communities to poison the jury pool against Greenpeace in his kangaroo court trials against Standing Rock protesters.
#dapl #standingrock #fossilfuels #trump #uspol #fracking https://www.exxonknews.org/p/whos-funding-this-newspaper-mailed
