The Standing Rock Sioux’s courageous stand against the Dakota Access pipeline is in critical danger unless we act now.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has announced it will move to close down the Standing Rock camp by Dec. 5—which is on the traditional territories of the Lakota and Dakota peoples. Both the pipeline—and the Army Corps’ decision—are in clear violation of the 1851 treaty with the US government.
But more than that, the brave water and land defenders at Standing Rock are putting their bodies on the line to halt climate change and they deserve our support. Dozens were hospitalized last Sunday and more than 200 were treated for hypothermia after Morton County Sheriff’s Department deployed water cannon in below-freezing temperatures.
Tell the US Army Corps of Engineers you stand with Standing Rock. Tell them not to close the water defenders’ camp.
Thousands have peacefully gathered to stop a 570,000 barrel-per-day pipeline that would endanger the ancestral lands of the Standing Rock Sioux. They’ve been met with brutal police violence. Attack dogs, rubber bullets, pepper spray, water cannons—one woman nearly lost her arm and another was blinded when she was shot in the eye with a tear gas canister.
We have already made incredible progress in the fight against the DAPL. After nearly 250,000 SumOfUs members demanded that the world’s biggest banks stop funding the pipeline, the largest bank in Norway sold its assets in the project. We’ve stopped pipeline mega-projects all over North America, from Keystone XL to Canada’s Northern Gateway. We can put the pressure on the US Army Corps of Engineers to do the right thing.
Let’s show our solidarity with Standing Rock. Demand the Army Corps stand down.
More information
The battle over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained
Vox. 21 November 2016.
Vox. 21 November 2016.
Army Corps will close anti-DAPL protest camp at Standing Rock by Dec. 5
RT. 25 November 2016.
RT. 25 November 2016.