Tag: Standing Rock

The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.

Continuing to shrink our oil consumption is one way to challenge the oil uber alles mentality of the Trump administration.

Public and consumer pressure on banks to quit financing the Dakota Access pipeline companies is producing results.

“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”

As banks begin to respond, environmental movements are learning the importance of speaking clearly about the financial risks of fossil fuel investment.

The landscape of these indigenous-led kitchens that feed thousands of water protectors is dynamic, much like the ad hoc camps that depend upon them.

Big oil believes “We now are going into a transition where we are going to have a new President of the United States who gets it."

The nation’s only state bank was created to empower small farmers and local economies, but now it’s being used to silence indigenous people with militarized force. How did this happen?

“It is becoming increasingly clear that financial institutions view the Dakota Access pipeline as a liability.”

‘We are probably going to have to resist one pipeline at a time for many decades to come, and maybe longer,’ a Cherokee researcher tells MintPress as a Ramapough Lunaape chief says, ‘We need help now.’