Tag: water protectors
Standing Rock and the return of the nonviolent campaign
There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power.
Resistance at Standing Rock: The people from Oceti Sakowin camp
Water protectors answer a fundamental question: What happens if the pipeline gets completed?
7 things the Defund DAPL campaign has achieved so far (including...
Public and consumer pressure on banks to quit financing the Dakota Access pipeline companies is producing results.
Why I kneeled before Standing Rock elders and asked for forgiveness
“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
How Standing Rock’s divest campaign can stop future pipelines
As banks begin to respond, environmental movements are learning the importance of speaking clearly about the financial risks of fossil fuel investment.
Lawyers for Standing Rock water protectors are pleading for more help
Hundreds of DAPL water protectors have no lawyer at all.
Leaked audio: Dakota Access pipeline executive says “Election night changed everything”...
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."
With pipeline losing $20 million a week, DAPL battle moves to...
In the meantime, organized resistance against DAPL continues.
After visiting Standing Rock, Swedish bank puts companies behind DAPL on...
“It is becoming increasingly clear that financial institutions view the Dakota Access pipeline as a liability.”
Standing strong as a rock
Stand with Standing Rock. December is Global Month of #NoDAPL Action.
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10 organizing principles for defeating Trumpism 2.0
We need principles that build power now and for the long term.
GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...
Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.
Why more environmental justice organizations must join the call for a militarism-free future
An open letter initiated by CODEPINK urges the world to take the arduous baby step of recognizing the deadly intersection of war and environmental destruction.
A lawyer who helped the Kushners crack down on poor tenants now helps renters...
This attorney used to represent companies owned by Trump’s in-laws, whose apartments were known for shoddy maintenance and aggressive legal tactics.
You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.
Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?