Posts Tagged dakota access pipeline

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By Reina Gattuso • 6 years ago

This Thanksgiving, Support Indigenous Resistance

As much of America sat down to Thanksgiving dinner last year, the American government had just released water cannons, rubber bullets, and teargas on indigenous protestors on the Standing Rock reservation. Their supposed crime? Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline and corporate and federal government incursions on their sovereignty and the environment.

As much of America sat down to Thanksgiving dinner last year, the American government had just released water cannons, rubber bullets, and teargas on indigenous protestors on the Standing Rock reservation. Their supposed crime? Protesting the Dakota ...
By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

22 mothers detained in Pennsylvania’s Berks County Residential Center launched a hunger strike, demanding their release from the center. The women say that they have been held between 277-365 days, not the average 20 day stay DHS secretary Jeh Johnson cited.

22 mothers detained in Pennsylvania’s Berks County Residential Center launched a hunger strike, demanding their release from the center. The women say that they have been held between 277-365 days, not the average 20 day stay DHS secretary ...

Four Native youth stand, some are smiling some are serious.
By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 7 years ago

13 year-old girl from Standing Rock Tribe stands up to proposed oil pipeline

Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer and thirty young people from the Standing Rock Reservation are campaigning to stop a pipeline they say will leak into their water. In the few weeks since they started it, over 70,000 people have signed their Change.org (where full disclosure, I work) petition and a string of celebrities have endorsed it over social media. 

Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer and thirty young people from the Standing Rock Reservation are campaigning to stop a pipeline they say will leak into their water. In the few weeks since they started it, over ...