The Long Walk to STANDING ROCK Has Begun

[Naga_Fireball]

A picture (sculpture by l know not who) that now speaks for millions...

So beautiful and sad. Reminds me of my son who loves water.

Thank you @@

[neonblue]

An insight into the logistics for the camps…
Sacred Stone camps requirements, remarkable achievements and long sited vision...

A letter from Sacred Stone founder and protest leader - LaDonna T. Allard.
Posted on FB 12th of November 2016 by: Jim Graywolf Petruzzi‎ on Standing Rock Protectors - Pipeline Protest



Hello, Jim. Sorry, at the camp we have no internet and so don't get to see the messages until I come to town. We don't have 1.5 million -lol - I wish we did. We have been on the ground seven months and nine days now. I did not know that other people have been doing fund raising even those who are not at the camp, there is some fraud going on. I guess some guy in democrat has five sites raising fund that we don't get. The Sacred Stone Camp funds are used for Sacred Stone camp - with all the camps we have 9 thousand people on the ground in these camps.

We started the fund in April and have used the funds for the camp, so it runs about $600 a month for the porta-potties and $7000 for garbage every month. With the big camp it is $56.000 a month in porta-potties and the garbage is $4000 a month. Then for us we brought yurts for our people that was 160,000.00 and are buying more for another 100,00.00 so just for the yurts it was 260,000.00 then we got 40 tipis with poles, that was another 100,000.00, nineteen Chippewa lodge which was cheaper, 70,000.00. These will be winter homes for people,

Then we are building the kitchen so we have a place to cook for people and it is almost complete (just getting the inside done). It will also serve as a meeting room, we are building a school and the foundation is done. We are so excited about this. We have built a security, two-story building, which is a medical clinic which will serve least ten people at a time. A Native youth center with a dome structure; three wind towers for electric and a solar panel system for the kitchen and a heated watershed. For our supplies for the camp we purchased five metal storage containers, at $5,000 a piece, five heated wooded shelter for the food, a root cellar, and green house, plus road development. We also finance the frontline camp, with tents, tipis, supplies and food. The food is running about $4,000 every two days, that is just buying meat and bread since we have lots of other produce donated.����������


We need pay for a full time book keeper and accountant, a CPA, a youth media person, and media liaison person so we have four position that are $100,000.00 a years for all four - at $20,000 a year each.����������

We applied for a 5013c non-profit designation for a nonprofit camp and hope to open in June 2017. We want to bring in youth to teach history, culture and how to live green on this earth. All this as we fight this pipeline. We also send people from our camp to Iowa and other place to speak and show their support for other pipelines.

I am so tired. So much to do. We have the frontline camp right next to the river and Dakota Access Project. So far the company stole our three boats and then impounded them. They have light on all night as they work and they have assault rifles and other weapons on us at all times. I��� was maced two days ago for standing on the shore. Just standing.����� We also provide the medical equipment and things for mace and other injuries. �����

So what happens with the Gofundme site? It shows the amount raised since April but it dose not show the share Gofundme takes out. They also don't let you know that part of the funds have not made it to our bank yet: so we don't have a million dollar laying around. All these things I am telling you have taken so much money.

Now, getting ready for winter, I need to make sure I have warm homes for people,����� plus we will have to pay for snow removal and road repair. I am trying to build a pump house so we will have running water at the camp. �����And to finally get cell-phone and internet service down at camp, which will cost $35,000.00 dollars because they will have to build us a tower. �����

When we started I just wanted to stop a pipeline, �����but it seems we are building a town. S����o much to do and we just can't keep up. In my camp we have so many children and families who made this their lives and don't want to leave.����� Then we also need gas for cars and trucks carrying wood, supplies and people�����. It is 50 miles to stores for food or supplies, showers, laundry, and other needs.

����Anyway, I hope this help with your questions Jim. �����The big camp has its own funding system though Standing Rock Sioux tribe and we don't get any of those funds����������. We have to do it ourselves.

[Naga_Fireball]

I hope this post doesn't go to next page, I'll delete mine if it does that. Just wanted to say, it's tragic about the fraud but they are super smart to get yurts, so warm.

Thank you for updating on this crucial battle.

[neonblue]

Did Obama "Sell Out” On The “Standing Rock” Pipeline?

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[Phil]

This morning a friend asked me to write a high level overview of what is going on in Standing Rock out in North Dakota, where there's a protest I went out to see trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from being built under the Missouri River and through more native sacred land.

My babe called me up to the bedroom as I sat down to type, as the first time she's seen it mentioned on the news (which she watches every morning to get the weather as I hide in a different room, away from the teevee which irritates me anytime the news is on, even when it's not saying anything I should be irritated by). Anyway I had already began formulating what I was going to write about it, and the 20 or so misleading pile of horseshit was synchronistic, more support for my thoughts at th moment.

I was asked to start a conversation, and funny enough my trip out there with a conversation about Standing Rock, about there being a lack of conversation (or any real information) about it. My friend from Iowa, who I'd never personally met, where I'd never actually been, was "called" to go for his own reasons as well as several like my own, but we 100% shared the suspicion that something real and important was going on there, and that we weren't going to get idea of what it was unless we saw it for ourselves.

We shared for a passion for trying to discern meaningful information from the sea of seemingly endless nonsense we are drowning from all forms of media from all directions. We shared the belief that the type of activism that is widely publicized, like "occupy" movements, lockins and boycotts and blocking streets type protests, letter writing to Congress/POTUS, voting, and the like were about as meaningful and productive as lighting ourselves on fire, which neither of us are particularly into.

So maybe it was the lack of coverage (fueling our suspicions that we are never allowed to hear anything real or actionable or threatening to the status quo in any form of media), maybe it was our "woo-woo seeming calling", as we talked on the phone with our significant others in the room, both encouraging us to go, as life circumstances actually made it perfect timing to leave our family for a couple weeks, or maybe it was something else...I dunno, I just know it all are together, I got in "doing" mode...any planning ended in ways opposite of my (and our, once we connected) intentions so at some point we didn't even try. We stopped talking and started DOING.

Sorry to be long winded, just trying to set the stage. We were as in the dark as anyone else, having NO idea of what we were getting into. Maybe my new friend had heard out on his Iowa farm, but in my east coast suburban sprawl the only place I ever could have possibly heard that the Lakota Sioux native to the area had called all the tribes of the world to come help them at Standing Rock back in April, after the DAPL plowed right through their sacred burial grounds, on the way to endangering an estimated 19 million Americans' drinking water...breaking just about any regulation imposed on their industry on the way.

Of course, I didn't find this out until I got there. I'm not sure I'd have even believed it if I just saw it in the internet, and I certainly haven't seen/heard anything close to that in any form of mainstream media. But that's what it is, an indigenous tribe we failed to completely genocide back in the "manifest destiny" days had enough of getting shit on in the scrap of land we forced them to contain themselves to, asked for help, from the world, to prevent an energy concern from putting their (and everyone downstream's) water at risk.

The call was answered by thousands...how any of them heard? I can only guess that only they know. I suppose each individual has their own story to tell...hopefully not as boring and rambling as mine. But I'm pretty sure any would love to tell you, if you are willing to listen. And I'm sure there's plenty that will tell ya even if you aren't. The diversity of the water protectors is unimaginable, so much so that I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it in person.

But what we all had in common is some nuggets of truth that can only be verified by participating, unifying the hundreds of nations represented there:

-a tribe made a call to the world to help them protect their way of life
-the invite was conditional, you are only welcome if you come in non-violence with a clear head: no weapons or intoxicants of any kind are tolerated anywhere near the camp
-Through peaceful protest and prayer, the unifying purpose is to do whatever can be done to prevent Energy Transfer Partners from building any more of the DAPL
-The corporation enjoys the protection of local law enforcement and federal military forces, as well as their own (unchecked) heavily armed security contractors and not-so-local law enforcement from other states
-Every "action" the water protectors organize on a "sanctioned" level from within the camp requires training, which focuses on the importance of non-violence while focusing on one goal: preventing the workers from doing their jobs, following their orders
-The pipe will transport energy resources (I believe crude oil derived from Canadian tar sands?) through the US to the guild for export...all of the risk to we the people, all the benefit (profit) to the corporations (corporate shareholders)
-Every time work on the DAPL is successfully prevented adds hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the project, the endgame for the Stand is to make DAPL a bad investment so they stop building it...or as the natives like to say, "KILL THE BLACK SNAKE"

I brought my (seemingly endless, sorry) personal context into it to show that how the whole thing is many things to each individual. It is a microcosm of real life, with reflections on the personal interaction level all the way up to national elections and geopolitics...if you look close enough, you can find something in the Stand that relates to any issue you can imagine.

But the fact of the matter is, this isn't a bunch of Indians and hippies blocking highways and occupying or protesting injustices by "the Man" that they are personally emotionally attached to. This thing is REAL. An environment was created where real action is having a direct effect in making a change of a tangible, REAL injustice in a single place sacred to the people that feel they have a right to live there. The forces they are protecting their home from are violating the rules that the authority that protects created.

That's why you will never see clear information about it in the media that is owned and controlled by that very same authority. Because it is about a practical way to hold authority accountable. The practices by the energy companies are widespread throughout the country, out in remote areas where it would be hard for anyone to even notice, let alone tell anyone about. If attention was brought to this, the status quo would be threatened, and victims of the abuse....ALL OF US, each person who is not making selfish decisions for their own profit at the expense of ALL life...might just start feeling empowered, or desperate and informed enough to force change.

#NoDAPL is about the lies we tell ourselves about civilization. It's about saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH to the those who teach us life is about taking what you can no matter who you have to use and what the cost to others. It is an example of how the average joe can make a meaningful change in the seemingly impenetrable system that's sucked so much life from this world already.

If they (we) can stop them there, if they (we) can do it while staying on the peaceful path (rather than the system generated WAR mentality we are programmed with), a blueprint for wider-spread change will be created. Something tangible that those fence-sitters or those in total fear can look to for inspiration to act, in their own self interest for a change.

The only black-and-white in this whole thing is that human beings that want their way of life considered as much the corporate entity that is imposing its way of life on them. Right now, their considerable resources are confusing the hearts and minds of "we the people" by completely hiding the fact our tax dollars are going toward protecting a pipeline, hiding information about how it is being done (especially the risk to US).

Historically, the brute force and manipulating minds always seems to have succeeded....the few benefitting from the many status quo has been maintained through my life and the history I have learned. Maybe if the humans at Standing Rock can find a unity and stay strong, we can see some historical positive change.

[neonblue]

The extent of the barbaric genocide, stealing of children and disenfranchisement of the indigenous peoples lands in America (as elsewhere...) is grievous on a shameful continuum. These the peoples who know themselves as caretakers for this sacred being, our Mother Earth… teach us well and herald a return we must all honour and act upon; to not do so - is at our peril.

defilement
dɪˈfʌɪlm(ə)nt/Submit
noun
the action of defiling or the state of being defiled.
"the heinous defilement of their most sacred site"
synonyms: degradation, debasement, spoiling, sullying, impairment;


I found this timeline mapping gif - an indictment of the greed and defilement that is the history of colonisation in the US - (the gif can only be opened here/below to view)...

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[neonblue]

James Martinez with Randy Maugins:

Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Veterans Call To Action

Published on 19 Nov 2016

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION FOR VETERANS IN THE UNITED STATES----STANDING ROCK LAKOTA SIOUX
In response to the assertion of treaty rights, citizen rights, tribal rights, and protection of the most valuable of resources, water, the Sioux tribes and allied comrades, are under sustained assault by agents of and working for private interests under the color of law. First Americans have served in the United States Military, defending the soil of our homelands, at a greater percentage than any other group of Americans. There is no other people more deserving of veteran support and this situation encapsulates whether we are called heroes for violence and cashing paychecks or for justice and morality.

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The link below is the 'Veterans Stand for Standing Rock Operations Order December 4-7 2016'
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[Naga_Fireball]

Absolute bravery.

[Naga_Fireball]

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NORTH DAKOTA
Confrontation between protesters and police escalates near site of pipeline
Published November 21, 2016
Associated Press



CANNON BALL, N.D. – Law enforcement and protesters clashed late Sunday near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline, with at least one person arrested as protesters sought to push past a bridge on a state highway that had been blockaded since late October.

The Morton County Sheriff's Office estimated 400 protesters were trying to cross the bridge on state Highway 1806 in what they called "an ongoing riot." Law enforcement had formed a line to prevent their movement.

The clash was at the Backwater Bridge, near where protesters had set up camp on private property owned by the pipeline developer, Energy Transfer Partners, before they were forcibly removed by law enforcement in October. It's also about a mile from an uncompleted section under Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir, where work has been on hold by order of federal agencies.

At least one person had been arrested.

A video shot by a protester shows what appear to be water cannons and tear gas being fired at protesters.

The 1,200-mile, four-state pipeline is being built to carry oil from western North Dakota to a shipping point in Illinois. But construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline has been protested for months by the Standing Rock Sioux, whose reservation lies near the pipeline route, and the tribe's allies, who fear a leak could contaminate their drinking water. They also worry that construction could threaten sacred sites.

Energy Transfer Partners has said no sites have been disturbed and that the pipeline will have safeguards against leaks, and is a safer method of transport for oil than rail or truck. The company has said the pipeline is largely complete except for the section under Lake Oahe.

On Friday, Kelcy Warren, the chief executive of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, said the company is unwilling to reroute the pipeline.

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[Phil]

Wow! Fox news....making the big time!! It was pretty rough up there last night from the look of it, prayers for Christine and the water protectors.

The thing to look at the black and white issue that somehow is allowed to be obscured. Anyone at the camp will tell you that the damn pipe went THROUGH a burial ground, a site sacred to the locals. ETP insists no sacred sites are even threatened, let alone any have been desecrated.

It seems like something that could be determined objectively. It seems like it already HAS BEEN, yet the media creates "questions", giving ETP the benefit of the doubt.

I guess they can honestly say the sites aren't sacred to them. But then the media should be responsible enough to broadcast how sacred it is to the natives, especially one as "fair and balanced" as Fox calls itself. The sickest part is the similarities in the way they broadcast ALL stories has a lot of people confusing the water protesters from the people with election issues.

This is a blatant misleading "truth": "They also worry that construction could threaten sacred sites." Sure, while that is the true, the information that is disgustingly missing is that THE CALL TO STANDING ROCK WAS IN RESPONSE TO ONE BEING DESTROYED...and it was just one of several that already have been...and they have been explaining as clearly as they can as the black snake approaches each one

"Energy Transfer Partners have said no sites have been disturbed"....they can actual print that as the next sentence, thanks to the glaring omission that I just pointed out.

This is why i rail against those preaching either or any way about the election or any other current for that matter. This practice has been pointed out for years if not decades, yet the same people that can see them when it is shown, will turn around and use media generation "information" in their mindsets or arguments or whatever. You can't a believe a fucking thing they say....

Speaking of which, I ignore it so well I can't recognize the dude, and have no idea about the potato meme you are using....can you explain it my friend (and why you are using it)?