Standing Rock Protests

The Dakota Access Pipeline was proposed by Energy Transfer Partners to transport fracked oil from the Bakken Oil Fields in North Dakota 1,134 miles through South Dakota and Iowa to oil tanks in Illinois.

The oil tank farm is innear Patoka, Illinois, which has approximately 633 inhabitants.

Patoka presently receives oil from the Chicago, Keystone, and Capline pipelines and sends the unrefined crude to various refineries in the Midwest.

The company detoured the pipeline around Bismarck, North Dakota at the request of the state government in order to avoid any spills in the municipal water system drained from the Missouri River.

The rerouted pipeline veered south through ranch lands to cut across at tribal Sioux reservation at Standing Dakota. The population of the reservation is slightly over 8000 tribal members. The council had granted the oil company right of access, however his year on April 1 an elderly grandmother and her grandchildren set up a protest camp blocking the pipeline.

The governor had escalated the stand-off by hiring mercenary out-of-state police.

Hundreds have been arrested by the oil police.

Many have been injured by tear gas and rubber bullets.

The protestors aren't going anywhere, even as the temperatures drop below freezing.

This is a battle for the planet.

Win or lose we have to fight.

Non-violently until the cops try and kill the protestors,

And that will happen.

Killing is in their blood.

In the end the pipeline will provide 30 full-time jobs after the end of the construction.

The oil is for profits.

For rich people like they didn't have enough.

Money versus nature.

It's time to stop them from winning. Hit Marathon in their pocketbook,

It's a start.

And the Sioux are in this for the long run.

No More Bakkum Pipeline

Fracking became a major force in North Dakota during the 00s, as the Bush regime actively pursued the production of oil trapped within the Earth of the Midwest. Water from the aquifer and Missouri River were combined with solvent to be pumped into the depths to free the oil. For year the sludge has been transported from the Bakken and Three Forks fields by the railroad, while the governments, fuel companies, and lobbyists plotted out a path for a pipeline crossing the Great Plains to the refineries of Louisiana.

Right now the Dakota Access Pipeline Project plans to run a 30-inch 1,172-mile pipeline from North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois

Over 400,000 barrels a day.

Jobs too.

Since the drop in the price of oil has killed the fracking industry.

Everyone back to poverty.

The government claims the Pipeline with provide jobs.

Safe and clean according the Dakota Access Pipeline Project.

see http://www.daplpipelinefacts.com/

Not everyone agrees with their optimism and the Sioux people have blocked the construction of the pipeline.

Yesterday the pipeline security attacked the protesters with dogs.

The Sioux people refused to be cowered and North Dakota's governor has called out a century of the state's National Guard to keep order.

These weekend warriors are not protecting the rights of speech, but the rights of corporations.

To do this.

And this.

And this.

Versus protecting this.

The Missouri Breaks.

This is our world.

Not theirs.

Resist.

Call the governor and tell him to rethink his policy.

JD's up for election.

Call them at these numbers.

Office of Governor State of North Dakota 600 East Boulevard Avenue Bismarck, ND 58505-0100 701.328.2200: phone 701.328.2205: fax

It does work.

Wounded Knee

The Wounded Knee Massacre, South Dakota, 29 December 1890 Lest we forget whence we came to be who we are.