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Tribes Secure Limited Victory with Partial Halt on Dakota Pipeline
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday reportedly denied an emergency request for a restraining order filed by the Standing Rock Sioux, however, the hearing is being seen as a partial victory for the tribe.
In a press conference, a representative for the tribe explained that an “agreement” was reached, however, under which the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) company will not continue construction on the area east of North Dakota Highway 1806, which is under jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers, until Friday, when Boasberg is expected to issue his ruling on the preliminary injunction. The judge said he did not have jurisdiction to suspend activities on both sides of the highway.
In a statement, Standing Rock Sioux chairman David Archambault II said, “We are disappointed that the U.S. District Court’s decision does not prevent DAPL from destroying our sacred sites as we await a ruling on our original motion to stop construction of the pipeline.”
Earlier:
Hours before a federal judge is expected to rule on an emergency request for a restraining order, filed in response to the holiday weekend desecration of sacred sites, Indigenous activists in North Dakota once again halted construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on Tuesday.
According to images shared on social media and reporting on the ground, multiple protectors, as they refer to themselves, have locked themselves to construction equipment.
“Many tribal nations, our allies—everybody’s here as water protectors. This land is ours! This water is ours!” declared Cody Hall, a representative from the Red Warrior Camp, standing in front of the occupied machinery.
The action comes just days after security forces hired by pipeline parent company Energy Transfer Partners viciously attacked tribal demonstrators with dogs and mace.
“They won’t drag us down, they won’t push us back,” Hall continued. “We are here and we will make sure this snake dies.”
One of the individuals on lockdown, Jules from the Oglala Lakota nation, explained how construction of the 1,172-mile crude oil pipeline would not only imperil the sacred water of the Standing Rock Sioux, but also harm native communities, which struggle with drug abuse and violence against women.
“I’m here on lockdown to send a message that our water is sacred, our women are sacred, our children are sacred,” said Jules, who is founder of the Mothers Against Meth Alliance. “And these pipelines bring in man camps and hardcore drugs, which leads to sex trafficking of native women, which leads to missing and murdered native women. So that’s why I’m here today.”
Updates on the situation are being shared with the hashtags #NoDAPL and #RezpectOurWater.
Indigenous Water Protectors Swarm Dakota Access Pipeline Site, Stop Work https://t.co/Ozp2bRMApm #NoDAPL pic.twitter.com/anXQKAhRIZ
— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) September 7, 2016
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., attorneys representing the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux are preparing to argue before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg that Dakota Access deliberately rerouted construction over the holiday weekend to target traditional burial grounds and ritual sites—the exact location of which were identified (pdf) in court filings (pdf) on Friday.
Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman is seeking a temporary restraining order to halt construction in and around the site until Boasberg issues his ruling on the preliminary injunction requested by the tribes, which is expected to be handed down on Friday.
For its part, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the defendant in the case, has said it would comply with a temporary halt in construction.
Speaking to Democracy Now! on Tuesday, Hasselman reiterated how important these ancient burial sites are to the Standing Rock Sioux and the “shock and anguish” felt by the tribes when it was clear that Energy Transfer Partners took the newly filed information about the archaeological sites and “12 hours later, the bulldozers were out.”
Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who also appeared on Democracy Now!, said that both the dog attack and the desecration of sacred sites are examples of how, throughout this months-long standoff, the pipeline company as well as the North Dakota government have tried to incite violence from the peaceful prayer camps.
“I think what happens is the company or the government…doesn’t understand how peaceful, prayerful standoffs work,” he said. “They look for confrontation. So, that’s what they know how to deal with. But when it’s prayerful and peaceful and when it’s something that the youth want, they have to try to figure out how to deal with us.”
With over 100 tribal nations now represented at the prayer camps, resistance has grown tremendously since April when the Standing Rock Sioux received notice of the construction. Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and her vice president Ajama Baraka also expressed support appearing at the protest Tuesday.
“It’s one of the most beautiful things that I’m fortunate to witness,” said Archambault of the outpouring of tribal solidarity. “I think when tribes come together in unity and with prayer, there’s a lot of healing that is taking place. And the tribes that are all coming, every one of them will share a story on how the government or how the corporate world has infringed on their indigenous rights, has infringed on their indigenous land, has contaminated their environment or their water in one way or another. And this unity coming together just says it’s time to stop.”
19 Comments on "Tribes Secure Limited Victory with Partial Halt on Dakota Pipeline"
Sissyfuss on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 8:24 am
600 yrs later and we are still witnessing
the clash between two diametrically opposed cultures and technologies. The human beings need only wait a few years before their enemys’ power depletes and when facing them on equal grounds will be able to put up a real fight.
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 8:48 am
commi dreams speaks doublespeak too. “limited victory”. What the fuck is that? Is that like negative growth or negative emissions? Is there such a thing as a limited defeat? If a victory is at one end and a defeat at the other, where they meet in the middle is called a tie.
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 9:41 am
Humans gonna save the planet from humans. Luckily everyone is in agreement and cooperating accordingly.
Palm oil firm accused of hiring men to kidnap smog inspectors in Indonesia
Seven people from a ministry of environment team documenting illegal forest fires were taken hostage and threatened, ministry says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/06/palm-oil-firm-accused-of-hiring-men-to-kidnap-smog-inspectors-in-indonesia
Cambodian Journalists Are Dying Trying to Save the Country’s Forests
http://www.vice.com/read/cambodian-journalists-are-dying-trying-to-save-the-countrys-forests-v23n6
No one can stop the human cancer. It must grow until all healthy tissue is infected and consumed – and then it will stop/die.
penury on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 11:55 am
When every thing is black, you still have your dreams. If however, you lose your dreams all is lost forever.
Plantagenet on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 12:24 pm
The pipeline company forgot to pay off the tribe.
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 12:48 pm
planter, I guess you Alaskans know a thing or two about getting paid off by the cancer industry eh?
HARM on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 2:34 pm
“No one can stop the human cancer. It must grow until all healthy tissue is infected and consumed – and then it will stop/die.”
Sadly, Apneaman is almost certainly right.
Plantagenet on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 3:01 pm
@Apneaman
You are the person who smokes cancer sticks and takes addictive drugs, not me.
CHEERS
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 3:14 pm
Planty, I roll my own smokes, so they are natural and thus harmless and I told you multiple times before I’ve been clean for over 20 years, but I understand your need to game play. I no longer need substances – I get my DOPEamine from doom. I see Alaska is slowly sobering up (not by choice) from their oil addiction. Painful withdrawals planty? How y’all going to fix your permafrost heave road destruction without all them jobs and royalties?………………You’re not. No worries planty. I hear there is now plenty of very low cost housing available in Louisiana.
Plantagenet on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 3:31 pm
Right-O apeman. Cigarettes are healthy and natural in your little mind, and you kicked drugs 20 years ago with only minimal brain damage to show for it.
OK. I get it now. You’ve gone straight.
What I don’t understand is why you are fantasizing about moving to low cost housing in Louisiana……I thought you actually cared about things like sea level rise and rising hurricane intensities associated with global warming but evidently not.
CHEERS!
Lucifer on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 5:11 pm
Humans will always find ways to attack each other, it’s in your nature. Wait a few more years when things will be a lot worse, then you will all see how savage and brutal humans can really get.
Davy on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 5:57 pm
Lucifer, I am curious what is the most vicious and savage thing you can imagine?
I read a good book on the Comanche. When they caught rivals they gave the men to the women to be tortured. The women were very good at it. The captive women and children were often incorporated into the tribe.
I am not sure the actual brutality is any worse now maybe it is just the reasons we are brutal that are worse. I am thinking the absurdity of a civil war for example.
Sissyfuss on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 6:30 pm
Lucifer, could you take Plantapuss early. We would really appreciate it.
Lucifer on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 7:07 pm
Davy, i have seen some violent, sadistic and inhuman things in my time and they are all to atrocious to describe on here.
Sissyfuss, don’t worry Planty is on my list and his time will come but at the moment i have bigger souls to fry.
Anonymous on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 7:29 pm
That might have been a good comeback Plantadope, if Ape actually said any of the things you claimed, which he did not.
Plantagenet on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 8:05 pm
@anony
???
Did you read Apey’s post above? His little brain had a dumb fantasy about moving to low quality housing in Louisiana, his little fingers typed it, and the dumb idea first appears in this thread in his post above.
Lets give credit where credit is due—Moving to low quality housing in Louisiana is 100% Apey’s idea and its 100% a dumb idea.
Cheers!
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 8:47 pm
Planty, that’s right I’ve fried an incalculable number of brain cells in my day, but I have so many it don’t matter. In fact, I shit more out every morning than you’ll ever posses. I’d call you a retard, but that would be an insult to actual retards.
Plantagenet on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 9:48 pm
@Apey
Looks like you’ve got brain cells going out one end while the feces go out the other end.
Take my advice and flush your potty mouth before it overflows again.
CHEERS!
Go Speed Racer on Thu, 8th Sep 2016 2:24 pm
Wait a minnit. This is a sacred Indian burial ground.
So if the pipeline is buried in the ground, then it should be ok.