Standing Rock: Water Cannons Fired at Water Protectors in Freezing Temperatures Injure Hundreds

Water Cannons Fired at Water Protectors in Freezing Temperatures Injure Hundreds

November 21, 2016

Cannon Ball, ND-- Hundreds of water protectors were injured at the Standing Rock encampments when law enforcement blasted them with water cannons in freezing temperatures Sunday evening.   The attacks came as water protectors used a semi-truck to remove burnt military vehicles that police had chained to concrete barriers weeks ago, blocking traffic on Highway 1806.  Water protectors’ efforts to clear the road and improve access to the camp for emergency services were met with tear gas, an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), stinger grenades, rubber bullets, and indiscriminate use of a water cannon with an air temperature of 26 degrees Fahrenheit. Some flares shot by law enforcement started grass fires which were ignored by the water cannons and had to be extinguished by water protectors. Law enforcement also shot down three media drones and targeted journalists with less lethal rounds.

National Lawyers Guild legal observers on the frontlines have confirmed that multiple people were unconscious and bleeding after being shot in the head with rubber bullets.  One elder went into cardiac arrest at the frontlines but medics administered CPR and were able to resuscitate him.  The camp’s medical staff and facilities are overwhelmed and the local community of Cannonball has opened their school gymnasium for emergency relief.



Source: http://sacredstonecamp.org/blog/2016/11/21/water-cannons-fired-at-water-protectors-in-freezing-temperatures-injure-hundreds

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Good of your friend Paola Carol. Many blessings to her

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Standing Rock needed supplies

TOP NEEDS

FIREWOOD (PREFERABLY OAK, MAPLE, ASH)
Tipis/Tipi Poles/TIpi liners for winter
Pick-Up Truck w/ 4 wheel Drive
Trailers/Campers (for winter shelters)
snow tires - Various sizes; Tire Chains
GAS CARDS
wall Tents with woodstoves and poles
sleeping bags for subzero temperatures (inc. military style)


FULL SUPPLY LIST

Banners, sheets (we love it when you make banners and send them to us!)
BATTERY PACKS FOR CHARGING PHONES
canvas - heavy duty only please
car ports
carts and wheelbarrows for hauling wood
Cigarettes-Marlboro reds and camels
come alongs
FIREWOOD (Preferably oak, maple, ash) <<< This is one of our biggest winter needs
fire extinguishers
propane
fur blankets
tesoro Gas Cards
gas generators
Gift cards - Amazon, Verizon, GAS
insulated carhartt type coveralls, overalls, coats
Lighters
Material for tobacco ties (All Colors)
MONEy
PAINT (INC. SPRAY PAINT)
Pick up Trucks (in good condition to handle winter)
Power inverter
propane heaters (small)
Ropes, Tie Downs
Shipping Container 20 Ft
SLEEPING BAGS (FOR -10 DEGREES F AND LOWER - PLEASE NO WARM WEATHER BAGS AT THIS TIME)
snowmobiles
snow tires (inquire for sizes)
Solar chargers for electronic devices
Solar panels, inverter
storage bins - heavy duty - all sizes
Tarps - Heavy Duty only
tire chains
Tents (that can stand up to high winds, snow, subzero temps)
thermal bed rolls
Tipis and Tipi poles
tipi liners for winter
tow straps
Walkie talkies with long range, CB radios
Water buffalo (tank)
water tank with heater
winter salt for roads
wood stoves (mostly small ones for tipis)
YOUNG WARRIORS!!

read on: http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/

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Father Dakota Access Pipeline Protest victim speaks from hospital about daughters injuries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOJzYHpLieE


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U.S. Army Corps says Standing Rock camp to be closed by Dec. 5

Letter says demonstrators to be moved south to 'free speech zone'

By Tim Fontaine, CBC News Posted: Nov 25, 2016 8:18 PM ET

Oceti Sakowin, the largest camp near Standing Rock, N.D., has been ordered closed by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe that the main camp used by people opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline will be closed by Dec. 5.

The camp is on land located just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation, where Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners has been trying to complete the contentious Dakota Access pipeline. If finished, the $3.8-billion US pipeline will carry crude oil south to Illinois from northern North Dakota.

According to a letter sent to tribe dated Nov. 25, the Corps of Engineers will be "closing the portion of the Corps-managed federal property north of the Cannonball River to all public use and access effective Dec. 5, 2016."

The letter states that "this decision is necessary to protect the general public from the violent confrontation between protesters and law enforcement officials that have occurred in this area, and to prevent death, illness, or serious injury to inhabitants of encampments due to the harsh North Dakota winter conditions."

Anyone on the land after Dec. 5 would be considered to be illegally trespassing, the Corps said.

"Our tribe is deeply disappointed in this decision by the United States, but our resolve to protect our water is stronger than ever," said tribal chair Dave Archambault in a statement, who added that it was an unfortunate decision made a day after Thanksgiving in the U.S.

"Although the news is saddening, it is not at all surprising given the last 500 years of the mistreatment of our people," Archambault added.

The Corps said that people opposed to the pipeline could freely demonstrate in a "free speech zone," which would be established south of the existing camp.

The tribal chair didn't say anything about what people in the camp should do — instead urging the public to contact outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama and ask that he rescind federal permits needed to complete the pipeline, which requires the company to drill underneath Lake Oahe on the Missouri River. The river passes directly through the reservation and the tribe fears any break could contaminate the water.

More than 500 people have been arrested in demonstrations since the summer and one woman nearly lost an arm when she was injured during a clash with police on Nov. 20.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/standing-rock-army-close-camp-1.3868992

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing... Edmund Burke

A delegation of doctors trained at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba announced they will head to Standing Rock to “serve in solidarity.”

In a late Thursday Facebook post, a group of U.S.-based medical professionals trained at Cuba’s famous Latin American School of Medicine, or ELAM, announced they will head to Standing Rock “to humbly serve in solidarity with the Sacred Water Protectors on the front lines of the current human rights and ecological crisis occurring right now in North Dakota.”

Dr. Revery P. Barnes, a graduate of ELAM, said in a post on Facebook, “We answer the call to serve in alignment with the mission and core principles of our alma mater and dedication to our commitment to serve underserved communities in our HOME country.” The delegation will work in collaboration with the Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council.

“While Cuba instilled in us an unwavering commitment to internationalism, with the acceptance of a full scholarship to medical school at ELAM, we made the moral commitment to respond to the needs of our most vulnerable communities here at home in the U.S.,” the statement continued.

read on: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuban-Trained-Doctors-Head-to-Standing-Rock-20161202-0003.html

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Breaking News - Black Snake Prophecy Happening NOW - Standing Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrKUzHtC3CE


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mudra wrote:

Victory at STANDING ROCK  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej0B3GYQEgw


Wow this feels good  

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They better not get too ahead of themselves...the two energy companies involved have no plans to reroute the project and who knows what Trump will do meanwhile here on the West Coast of British Columbia we will be calling on the help of the Dakota Access Water Protectors.

Kinder Morgan Protest In Vancouver, BC November 29, 2016 After Approval By Trudeau's Liberal Government In Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0diEaQ1ZHFI


Vancouver Rallies Against Kinder Morgan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNEvogX0ETc


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As it is below; so it is above

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Breaking: Trump Signs Executive Order Reviving Keystone XL Pipeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXZqEP-JsYg


Standing Rock Sioux pledge to fight executive order: 'We can't back down now'

Donald Trump’s revival of the Dakota Access pipeline is a stunning twist of fate, but the tribe and its supporters say now is the time to show strength

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters are vowing to resist Donald Trump’s executive order to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline with legal action, civil disobedience and a return to the “water protector” encampments.

“President Trump is legally required to honor our treaty rights and provide a fair and reasonable pipeline process,” said Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Dave Archambault, who called Trump’s action “politically motivated”.

Resurrection of Keystone and DAPL cements America's climate antagonism

“Creating a second Flint does not make America great again,” he added.

The executive order represents a major – if not wholly unexpected – reversal of fate for the $3.8bn project, which was slated to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The tribe feared the pipeline would contaminate their drinking water and destroy sacred sites.

read on: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/24/standing-rock-resistance-donald-trump-executive-order

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President Trump is legally required to honor our treaty rights and provide a fair and reasonable pipeline process,” said Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Dave Archambault, who called Trump’s action “politically motivated”.

I do believe that is the President's position. To negotiate fairly and yet still get It done...



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Carol wrote:It's far more then politically motivated. As I recall they are placing that pipeline along side an existing one on private land. The goal is to become energy self-sufficient and not use oil (costing the US billions) from the mid-east. The US's debt is staggering and needs to become smarter when it comes to how to use it's own natural resources. In addition, this project will help create jobs at multiple levels which is one of the primary goals of the President - putting Americans back to work.

I found the following article from Graham Hancock quite interesting. I think it's well worth reading to the end to get a full picture and have a broader understanding of what the Natives and non natives that support them are standing for.

Standing Rock: Water Is Life

Standing Rock: Water Is Life
Standing Up To Those Who Always Take The Largest Portion

Graham Hancock looks into the historical background to the current pipeline dispute in North Dakota and learns that what it’s really all about is how we, as the human family, wish to live in the twenty-first century. Two very different philosophies and lifeways are at issue, one deeply connected to spirit, to the sacred beauty of Mother Earth and to the vast universe that sustains us, the other utterly disconnected, regarding the material realm as nothing more than an economic resource, and holding nothing sacred except money and profit. The stakes could not be higher and the choices we make now will have effects – for good or ill – that that reach far into the future…

For a long while I’d been vaguely aware that there’s something wrong with the collective noun “Sioux” for the confederation of Native North American peoples speaking the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota languages. Then, on 2 December 2016, I meet Cody Two Bears, District Representative for the Cannonball Community on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council, and finally get the picture clear. “Sioux is just a word that people know us by,” Cody tells me, ‘so I’m not against it. Even if somebody calls me a word that I don’t particularly accept or interpret very well, I just tell them, ‘If that’s how you know us that’s fine’.”

Nonetheless the noun “Sioux” does have a history and does carry baggage. It’s thought to be derived from a pejorative term meaning ‘Little Serpents’ in the language of another Native American people, the Ojibwe, and to have been bastardized into French, with the ‘x’ plural marker, as Nadouessioux. It first appeared in that form in 1640 in the writings of the French-Canadian explorer Jean Nicolet. Later, around 1760, it was abbreviated to Sioux and adopted into the English language. “So,” concedes Cody, “the Sioux name in the history books was given to us by the Wasi’chu, the white people.”

We’ve entered another etymological rabbit hole that runs deep, since it turns out that the Lakota word Wasi’chu does not translate literally as “white people”. What it actually means is “he who takes the fat”, or “he who takes the larger portion” – in other words, a greedy person. “We’ve always called white people that,” Cody explains, “because we see the greed in them a lot of times – the one who takes the larger portion. We see that spirit about them.”

This spirit of greed, and of taking the larger portion – by force or deception or both – is an unmissable presence looming over the sad history of Native American lands usurped by successive governments of the United States of America. The ancient and traditional keepers of the land have again and again found themselves in conflict with industries and agribusinesses hungry for profits and backed by the power and authority of the US government. The most recent battle in this struggle of centuries was joined in 2016 in North Dakota at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and at the protest camp named Oceti Sakowin situated just beyond the reservation’s present northern boundary. There, from July 2016 and onwards into the winter, a rainbow coalition of Sioux, other Native American tribes, and non-Native American peoples gathered to stop the laying of an oil pipeline under Lake Oahe on the Missouri River half a mile north of Standing Rock in a location that not only transgressed traditionally sacred lands, but also threatened the Reservation’s water supply in the event of a spill.

Such spills happen surprisingly often with oil pipelines, and when they do they can cause immense damage. Indeed on 5 December 2016, more than 175,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from the Bell Fourche Pipeline into Ash Coulee Creek in western North Dakota.i That was just 150 miles north of Oceti Sakowin, proving the point of the protestors that no pipelines are safe or can be guaranteed foolproof against spills.

read on: https://grahamhancock.com/hancockg16-standingrock/

You made good points Mercuriel and Carol. However the above matters I feel need to be taken into account too .

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I like Graham Hancock. I was lucky enough to meet him in Bath last year

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Carol wrote:

[size=16]It's what I've been thinking, too... makes total sense.  It's still not 'right' though...  I guess I'm just really, really disappointed we're all supposed to think there's still no alternative to oil.  There's zero-point energy, right?  Why do we keep allowing ourselves to be played for fools?

It's still about our own interests, money (profit/control over people, corruption), jobs (jobs=slaves)... We seem to have a long way to go.
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I do understand the points Carol makes as I do understand the Natives concerns.
I hope President Trump will be intelligent enough to build a bridge to them that will lead to fair agreements.

Regarding Free energy Pris I think Mike Adams makes some good points in the following article:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026116_energy_free_population.html

We have to pick up the broken pieces of the mess we have let the world fall into , building as many walls as necessary to protect ourselves from those that mean harm while at the same time building strong bridges between one another that we may remember that we live on this Earth alltogether. I believe it's our duty to preserve life on our planet by constantly finding ways to connect with one another with greater conscience. Individually and collectively we can make humanity great again and I am sure the doors will open then for free energy to set in in resonance with the level of consciousness and spiritual freedom we will have attained by doing so.

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Mercuriel wrote:

That said - We must hold Him and His Administration up to the standards He and His Administration have said They will observe. Service to the People of the United States and that Includes It's Indigenous Peoples.

We as a Population must support and engage this President. We must tell Him what We seek and how We seek It.

He has Hammered It out there - The Power is back in the People's Hands and now We must take positive steps to Invoke It.

Well said I completely agree with you Mercuriel

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