Standing Rock's fight against Dakota Pipeline!

Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, July 4, 2017); Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wells Fargo Bank supported DAPL oil pipeline

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe recently won a major legal victory in federal court that may have the power to force the shutdown of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.

District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration failed to conduct an adequate environmental review of the pipeline, after Pres. Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to fast-track and greenlight its approval.

I'm red, too, so I signed it with my eyes closed.

The judge requested additional briefings next week on whether the pipeline should be shut off until the completion of a full review of a potential oil spill’s impacts on fishing and hunting rights, as well as environmental justice.

The pipeline faced months of massive resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, members of hundreds of other indigenous tribes from across the Americas, as well as non-Native allies.

Democracy Now! speaks with Standing Rock Sioux Chair Dave Archambault II and Nick Tilsen, executive director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, who is also a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. More:

• Standing Rock Sioux wins major legal victory against Dakota Access Pipeline
• Standing Rock's fight against Dakota Pipeline continues while tribe plans for a fossil-free energy future
• Trump picks DAPL LOBBYIST to oversee EPA water safety same week he rolls back water safeguards 



Author, environmental activist Naomi Klein

• Naomi Klein: The worst is yet to come with Trump, so we must be ready for shock politics
• Standing Rock Sioux chair on militarized repression and ongoing lawsuit to stop Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) 
• Standing Rock Sioux launch wind/solar renewable energy projects after winning million dollar award 
• "A Transformative Vision": Naomi Klein on platforms for racial, health, and climate justice under Trump

Standing Rock Sioux get money to save world!

Grandson of VP Henry Wallace on Standing Rock's fossil-free future and American fascism

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Wallace Global Fund recently awarded the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe the inaugural Henry A. Wallace Award and a $1,000,000.00 (one million US dollar) investment in renewable energy projects led by the tribe. The fund’s Executive Director Ellen Dorsey talks about the "Divest-Invest" movement and Co-Chair Scott Wallace. More + VIDEO

Divest-Invest: foundations urged to back climate solutions while divesting from fossil fuels