Water is Life
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Alas...alas...alas, while we were asleep & singing laurels to apathy a full blown nation has arisen (namely our own USA) that uses Gestapo like tactics on the voice of a free press. The first & foremost sign of a nation that has been taken over by "despots" is that they wage war on journalists & clamp down on a free press through fear tactics. You need not think twice if you realize this is true. The corporation funded & controlled media has remained almost totally silent on this war being waged presently by the despotic fools & stooges in No. Dak. is it war when military tanks & assault rifles are involved. When a young woman is hit across the stomach so hard the police hardwood club breaks. War not only on the Indigenous land protectors engaged in peaceful prayer & sacred smudging (which the despots dub as being a riot)...but more scary still a war on journalists who fearlessly this criminal war on freedom & the pure love for the beauty & bounty of this planet. The despotic foolery & farce of arresting journalists trying to cover this outrage! One faces 45 years in prison for merely photographing...another arrested while peacefully leaving a peaceful "protection prayer rite. This unlawful arrest involved the use of a military tank to prevent her from reaching her car. to top it off the intimidating factor of using so unnecessary strip searches.Outrageous strip...squat...cough foolery on a person. Young women forced to do so while government "goons" stand about! - James Buik
Thursday afternoon, the North Dakota police and National Guard moved in on the front lines of the Water Protectors’ new camp opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on ancestral ground that was taken in a violation of the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851.
The police are jamming cellphones and most disturbingly are using sound guns, or LRADs, a sonic weapon, which is actually painful on the recipient. Earplugs don’t help.
Developing: 100+ Militarized Police Raiding #NoDAPL Resistance Camp Blocking Pipeline’s Path | Democracy Now!
What You May Not Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline
What You May Not Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline | Opinion | teleSUR English
The police are jamming cellphones and most disturbingly are using sound guns, or LRADs, a sonic weapon, which is actually painful on the recipient. Earplugs don’t help.
Developing: 100+ Militarized Police Raiding #NoDAPL Resistance Camp Blocking Pipeline’s Path | Democracy Now!
What You May Not Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline
What You May Not Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline | Opinion | teleSUR English
A little different from how the government treated the armed to the teeth all white Bundy crew in Oregon during their 41 day stand off with authorities. Not only that, but the Bundy crew have now been acquitted of felony charges. What a strange place America has become.
Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear 1851 Treaty Camp — Sacred Stone Camp - IÅ‹yaÅ‹ Wakháŋagapi OthÃ*
Cannonball, ND - Over 300 police officers in riot gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline camp just east of Highway 1806. The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently purchased by DAPL. Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Dakota territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851, was violently cleared. Both blockades established this past weekend to enable that occupation were also cleared.
In addition to pepper spray and percussion grenades, shotguns were fired into the crowd with less lethal ammunition and a sound cannon was used (see images below). At least one person was tased and the barbed hook lodged in his face, just outside his eye. Another was hit in the face by a rubber bullet.
A prayer circle of elders, including several women, was interrupted and all were arrested for standing peacefully on the public road. A tipi was erected in the road and was recklessly dismantled, despite promises from law enforcement that they would merely mark the tipi with a yellow ribbon and ask its owners to retrieve it. A group of water protectors was also dragged out of a ceremony in a sweat lodge erected in the path of the pipeline, wearing minimal clothing, thrown to the ground, and arrested.
A member of the International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) that had her wrist broken during a mass-arrest on October 22nd was hurt again after an officer gripped her visibly injured wrist and twisted it during an attempted arrest. At least six other members of the youth council verified that they had been maced up to five times and were also shot and hit with bean bags. In addition to being assaulted, an altar item and sacred staff was wrenched from the hands of an IIYC member by police. Several other sacred items were reported stolen, including a canupa (sacred tobacco pipe).
Two medics giving aid at front line were hit with batons and thrown off the car they were sitting on. Then police grabbed another medic, who was driving the car, out of the driver side while it was still in motion. Another water protector had to jump into the car to stop it from hitting other people.
Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear 1851 Treaty Camp — Sacred Stone Camp - IÅ‹yaÅ‹ Wakháŋagapi OthÃ*
Cannonball, ND - Over 300 police officers in riot gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline camp just east of Highway 1806. The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently purchased by DAPL. Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Dakota territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851, was violently cleared. Both blockades established this past weekend to enable that occupation were also cleared.
In addition to pepper spray and percussion grenades, shotguns were fired into the crowd with less lethal ammunition and a sound cannon was used (see images below). At least one person was tased and the barbed hook lodged in his face, just outside his eye. Another was hit in the face by a rubber bullet.
A prayer circle of elders, including several women, was interrupted and all were arrested for standing peacefully on the public road. A tipi was erected in the road and was recklessly dismantled, despite promises from law enforcement that they would merely mark the tipi with a yellow ribbon and ask its owners to retrieve it. A group of water protectors was also dragged out of a ceremony in a sweat lodge erected in the path of the pipeline, wearing minimal clothing, thrown to the ground, and arrested.
A member of the International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) that had her wrist broken during a mass-arrest on October 22nd was hurt again after an officer gripped her visibly injured wrist and twisted it during an attempted arrest. At least six other members of the youth council verified that they had been maced up to five times and were also shot and hit with bean bags. In addition to being assaulted, an altar item and sacred staff was wrenched from the hands of an IIYC member by police. Several other sacred items were reported stolen, including a canupa (sacred tobacco pipe).
Two medics giving aid at front line were hit with batons and thrown off the car they were sitting on. Then police grabbed another medic, who was driving the car, out of the driver side while it was still in motion. Another water protector had to jump into the car to stop it from hitting other people.
Yuuuuuup. Sure feels good to be on the White side of the law.
Does it burn your soul like Holy water does?
Now you can't help but see me Clitford.
Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp
Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp - UNICORN RIOT
UPDATE Oct 28th 1:20am CDT New video below shows police attacking Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp with pepper spray, less-lethal rounds used at close range, batons, LRAD, and tazers.
For hours, the water protectors attempted to hold back the authorities sent to remove them from the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline towards the Missouri River.
High Mobility Military Vehicle (HMMV) trucks driven by the North Dakota National Guard flanked Highway 1806 on the hills as fires burned at barricades set to slow the authorities’ march.
At close range, law enforcement personnel repeatedly fired a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) sound cannon at water protectors in an attempt to drive them out. LRAD attacks were expected and many water protectors had earplugs to mitigate likely permanent damage.
Tasers, beanbag shotgun rounds, concussion grenades and batons with sniper rifle overwatch from MRAP and Bearcat armored vehicles, surrounded with HMMVs were depolyed against the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) people and their supporters. One Unicorn Riot reporter was struck with a baton by a Hennepin County (MN) deputy acting in a force unit.
In a continuing pattern of foregoing transparency, law enforcement from multiple states concealed their identities by hiding nameplates and badge numbers, which can prevent individual officers from being named and deposed in lawsuits around police brutality and abuse.
http://vimeo.com/189249968
Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp - UNICORN RIOT
UPDATE Oct 28th 1:20am CDT New video below shows police attacking Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp with pepper spray, less-lethal rounds used at close range, batons, LRAD, and tazers.
For hours, the water protectors attempted to hold back the authorities sent to remove them from the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline towards the Missouri River.
High Mobility Military Vehicle (HMMV) trucks driven by the North Dakota National Guard flanked Highway 1806 on the hills as fires burned at barricades set to slow the authorities’ march.
At close range, law enforcement personnel repeatedly fired a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) sound cannon at water protectors in an attempt to drive them out. LRAD attacks were expected and many water protectors had earplugs to mitigate likely permanent damage.
Tasers, beanbag shotgun rounds, concussion grenades and batons with sniper rifle overwatch from MRAP and Bearcat armored vehicles, surrounded with HMMVs were depolyed against the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) people and their supporters. One Unicorn Riot reporter was struck with a baton by a Hennepin County (MN) deputy acting in a force unit.
In a continuing pattern of foregoing transparency, law enforcement from multiple states concealed their identities by hiding nameplates and badge numbers, which can prevent individual officers from being named and deposed in lawsuits around police brutality and abuse.
http://vimeo.com/189249968
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Some pretty pale injuns there. Could give them shovels and tell them to dig ditches but none of them look able to heft a shovel. Maybe they can pick up the garbage behind the idiot protesters.
About time. Then again most of them will disappear on welfare day. Back when the money runs out.
Slow learners.A little different from how the government treated the armed to the teeth all white Bundy crew in Oregon during their 41 day stand off with authorities. Not only that, but the Bundy crew have now been acquitted of felony charges. What a strange place America has become.
Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear 1851 Treaty Camp — Sacred Stone Camp - IÅ‹yaÅ‹ Wakháŋagapi OthÃ*
Cannonball, ND - Over 300 police officers in riot gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline camp just east of Highway 1806. The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently purchased by DAPL. Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Dakota territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851, was violently cleared. Both blockades established this past weekend to enable that occupation were also cleared.
In addition to pepper spray and percussion grenades, shotguns were fired into the crowd with less lethal ammunition and a sound cannon was used (see images below). At least one person was tased and the barbed hook lodged in his face, just outside his eye. Another was hit in the face by a rubber bullet.
A prayer circle of elders, including several women, was interrupted and all were arrested for standing peacefully on the public road. A tipi was erected in the road and was recklessly dismantled, despite promises from law enforcement that they would merely mark the tipi with a yellow ribbon and ask its owners to retrieve it. A group of water protectors was also dragged out of a ceremony in a sweat lodge erected in the path of the pipeline, wearing minimal clothing, thrown to the ground, and arrested.
A member of the International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) that had her wrist broken during a mass-arrest on October 22nd was hurt again after an officer gripped her visibly injured wrist and twisted it during an attempted arrest. At least six other members of the youth council verified that they had been maced up to five times and were also shot and hit with bean bags. In addition to being assaulted, an altar item and sacred staff was wrenched from the hands of an IIYC member by police. Several other sacred items were reported stolen, including a canupa (sacred tobacco pipe).
Two medics giving aid at front line were hit with batons and thrown off the car they were sitting on. Then police grabbed another medic, who was driving the car, out of the driver side while it was still in motion. Another water protector had to jump into the car to stop it from hitting other people.
Maybe it will think twice about stopping people from doing their legal job.
Protesters should have to pay for any lost wages for pipeline crew plus all costs of policing and cleanup.
Message from LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard:
"Hihanna waste a night spent with grief and nightmares keep asking myself Why? My people stand for the water, they attack us, my people stand up for the graves of our people they attack us, my people stand up for our sacred places they attack us, my people pray they stop us dragging us from our prayer and throw us in the dirty, I know this is America this is the history of my people. America has always walk though the blood of my people. But Why? Because I was born to this land because the roots grow out of my feet, because I love this land and I honor the water Why? Have we not learned from history? I pray for each of the people who stand up we can not live like this anymore. It has to stop my grandchildren have a right to live. The world has a right to live. The water the life blood of the world has a right to live. Mni Wiconi Water of Life. Pray for the water pray for the people. Stop Dakota Access-Killer of the world."
"Hihanna waste a night spent with grief and nightmares keep asking myself Why? My people stand for the water, they attack us, my people stand up for the graves of our people they attack us, my people stand up for our sacred places they attack us, my people pray they stop us dragging us from our prayer and throw us in the dirty, I know this is America this is the history of my people. America has always walk though the blood of my people. But Why? Because I was born to this land because the roots grow out of my feet, because I love this land and I honor the water Why? Have we not learned from history? I pray for each of the people who stand up we can not live like this anymore. It has to stop my grandchildren have a right to live. The world has a right to live. The water the life blood of the world has a right to live. Mni Wiconi Water of Life. Pray for the water pray for the people. Stop Dakota Access-Killer of the world."