Water is Life
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Press Release: BURLINGTON, Vt., Oct. 28 — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to President Barack Obama Friday requesting he intervene to protect Native Americans peacefully protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Friday, 10-28-16 — letter to Obama fromNačá (Chief) Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle
Related: VIDEO: POLICE VICIOUSLY ATTACKED PEACEFUL PROTESTERS AT THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE [Watch & Read at theintercept.com/...]
Related: letter toMorton County Sheriff’s Department fromAmnesty International USA about force used.
Press Release: AIUSA will act on Department of Justice to investigate police practices.
Friday, 10-28-16 — letter to Obama fromNačá (Chief) Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle
Related: VIDEO: POLICE VICIOUSLY ATTACKED PEACEFUL PROTESTERS AT THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE [Watch & Read at theintercept.com/...]
Related: letter toMorton County Sheriff’s Department fromAmnesty International USA about force used.
Press Release: AIUSA will act on Department of Justice to investigate police practices.
Go right ahead.
Oh, wait. . . you can't, because you're a powerless, nutless, sad little Marxist wannabe, crushed that his philosophy has been relegated to the trash heap of history, and unable to move on.
But there's always the internet.
I'm angry. White people in Oregon are acquitted while Native people in North Dakota are attacked by riot police from five states. And our politicians are preoccupied.
Every preposterous and painful image from North Dakota is another reminder of injustice: The massive military-style police occupation of Standing Rock treaty lands, the rush to protect the frantic construction schedule for the Dakota Access pipeline, and the brutal law enforcement march against people who are fighting for the simple idea that water is life.
Since the beginning of the Standing Rock crisis there has been a call for President Obama to get involved. After all, there is a clear federal issue: The Oceti Sakowin Camp is on treaty land now claimed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
And President Obama has a direct emotional connection with this tribe and this place:
“I know that throughout history, the United States often didn’t give the nation-to-nation relationship the respect that it deserved. So I promised when I ran to be a president who’d change that, a president who honors our sacred trust, and who respects your sovereignty, and upholds treaty obligations, and who works with you in a spirit of true partnership, in mutual respect, to give our children the future that they deserve.”
How could he have done that? Mutual respect could have, should have, started with a federal presence that made talking more important than acting. The action at Standing Rock is not over. But the federal government’s absence is not productive.
Indeed, if you listen to any politician, Democrat or Republican, you’ll hear them talk about respect for the treaties. Of course. The Constitution says treaties “shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
The word “shall” is like a commandment. But if that’s true, then how does any treaty tribe have less land than what’s in the document? Legally, morally, a treaty trumps a congressional act or an executive order. A treaty claim to the land is not preposterous.
If the United States lived up to its own ideals, there would be no stolen water, land, and dams on the Missouri River, and the Army Corps of Engineers would have a long history of real negotiation with the tribes instead of a pretend consultation.
Donald Trump wouldn’t be much help. He’s in the same boat as most of the politicians in North Dakota. They hope to profit from this pipeline project and a future where oil remains more important than water.
And Hillary Clinton? We know from the WikiLeaks that she was inclined to approve Keystone XL pipeline but then flipped because there was so much attention on her email server. It was a way to change the story. Or so the campaign hoped.
So in the spirit of reconciliation, Energy Transfer Partners put out its own statement: “All trespassers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and removed from the land.”
The Injustice at Standing Rock Is an American Story by Mark Trahant — YES! Magazine
Mark Trahant is an independent journalist and a journalism professor at the University of North Dakota. He's a member of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes and has written about American Indian and Alaska Native issues for more than three decades. His most recent project, TrahantReports, covers the 2016 election with a focus on Native issues and candidates. Follow him on Twitter @TrahantReports.
Every preposterous and painful image from North Dakota is another reminder of injustice: The massive military-style police occupation of Standing Rock treaty lands, the rush to protect the frantic construction schedule for the Dakota Access pipeline, and the brutal law enforcement march against people who are fighting for the simple idea that water is life.
Since the beginning of the Standing Rock crisis there has been a call for President Obama to get involved. After all, there is a clear federal issue: The Oceti Sakowin Camp is on treaty land now claimed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
And President Obama has a direct emotional connection with this tribe and this place:
“I know that throughout history, the United States often didn’t give the nation-to-nation relationship the respect that it deserved. So I promised when I ran to be a president who’d change that, a president who honors our sacred trust, and who respects your sovereignty, and upholds treaty obligations, and who works with you in a spirit of true partnership, in mutual respect, to give our children the future that they deserve.”
How could he have done that? Mutual respect could have, should have, started with a federal presence that made talking more important than acting. The action at Standing Rock is not over. But the federal government’s absence is not productive.
Indeed, if you listen to any politician, Democrat or Republican, you’ll hear them talk about respect for the treaties. Of course. The Constitution says treaties “shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
The word “shall” is like a commandment. But if that’s true, then how does any treaty tribe have less land than what’s in the document? Legally, morally, a treaty trumps a congressional act or an executive order. A treaty claim to the land is not preposterous.
If the United States lived up to its own ideals, there would be no stolen water, land, and dams on the Missouri River, and the Army Corps of Engineers would have a long history of real negotiation with the tribes instead of a pretend consultation.
Donald Trump wouldn’t be much help. He’s in the same boat as most of the politicians in North Dakota. They hope to profit from this pipeline project and a future where oil remains more important than water.
And Hillary Clinton? We know from the WikiLeaks that she was inclined to approve Keystone XL pipeline but then flipped because there was so much attention on her email server. It was a way to change the story. Or so the campaign hoped.
So in the spirit of reconciliation, Energy Transfer Partners put out its own statement: “All trespassers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and removed from the land.”
The Injustice at Standing Rock Is an American Story by Mark Trahant — YES! Magazine
Mark Trahant is an independent journalist and a journalism professor at the University of North Dakota. He's a member of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes and has written about American Indian and Alaska Native issues for more than three decades. His most recent project, TrahantReports, covers the 2016 election with a focus on Native issues and candidates. Follow him on Twitter @TrahantReports.
TO THE INVADERS
Where do you come from
Why do you attack Earth
When did you lose your mind
You tried to beat us
into submission
It hurt
But
It made
Our hearts
Stronger
You are blind
to what is real
Your prisons of
drugs, ego, sex
and material
Keep you
from knowing
what it is
to feel
When Mother Earth
is abused
the people suffer
Our relatives the plants
the animals, the winds
all victims of your fury
Your destructive fury
is unnatural madness
Your literacy is
Your keeper
Your mechanical
Obligations
The chaos of
Your masters
Manipulations
You will not endure
Your illusions show
No respect
For Life
We resist you
We will not follow
You in your sickness
We are the generations
of generations
We will remember
Our Mother, Our Relations
We will survive
John Trudell
Poet Tree Publishing
©1981
Where do you come from
Why do you attack Earth
When did you lose your mind
You tried to beat us
into submission
It hurt
But
It made
Our hearts
Stronger
You are blind
to what is real
Your prisons of
drugs, ego, sex
and material
Keep you
from knowing
what it is
to feel
When Mother Earth
is abused
the people suffer
Our relatives the plants
the animals, the winds
all victims of your fury
Your destructive fury
is unnatural madness
Your literacy is
Your keeper
Your mechanical
Obligations
The chaos of
Your masters
Manipulations
You will not endure
Your illusions show
No respect
For Life
We resist you
We will not follow
You in your sickness
We are the generations
of generations
We will remember
Our Mother, Our Relations
We will survive
John Trudell
Poet Tree Publishing
©1981
And another market for AK is opened. Take back your continent. Most of us wish you would, I'm so fukkin tired of democracy.
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No that's not just a rat, it's twenty-five hundred calories, get it while you can, test yourself, wake up tommorow hungry for more. Just arround tyhat corner ahead, everything warm and cuddly is there. God loves us or else he has nothing else to torment with test.
I've just spilled some beer, there is no escape , I will be penalized for my transgression. Perhaps ever suffocation in my robes. I don';t think fate is interested in me, cuz I'am too short and she's busy.
No that's not just a rat, it's twenty-five hundred calories, get it while you can, test yourself, wake up tommorow hungry for more. Just arround tyhat corner ahead, everything warm and cuddly is there. God loves us or else he has nothing else to torment with test.
I've just spilled some beer, there is no escape , I will be penalized for my transgression. Perhaps ever suffocation in my robes. I don';t think fate is interested in me, cuz I'am too short and she's busy.
The campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn, New York, was taken over Thursday by protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline being constructed in North Dakota and three other states. They’re demanding the candidate declare where she stands.
https://www.rt.com/usa/364481-dakota-access-protest-clinton-hq/
https://www.rt.com/usa/364481-dakota-access-protest-clinton-hq/
I wonder where she got that traditional blanket ?The campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn, New York, was taken over Thursday by protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline being constructed in North Dakota and three other states. They’re demanding the candidate declare where she stands.
https://www.rt.com/usa/364481-dakota-access-protest-clinton-hq/
Why would you think Hillary would change her mind?
Obama puts the brakes on the KXL because he couldn't negotiate a higher volume of US oil going through it so he killed it and along came DAP.
Obama puts the brakes on the KXL because he couldn't negotiate a higher volume of US oil going through it so he killed it and along came DAP.
