Unicorn Riot began covering the Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in March 2016.
We were reporting on the ground from the Standing Rock Nation during the opening of the "Iŋyaŋ Wakȟáŋaǧapi Othí" (Sacred Rock Camp).
Unicorn Riot was a dedicated and reliable source for on-the-ground news coverage about #DAPL up through the Oceti Sakowin Camp eviction on February 23, 2017.
We really need to stop buying into the argument that #ClimateActivists are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.
The idea that, say, sitting on a road is "radical", "extreme" and "criminal" came from a bunch of #FossilFuel aligned think tanks, parroted by the media.
Reject them.
The framing needs to be: Fossil fuel companies are radical, extreme, criminal.
"The documents from the North Dakota security board paint a detailed picture of counterinsurgency-style strategies for defeating opponents of #OilAndGas development, a war-on-terror security firm’s aspirations to replicate its deceptive tactics far beyond the Northern Great Plains, and the cozy relationship between businesses linked to the #FossilFuel industry and one of the largest law enforcement trade associations in the #US"
"The recent history of environmental activism in the U.S. shows that the repressive policies being advanced now will have repercussions far beyond a single social movement — and that they’re likely to hit climate and land defenders particularly hard.
Now, just as happened after the [#BLM and #DAPL] protests, bills are being considered in six states to enhance penalties for blocking roads, with most of them explicitly framed as a response to pro-Palestine protests."
#Portland, did you know that your compost is going to be sent to Washington state to be turned into natural gas by Enbridge, the evil-ass pipeline corporation that has brutalized so many protestors against #DAPL and #Line3Pipeline? https://globalnews.ca/news/9945552/enbridge-divert-break-ground-renewable-fuel-facility-washington/ They are going to take your municipal compost and compost from Vancouver, rot the food into methane, and send it off to be burned for power. This is somehow considered #RenewableEnergy and somehow counts towards Washington state carbon reduction goals.
"A report earlier this week detailed 37.5 billion euros ($40.5 billion) in [#FossilFuel] #subsidies in the #Netherlands, notably related to the shipping industry, prompting calls for a quick halt to the practice.
The report calls on lawmakers to begin phasing out the subsidies before the country’s Nov. 22 general election.
In case you're wondering what happens when #climate protesters sit down on a Dutch highway. This is not anything like the #DAPL protests.
Extinction Rebellion NL is highly organised, from sticking to the one demand - end #FossilFuelSubsidies - to designated police liaisons. The #WaterCannon is rented from Germany. It gets turned up a little harder every day. Every day, people show up on the #A12 highway into The Hague. Signups go into October.
It's time to take action and stop the #DakotaAccessPipeline (#DAPL)! It's been over six years since DAPL began carrying #oil and nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the pipeline operator Energy Transfer's attempt to avoid producing a required Environmental Impact Statement (#EIS). Today, in violation of a separate court order, DAPL continues to operate illegally, without a federal easement.
THACKER PASS AND THE UGLY TRADITION OF EXTRACTION WITHOUT INDIGENOUS PERMISSION
By Tokata Iron Eyes
Peehee mu'huh (or #ThackerPass, as it’s known in English), a sensitive wilderness area located in what is now called #HumboldtCounty, #Nevada, sits on the ancestral homelands of the #Paiute and #Shoshone peoples. Right now, these lands are threatened by a #lithium mining project being developed by a company called #LithiumNevada, a subsidiary of #LithiumAmericasCorp .
that shape the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of projects.
Of course, the U.N. has good reason to make its declaration. The story of #IndigenousOpposition to #extraction isn’t new, and the #Lakota people are no strangers to extractive industry looking to exploit our homelands. From the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline ( #DAPL ) at #StandingRock to mining in the #BlackHills , these violent practices have a storied #history.