Dakota Access Pipe Line: Looking Back Four Months

Today, December 4, 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers announced that an easement will not be granted over the Standing Rock reservation or under the Missouri River for the Dakota Access Pipe Line; this is the biggest victory of Indigenous people since the Little Big Horn! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3999630/Dakota-protesters-WIN-bid-stop-pipeline-built-Standing-Rock.html

The defeat of corporate America and specifically of a company whose parent corporation’s stockholders include Donald Trump, exemplifies the teachings of Saul Alinsky and Chief Little Turtle.

Saul Alinsky

Power goes to two poles: to those who’ve got the money and to those who’ve got the people.-Saul Alinsky

If our people fight one tribe at a time we will be cut off like fingers from a hand, but if we join together we will make a powerful fist.-Little Turtle, or Michikinikwa

August 14, 2016 I received a FB instant message from my dear old friend long time American Indian Movement Activist (AIM) Wayne Arroyo

Jan how do you stop a media blackout

The people in standing Rock are protesting an they shut off all cell tower no phone no Wi-Fi

The next day I posted on all my social media sites the following to start getting the word out:

PLEASE RE-POST:

My old friend Wayne Arroyo from AIM-American Indian Movement-has received reports from people that have come to Cannon Ball North Dakota protesting the desecration of Native American grave sites by the Dakota Access Pipeline that local authorities have shut down cell phone and wifi access towers over a 500 miles radius to impose a media blackout. 5-600 people have made it in; others are coming from various reservations by horse back to avoid road blocks.

Various Sioux tribes are involved and include Wayne Arroyo’s cousins who are the guardians of Sitting Bull’s grave.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is being drilled UNDER the Missouri River raising fears to water contamination. Now the grading for the project has unearthed graves on sacred soil.

Wayne Arroyo Relf Alison Star Dennis Banks Rachel Tso DeCoy Gallerina Mark Verba Corine Fairbanks

Wayne Arroyo speaks at National Chicano Moratorium 8/28/16 on Dakota Access Pipe Line protest

Shortly thereafter I put out a press release and posted it in this blog:

http://janbtucker.com/blog/2016/08/19/national-chicano-moratorium-speaker-entertainment-lineup/

I used the blog to alert people of the impending talk of Wayne: “Wayne Arroyo, longtime American Indian Movement (AIM) activist who will talk about the ongoing protests in North Dakota against the Dakota Access Pipeline.”

Dr. Tara Rose & Jan B. Tucker

Later the organizing continued with the help and ideas and inspiration of my friends Dr. Tara Rose and Joanelle Romero (of Red Nation TV): http://janbtucker.com/blog/2016/11/17/on-thanksgiving-take-action-against-dapl-to-actually-give-thanks/

Joanelle Romero

Just sayin’ it feels great to have been a little part of this history.

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