Dakota Access Pipeline - What You Can Do
Contact your representatives
- The President - some are calling every day, 202-456-1111
- Congress (ask them to sign on to the letter to Obama that Bernie and four other Senators sent (and at least 19 in the House have signed a similar letter by Rep. Betty McCollum - last paragraph)
- (more coming)
Go live/stand directly in the way of the pipeline
go to Iowa (or sign up to help with the struggle against the pipeline there) (general signup). The Mississippi Stand camp is also in Iowa.
Donate money or supplies
People in many local networks are self-organizing caravans to North Dakota to bring supplies. If you read around on Facebook or other places you may run into small fundraisers to help them.
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Sacred Stone Camp general expenses, and here's their Amazon wishlist
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You can also donate to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe
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(Iowa:) The Mississippi Stand camp and the whole Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition
Move your money out of the banks financing the pipeline:
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Contact the banks to let them know what you think of their investment, and let yours know why you are closing your account. (This woman pulled out $500,000).
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Fun fact: Donald Trump is also invested in the thing. :-P )
Follow and spread the news:
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Direct from the sources: Sacred Stone Camp and Red Warrior Camp in North Dakota, and Mississippi Stand in Iowa
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r/IndianCountry and other subs in the sidebar
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Unicorn Riot has been one of the most consistent independent media outlets covering this. Twitter
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More on Twitter: Tara Houska,
And of course, the many hashtags:
General: #NoDAPL #DakotaAccess #NoDakotaAccess #NoBakken
Water: #MniWiconi (Lakota, means #WaterIsLife in English)
Youth: #RezpectOurWater
Native power: #StandingRockSioux #IndigenousRising #HonorTheTreaties
Who's mistake?: #StopETP (Energy Transfer Partners) #StopEnbridge (they've bought into the pipeline)
Climate: #KeepItInTheGround #ActOnClimate
Posted Sep 11, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC · edited