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diva77

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Wed Feb 8, 2017, 05:09 PM Feb 2017

Indigenous Environmental Network at the frontline DAPL - please support them

Can donate here: http://www.ienearth.org/

hear interview or read transcript on today's Democracynow.org show

Water Protectors Call for Global Mass Mobilizations as Army Plans to Approve Dakota Access Pipeline

Feb. 8, 2017

[Dallas Goldtooth of IEN] snip...And so, right now, we have a call to action across the planet, and specifically on Turtle Island, also known as so-called North America, for people to take to the streets, to rise up and rise with Standing Rock in mass mobilization, to support this effort and this fight against the abrogation of indigenous rights, the complete disregard for the law of the land. So we have actions happening in Washington, D.C., later on this afternoon. We’re going to be having actions in Seattle, L.A., San Francisco, Denver, Albuquerque, New York City. And folks that really want to follow along with that, they can check out EveryDayOfAction.org. It’s an action hub that a lot of the indigenous groups who have been fighting and who have been on the ground in Standing Rock created, so people have a centralized place for information about solidarity actions happening across this country. So that’s EveryDayOfAction.org. And that’s where—the point of all of this—...snip

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