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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Really Happened At Standing Rock
http://www.mtv.com/news/3048763/standing-rock-teen-activists/The teen activists who were there tell the story you haven't heard
Julie Zeilinger
11/22/2017
On Thursday, November 16, 210,000 gallons of oil leaked from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota. We should have seen it coming. If we had listened to the environmental activists and indigenous people who have put their bodies and well-being on the line for years and, most notably, at Standing Rock reservation last year to adamantly warn us about the environmental dangers of pipelines and their tendency to leak, we would have.
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The media representation of this movement, however, often failed to fully describe the complex, harrowing, and incredible experience of the predominantly young activists on the frontline. Heres what actually happened over the past year at Standing Rock, according to Andreanne Catt and Lauren TwoBraids Howland two youth leaders who witnessed it all firsthand and gave their account to MTV News. They are leading the movement forward.
Seeding Sovereignty
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Howland: They pulled [protesters] who were in ceremony out of the sweat lodge during their prayers. They dismantled the lodge, arrested them, and had them sit on the road for a few hours while they continued the raid. Men were wearing basketball shorts, women skirts. They were freezing. [The sweat lodge] is like our church it was like going into a church and arresting people for praying.
The people who were arrested that day were charged with the same felony charges, including conspiracy to endanger by fire. When they were arrested, they werent put in jail cells. They were put in dog kennels. The temperature in the jail was about 40 degrees. They had already been outside, freezing for a couple hours. Health problems came out of that.
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another story lost in all the madness.
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What Really Happened At Standing Rock (Original Post)
LiberalLovinLug
Nov 2017
OP
Does the corporate have so much power that they can endanger one's drinking water
Stargazer99
Nov 2017
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iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)1. Indeed, lost in the madness.
Stargazer99
(2,599 posts)2. Does the corporate have so much power that they can endanger one's drinking water
plus treat people this way? You that are so stupid that you do not want to stop this greed you are next....get it? By what right does the government have to do this to people? Wake up! You are next....don't believe it? No authority should have the power to treat people like this and you are just standing there letting it go on until it is you next