/r/NoDAPL
This sub is for organizing to protect water, sacred sites, the climate, and more from the Dakota Access Pipeline. It's also about why we're opposing it, what we're for, who we are, how we're winning, the latest news, and perhaps most importantly, how you can get involved.
sidebar is out of date, keeping since links are useful
DAPL isn't done yet! Lawsuits continue federally and in Iowa, and what is effectively the southern leg of DAPL hasn't been built yet:
L'eau Est La Vie Camp (Water is Life Camp) - working to protect us from the Bayou Bridge Pipeline which would carry oil from DAPL all the way to the Gulf Coast. intro video about Bayou Bridge
Related causes
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older info:
Background on DAPL
Things you can do right now
(includes information about going to the camps, and things you can do from wherever you are)
Archive of videos, links, several good summaries/overviews (nodaplarchive.com)
People on the front-lines
Sacred Stone Camp - the first camp, since April 1. Named for the smooth, spheroid stones that once formed where the Cannonball river approaches the Missouri. (An earlier, Army Corps of Engineers project changed water flows such that these stones will no longer form.)
Oceti Sakowin Camp - largest, and the main entrance where the 600+ flags fly. The name refers to the Seven Council Fires of (almost all) Lakota, Dakota, & Nakota - aka the Great Sioux Nation.
Red Warrior Camp - held nonviolent direct action training every day, was accessed through Oceti Sakowin Camp (along with many other camps). As of December 11, they have left camp.
Rosebud Camp (no website) - between Sacred Stone Camp and Highway 1806
Stand With Standing Rock - the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council website for the Water Protectors and the encampment
ReZpect Our Water - youth have led in many ways, including calling on their elders to act, repeatedly visiting the east coast (running once!) to Obama and Clinton, writing letters, appearing on television, etc.
Mississippi Stand is still active in Iowa, delaying construction there. (The camp near where the pipeline route tunneled under the river is closed, after they successfully delayed construction repeatedly. Some went to Standing Rock.)
Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition (Iowa coalition of groups working to stop the pipeline)
Allies
The flags from at least 400 First Nations now fly over the camps at Standing Rock, brought by people of native nations across Turtle Island (North America) and the world. (It was 280 in mid-September.)
Tens of thousands (?) of individuals from around the world have spent time at the camps, which had a peak population of about 7,000 in September. It was shrinking until late October / early November and is now growing again.
The Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, 350, Sierra Club, the Bold Alliance - over 30 non-profits wrote to Obama against the pipeline
Three federal agencies objected to the Army Corps of Engineers' permit
At least five U.S. Senators in solidarity, and 19 members of the U.S. House of Representatives
The United Nations' Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
You have a correction? Something to add or ask? Let us know.
If you have come here to help me then you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together. --Lila Watson (aboriginal Australian activist)
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Do you recognize him?
A family member passed away yesterday. He was a veteran who cared about peace, human rights, and the planet.
I’m compiling the story of his life. He spent weeks at standing rock protesting. I think he may have volunteered with some of the first aid team?
I’m wondering if you recognize him and if so could tell me something of his story.
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Still concerned about the Dakota Access pipeline? The feds are asking for comment, 7 years later.
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I can't be the only one to have had flashbacks to Standing Rock over the last week or so. This photo really did it for me.
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Biden is the Rick Snyder of the entire Mississippi
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Rest in Power, Wanbli Wiyan Ka’win - The Water Protector Legal Collective mourns the passing of Water Protector matriarch, Joye Braun
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On this day in 2016, water protectors stormed a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site to stop the use of bulldozers to dig up land that contained indigenous artifacts. They were attacked with dogs and pepper spray by a private security team.
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Left Voice: Revolutionary Climate Strategy
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North Dakota Activism
Hi I’ve lived in western North Dakota my whole life and I’ve been searching for any local environmental activist group to join. So far I haven’t found anything, which isn’t too surprising but still disappointing. Just thought I could check here and see if anyone was involved in any local ND groups. I’m super concerned about climate change and want to join a like minded community.
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