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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

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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)