[Occupymendocino] Standing Rock event in Redwood Valley

[Richard Karch]

Hello OM,

Very good event  Knowledgeable speakers who had been out to N Dakota. Need more people going there. One of the goals of the group is to
help other people go out there. 
The one issue that came up over and over was that Wells Fargo is THE major bank spearheading the project. How we should 
remind people with WF accounts to leave them. (I was in Safeway the other day and saw a big line in front of their 'bank'.)
Many people showed interest in picketing them. Maybe we could spend the whole rally at Wells Fargo?
 (I'm thinking of ideas for signs to use for our Fri rallies.) 
  More later, including pictures.       

  richard  

Info from Standing Rock event in Redwood Valley  to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Many historical  info below was noted at the event.  
Fighting for Our Lives: #NoDAPL in Historical Context

Nick Estes
10/26/16
Little has been written about the historical relationship between the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation) resistance against the trespass of settlers, dams, and pipelines across the Mni Sose, the Missouri River. This is a short analysis of the historical and political context of the #NoDAPL movement and the transformative possibilities of the current struggle.

Thousands have camped along the banks of the Missouri River at Cannon Ball in the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which promises to carry half a million barrels of heavy crude oil a day across four states, under the Missouri River twice, and under the Mississippi River toward the Gulf of Mexico for global export. Camp Oceti Sakowin, Red Warrior Camp, and Sacred Stone Camp, the various Native-led groups standing in unity against DAPL, have brought together the largest, mass-gathering of Natives and allies in more than a century, all on land and along a river the Army Corps of Engineers claims sole jurisdiction and authority over.

How and why did this happen?

In 1803 the wasicu — the fat-takers, the settlers, the capitalists — claimed this stretch of the river as part of what became the largest real estate transaction in world history. The fledgling U.S. settler state “bought” 827 million acres from the French Crown in the Louisiana Purchase and sent two white explorers, Lewis and Clark, to claim and map the newly acquired territory. None of the Native Nations west of the Mississippi consented to the sale of their lands to a sovereign they neither recognized nor viewed as superior. It was only after we rebuffed Lewis and Clark for failing to pay tribute for their passage on our river that they labeled the Oceti Sakowin “the vilest miscreants of the savage race.” Thus began one of the longest and most hotly contested struggles in the history of the world. >>>>> continues on website


Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/26/fighting-our-lives-nodapl-historical-context-166213






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