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Divest or Die: “Smart Wars” Artists Depict Battle to Protect Earth
June 22, 2018Minneapolis, MN – Every summer in the Twin Cities, artists bring to life the Northern Spark art festival, which is free to the public and lasts throughout the night in downtown Minneapolis. One of the opening events at this years festival, called “Smart Wars: Divest…... -
Mississippi Stand Blockades Iowa DAPL Drill Waste Site, Drilling Stops
October 24, 2016Lee County, IA – On Sunday, October 23, Mississippi Stand, the direct action campaign in Iowa against the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), blockaded the access road to a site used to service the drill currently being used to bore under the Mississippi River. Earlier in…... -
Water Protectors’ Prayer Walk Ends up with 127 Arrests, Including Unicorn Riot Journalist
October 22, 2016Morton County, ND – Early on Saturday, October 22nd, water protectors from the camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation blockaded roads by locking themselves to cars and set out on foot to confront construction that threatens to destroy more sacred burial sites. [Updated as…... -
Water Protectors Blockade Highway in Bismarck, Some Charges Dropped
October 18, 2016Bismarck-Mandan, ND – Around noon on Monday, a group of over 100 water protectors from the pipeline resistance encampments converged to blockade the Memorial Bridge, a piece of highway connecting the cities of Bismarck and Mandan. Happening now: water protectors block highway bridge between Bismarck…... -
Four Unicorn Riot Journalists Face Charges For Covering #NoDAPL
October 17, 2016Since April 1st, 2016, Unicorn Riot has been covering the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp, and the subsequent #NoDAPL movement, to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) underneath both the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Over three hundred tribes have come together to say no…... -
6 Arrested in Iowa #NoDAPL Action, Including Unicorn Riot Journalist
October 7, 2016Sandusky, IA – Six people, including a Unicorn Riot journalist, were arrested during a direct action that halted construction crews for hours from boring underneath the Mississippi River to lay the Dakota Access Pipeline. Mississippi Stand – Lee County, IA October 7th, 2016 from…... -
Militarized Police Arrest 21 Water Protectors in DAPL Work Stoppage
September 28, 201615 miles south of Mandan, North Dakota – On the heels of yesterday’s action which halted Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction, once again, today, hundreds of water protectors caravaned to a DAPL work site to pray to that the Dakota Access Pipeline is stopped. After…... -
Mississippi Stand Action Stops DAPL Construction in Iowa
September 26, 2016Sandusky, IA – On Saturday, September 24th, 2016, a non-violent direct action out of the Mississippi Stand camp shutdown Dakota Access Pipeline construction at the point the pipeline will cross the Mississippi river at Sandusky, Iowa. The action, which started with a six a.m. lock-down…... -
#NoDAPL Noise Demo Demands Freedom for Jailed Water Protector Olowan Martinez
September 21, 2016UPDATE- Thursday, September 22 – Olowan Martinez has been freed on bail after being booked in Sheridan, Nebraska, according to a statement posted to Facebook by Red Warrior Camp. UPDATE- Wednesday, September 21- The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services says Olowan Martinez was extradited…... -
Federal Appeals Court Halts Dakota Access Segment as Solidarity Protests Spread Nationwide
September 17, 2016Washington, DC – A federal appeals court ruled to temporarily halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline taking place within a 20-mile radius of Lake Oahe (near the Missouri river) on Saturday, September 17. Federal judge James Boasberg had previously ruled to allow construction in…...
