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Tag: water protectors

🦄 DAPL, Eco, Protest & Direct Action

#NoDAPL Solidarity Rally & Sit-In in Minneapolis Prods Sheriff into Removing Deputies

November 1, 2016October 27, 2020

Minneapolis, MN – An estimated one thousand people rallied at Minneapolis City Hall on Friday, October 28th, to protest Hennepin County’s resources and deputies being deployed by Sheriff Rich Stanek to suppress water protectors opposing Dakota Access Pipeline construction near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation,…

🦄 DAPL, Eco, Protest & Direct Action

Tensions Rise as Pipeline Construction Nears #NoDAPL Blockade

October 26, 2016October 27, 2016

Oceti Sakowin, ND – On Sunday, October 23rd, water protectors extended camp beyond the overflow site, just north of the Standing Rock reservation, to the pipeline easement line. The Oceti Sakowin declared eminent domain on land bought by Dakota Access and set up their new…

🦄 Community, DAPL, Eco, Police, Protest & Direct Action

Hundreds Flood Minneapolis City Hall to Demand Local Sheriff Withdraw from North Dakota

October 26, 2016October 27, 2020

Minneapolis, MN – As the Oceti Sakowin Camp takes back unceded 1851 Treaty land in North Dakota, hundreds of people in Minneapolis protested the decision of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (HSCO) to send equipment and vehicles to North Dakota to aid in the suppression…

🦄 DAPL, Eco, Police, Protest & Direct Action

Law Enforcement Attack Private Drone as Water Protectors Erect Blockade & New Winter Camp

October 23, 2016October 25, 2016

Morton County, ND – Law enforcement attacked private drones with gunfire near the Dakota Access Pipeline camps on Sunday, October 23rd. Shooting ammunition at drones demonstrates continued escalation and provocation by police forces towards #NoDAPL water protectors as well as against media, as the drones…

🦄 DAPL, Eco, Protest & Direct Action

Water Protectors Shut Down Five Tar Sands Pipelines in US Simultaneously

October 11, 2016May 6, 2019

Early this morning, five water protectors successfully shut down five pipelines across the northern United States that were delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada. The action was in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock.
The individuals…

🦄 DAPL, Police, Protest & Direct Action

27 Arrests After Water Protectors Pray At DAPL Site on Indigenous People’s Day

October 11, 2016January 9, 2020

Morton County, ND – Two people locked themselves to Dakota Access Pipeline construction equipment, early in the morning on Monday, October 10th.  About two hours later that morning, a group of hundreds of indigenous water protectors converged on a DAPL work site a few miles…

🦄 DAPL, Eco, Protest & Direct Action

6 Arrested in Iowa #NoDAPL Action, Including Unicorn Riot Journalist

October 7, 2016October 30, 2017

Sandusky, 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…

🦄 DAPL, Eco, Protest & Direct Action

Water Protectors Disrupt North Dakota Petroleum Council Annual Meeting

September 22, 2016January 9, 2020

Minot, ND – A group of water protectors interrupted the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s annual meeting which was taking place at the Holiday Inn Riverside on September 21st. The meeting was a who’s-who of the Bakken shale fracking boom, the producers of the oil that…


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