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The struggle of hundreds of Native American and environmental activists against the Dakota Access Pipeline project, centered at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, is winning support from people around the world who understand the pipeline protesters are standing up for all of us. Members of the tribe point out that the pipeline, which would come within half a mile of the reservation’s water supply and burial grounds, would contaminate their community. The Army Corps of Engineers gave the Texas company building the pipeline “fast track” approval this summer without consulting with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. In an unprecedented gathering, members of more than 90 Native American nations and tribes have a presence here. Up the road, where the building site was besieged, the flags of many of those nations now fly together. Around the country and the world, others have voiced their support. National Nurses United welcomed the move by the federal government to stop construction on the Dakota Access pipeline project that has been the center of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and supporters. Nurses urged the government to permanently block the disputed project that nurses say is a threat to public health, as well as to the tribe’s sacred sites. NNU also condemned the recent attack on protesters by private security guards using dogs and pepper spray. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) Committee on Human Rights stands with members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in South and North Dakota as they fight to protect their community, their land and their water supply. Black Lives Matter stands with Standing Rock. As there are many diverse manifestations of Blackness, and Black people are also displaced Indigenous peoples, we are clear that there is no Black liberation without Indigenous sovereignty. Environmental racism is not limited to pipelines on Indigenous land, because we know that the chemicals used for fracking and the materials used to build pipelines are also used in water containment and sanitation plants in Black communities like Flint, Michigan. Amigos de le Tierra México, Chiapas Stop the Repression Against the Sioux of North Dakota and Solidarity with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The California Faculty Association stands in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the coalition of Native leaders and activists defending their cultural heritage, sacred grounds, right to protest, sovereign rights and right to clean water. National Agrarian Council of Colombia We have learned with a great sense of hope and happiness that the ancestral spirits today live among you who havecourageously decided to fight for your rights, for Mother Earth and for the protection of life. Some of the protectors have said: “We know we can defeat this,” and “we are hoping the world is with us.” At a time when most news are around the 2016 presidential election, we are not paying attention to what is happening in our country to the people who have always had the rights to this land. The candidates themselves have not mentioned the issue. Indigenous peoples have been pushed out of their land, they have been robbed, they have been almost exterminated and we continue to ask ‘who has the right to be an American”? At this point in history we can choose to disregard the history developing along the banks of the Missouri River, but just beyond the boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, indigenous land and water defenders arestanding together to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens their land, water, ancestral burial grounds, and future generations They are part of a decades-long struggle to assert and reclaim indigenous lands, jurisdictions, and sovereignties. At Standing Rock and across indigenous territories, indigenous peoples are resisting hundreds of years of dispossession, subjugation, and elimination committed in the name of capitalist accumulation and white possession.
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