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Jacobin has a good article up:
The federal response to Lakota protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline couldn’t be more different than their reaction to this year’s Bundy occupation.
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The Lakota, on other hand, are resisting a real and all too familiar danger. Their numbers grow every day. And, unlike the standoff in Oregon, almost no major national news outlets are covering the story. This too participates in a great American tradition: the true fight against oppression is the one nobody notices.
Is that ever the truth. Mainstream media is doing their damndest to ignore us, to ignore the issue. Thanks to Michael McLean at Jacobin for a very good story. Go read, please!
Via Jo-Ellen’s petition.
Jacobin’s doing good stuff.
And, yeah, the difference between how the Bundys were handled and the Lakota are being handled -- it’s big. I’m guessing that if the Lakota had dumbasses show up packing firearms, it’d be a massacre.
Marcus:
Oh yeah. As I noted in one of the earlier posts, Indians can’t be violent, because if we were, it would give the excuse to finish the genocide, and if there was anyone left, the government would break every treaty. They break enough as it is.
The cops keep reporting that we have guns in the camps, and they end up having to retract every statement, but they keep reporting that. Lot of wishful thinking. That, and they are probably upset at how scared they were by the Indians on horseback -- they *ran* away. Then, there’s all the oil shills, who won’t shut up about how destructive and violent we are. Right now, it’s just a lot of people camping.
Also, the Oglala Lakota in particular can’t afford any violence, because the feds have just been itching all these years to pull off a massacre, because of the Wounded Knee standoff.
Hello Everyone,
you have the nerve to show your ugliness to the world, spamming shit on a post about a crucial, vital issue to my people, and all people? Say goodbye, Ms. Mooner, and there ain’t enough fuck off in the universe for you. *spits* -- Caine.
Good article. We had noticed, and were commenting on, the difference too. It’s quite striking.
OK, so the cops **ran**? Good grief. When I saw the photos of people on horseback I was struck by how peaceful and inoffensive it was. I thought it was cool the horses were all decked out like that. And then somebody with a freaking GUN runs away?! Sigh.
I’m going to email my senators and tell them I support you guys. I’d encourage others to do the same. My guess is the governor is trying to keep his shitty actions a secret, so I’ll just tell some people. They may not respond but if they do I’ll say so.
Kestrel:
Yeah, a whole line of them ran away. I’ve spent ages looking for the video clip, but I can’t find it now. The support has been coming in so fast, from all over the world, and from one state to the next, it’s overwhelming, and I’m having trouble keeping up! Thank you for everything you do, it all matters.
This is one clip where cops run from protesters on horseback.
Looking at some clips and photos, the pipes used for the pipeline look rather flimsy.