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Drone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at #Standing_Rock

From April 2016 through February 2017, thousands of Native and non-Native people, together known as #Water_Protectors, made the Plains of #North_Dakota their home, standing in opposition to the proposed Dakota Access #Pipeline (#DAPL). They knew that the pipeline would bring more than 500,000 barrels of oil under Lake #Oahe, the only source of drinking water for the Standing Rock #Sioux Nation and millions of others downstream. Its construction threatened #Lakota cultural and sacred sites, and Standing Rock’s sovereignty as a Native nation.

As the Water Protectors faced militarized police, National Guard roadblocks, and heavy surveillance from local, state, and federal forces, a group of photographic drone operators emerged within their ranks. These #Drone_Warriors used technology to document the militarized force and police brutality the Water Protectors faced. By sending their drones up and over barricades, they illuminated spaces hidden from the public, unmasked the face of force, and showed the world the beauty of the landscape that was threatened by construction and potential contamination.

Their images motivated Water Protectors to join the movement in person, through donations, or by spreading the word on Facebook and with hashtags like #NoDAPL. We can view the use of drones by the Drone Warriors as an indigenization of neocolonial military and corporate #surveillance technology. However, we also see in these images forms of aesthetic protest in which the beauty of the water, land, and the Movement itself are on full display.

Opening May 11, 2018. Curated by Adrienne Keene, Haffenreffer Museum Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and Gregory Hitch, American Studies doctoral student.

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Standing Rock is burning – but our resistance isn’t over | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/23/standing-rock-burning-dakota-access?CMP=share_btn_tw

Just north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, water protectors set their makeshift and traditional structures ablaze in a final act of prayer and defiance against Energy Transfer Partner’s Dakota Access Pipeline, sending columns of black smoke billowing into the winter sky above the Oceti Sakowin protest camp.

The majority of the few hundred remaining protesters marched out, arm in arm ahead of the #North_Dakota authorities’ Wednesday eviction deadline. An estimated one hundred others refused the state’s order, choosing to remain in camp and face certain arrest in order to defend land and water promised to the Oceti Sakowin, or Great #Sioux Nation, in the long-broken Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851.

#peuples_autochtones #nations_premières #pétrole #résistance

Projets d’oléoducs : Trump repart en guerre contre les Sioux
►https://www.bastamag.net/Relance-d-oleoducs-les-Sioux-veulent-poursuivre-le-gouvernement-de-Donald-

Donald Trump a signé le 24 janvier, quatre jours après son investiture, des décrets présidentiels visant à relancer deux projets d’oléoducs. Très controversés, les deux oléoducs Keystone XL et le Dakota Access ont fait l’objet d’une intense bataille politique entre les défenseurs du climat et les industriels des énergies fossiles. Tous deux avaient été suspendus par l’administration Obama. C’est le 6 novembre 2015, après des mois d’actions non violentes et de batailles juridiques et administratives, que (...)

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Comment enseigner les faits survenus autour du Dakota Access Pipeline ?

Dear Critters: I hope you’re all well. I’ve received lots of requests asking about ways to teach the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) issues. I’m very encouraged by all the engagement with the NoDAPL movement - and given the space/place dimensions of the Standing Rock Tribe’s struggles against the pipeline, the member of this list are in a great position to educate students, as I’ve been a follower of this list for awhile now and benefited greatly from it. Lots of scholars in Indigenous Studies and beyond have worked to create materials for teaching Dakota Access Pipeline issues. I added a page to my website that includes as many of these scholarly resources as I know of (including the excellent Standing Rock Syllabus and this special collection), a few of my pieces on NoDAPL, and a bunch of online essays and documents associated with the issues: ►http://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/nodapl

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#standing_rock #pipeline #North_Dakota #résistance #enseignement #ressources_pédagogiques #peuples_autochtones
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Quelques sites évoqués dans le mail :
#StandingRockSyllabus

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Standing Rock, #NoDAPL, and Mni Wiconi

Thousands of Water Protectors from more than three hundred Native nations, as well as allied supporters from a range of social movements, gathered at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota during 2016 to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The DAPL threatens to cross under the Mni Sose (the Missouri River), which is the fresh-water supply for millions of humans and countless nonhuman relations. By blocking settler access to capital through direct action, the enactment of political counterclaims to the land and river through ceremony and legal challenges in U.S. courts, #NoDAPL front-line protectors are directly challenging the fossil-fuel industry’s centrality in colonial accumulation and demonstrating that climate change is indelibly linked to historic and ongoing colonialism and Indigenous erasure and elimination. Contributors to this Hot Spots series consider the social, historical, cultural, and political significance of the #NoDAPL movement, situating it within Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) history, leadership strategies and direct action/organizing, Indigenous anticolonial resistance across Turtle Island, and conditions of ongoing state violence against Indigenous bodies and lands.

▻https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1010-standing-rock-nodapl-and-mni-wiconi

Syllabus Materials for Teaching #NoDAPL in Ethics and Other Courses
►http://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/nodapl

La personne qui a écrit le message est aussi sur twitter :
▻https://twitter.com/kylepowyswhyte
Et enseigne à la Michigan state university :
▻http://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/standing-rock-a-change-of-heart

I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath.

I would like to...

Dakota Access Pipeline Permit Denied
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/dakota-access-pipeline-permit-denied

In a long-awaited victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline, tribal leadership announced late Sunday.

 "This...

Police Violence Against Native Americans Goes Far Beyond Standing Rock | FiveThirtyEight
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On Nov. 28, a legal collective representing Native Americans opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline filed a lawsuit against two North Dakota counties and their sheriffs, and the city of Mandan, North Dakota, and its police chief. Eight days before, the suit alleges, law enforcement officers from those places had used excessive force against a group of peaceful protesters, injuring more than 200.

The allegations in the case are striking — the lawsuit describes officers using water cannons on protesters despite freezing temperatures, shooting people in the head with non-lethal plastic rounds, and shooting a woman in the genitals with a flash-bang grenade. But this single event is part of a bigger history — one in which Native Americans interact frequently with outside law enforcement and where those interactions are often deadly.

#violences_policières #peuples_autochtones #Dakota #pipeline #pétrole

Standing Rock is the civil rights issue of our time – let’s act accordingly | Bill McKibben | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/nov/29/standing-rock-civil-rights-act-accordingly

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When John Doar died in 2014, Barack Obama, who’d already awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, called him “one of America’s bravest lawyers”. Without his courage and perseverance, the president said, “Michelle and I might not be where we are today”.
The Standing Rock protests are a symbolic moment
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Doar was the federal lawyer sent south by the Kennedy and Johnson justice departments to keep an eye on the explosive centers of the civil rights movement. Those White Houses didn’t do enough – but at least they kept watch on things. Doar escorted James Meredith to classes at the University of Mississippi, and helped calm crowds at the murder of Medgar Evers; he rescued activists from mobs during the Freedom Rides. A figure of history, in other words.

Democracy Now Standing Rock Special
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/democracy-now-standing-rock-special

Part 1 - Unlicensed #DAPL Guards Attacked Water Protectors with Dogs & Pepper Spray

Many across the United States are celebrating this Thanksgiving holiday. But many for Native Americans observe...

Les grandes banques françaises derrière le projet d’oléoduc combattu par les Sioux
▻http://multinationales.org/Les-grandes-banques-francaises-derriere-le-projet-d-oleoduc-combatt

Depuis plusieurs mois, les Sioux de la réserve de Standing Rock, dans le Dakota du Sud, s’opposent à un projet d’oléoduc qui menace des sites culturels ancestraux et leurs sources d’eau. Cette infrastructure, qui vise à faciliter l’exploitation du pétrole de schiste de la région, a bénéficié du financement de plusieurs grandes banques internationales, dont #BNP_Paribas, #Crédit_agricole, #Société_générale et #Natixis. Celles-ci se trouvent aujourd’hui ciblées par les militants écologistes. Depuis plusieurs (...)

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Nouveau clip pour la chanson de John Legend - Love Me Now avec un hommage, entre autres, aux réfugiés d’Irak, aux victimes de la tuerie d’Orlando, et aux autochtones qui luttent au Dakota du Nord contre la construction d’un nouveau pipeline :
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmCFY1oYDeM

#John_Legend #Musique #Musique_et_politique #Etats-Unis #Autochtones #peuples_autochtones #Standing_Rock #DAPL #NoDAPL #Dakota #North_Dakota #pipeline #oléoduc

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Why Standing Rock Matters
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/why-standing-rock-matters

The 3.8 billion dollar Dakota Access Pipeline project that has been the subject of controversy, encapsulates some of the main social problems facing society at this time. A two tiered justice...

Voices of Standing Rock
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/voices-of-standing-rock

Short stories told by water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota.

Part 1 - Introduction: Since mid-August 2016, thousands have set up camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North...

‘Stand with Standing Rock’: Demonstrators in the US Rail Against the Dakota Access Pipeline · Global Voices

▻https://globalvoices.org/2016/10/31/stand-with-standing-rock-demonstrators-rail-against-the-dakota-access-

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For months the indigenous Lakota Sioux have been gathering to block an incursion on their lands by the Dakota Access Pipeline. They call themselves the “Water Protectors”, since construction of the pipeline endangers the drinking water at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.

The Lakota have been joined by more than 200 other First Nations tribes, along with activists from around the world. In September 2016, after the destruction of sites sacred to the Sioux, the Obama administration issued a temporary halt on construction of the pipeline.

#dakota #Pipeline #nations_premières #sioux

Map Displays Five Years of Oil Pipeline Spills | Center for Effective Government
▻http://www.foreffectivegov.org/blog/map-displays-five-years-oil-pipeline-spills

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On June 14, a natural gas pipeline ruptured and burst into flames near Cuero, Texas, releasing an estimated 165,000 pounds of toxic volatile organic compounds into the air. Nearby residents evacuated their homes, but no one was injured. Still, the accident serves as another reminder of the dangers of transporting natural gas and other hazardous materials.
Industry insists that pipelines are safe, but ruptures and leaks are a daily occurrence. Eighty people have died and 389 have been injured in such incidents in the last five years.

Since 2010, over 3,300 incidents of crude oil and liquefied natural gas leaks or ruptures have occurred on U.S. pipelines. These incidents have killed 80 people, injured 389 more, and cost $2.8 billion in damages. They also released toxic, polluting chemicals in local soil, waterways, and air.

Over 1,000 of these incidents occurred on pipelines carrying crude oil. High Country News, a nonprofit news organization in Colorado, mapped these spills:

How to Contact the People Who Sent Militarized Police to Standing Rock by Emily Fuller — YES! Magazine
▻http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/dial-a-cop-20161031
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There have been a lot of questions surrounding the influx of military style troops and equipment to the Standing Rock Sioux tribal area in North Dakota. In August, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple declared a state of emergency in response to the growing Dakota Access pipeline protests, and Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier has invoked the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, calling on police resources from six surrounding states.

#north_dakota #pipeline #nations_premières #états_unis

Why #Dakota Is the New Keystone - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/opinion/why-dakota-is-the-new-keystone.html

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Originally, the pipeline was supposed to cross the Missouri just north of Bismarck, until people pointed out that a leak there would threaten the drinking water supply for North Dakota’s second biggest city. The solution, in keeping with American history, was obvious: make the crossing instead just above the Standing Rock reservation, where the poverty rate is nearly three times the national average. This has been like watching the start of another Flint, Mich., except with a chance to stop it.

The second is that this is precisely the kind of project that climate science tells us can no longer be tolerated. In midsummer, the Obama administration promised that henceforth there would be a climate test for new projects before they could be approved. That promise was codified in the Democratic platform approved by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which says there will be no federal approval for any project that “significantly exacerbates” global warming.

The review of the Dakota pipeline must take both cases into account.

So far, the signs are not good. There has been no word from the White House about how long the current pause will last. Now, the company building the pipeline has pushed the local authorities to remove protesters from land where construction has already desecrated indigenous burial sites, with law enforcement agents using Tasers, batons, mace and “sound cannons.”

#climat #pauvreté #Etats-Unis #Natifs

Une centaine d’arrestations près du chantier d’un #oléoduc au Dakota
▻http://www.romandie.com/news/Une-centaine-darrestations-pres-du-chantier-dun-oleoduc-au-Dakota/748389.rom

La police du #Dakota du Nord a arrêté jeudi une centaine de manifestants près du chantier controversé d’un oléoduc dénoncé notamment par des Amérindiens des grandes prairies du nord des Etats-Unis. La tension est montée en soirée avec coups de feu et cocktails Molotov.

Au total 117 personnes ont été arrêtées, ont annoncé les forces de l’ordre. Les autorités ont précisé que plusieurs coups de feu ont été tirés lors des échauffourées : une balle a touché à la main une personne « évacuée de force de la route par les manifestants », et trois autres coups de feu ont été tirés en direction de la police par un autre manifestant, sans faire de blessés ceux-ci.

Dans la nuit, plusieurs cocktails Molotov ont été lancés sur les forces de l’ordre et plusieurs feux ont été allumés, alors que les échauffourées se poursuivaient entre manifestants, au nombre de plusieurs centaines, et policiers.

« Equipements militaires »
Les forces de l’ordre, équipées de tenues anti-émeute, ont déployé des « véhicules et des équipements militaires », comme des canons à eau, pour déloger les manifestants qui bloquaient deux routes et s’étaient installés depuis le week-end sur des terrains privés, a raconté Sue Evans, porte-parole de la tribu sioux de Standing Rock.

#contestation #répression

Documentary film-makers face decades in prison for taping oil pipeline protests | US news | The Guardian

▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/20/north-dakota-oil-pipeline-protest-film-makers-face-prison?CMP=fb_gu

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Two documentary film-makers are facing decades in prison for recording US oil pipeline protests, with serious felony charges that first amendment advocates say are part of a growing number of attacks on freedom of the press.

The controversial prosecutions of Deia Schlosberg and Lindsey Grayzel are moving forward after a judge in North Dakota rejected “riot” charges filed against Democracy Now! host #Amy_Goodman for her high-profile reporting at the Dakota Access pipeline protests.

#pipe_lines #tubes #résister

How You Can Support Standing Rock
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/how-you-can-support-standing-rock

I am a settler on this land but have spent the past couple of years supporting indigenous battles against new oil pipelines. These are the front lines of the struggle to end the desecration of...

Erased by False Victory: Obama Hasn’t Stopped DAPL
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/erased-by-false-victory-obama-hasnt-stopped-dapl

All Native struggles in the United States are a struggle against erasure. The poisoning of our land, the theft of our children, the state violence committed against us — we are forced to not only...

#North_Dakota becomes first US state to legalise use of armed #drones by police

It is unclear whether local police departments will use weaponised devices, even though they are technically legal

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▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/north-dakota-becomes-first-us-state-to-legalise-use-of-armed-drones-b
#USA #it_has_begun #Etats-Unis #drones_armés #armes

#North_Dakota becomes first state to legalize weaponized #police #drones

A North Dakota law allows police to outfit drones with ’less-than-lethal’ weapons including stun guns and tear gas. The bill’s original sponsor says he didn’t want weapons of any kind on drones, but that the state law enforcement lobby altered the bill’s language.

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