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Not Raising Hell in Standing Rock: "We're Here to Stop a Pipeline"

As my buddy Rob reminds me: there’s a point to everything that’s been going on in Standing Rock. It’s important to not lose sight of that.

See, this whole campaign in Standing Rock has produced some powerful and infuriating visuals and storylines. In real time, Facebook Live and Democracy Now and Unicorn Riot and every once in a while mainstream media has captured the disrespect and state violence that Native people have faced for centuries. Mainstream media has largely sucked—CNN has been especially bad, probably worse than even FoxNews—but some outlets have chronicled the disrespect.

The disrespect is not new. The violence is not new. The dehumanizing treatment on behalf of the state is not new. There has always, since the first Europeans landed on these shores, been a good portion of white people who had no trepidation about committing violence upon Native people. Now, fortunately, there are also allies of every color, including white. And those allies can see, via amazing technology, that they need to get involved and support those folks who are being violently oppressed.

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/11/01/not-just-raising-hell-standing-rock-were-here-stop-pipeline-166304

 

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