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Thanksgiving: Native Americans Are Being Tear-Gassed in North Dakota

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On Thanksgiving Week, Native Americans Are Being Tear-Gassed in North Dakota

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Thanksgiving began in the fall of 1621 when a group of Native Americans joined with newly arrived English settlers to create a harvest feast together and protect each other from violence.

This year, as Americans pick out their turkeys and count their blessings, members of the Sioux Nation in Standing Rock, North Dakota, reported being attacked with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in subfreezing temperatures as they protested an oil pipeline that threatens to contaminate their water and disrupt their sacred sites. Approximately 300 Native American and non-native protesters were injured in one 10-hour clash with law enforcement on Sunday evening, according to the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council, and 26 were taken to hospitals with severe head and limb wounds, eye trauma, internal bleeding and hypothermia from being doused with water in 22-degree weather.

“Basically, it’s an act of war,” said Frank Sanchez, a delegate from the Yankton Sioux Tribe, in an interview with The Huffington Post
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The Morton County Sheriff’s Department said the demonstrators were being violent. The Sioux ― who have long suffered economically ― say the blocked-off bridge is the main access point to their reservation, and they are trying to protect the land and water that have sustained them for centuries.
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I know there is another thread on this, but the Huffington Post article is really good, and hopefully means more mainstream news will start covering this. 300 people were injured when the police attacked, and 26 were hospitalized. This is fucking NUTS.

In the meantime, the Sioux will be celebrating Thanksgiving alongside hundreds of non-native allies who have joined the protests in North Dakota. For Native Americans, Sanchez said, Thanksgiving “is just another day.”

“When we wake up in the morning, we say thank you all day long ― for creation, for life. Things are beautiful, people are beautiful, little babies, everything I see. This coffee is excellent,” he said, smiling and pointing at the Starbucks cup in his hand.

“But people need to realize that these situations still exist in this country. We’re not savages, but there have been times when we had to prove we were human. These wounds need to be addressed and healed in order to really be thankful.”
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Amnesty International is also on site observing. Let that sink in.


Five ways to donate to Standing Rock:

https://www.bustle.com/articles/196...pipeline-protests-this-thanksgiving-in-5-ways
 
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wenis

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Is it really a clash when one side has their bodies and the other has mega-hoses, rubber bullets and concussion grenades?

This is all fucking disgusting and disheartening. I'll continue to send money and purchase supplies for their group as long as they stay out there.
 
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Ogodei

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They're going to start shooting back eventually. Not that it would end well for them, but the mercs and cops in on this are playing a very dangerous game.
 
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Hellwarden said:
No one is gonna pick up on this, because no one gives a shit.

The people in power right now don't give a shit.
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We could all start collectively giving a shit

Nothing but face palms today reading the OT forum. So much of this shit is unbelievable. We need to drastically re think our country and priorities for anyone here in America

:(
 
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This is the real reason the democrats lost the election. We have this going on and they're doing jack shit despite having two more months of government. The democrats say they speak for us, the people. They say they represent the every man and our interests, but when shit hits the fan they are nowhere to be seen.

Drain that swamp.

Establishment democrats need to get out immediately.
 
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I'm going to be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow with my family and all I'll be thinking about is how much I wish I could be up there right now helping these people fight against one of the grossest examples of police brutality in recent memory. If I had more money I'd have bought a plane ticket today.
 
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Garlador

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For a culture so afraid of immigrants, we sure treat the people we supplanted with such anger and hatred.

I'm only a quarter Cherokee, but I'll stand with them to the bitter end and help however I can.
 
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capitalCORN

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Absolutely disgusting. To meet real concerns with such violence is never warranted. I hope there's a hell just for these fuckers.
 
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Count Dookkake

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If you want to cause some discomfort in your network of friends and acquaintances, do what I just did:

Take your favorite picture of police brutality against the water protectors, upload it to FB and slap on a "Happy Thanksgiving" sticker.

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Count Dookkake said:
If you want to cause some discomfort in your network of friends and acquaintances, do what I just did:

Take your favorite picture of police brutality against the water protectors, upload it to FB and slap on a "Happy Thanksgiving" sticker.
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Brilliant idea.
 
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I don't understand why this doesn't get more media coverage. Even if you remove the moral imperative of exposing this abhorrent situation, it's still a dramatic, "exciting" story that would surely get the networks tons of viewers.
 
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KO Traveling Hobo said:
I don't understand why this doesn't get more media coverage. Even if you remove the moral imperative of exposing this abhorrent situation, it's still a dramatic, "exciting" story that would surely get the networks tons of viewers.
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Because this is a government backed operation. It's why you haven't heard anything from the white house either. Plus the media is mostly focused on the incoming president and not what's happening RIGHT NOW.
 
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KO Traveling Hobo said:
I don't understand why this doesn't get more media coverage. Even if you remove the moral imperative of exposing this abhorrent situation, it's still a dramatic, "exciting" story that would surely get the networks tons of viewers.
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News media bought and paid for. Republicans and Democrats alike.
 
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Count Dookkake said:
If you want to cause some discomfort in your network of friends and acquaintances, do what I just did:

Take your favorite picture of police brutality against the water protectors, upload it to FB and slap on a "Happy Thanksgiving" sticker.

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Too tiny.

Peeps should start shopping these so I can pick out my 'favorite' one to post tomorrow.
 
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Where I can donate to them? I'm really disappointed and upset this is happening.
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Here - Oceti Sakowin Camp

Here - Standing Rock Sioux

You can call the people who have the ability to do something.

A. Jack Dalrymple, Governor of North Dakota: 701-328-2200
B. Army Corps of Engineers (demand to reverse the permit): 202-761-5903

C. The executives at Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline.

i. Lee Hanse
Executive Vice President
(210) 403-6455
ii. Glenn Emery
Vice President
(210) 403-6762
iii. Michael (Cliff) Waters
Lead Analyst
(713) 989-2404
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Found HERE
 
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smokeandmirrors

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Fucking assholes. Fucking cowards. The police are a fascist organization meant to preserve the wealth of the rich. Nothing more nothing less. More people need to realize this.

acab.
 
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Ogodei said:
They're going to start shooting back eventually. Not that it would end well for them, but the mercs and cops in on this are playing a very dangerous game.
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That's the likely intention. Break these people down until someone shoots at the cops, giving them justification to just rout them with military weaponry.
 
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How do you figure the mainstream media isn't covering this story? NYT just today did an interactive explaining the pipeline. More an overview than a coverage of the violence but this isn't there first story on it. WaPo covered the use of water hoses in subzero weather a couple days ago. NPR, Newshour, AP, The Guardian have all run stories in the last week.
 
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Donated.

My mother who has been active in the Connecticut Native American community through charity work, donations and supporting Native American businesses just found out about their GoFundMe and is probably going to donate her holiday bonus to this. Contention between us be damned I've always been proud at her support of Native Americans over the years.
 
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Brakke said:
How do you figure the mainstream media isn't covering this story? NYT just today did an interactive explaining the pipeline. More an overview than a coverage of the violence but this isn't there first story on it. WaPo covered the use of water hoses in subzero weather a couple days ago. NPR, Newshour, AP, The Guardian have all run stories in the last week.
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I think they just rarely get top billing. They got drowned out by Trump having a spat with Hamilton instead. That kind of stuff.

You have to grab people's attention somehow. A dramatic headline. Involve something a generic white person would care about. Make it culturally significant and hard to avoid.

Having a story alone isn't enough anymore.
 
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Approximately 300 Native American and non-native protesters were injured, according to the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council, and 26 were taken to hospitals with severe head and limb wounds, eye trauma, internal bleeding and hypothermia from being doused with water in 22-degree weather.
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But let's give police and corporations more power.
 
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Count Dookkake said:
If you want to cause some discomfort in your network of friends and acquaintances, do what I just did:

Take your favorite picture of police brutality against the water protectors, upload it to FB and slap on a "Happy Thanksgiving" sticker.

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Thanks for this. Needs to fucking happen. FUCK your cranberry.
 
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Jackpot said:
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Honest question.

What can we do? This shit makes my blood boil but I feel utterly helpless, particularly since the election is going to just ramp up this behavior. I don't know what to do other than rage into the internet, while they get tear gassed.
 
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It's doubtful that our next governor, Burgundy, will do anything about this and the current governor has already picked the oil companies side.

Plus the ND legislature canceled an annual meeting with the tribe. Shows how much shit they give.
 
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Brakke said:
How do you figure the mainstream media isn't covering this story? NYT just today did an interactive explaining the pipeline. More an overview than a coverage of the violence but this isn't there first story on it. WaPo covered the use of water hoses in subzero weather a couple days ago. NPR, Newshour, AP, The Guardian have all run stories in the last week.
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Think about how the big television networks are covering this against how they covered say, Ferguson. There are no news vans there streaming video. There are no helicopters. There are a few reporters writing articles, and that's it.
 
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