The US Army Corps of Engineers announced it won’t grant easement to cross Lake Oahe for DAPL.
The final permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline has been denied and not only is it a huge victory for the protesters, it is also an example of how powerful relentless activism can be!
I’m on the verge of tears of happiness and I’m ever so thankful to the people who risked their lives to make a change.
Don’t let anyone tell you that protesting is useless ever again!✊🏾
Young native man from the Ojibwe nation, reports being openly targeted by a police officer using “non-lethal” weapons to cause serious harm.
“He shot me with a rubber bullet right in the belly button, and when I showed him that he had hurt me, he just smiled and shot both my kneecaps,” he said.
“I was tear gassed over 15 times, which made it hard to breathe and left my face burning for hours. I got hosed down with a water cannon in freezing temperatures leaving me hypothermic, and I was slammed into a barbed wire barricade out of panic caused by the police after a flash grenade was thrown and caught fire to a field,” said Cheyenne, a young native woman from Michigan, whose face was streaked with tear gas, and whose eyes were red and swollen.
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Yep. Thanksgiving. Native American Heritage Month. Celebrated in 2016 by encroaching on Native land and assaulting Native bodies.
It’s the traditional American way.
Oh yeah its the time of year to be thankful, therefore give thanks for rubber bullets, tear gas, water / sound cannons, concussion grenades and the freedoms for a bunch of evil bastards to attack groups of unarmed people without the “legal” ability to defend themselves.
Peter Paul Rubens, The Origins of the Milky Way, 1637
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Hyginus, Astronomica (Roman).
II.43 MILKY WAY
There is a certain circular figure among the constellations, white in color, which some have called the Milky Way. Eratosthenes says that Juno, without realizing it, gave milk to the infant Mercury, but when she learned that he was the son of Maia, she thrust him away, and the whiteness of the flowing milk appears among the constellations.
Others have said that Hercules was given to Juno to nurse when she slept. When she awoke, it happened as described above. Others, again, say that Hercules was so greedy that he couldn’t hold in his mouth all the milk he had sucked, and the Milky Way spilled over from his mouth.
Justin Trudeau is "an outright liar," one chief says.
A group of First Nations plans to launch a slew of legal challenges against the federal government over its approval of the Petronas liquefied natural gas (LNG) project near Prince Rupert, BC.
Calling Justin Trudeau “an outright liar,” Donnie Wesley, the highest ranking hereditary chief of Gitwilgyoots tribe, which has jurisdiction over Lelu Island where the LNG terminal would be built, said the project’s approval on Tuesday was “a slap in the face.”
Wesley told VICE News the federal decision “totally ignored” peer-reviewed, independent science submitted to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency that showed the project would seriously harm the salmon in the Skeena River, the second-largest salmon bearing river in BC, and a significant body of water for First Nations along the river.
“We don’t have a tentative date, but it will be within the 30-day [appeal] period,” Wesley said of his tribe’s legal action. “We’re going to be meeting next week to plan our strategies [and] where we’re going to go with this.”
Wesley’s tribe, along with other First Nation groups and west coast non-profit SkeenaWild, have met with lawyers and are fundraising to apply for judicial review of the decision.
A GoFundMe campaign launched yesterday in support of their legal challenge has raised $3,000 in 19 hours—but Greg Knox, executive director of SkeenaWild, says his group has already raised about $50,000 toward its legal fund, with more fundraising events planned.
“Aboriginal groups and SkeenaWild have been preparing to launch a series of legal actions, and are prepared to go all the way,” the fundraiser states.
“The Skeena Corridor Nations, a powerful group of hereditary leaders from Gitanyow, Lax Kw'alaams, Wet'suwet'en, Gitxsan, Takla, Lake Babine and Haida, are exploring all political and legal options for protecting the Skeena for the long-term.”
“We’ve been preparing for the last year,” Knox said. “Our lawyers are currently preparing to file for judicial reviews.”
“The Federal government failed Canadians by approving a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility overtop of critical salmon habitat in the Skeena Estuary. The project would be the largest climate polluter in Canadian history.”
Killing Animals Is Killing the Planet. Here’s Why...
Believe it or not, many people who care about the environment still have no idea that raising animals for food is so incredibly destructive.
Consider some of these facts:
Animal agriculture uses a whopping 56 percent of water in the United States. In fact, just one hamburger requires 660 gallons of water to produce—the equivalent of 2 months’ worth of showers.
Because animals are so densely packed on today’s industrial farms, they produce more manure than can be absorbed by the land as fertilizer. The runoff from these facilities grossly contaminates rivers and ground water.
Animal agriculture is culpable for nearly 91 percent of Amazon destruction according to The World Bank.
Raising animals for food (including land for grazing and growing feed crops) now uses over one-thirdof the earth’s landmass.
Factory farms have created more than 500 nitrogen-flooded dead zonesthroughout the world’s oceans.
Raising animals for food produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the cars, planes, and other forms of transportation combined.
Animals raised for food produce 7 million pounds of excrement every minute.
A pound of beef requires 13 percent more fossil fuels to produce than a pound of soy.
Overfishing is pushing our oceans to the brink of collapse, with over 90 percent of large fish at risk for total extinction.
But there’s good news too! Going vegan immediately cuts your CO2 emissions in half and spares countless animals from a lifetime of suffering on factory farms.
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