DAPL looms with Trump's support. This means a continued legacy of stolen land and poisoned water. This means genocide.
The single easiest and most impactful thing you can do this very week: divest your money from DAPL.
The one thing the backers of pipeline projects care about is money!
Step 1: Find a credit union or a bank that doesn't support pipelines (Amalgamated Bank in New York just for example... but I love my Credit Union!! see if you can sign up for a credit union through your job! Shop around!
Or find local Black-owned banks and credit unions to support through a simple Google search!!)
Step 2: Close your account with banks supporting DAPL and Energy Transfer Partners (BofA, Citi, Chase, Wells Fargo, TD, pretty much all the big ones).
If you're of a dramatic disposition, make a spectacle out of it! Film it! At the very least do take pictures and post them on social media #bankexit #nodapl #defundDAPL
Step 3: contact your branch representative and let them know exactly why you closed your account, because you can't be a part of funding genocide, trampling Indigenous Land Rights, and causing irreparable damage to our air, water, wildlife, and climate.
Encourage them to see the light and invest in clean green energy projects, which are the future.
Again, what these people understand is money. Make investments in Fossil Fuel a losing proposition!
Step 4: Log on to DefundDAPL.org, where they are keeping track of how much money is being divested, and enter your total!! Every little bit helps!
Step 5: Keep fighting! Stay tuned! Keep learning!
And keep environmental racism and indigenous rights, from Flint to Standing Rock and beyond at the center of your environmentalism! 💥
