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Street Roots • Nov. 11-17, 2016
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Standing together
ortlanders who checked into Standing Rock, N.D., on Facebook last week in
a virtual show of solidarity will have another opportunity to turn their
slacktivism into direct action on Tuesday.
Organizers are gearing up for what will be the third solidarity rally in Portland,
this time at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District office at 333 SW
First Ave. The rally begins at 4 p.m. and will include a march to a secondary
location.
The Portland protest is one of more than 100 taking place around the globe on
Nov. 15 in what organizers are calling a “massive day of action.”
Rallies will be held at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district headquarters
around the U.S., including in Phoenix,
Dallas, Los Angeles, New Orleans,
Nashville and Omaha.
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activist Christopher Kuttruff.
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pipeline without having the permit to
build beneath the Missouri River,” said
Kuttruff.
He said protesters will also demand the corps
conduct a full environmental impact review of the
pipeline, which is expected to transport 470,000
barrels of volatile Bakken oil per day from North
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Dakota to Illinois.
The pipeline, which is nearing completion, plows
A t top, Police stand guard during a stand o ff with demonstrators on a bridge during a protest o f the
Dakota Access pipeline on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Cannon Ball, N D ..N W . o.
Center a protester cries during the march at Standing Rock. Bottom right, a woman from the Navaho
tribe stands in front o f two trucks on a bridge. Bottom left, police use pepper spray against people
standing in the water o f a river at the Standing Rock protest, Nov. 6.
REUTERS/STEPHANIE KEITH
through land members of the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe say belongs to them under an 1851 treaty. It’s
land they say they never ceded, and it contains sites
sacred to the tribe. Additionally, they say the pipeline
poses a major threat to their single source of water,
the Missouri River.
Since the protests at Standing Rock began last
summer, hundreds of protesters have been arrested,
tear gassed and pepper sprayed, and journalists
attempting to cover the controversial project have
been intimidated, charged with crimes and even shot
at with rubber bullets by police.
Among dozens of groups acting in solidarity with
Standing Rock is 350 PDX. Its president, Adriana Voss-Andreae, urges everyone
in the Portland area to come join Tuesday’s solidarity protest.
“As a movement, we’ll continue to fight until native sovereignty is honored,
indigenous rights are protected, and our communities, water and climate matter
more than fossil fuel profits,” she said.
To learn about other ways you can stand with Standing Rock, visit www.rop.
org/solidarity-standing-rock.