Posted on Nov 25, 2016
Flooded With Support, Standing Rock Vets Ramp Up Operation And Brace For Showdown
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As donations and volunteers pour in, Veterans Stand For Standing Rock prepares for a sizeable “deployment” to halt progress on the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Veterans Stand For Standing Rock, the group planning to “deploy” hundreds of military veterans to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in early December, has raised upward of $80,000 on GoFundMe in the past 48 hours, bringing the total to more than $100,000 at the time of this writing. The surge in donations has coincided with a wave of media attention the group has received over the past two days. The organizers also raised their original campaign goal from $100,000 to $200,000, a sign of their increasing confidence that they will draw big numbers to the protest on Dec. 4.
Veterans Stand For Standing Rock, the group planning to “deploy” hundreds of military veterans to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in early December, has raised upward of $80,000 on GoFundMe in the past 48 hours, bringing the total to more than $100,000 at the time of this writing. The surge in donations has coincided with a wave of media attention the group has received over the past two days. The organizers also raised their original campaign goal from $100,000 to $200,000, a sign of their increasing confidence that they will draw big numbers to the protest on Dec. 4.
Flooded With Support, Standing Rock Vets Ramp Up Operation And Brace For Showdown
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I am siding with American Indians because I'm tired of them getting the shaft every time our government decides to take more of their reservation property. What will happen, if not now, but later down the road if the pipeline leaks into their water supply, which is on their reservation? That's one of several reasons not to impede on their property. Also, the sacred burial grounds will be disturbed with the land being dozed up and trenches dug for the pipeline. Are the Indians going to receive any money or royalties on their property? I doubt it. It hasn't been mentioned. That could be a way around the protests, unless their land is more important to them than the money. This is my opinion.
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Don't get hurt or into serious trouble. I admire you for doing that. Keep us posted about your experiences.
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Hopefully this will be a peaceful protest. I have one question. Why are they protesting the pipeline? I think that information was left out of this article.
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SSG Shavonde Chase
MSgt Richard Randall - Thanks for adding to the discussing. Your information is quite helpful in understanding both sides of this debate.
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MSgt Richard Randall - Maybe the American Indian is just damned sick and tired of our government doing what they want to with all of the iIndian reservations throughout the U.S. I don't have to be a resident to know what's happening. It's been going on since the treaties were signed.
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PO2 Brandon Boucher
So I have recently returned to refit, reload, and return. This is very much about water, but it is also about sovereignty and sacred sites, not "sacred earth" these are two very different things to the Native Peoples. The original Treaty of 1851 that was signed at Ft. Laramie gave the Lakota nation all the land south of the heart river in ND to the North Platte River in SD and as far west as the Power River in WY. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills, the US Government redrew the boundaries of the treaty so they could exploit the mineral rights. The US Government has never once honored an original treaty with the indigenous people. This is about sacred and sovereign rights, not just about a pipeline.
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