By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Last Thursday, an arrest warrant was issued under the header “North
Dakota versus Amy Goodman.” The charge was for criminal trespass. The
actual crime? Journalism. We went to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
to cover the growing opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Global attention has become focused on the struggle since Labor Day
weekend, after pipeline guards unleashed attack dogs and pepper spray on
Native American protesters. On that Saturday, at least six bulldozers
were carving up the land along the pipeline route, where archeological
and sacred sites had been discovered by the tribe. The Dakota Access
Pipeline company obtained the locations of these sites just the day
before, in a court filing made by the tribe. Many feel that the company
razed the area, destroying the sites, before an injunction could be
issued to study them.
Scores of people, mostly Native American, raced to the scene,
demanding the bulldozers leave. The guards pepper-sprayed, punched and
tackled the land defenders. Attack dogs were unleashed, biting at least
six people and one horse.
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Source: Democracy Now!
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