Despite Police & Private Security Attacks, Standing Rock Resistance Continues. Water Is Life!

NTLB North Texas Light Brigade action in solidarity with the Protectors at #SacredStoneCamp.

In support of the Standing Rock Reservation and the thousands standing up against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the American Indian Movement Of Central Texas (AIMCTX) hosted a demonstration in Dallas at the corporate headquarters of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), owners of the company constructing the pipeline. As part of the event, the NTLB North Texas Light Brigade gathered at the offices of the petro-pipeline giant to do a lighting and projection, displaying the messages: #StopDAPL; #WaterIsLife; #StopETP; and ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS: #StopDAPL. Special thanks to the Backbone Campaign. Photos by Linda Cooke Frankie Orona, Ernest Jones, Erica Altes Cole, Cindy Freeling, Joseph Smith, Danna Miller Pyke, Pamela Young, Yolonda BlueHorse, Connie Koch, Leslie Harris, Kit Jones, Deborah Beltran

The state of North Dakota continues to paint indigenous peoples as aggressors, as violent, as expendable people undeserving of basic human rights. They have blockaded us in. They have taken our drinking water. They have taken our medical support. And today, their police stood by as Dakota Access private security maced and attacked men and women with trained dogs.