Our History is the Future: The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Resistance

August 18, 2020Leave a comment

17 August 2020 — Climate & Capitalism

Book Review

The Dakota Access Pipeline fight continues the long history of struggle against colonial settler genocide and ecological vandalism.

Nick Estes
OUR HISTORY IS THE FUTURE
Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Resistance
Verso Books, 2019

reviewed by Simon Butler

A US district court ruled on July 6 that the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) must be shut down and emptied of oil, pending a full environmental review of the project. In March, the same court found the US Army Corps had wrongfully approved the pipeline in 2016. The Army Corps failed to assess the DAPL’s potential to cause devastating oil spills. Responding to the ruling, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Mike Faith said: “This pipeline should have never been built here. We told them that from the beginning.”

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At DAPL, Confiscating Cameras as Evidence of Journalism

October 29, 2016Leave a comment

29 October 2016 — FAIR

Interccpt footage of riot police at DAPL protest

Riot police confront demonstrators over the Dakota Access Pipeline. (image: The Intercept, 10/25/16)

While elite media wait for the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline to go away so they can return to presenting their own chin-stroking as what it means to take climate change seriously, independent media continue to fill the void with actual coverage.

One place you can go to find reporting is The Intercept (10/25/16), where journalist Jihan Hafiz filed a video report from North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies continue their stand against the sacred site–trampling, water supply–threatening project.

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Charges Dropped Against Amy Goodman–No Thanks to Corporate Media

October 18, 20161 Comment

18 October 2016 — FAIR

Amy Goodman announcing the dismissal of charges against her outside the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan, North Dakota (Democracy Now!, 10/17/16).

North Dakota District Judge John Grinsteiner stood up for the First Amendment by dismissing “riot” charges against Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!, 10/17/16). That’s more than you can say for most of Goodman’s corporate media colleagues.

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