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#NoDAPL (2016- ), rhymes with apple, is the Twitter name for the protests that started in April 2016 against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) . The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation says the pipeline threatens its sacred lands and its water supply, the Missouri River.
Water protectors: Over 8,000 protesters have gathered at Standing Rock. Among them are green activists, military veterans (unarmed) – and over 320 First Nations from throughout the Americas, the largest such gathering since at least the 1970s, if not the 1800s.
Crackdown: The heavy-handed crackdown by DAPL security, police and the National Guard on unarmed, largely peaceful protesters has featured attack dogs, tear gas, pepper spray, water cannons (even in freezing weather!), sound cannons, rubber bullets and concussion grenades. Hundreds have been arrested (Amy Goodman of Democracy Now among them), hundreds have been injured.
The United Nations on the crackdown:
“The use of…
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