By Glynn Wilson – Did Facebook Live just make cable news irrelevant? Not sure how to feel about that. But as I was about to turn off the news feed on Sunday night and switch to my favorite show on Netflix, up popped a notification saying Kevin “Happy Chappy” Gilbertt was live from the Standing…
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People Across the Globe Rally to Protest the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — People around the country and across the globe held demonstrations, rallies and marches protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota on Tuesday as the Standing Rock Sioux continued their vigil in the Sacred Stone camp at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannon Ball rivers.…
Standing Rock Sioux Pipeline Protest Wins Another Construction Delay
VIDEO: A day in the life of the Standing Rock Sioux Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp. By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – The protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline won another construction delay this week when the Obama administration announced Monday it would put off granting an easement for the pipeline to traverse…
Dakota Access Pipeline Could Be Placed on Hold for 30 Days
By Wes Enzinnanov – CANNON BALL, N.D. — Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II and other tribal authorities met with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council Building in Fort Yates, North Dakota this week. And according to activists and others in attendance, Colonel John W. Henderson, the…
From a Lakota Perspective, the Holocaust Against Native Americans Must End
Standing Rock Sioux Protest is About More than Stopping One Pipeline – By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – Justice Rowland, a young Lakota man camped out in the overflow Sacred Stone camp here, grew up in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. But back in April when he heard about the Standing Rock Sioux protest…