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Indigenous Peoples
Who Will Speak for Indigenous Peoples at the UN General Assembly?
As diplomats arrive in New York, representatives for the more than 400 million indigenous peoples globally will not be among them.
Climate Justice Meets Racism: This Moment at Standing Rock Was Decades in the Making
Many people of Standing Rock are not surprised by the extreme response of law enforcement against activists.
Water Protectors at Standing Rock React to Obama’s Intervention in Dakota Access Pipeline Battle
We begin today's show with major updates in the fight by Native Americans to stop the proposed $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.
A Test of US Climate Leadership Will Be the Treatment of the Standing Rock Sioux
Can we trust Clinton-Kaine promises of an energy future “where no one is left out or left behind”?
President Obama: Pull the DAPL Permit, Do the Climate Test
We should see DAPL as no different than Keystone XL, and treat it as such.
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Jill Stein Spray Paints a Bulldozer and More Protesters Lock Down at #NoDAPL
Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said Tuesday that Stein would be charged with trespassing and vandalism.
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native Americans With Dogs and Pepper Spray
The pipeline has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Did the Dakota Access Pipeline Company Deliberately Destroy Sacred Sioux Burial Sites?
As bulldozers cleared earth, hundreds of Native Americans from many different tribes rushed onto the construction site to protect the sacred site.
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Tainted Water Imperils Health, Traditions for Montana Tribe
For Native American tribes, water more than sustains — it is a blessed, living thing to be revered and protected.
Whatever It Takes: Another Day on the Front Lines of #NoDAPL
A total of eight Water Protectors were arrested over the course of Wednesday's direct action.