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Post by donk on Oct 10, 2016 11:21:33 GMT -5
I'm guessing the helicopter hovering over the tent turning on william's laptop has something to do with it (my cookies were wiped from phone when we left), but his upload won't embed, when I tried on EE it gives the "this video does not exist" static, even though it's there if you go to channel: william sanford
Bizarre
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Post by donk on Oct 28, 2016 8:03:27 GMT -5
HEY!!! It made the mainstream news: www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protests/Here's Robert Reich's FB comment on it: Here's what I had to say: The Bundy Ranch thing played a big role in my calling to go to Standing Rock, I could not understand how there was national coverage of some white people's ranch land dispute literally in the middle of absolutely NOWHERE (Eastern Oregon makes that part of North Dakota seem URBAN), yet this thing that is uniting all the tribes of the world, 30-40 miles down the road from the capital city, potentially effecting MILLIONS, is not getting a lick of attention.
As much as to try to help to protect the water and experience what i consider a historical event, I went to see first hand something being twisted in the few crumbs of "news" that had been allowed to that point, and found how impossible those that provide our information have made it to discern anything meaningful that actually coincides with actual reality.
We have to be really good at lying to ourselves to be able to muck through this existence and hold the cognitive dissonances required to be ok with it.
Nearly everything we "know" is lies, or based on lies. Every piece of information we are provided is an emotional manipulation. We need to learn a balance...mature and loving emotional detachment from our beliefs so that we can THINK clearly and honestly about what we FEEL, what's important to us......It was a real shitshow yesterday, I assume which will continue today. They have a friggin army of enforcers, shots were fired, people hit (and beat up), a horse was killed...MAYBE it might get a fraction of the coverage the white rancher's land dispute in Eastern Oregon got now?
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Post by donk on Nov 16, 2016 8:50:26 GMT -5
This morning a friend asked me to write a high level overview of what is going on in Standing Rock out in North Dakota, where there's a protest I went out to see trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from being built under the Missouri River and through more native sacred land.
My babe called me up to the bedroom as I sat down to type, as the first time she's seen it mentioned on the news (which she watches every morning to get the weather as I hide in a different room, away from the teevee which irritates me anytime the news is on, even when it's not saying anything I should be irritated by). Anyway I had already began formulating what I was going to write about it, and the 20 or so misleading pile of horseshit was synchronistic, more support for my thoughts at th moment.
I was asked to start a conversation, and funny enough my trip out there with a conversation about Standing Rock, about there being a lack of conversation (or any real information) about it. My friend from Iowa, who I'd never personally met, where I'd never actually been, was "called" to go for his own reasons as well as several like my own, but we 100% shared the suspicion that something real and important was going on there, and that we weren't going to get idea of what it was unless we saw it for ourselves.
We shared for a passion for trying to discern meaningful information from the sea of seemingly endless nonsense we are drowning from all forms of media from all directions. We shared the belief that the type of activism that is widely publicized, like "occupy" movements, lockins and boycotts and blocking streets type protests, letter writing to Congress/POTUS, voting, and the like were about as meaningful and productive as lighting ourselves on fire, which neither of us are particularly into.
So maybe it was the lack of coverage (fueling our suspicions that we are never allowed to hear anything real or actionable or threatening to the status quo in any form of media), maybe it was our "woo-woo seeming calling", as we talked on the phone with our significant others in the room, both encouraging us to go, as life circumstances actually made it perfect timing to leave our family for a couple weeks, or maybe it was something else...I dunno, I just know it all are together, I got in "doing" mode...any planning ended in ways opposite of my (and our, once we connected) intentions so at some point we didn't even try. We stopped talking and started DOING.
Sorry to be long winded, just trying to set the stage. We were as in the dark as anyone else, having NO idea of what we were getting into. Maybe my new friend had heard out on his Iowa farm, but in my east coast suburban sprawl the only place I ever could have possibly heard that the Lakota Sioux native to the area had called all the tribes of the world to come help them at Standing Rock back in April, after the DAPL plowed right through their sacred burial grounds, on the way to endangering an estimated 19 million Americans' drinking water...breaking just about any regulation imposed on their industry on the way.
Of course, I didn't find this out until I got there. I'm not sure I'd have even believed it if I just saw it in the internet, and I certainly haven't seen/heard anything close to that in any form of mainstream media. But that's what it is, an indigenous tribe we failed to completely genocide back in the "manifest destiny" days had enough of getting shit on in the scrap of land we forced them to contain themselves to, asked for help, from the world, to prevent an energy concern from putting their (and everyone downstream's) water at risk.
The call was answered by thousands...how any of them heard? I can only guess that only they know. I suppose each individual has their own story to tell...hopefully not as boring and rambling as mine. But I'm pretty sure any would love to tell you, if you are willing to listen. And I'm sure there's plenty that will tell ya even if you aren't. The diversity of the water protectors is unimaginable, so much so that I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it in person.
But what we all had in common is some nuggets of truth that can only be verified by participating, unifying the hundreds of nations represented there:
-a tribe made a call to the world to help them protect their way of life -the invite was conditional, you are only welcome if you come in non-violence with a clear head: no weapons or intoxicants of any kind are tolerated anywhere near the camp -Through peaceful protest and prayer, the unifying purpose is to do whatever can be done to prevent Energy Transfer Partners from building any more of the DAPL -The corporation enjoys the protection of local law enforcement and federal military forces, as well as their own (unchecked) heavily armed security contractors and not-so-local law enforcement from other states -Every "action" the water protectors organize on a "sanctioned" level from within the camp requires training, which focuses on the importance of non-violence while focusing on one goal: preventing the workers from doing their jobs, following their orders -The pipe will transport energy resources (I believe crude oil derived from Canadian tar sands?) through the US to the guild for export...all of the risk to we the people, all the benefit (profit) to the corporations (corporate shareholders) -Every time work on the DAPL is successfully prevented adds hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the project, the endgame for the Stand is to make DAPL a bad investment so they stop building it...or as the natives like to say, "KILL THE BLACK SNAKE"
I brought my (seemingly endless, sorry) personal context into it to show that how the whole thing is many things to each individual. It is a microcosm of real life, with reflections on the personal interaction level all the way up to national elections and geopolitics...if you look close enough, you can find something in the Stand that relates to any issue you can imagine.
But the fact of the matter is, this isn't a bunch of Indians and hippies blocking highways and occupying or protesting injustices by "the Man" that they are personally emotionally attached to. This thing is REAL. An environment was created where real action is having a direct effect in making a change of a tangible, REAL injustice in a single place sacred to the people that feel they have a right to live there. The forces they are protecting their home from are violating the rules that the authority that protects created.
That's why you will never see clear information about it in the media that is owned and controlled by that very same authority. Because it is about a practical way to hold authority accountable. The practices by the energy companies are widespread throughout the country, out in remote areas where it would be hard for anyone to even notice, let alone tell anyone about. If attention was brought to this, the status quo would be threatened, and victims of the abuse....ALL OF US, each person who is not making selfish decisions for their own profit at the expense of ALL life...might just start feeling empowered, or desperate and informed enough to force change.
#NoDAPL is about the lies we tell ourselves about civilization. It's about saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH to the those who teach us life is about taking what you can no matter who you have to use and what the cost to others. It is an example of how the average joe can make a meaningful change in the seemingly impenetrable system that's sucked so much life from this world already.
If they (we) can stop them there, if they (we) can do it while staying on the peaceful path (rather than the system generated WAR mentality we are programmed with), a blueprint for wider-spread change will be created. Something tangible that those fence-sitters or those in total fear can look to for inspiration to act, in their own self interest for a change.
The only black-and-white in this whole thing is that human beings that want their way of life considered as much the corporate entity that is imposing its way of life on them. Right now, their considerable resources are confusing the hearts and minds of "we the people" by completely hiding the fact our tax dollars are going toward protecting a pipeline, hiding information about how it is being done (especially the risk to US).
Historically, the brute force and manipulating minds always seems to have succeeded....the few benefitting from the many status quo has been maintained through my life and the history I have learned. Maybe if the humans at Standing Rock can find a unity and stay strong, we can see some historical positive change.
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Post by donk on Dec 1, 2016 8:36:47 GMT -5
This was good, love you Christine!!! ...somebody get this up on PA
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Post by donk on Dec 10, 2016 10:24:58 GMT -5
I guess this is where "real life" and the alternative collide...through these forums, this community, I got to be pretty good friends with Christine, as everyone I assume reding knows was Bill Ryan's wife. She beasted out the cold for over a month, here's her latest post on the Book:
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Post by donk on Dec 16, 2016 11:03:41 GMT -5
The Red Warrior Camp left, the organizers against all the direct action against the "black snake". Not good in my opinion, we shall see I guess...
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Post by donk on Dec 16, 2016 11:03:43 GMT -5
This ain't good...these are the folks that organized all the "sanctioned actions" that actually stopped the work and faced pipe protectors:
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