TAKE ACTION:

Please join an urgent, national, coordinated day of action in solidarity with the No Dakota Access Pipeline-#NoDAPL movement called by 350.org (the global climate justice mobilization organization) and Indigenous and environmental partners at the request of Honor the Earth, the Indigenous Environmental Network and others.

On Tuesday, November 15, district offices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hear our voices as we stand with Standing Rock. The Army Corps of Engineers granted the construction permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Obama Administration has the power to revoke the permits and stop the pipeline at any time. This is part of a broader wave of action targeting decision-makers and stakeholders at every level, including banks that are funding the pipeline, politicians, and the mainstream media. Indigenous rights and sovereignty must be respected, and human rights abuses at Standing Rock must cease immediately. We stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters around the world. We demand the termination of the Dakota Pipeline; the protection of sacred waters everywhere; and the cessation of all fossil fuel projects.

EVENT DETAILS (This event will be peaceful and family-friendly):

4 PM -- Assemble at Foley Square (southern end of Thomas Paine Park), 111 Worth St in lower Manhattan, for an Indigenous-led Opening Ceremony, speakers, a brief on-site action training, etc.

5 PM -- Continuing with speakers, performances, and possible non-violent direct action.

PRE-EVENT TRAINING:

Monday, Nov 14, 6-9 PM, Riverside Church (South Hall), Riverside Drive between 120/122nd St on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

You are invited to participate in a pre-event training to prepare for the #NoDAPL 11/15 event and for future Resist Spectra actions (opposing the AIM pipeline, our local pipeline struggle). Our experienced trainers will coach us in: organizing, how to be 'leaderful' at the action, roles, know your rights, and legal issues. There will be practice time.

BACKGROUND:

Over the past week, thousands of peaceful and prayerful water protectors in North Dakota have been subjected to further dehumanizing attacks, including heavily armed, militarized police in riot gear and armored vehicles using rubber bullets at point blank range, pepper spray, concussion grenades, tasers, and sound cannons. Horses have been shot, and just in the past week, 141 protectors have been arrested. Many have been strip searched, held in dog kennels, and marked with numbers on their bodies. For the most part, the mainstream media has been silent as these atrocities have been perpetrated against American citizens on American soil.

If completed, the Dakota Access Pipeline would carry 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota’s fracking fields to Illinois. It would pass directly through the sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and under the Missouri River, the water source for more than 12 million people.

The pipeline is a direct threat to the life, rights, and water of the Standing Rock Sioux, thousands of whom have been peacefully resisting its construction for months. In a historic show of unity, hundreds of tribes and many non-Indigenous allies have joined this struggle. They are dedicated to peacefully protecting the water and standing up for Indigenous rights, self-determination, and sovereignty. Those engaging in peaceful resistance at Standing Rock understand, too, that all fossil fuel projects must be stopped if there is to be any hope of averting runaway climate change.

Please join us on Tuesday, November 15, as we stand with Standing Rock. This is a struggle for water, for human rights, and for a safe future for us all. If you would like to co-sponsor this event, please let us know on this page.

We would also appreciate your signing up (and sharing!) on the Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1146251982077543/

To date, the co-sponsors for this action are:

350 Brooklyn
350 NJ
350 NYC
Beloved Earth of Riverside Church
Blauvelt Dominican Sisters
Bohio Atabei Jaguar-Inaruono Yuka Aroa Guaribono
Bronx Climate Justice North (a 350.org affiliate)
Brooklyn for Peace
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture-Ethical Action Co.
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
ClimateMama
Coalition to Ban Unsafe Oil Trains
Eagle and Condor Community Center (Astoria)
Essex County Green Party
Food & Water Watch
Guerrilla Republik New York Chapter
Hackensack Riverkeeper
Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3)
Jewish Climate Action Network
Labor for Standing Rock
Noble 9 Collective
NYC International Socialist Organization
NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective-(NYC Indigenous academics and students organizing solidarity & support from Lenape territory for the Standing Rock Sioux Defenders.)
PCM-NY (People's Climate Movement-NY)
Ramapough Lenape Nation
Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture
Roseland Against the Compressor Station
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Network
Sane Energy Project
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter
Socialist Action
South Bronx Unite
The Peace Poets
The Ruckus Society
United Confederation of Taino People
United Urban Warrior Society, NYC Chapter
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
World Can't Wait

Thank you to Isaac Murdoch, Ojibway artist, for his beautiful NoDAPL artwork.