Action alert from Kendall Mackey at 350.org:
Friends,
I don’t know about you, but I am angry. Yesterday, Trump’s Executive Memorandum to approve and expedite the Dakota Access pipeline was realized.
The Army Corps of Engineers just announced that they will approve the final easement for the pipeline, throwing out the environmental review process started under the Obama Administration -- even though hundreds of thousands of people have already submitted public comments.
We will not be silenced. Thousands will take to the streets today to show our resistance, and we need you to be one of them.
Join the #NoDAPL emergency rally happening today at 5:00PM at the White House in Washington DC.
Here are the details:
What: Trump Can't Build Dakota Access Without a Fight!
When: Today, February 8 at 5:00PM
Where: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC
Who: Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, 350.org, Sierra Club, the International Indigenous Youth Council, and NoDAPL Medic and Healer Council.
RSVP to the Facebook event here.
Illegally forcing this project through is an obvious example of corruption -- not to mention a gross violation of Indigenous rights, and the science of climate action. Trump is putting people at risk in order to line the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.
But the resistance to the pipeline is still going strong. Just today, the city of Seattle divested $3 billion dollars from Wells Fargo because of its role in financing Dakota Access. And the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe already announced plans to take legal action against this decision.
Now it’s our job to show that the massive movement fighting to protect Standing Rock hasn’t gone away.
What we’ve seen from the Trump Administration over the last two weeks makes our job clear: we have to rise up and resist against an agenda that threatens people and the planet. No community is a sacrifice zone.
As hard as it is, we must keep fighting.
Mni Wiconi, Water is Life.
Kendall