[act-ma] Fw: terrible news from Standing Rock:They need VETERANS and MEDIA in Standing Rock NOW!

[Maggie Zhou]

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      From a reliable and experienced activist on Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1835196253435181&id=100008344717252

This is very disturbing and just another manifestation of the growingfascism in our country.
Please read this latest, sad update from Standing Rock volunteer, DeborahMacKay - Warning: It's not pleasant. But you need to know this, andshare:

Friends, I have returned from Standing Rock with my mind blown, my heartbroken and my spirit troubled with foreboding of a deepening tragedy.Volunteering as a legal observer with the Water Protector LegalCollective I witnessed several confrontations between Water Protectors(WP) and law enforcement: national guard, sheriffs and private security(LE).

On 1/18/17 - 1/19/17 I observed WP with their hands in the air chanting“hands up don’t shoot� being fired upon at a range of 10 to 15feet. Tear gas canisters and rubber bullets ( rubber bullets are regularbullets covered in rubber) were used against unarmed WP who had beensinging and praying. I observed national guard chasing WP off theBackwater bridge, firing at people running away. I heard people chokingand gagging from tear gas. I saw access to the WP medic vehicles beingblocked. I spoke with medics and WP who described bullets penetratingflesh and causing terrible injuries, including to one media person whonearly lost his finger when his camera was targeted.

I talked with a media person and was told of 4 media people on the bridgethat night, 3 had their recording devices shot and the 4th, his hand. Isaw a photo of a sheriff aiming a rifle directly at a media woman who wasstanding apart from the crowd. I heard testimony of the back of the medicpickup truck being awash in blood after evacuating wounded.

I watched, and then, inadvertently became a part of, WP being forced offthe bridge by national guard who were hiding behind WP vehicles parkedalong the road and firing rubber bullets at fleeing people. Many peoplewere shot in the back, the neck, the head. When LE fired at people atclose range, many were shot in the genitals or in the face. I receivedinformation about DAPL security breaching the short wave radio channelsof the WP with taunts such as �come out and fight like men you faggotsor we will come to Camp and fuck your women.�

There are some young warriors, who, without the support of their elders,many who want the camps cleared to mitigate the economic and socialdamage being suffered by the local community in having the bridge closed,have vowed to not leave the camps or to let the last section of pipelinebe built.

Driving away from the area on Monday I saw a convoy of constructionvehicles heading to the drill pad. Last night an indigenous website livestreamed reports of drilling and construction noises coming from thedrill pad.

Without the eyes of a free press these attacks and trespasses continue,with the human rights and sovereignty of indigenous peoples denied. TheUN Committee on Transnational Corporations and Human Right Abuses was inStanding Rock this week to take testimony of the many transgressionsagainst people: crop dusters spraying poison pesticides and fertilizerson the camps; hair samples indicating the presence of these chemicals;people who have been injured, beat up, arrested, strip searched; mediaand medics being targeted by snipers; (one medic told me he stoppedwearing his Red Cross vest due to medics being targeted); praying peoplebeing attacked and the refusal of DAPL and our government to abide by theRule of Law.

The vets who came in Dec to stand down against these crimes need to be onthe ground there now, right now. We need to stand up for our brothers andour sisters, for their way of life and, I believe, for our socialcontract as a democracy which is now threatened.

Please share this so word gets out what is happening, thank you.

Deborah MacKay

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