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Ways You Can Support The Water Defenders In North Dakota

No matter where you are, you can help defeat the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Ways You Can Support The Water Defenders In North Dakota
Montgomery Brown

In historic numbers, indigenous communities have come together around the Missouri and Cannonball rivers in North Dakota to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline in solidarity with the local Standing Rock residents whose water source is threatened by the proposed fuel transport pipeline.

The effort has centered around indigenous people using nonviolent direct action to halt construction of the project, often to dangerous opposition, including tear gas and violent attack dogs and life-threatening methods of removing peaceful demonstrators from machinery.

Of those of us not present in the Sacred Stone, Oceti Sakowin and Red Warrior camps, the following are some requests that have been made:

Click here to find or organize a local solidarity action in your own community from September 3-17. To sign the petition to stop the pipeline's construction, click here. To sign the Pledge to Resist the Dakota Access Pipeline,click here. To sign up to volunteer at the Camp of the Sacred Stones, click here.

The official supply list for the Camp of the Sacred Stones is made up of high priority tools and necessary items. The camp also regularly updates its Amazon wishlist.

The address to send donations to the camp is:

Sacred Stone Camp

P.O. Box 1011

Fort Yates, ND 58538

Supplying the campers with basic food items is also an essential way of supporting them:

To donate money to the effort, the legal defense fund covers legal expenses for the demonstrators, this GoFundMe supports general camp functions, and the camp has a PayPal

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The Red Warrior Camp has its own legal fund at this page, and donations can be made to the following address:

Red Warrior Camp

B1E 00N02 Agency Ave

Fort Yates, ND 58538

The Red Warrior Camp also requests the following urgent needs for its medic tent:

The Defenders of the Water School, for children and youth of the Oceti Sakowin camp, is also in need of supplies and curricular resources:

Finally, support the resistance from wherever you are by following and sharing from their social media and spreading their stories as their fight continues.

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