The temperature was 25 degrees. Dozens were treated for hypothermia. Photo Credit: MagicZoetrope / Flickr
By Alexandra Rosemann / Alternet
Police used water cannons and tear gas against hundreds of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, late Sunday, Nov. 20. At least one person was arrested and dozens injured.
The confrontation began at 6pm, near the encampment were the protests against the $3.8 billion pipeline have been ongoing for months. According to the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, 400 protesters attempted to cross Blackwater Bridge on state Highway 1806 after removing a burned-out truck.
Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline developer, has refused to reroute the pipeline and insists that the pipeline has not disturbed any sites sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux. But the tribe and their allies also fear that, like with many pipeline projects across the nation, a disastrous leak is inevitable.
Protesters received aid at the Cannon Ball gym after being doused with tear gas according to Tara Houska, an organizer with Honor the Earth, one of the groups participating in the action.
“Further delays simply prolong the risks to public safety, prolong the hardships endured by area residents and increase costs incurred by the state of North Dakota and Morton County,” North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple said in a statement in which he asked law enforcement for assistance in handling protests.
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It’s time to take back this country by force of the people. There are more of us than there are of them. Thank goodness Obama never came for our guns. Violence is the only way to fight the big businesses running this country. The response to non-violent protesters is evidence of that. They brought this on themselves. No mercy.
Who expects to make revolution by advertising it?
Planting the seeds to garner support. I can’t do it alone.
It’s one thing to defend oneself in the face of attacks. If punched, punch back. But this is not the forum to garner support for violence.
That’s why nothing will ever change. People let themselves get punched in the face, and don’t punch back. Fight the power, or live with it, the choice is ours.