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Standing Rock: DoJ steps up aggression against those still battling the pipeline
Source: The Guardian
Standing Rock: DoJ steps up aggression against those still battling the pipeline
Holdouts at the camp see the justice department’s recent round
of arrests and warrants as an attempt to kill the movement’s
momentum
Sam Levin in Cannon Ball, North Dakota
Saturday 18 February 2017 13.00 GMT
Aubree Peckham darted through the hallways of the casino, desperate for answers. Word had spread that day in early February that federal agents had arrested Standing Rock activist James White at the Prairie Knights resort in North Dakota, sending his friends and relatives into a panic.
“Everyone was sobbing, running around from room to room, trying to get better information,” said Peckham, a 32-year-old Mescalero Apache woman who has been fighting the Dakota Access pipeline since last year. “Our brothers and sisters are being snatched right in front of us.”
White, who goes by the name Angry Bird, is one of at least six Native American activists now facing serious federal charges tied to the nearly year-long fight against the Dakota Access pipeline.
Demonstrators at the anti-pipeline camps in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, now fear that the US justice department’s recent round of arrests and warrants is the beginning of an aggressive prosecution effort by Donald Trump’s administration.
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Holdouts at the camp see the justice department’s recent round
of arrests and warrants as an attempt to kill the movement’s
momentum
Sam Levin in Cannon Ball, North Dakota
Saturday 18 February 2017 13.00 GMT
Aubree Peckham darted through the hallways of the casino, desperate for answers. Word had spread that day in early February that federal agents had arrested Standing Rock activist James White at the Prairie Knights resort in North Dakota, sending his friends and relatives into a panic.
“Everyone was sobbing, running around from room to room, trying to get better information,” said Peckham, a 32-year-old Mescalero Apache woman who has been fighting the Dakota Access pipeline since last year. “Our brothers and sisters are being snatched right in front of us.”
White, who goes by the name Angry Bird, is one of at least six Native American activists now facing serious federal charges tied to the nearly year-long fight against the Dakota Access pipeline.
Demonstrators at the anti-pipeline camps in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, now fear that the US justice department’s recent round of arrests and warrants is the beginning of an aggressive prosecution effort by Donald Trump’s administration.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/18/standing-rock-activists-justice-department-new-arrests