Dakota Access protesters say they will focus on Flint water crisis

[Donkees]

December 05, 2016

Excerpt:

CANNON BALL, ND -- The North Dakota pipeline battle may be over but veterans and community activists supporting the opposition of the project say their fight isn't finished and the Flint water crisis is next on their list.

"We don't know when we are going to be there but we will be heading to Flint," said US Army veteran Wes Clark Jr. who helped organize veterans who joined the fight. "This problem is all over the county. It's got to be more than veterans. People have been treated wrong in this county for a long time."

The Army Corps of Engineers denied on Dec. 4 a permit for the construction of a portion of a 1,172 pipeline costing $3.8 billion. The uncompleted stretch of the project was set to run under Lake Oahe.

In recent weeks, there was an all out call for military veterans to join the fight - a move that Flint resident Arthur Woodson said may have helped end the fight.

"I feel that by the veterans coming out and leading up to it all the media attention," said Woodson. "All the media attention that was there brought more attention to Standing Rock. The government had a change of heart."

Protesters have been fighting against the pipeline for months and have endured being shot with rubber bullets and sprayed with water in freezing temperatures by police. So far, reports say an estimated 564 people have been arrested.

Woodson traveled to North Dakota on Dec. 3 to show support with fellow veterans with another Flint resident and military veteran, George F. Grundy II who said he was overwhelmed by the amount of attention the Flint water crisis had gained with supporters of the Standing Rock fight.

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/12/activist_veternas_say_they_wil.html

[sagetea]

1. Winona Laduke

made a great point in saying that "The pipes could be used in Flint for the water" Plus it would create jobs in that area as well as do good to and for the people.

As always, thank you Donkees!

Ho'
sage

[Donkees]

2. We need creative solutions :)

Excerpt:

WINONA LADUKE: My response is that the United States has a D in infrastructure. That’s why bridges collapse. That’s why Flint, Michigan, has a problem. That’s why everything is eroding in this country. And what we need is those skilled laborers to be put to work, pipelines for people. I’m saying take those pipes that are sitting there in northern Minnesota, and send them to Flint, Michigan. They need billions of dollars’ worth of pipe infrastructure out there. We don’t need any pipes in northern Minnesota. I say that most of our Indian reservations don’t have adequate infrastructure. We’d like a little help with our water and sewer systems there. I am all for organized labor, but what I want is I want pipelines, I want infrastructure, for people, not for fossil fuels, not for oil companies. So I am all for that. There are plenty of people that could be put to work. And it’s five times as many jobs doing infrastructure for communities, doing for people, than one shot throw a pipe down and hope it works out for you. So I’m asking American labor to stand with us and to say we want pipelines, we want infrastructure, that goes for people, that goes for communities, and not for oil companies that are going to destroy our environment and cause more climate change destruction to our planet.

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/23/native_activist_winona_laduke_pipeline_company

[Sunlei]

3. Time forThe Army Corps of Engineers to install new water pipes for the people with poison water.

instead of having to clean-up Corporation lies & shifty corruption, at a cost of $3.8 billion.