'Their Purpose Has Been Served': Standing Rock Leader Asks Protesters To Leave

[Blue Shoes]

Source: NPR

The chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota is asking people camping near the route of the Dakota Access Pipeline to go home.

"I'm asking them to go," Dave Archambault III told Reuters on Monday, saying that the Obama administration "did the right thing," and that he hoped to "educate the incoming administration" of President-elect Donald Trump.

"Nothing will happen this winter," he said.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/05/504420616/standing-rock-leader-asks-those-who-are-not-sioux-to-leave-pipeline-protest-area

[Runningdawg]

1. Today at some point

I saw on my FB news feed this was not true. The news was from a Native American page, which I have just spent 30 minutes trying to find again. Maybe someone here will have better luck or more time to source this.

[Blue Shoes]

2. NPR is a pretty good source.

Generally they fact check the stuff involved.

[Blue Idaho]

3. NPR has not been a good news source

Since W gutted it and put republicans in charge of distributing GOP talking points. I'm sorry but in my mind NPR is Republican radio.

[pinboy3niner]

6. NPR edited this headline after getting it wrong based on Reuters reporting

NPR failed to fact-check Reuters' report that Archambault was asking only non-Sioux to leave. The OP headline is the corrected version after NPR edited (without explanation) its original headline on this story: Standing Rock Leader Asks Those Who Are Not Sioux To Leave

I posted the original story in GD and later had to update:

** UPDATED ** Standing Rock Leader asks ALL to dismantle camp and go home
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028335603

[cntrfthrs]

4. I dont know how true this is but....

a lot of the pages of individuals and group pages associated with the water Protectors say dapl plans to drill anyway in defiance of the Corps ruling and will simply pay the fines levied against them for doing so...which is why camp organizers are calling on Protectors to stay in contradiction to archambault's request to leave...but then again...archambault has to take that position for plausible deniability...

[metalbot]

5. This is the fundamental problem of Anarchy

And I don't mean anarchy in a pejorative sense, but rather in the collective consensus sense.

It's a problem that occupy wall street had, and it's a problem that black lives matter has. There's no central agreed upon point and logical actions that must be agreed upon. That collect ambiguity can't sustain a movement. Tragically, all of the peaceful movements that have been successful in the last 70 years have been in support of some crystal clear outcomes, usually championed by sympathetic leadership