Will Standing Rock create new vet activist movement?

[pinboy3niner]

By Jeanette Steele
December 6, 2016, 7:05 PM

Will Standing Rock create a new veterans’ social activist movement? Some leaders of the Veterans Stand for Standing Rock group are saying so.

As many as 4,000 military veterans “deployed” to snowy North Dakota over the weekend to stand with American Indian protesters fighting an oil pipeline ....

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There’s talk of “forming up” again in the future, possibly in Flint, Michigan, where residents are dealing with drinking water tainted by lead and other toxins.

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“We can do anything; we can go anywhere,” Diggs said in a telephone interview Tuesday morning from North Dakota.

“There are a lot of people here who are asking already, ‘Where do we go next? What’s the next cause? How can we help?’”

Video at link, worth watching and reading the (brief) full story:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/the-intel/sd-me-veterans-standingrock-20161206-story.html

[leftofcool]

1. I hope so. They are the only activists we have right now.

[Cha]

2. I love this.. they are so needed now.

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Can't imagine it playing out too well if drumpf starts tweeting against the Vets.

Thank you, pinboy~

[Nitram]

3. I hope so.

But the better be ready for right wing Swift Boat attacks. Just ask John Kerry about that.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Standing Rock human shield vets were ready to take rubber bullets and more

Swiftboating? BRING IT ON!

[pinboy3niner]

5. With a rec from The Polack MSgt, I rest my case

[DashOneBravo]

6. That would be a great cause.