From Standing Rock to Palestine, the Caterpillar Bulldozers at Work for the Colonial Project
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- Written by Léopold Lambert Léopold Lambert
- Published: 12 September 2016 12 September 2016
From Standing Rock to Palestine, the Caterpillar Bulldozers at Work for the Colonial Project
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Two Caterpillar bulldozers at work (left: Rafah, Palestine in 2002, right: Standing Rock, ND on Native sacred burial ground in 2016)
Since April 1, 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, later followed by over 200 other Native nations, has been occupying the sacred site of Standing Rock in order to protect it against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline (named after the two American States, not the Native nation of course), which would carry Bakken crude from North Dakota to Illinois. Yesterday (September 8), North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has called for the U.S. National Guard to intervene at Standing Rock a few hours before the ruling of a lawsuit that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has brought against the U.S. government. A few days earlier, some Native organizers had been attacked by dogs ordered by private security force, and bulldozers had demolished a sacred burial ground (see the Democracy Now report here).