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<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Over <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1136540643060285/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">1,000 U.S. military veterans</a> are planning to "deploy"
to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and peacefully support the water protectors' fight against the controversial <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/tag/dakota-access-pipeline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">Dakota
Access Pipeline</a> near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span class="pullquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); float: right; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: right; width: 250.515625px;">"If
we're going to be heroes, if we're really going to be those veterans that this country praises, well, then we need to do the things that we actually said we're going to do when we took the oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
—Michael Wood Jr., <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
Veterans Stand for Standing Rock</span></span>"We are calling for our fellow veterans to assemble as a peaceful, unarmed militia at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on Dec 4-7 and defend the water protectors from <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/21/police-blast-nodapl-activists-water-cannons-sub-freezing-temps" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">assault</a> and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/22/call-doj-observers-north-dakota-dapl-activists-face-severe-injuries-arrests" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">intimidation</a> at
the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security," the organizers wrote on the group's <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/veterans-for-standing-rock-nodapl?rcid=1573e2264b8b495ca3abe66969a0e324" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">GoFundMe
page</a>.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">"<span class="_4n-j fsl" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Come to Standing Rock Indian Reservation and hold the line with Wes Clark Jr., Michael Wood Jr., [Hawaii Democratic Rep.] Tulsi Gabbard, and hundreds of other
veterans in support of the Sioux nation against the DAPL pipeline," reads the description of the action on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1136540643060285/?active_tab=about" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">Facebook</a>.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The event, Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, was put together by "veterans of the United States Armed Forces, including the U.S. Army, United States Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Coast Guard,"
according to the group's fundraiser.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The call to action has already garnered nearly $200,000 in donations, which will to go toward funding veterans' travel to North Dakota and legal fees they are likely to incur.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span class="_4n-j fsl" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Clark Jr. and Wood Jr., the two primary organizers of the campaign, </span><span class="_4n-j fsl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="_4n-j fsl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="box-sizing: border-box;">spoke
to their passion for the water protectors' cause and their commitment to nonviolence </span></span>when they were <a href="http://taskandpurpose.com/where-evil-resides-veterans-deploy-to-standing-rock-to-engage-the-enemy-the-us-government/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">profiled</a> earlier
this week in the veterans' publication <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Task & Purpose</em>:</span></p>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">"This country is repressing our people," Wood Jr. says. "If we’re going to be heroes, if we're really going to be those veterans that this country praises, well, then
we need to do the things that we actually said we're going to do when we took the oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic."</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">[...] "<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">We're not going out there to get in a fight with anyone," Clark Jr. says. "They can feel free to beat us up, but we're 100% nonviolence."</span></p>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">"According to an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_order" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">'operations
order' </a>for the planned engagement, posted to social media in mid-November, 'First Americans have served in the United States Military, defending the soil of our homelands, at a greater percentage than any other group of Americans. There is no other people
more deserving of veteran support,'" <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Task & Purpose </em>writes.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Indeed, Wood Jr. posted full the operations order on Twitter:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span class="_4n-j fsl" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The veterans are prepared for <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/23/people-are-going-die-father-wounded-dapl-activist-sophia-wilansky-speaks-out" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">the
police violence</a> that they may encounter: "Bring [b]ody armor, gas masks, earplugs, AND shooting mufflers (we may be facing a sound cannon) but no drugs, alcohol, or weapons," the organizers told the volunteers.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span class="_4n-j fsl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Task & Purpose </em>delved into all the details of the veterans' plan, which is intended both to bolster the peaceful
water protectors' fight as well as to draw media attention to the ongoing protest:</span></p>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">On Dec. 4, Clark Jr. and Wood Jr., along with a group of veterans and other folks in the "bravery business," as Wood Jr. puts it [...] will muster at Standing Rock. The
following morning they will join members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, including Young, for a traditional healing ceremony. With an eye toward the media, old military uniforms will be donned so that if the veterans are brutalized by the police, they are
brutalized not as ordinary citizens, but as people who once served the government they are protesting against. Then body armor, ear plugs, and gas masks will be issued to those who didn’t bring their own. Bagpipes will play, and traditional Sioux war songs
will be sung. The music will continue as everyone marches together to the banks of the Missouri, on the other side of which a line of guards in riot gear will be standing ready with rifles, mace, batons, and dogs. Then, the veterans and their allies—or at
least the ones who are brave enough—will lock arms and cross the river in a "massive line" for their "first encounter" with the "opposing forces." The goal is to make it to the drilling pad and surround it, arm in arm. That will require making it through the
line of guards, who have repelled other such attempts with a level of physical force Sioux tribal members and protesters have described as "excessive"—claims that recently prompted </span><a class="external" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/31/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-investigation-human-rights-abuses" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none;">a
United Nations investigation.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> Of course, that's what the body armor and gas masks are for. </span></p>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">"We'll have those people who will recognize that they're not willing to take a bullet, and those who recognize that they are," Wood Jr. told <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Task
& Purpose. </em>"It's okay if some of them step back, but Wes and I have no intention of doing so."</span></p>
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