[Peace-discuss] WAY TO GO !!!!

Fri Nov 25 01:53:40 UTC 2016

Yes, this is good news.

It looks as though IVAW is doing their own gathering at Standing Rock - 
maybe independently of the groups described in this article.   I 
received this yesterday:

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> Dear Stuart,
>
> As I type this, I am riding in a truck loaded with heaters, a large 
> military tent, and food headed to the main camp at Standing Rock. I am 
> joining more than a dozen fellow members out there (with more on the 
> way) who will take part in the week of action as we help winterize the 
> camp, support our allies with Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, and 
> bring our collective skills sets from the military to support the 
> indigenous-led resistance.
>
> Last week, we told you about the action six of our members took in NYC 
> to kick off our efforts in solidarity with the water protectors at 
> Standing Rock. We walked into the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) office 
> and delivered a letter to Regional Deputy Director Larry Mazola, 
> calling on the ACE to stand down and for an end to the Dakota Access 
> Pipeline. As we talked to the ACE representative, we were surprised to 
> hear him make it clear, on camera, that the resistance is winning:
>
> “You've made yourself heard. The Corps of Engineers is re-looking at 
> this. So just by your stand, we're going to go back and take a look 
> and make sure we're doing the right things. And that is directly a 
> result of what you guys are all doing.”
>
> We knew that the U.S. military and ACE have a long history of 
> undermining Indigenous sovereignty and outright robbing Native peoples 
> of their land, and that this was a moment when we could show that 
> veterans were not going to stand by idly and have it happen again. As 
> NYC IVAW member Nicole Goodwin told Gothamist 
> <http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xDnPiAeGOWqMd3iZcL0i4aFrNWNTOy%2Fo>: 
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> “It is especially important for veterans and service members to stand 
> with Standing Rock because we have the responsibility to rectify the 
> US military's history of occupation. We went to the Army Corps today 
> to tell them to deny permits for DAPL, to tell them that we are 
> watching their moves, and that the core values of this country are in 
> danger unless they act."
>
> Last night members of our Colorado chapter who are at Standing Rock 
> went to the the Morton County Commission in Bismarck to represent our 
> anger at the dangerous violence leveled at the water protectors on 
> Sunday night, including water cannons and tear gas in freezing 
> temperatures. After the commission meeting, IVAW Board Member and 
> Unitarian Minister Shawna Foster asked the commission members to pray 
> for water protector Sofia Wilansky who was grievously injured. We told 
> them it was high past time for the resignation of Sheriff Kirchmeier 
> who is leading a militarized police force against peaceful protectors.
>
>
> Despite the media blackout and the state violence and surveillance 
> wielded against water protectors, this fight is reaching a critical 
> mass. We hope that as you spend time this holiday weekend that you 
> also do what you can to take action in support of this critical work, 
> whether that is to donate to the main camp Oceti Sakowin 
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> or to dial up the pressure on the local Sheriff Department. If you've 
> got a moment, contact the Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier and 
> let him know that water protectors have the right to participate in 
> peaceful protest without being met by a militarized police force more 
> interested in protecting corporate interests than the people of North 
> Dakota:
>
> Morton County Sheriff
> Kyle Kirchmeier
>
> 205 1st Ave NW
> Mandan, ND 58554
>
> Phone: 701-667-3330
>
> Email: kyle.kirchmeier at mortonnd.org
>
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> Thanks for your support in these tough moments and for standing on the 
> right side of a critical fight. Your action will make a difference in 
> the work ahead.
>
> In Solidarity,
>
> Matt Howard
> Co-Director
> Iraq Veterans Against the War
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On 11/24/16 1:23 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Published on
> Thursday, November 24, 2016
> by
> Common Dreams 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.commondreams.org_&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=jrUS4GGkt_nJIuerURiqSIRgjfTbVESGCU1j354iJIY&e=>
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>   Veterans Plan "Deployment" to Join Water Protectors' Battle Against DAPL
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> "Let's stop this savage injustice being committed right here at home. 
> If not us, who? If not now, when?"
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> by
> Nika Knight, staff writer 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.commondreams.org_author_nika-2Dknight-2Dstaff-2Dwriter&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=gdvn3Cqc0sqFTboiHru4-fusFs5dEm8kyvp2E6v4X1g&e=>
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> 3 Comments 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__commons.commondreams.org_t_veterans-2Dplan-2Ddeployment-2Dto-2Djoin-2Dwater-2Dprotectors-2Dbattle-2Dagainst-2Ddapl_33565&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=gzGwHXK06x5MpZB2NOdA3HYnAZgaVUxZystjNxP850Y&e=>
> Water protectors march against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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> Water protectors march against the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Photo: 
> Andrew Cullen/Reuters)
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> Over 1,000 U.S. military veterans 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_1136540643060285_&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=ohcAguIkCpYN7Khxw-tf1BQEWTDgwxEyk-2ElWBMKPw&e=> are 
> planning to "deploy" to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and 
> peacefully support the water protectors' fight against the 
> controversial Dakota Access Pipeline 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.commondreams.org_tag_dakota-2Daccess-2Dpipeline&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=bGDRc6_D82T0cTvqUAgoa2qxoNcGaHrfrggdYvqOj7k&e=> near 
> Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
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> "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."
> —Michael Wood Jr.,
> Veterans Stand for Standing Rock"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 assault 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.commondreams.org_news_2016_11_21_police-2Dblast-2Dnodapl-2Dactivists-2Dwater-2Dcannons-2Dsub-2Dfreezing-2Dtemps&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=_CvqokhFEK2Eh__Ny0b_U_ayYenoqZqqS9p36_Gutz8&e=> and 
> intimidation 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.commondreams.org_news_2016_11_22_call-2Ddoj-2Dobservers-2Dnorth-2Ddakota-2Ddapl-2Dactivists-2Dface-2Dsevere-2Dinjuries-2Darrests&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=jWveqBkVGih-PJZUb4NhqEkH8A2m7tC2bg8rwYojAJs&e=> at 
> the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security," the 
> organizers wrote on the group's GoFundMe page 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gofundme.com_veterans-2Dfor-2Dstanding-2Drock-2Dnodapl-3Frcid-3D1573e2264b8b495ca3abe66969a0e324&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=jKEXkYE5h2kDenCz-cqgeJaHzIgtLpnef4dnDUehKVk&e=>.
>
> "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 Facebook 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_1136540643060285_-3Factive-5Ftab-3Dabout&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=mbSpBApjS-XrHtYAa_Y_4-4yAogIeIqWaHzgJT2hJ2o&e=>.
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> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Clark Jr. and Wood Jr., the two primary organizers of the campaign, 
> spoke to their passion for the water protectors' cause and their 
> commitment to nonviolence when they were profiled 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__taskandpurpose.com_where-2Devil-2Dresides-2Dveterans-2Ddeploy-2Dto-2Dstanding-2Drock-2Dto-2Dengage-2Dthe-2Denemy-2Dthe-2Dus-2Dgovernment_&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=I3F9Rxu_xn5FTmai3dTGn0y1kxyu6F9YlekZDhh3vk8&e=> earlier 
> this week in the veterans' publication /Task & Purpose/:
>
>     "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."
>
>     [...] "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."
>
> "According to an 'operations order' 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Operations-5Forder&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=6sIjb7k4vRQvcpRYiQ4m3uIMeNxhKzeQw1pKIxROLKU&e=>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,'" /Task & Purpose /writes.
>
> Indeed, Wood Jr. posted full the operations order on Twitter:
>
> The veterans are prepared for the police violence 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.commondreams.org_news_2016_11_23_people-2Dare-2Dgoing-2Ddie-2Dfather-2Dwounded-2Ddapl-2Dactivist-2Dsophia-2Dwilansky-2Dspeaks-2Dout&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=9dR-2saTDHyTSU6lpi-kKYesyYfX6ToRBKqPiIrJ_cE&e=> 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.
>
> /Task & Purpose /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:
>
>     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 a United Nations investigation.
>     <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_us-2Dnews_2016_oct_31_dakota-2Daccess-2Dpipeline-2Dprotest-2Dinvestigation-2Dhuman-2Drights-2Dabuses&d=DQMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=K54x7sNt-vJ1JOnw4PJ3yexzyJFqoO7OWySMlhDXf_E&s=kSXoShKtYCdFfIdcbRp1WcMpxQP7bXsA2VHuk_fmwYg&e=> Of
>     course, that's what the body armor and gas masks are for.
>
> "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 /Task & Purpose. /"It's okay if some of them step back, but Wes 
> and I have no intention of doing so."
>
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