Major update and Breaking News: NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL "STANDS UNITED" WITH STANDING ROCK PROTESTERS! This is really sickening footage from North Dakota, but you need to watch it now and share it widely with your friends and groups, please. Bernie Sanders has made clear that he supports the native defenders and that he wants to put a stop to the Dakota Access Pipeline. He is only one Senator: ask yours to help soon!

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New footage from today (11/2) in North Dakota:

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This is from just a few hours ago; this struggle grows more monstrous by the day. Please send it to all of your friends in other nations! Please! Write your Senators and Congressmen tonight and ask them to ask Obama to put an end to this mayhem, which will end up shaming our nation and staining the last days of his presidency.

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This is really sickening footage from North Dakota, but you need to watch it now and share it widely with your friends and groups, please.

Shame, shame....I truly feel shame for my nation of oppressors, and shame turns to anger. These protesters have no weapons, only their moral high ground, their prayers, and their long history, all together so reminiscent of what M.K. Gandhi had in India, 70 years ago, leading to the British leaving India.

With this footage, it is important above all to send it to friends and to editors and media in other nations. The outrage must become even more INTERNATIONAL than it already is....

Little or none of this is appearing on any mainstream media, just a video on the UN Rights of Indigenous Peoples which 3+ millions have watched.

What you will see in this video is what is really going on with the Police: the true front line. They are heavily armed, using pepper spray in aggressive ways that it is not supposed to be used, using tasers, stun guns, and plain old violence with clubs.

I hope millions internationally see how North Dakota and the corporations are treating the people whose only crime was that they were here first.

I don't know what the solution really is, other than Obama ordering a complete cessation of the pipeline construction. Bernie Sanders has made clear that he supports the native defenders and wants to put a stop to the Dakota Access Pipeline. He is only one Senator: ask yours to help soon!

This is turning from an outrage to a massive sense of shame for what our nation is becoming.

~~~~~UPDATE: NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL "STANDS UNITED" WITH STANDING ROCK PROTESTERS!

http://observer.com/2016/10/nyc-council-stands-united-with-standing-rock-against-dakota-access-pipeline/

from Kevin Martin:

This marks a significant change in the national perspective on this issue. If we the people will pressure all of the major populated areas to pass resolutions citing support, that can be used in statistical analysis of political polling.

By using these resolutions, we may gather a unified bipartisan agreement to sponsor legislation and change some of the laws that allowed the partnership between states and corporations.

Cutting the head off the snake will take some time, but in the meantime, we need to ensure that the violent measures taken are not vetted by the news agencies reporting this action. Thus far, there are few media outlets that have actually reported facts.

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Authors Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev