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Vol. 80/No. 43 November 14, 2016
SWP: Defend sovereign rights of Dakota Sioux
The following solidarity letter to Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chief Dave
Archambault II and other tribal elders in the Dakotas was sent by
Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president,
Nov. 2.
On behalf of the Socialist Workers Party, I join you in protesting the
Oct. 27 brutal cop assault on members and supporters of the Standing
Rock Sioux defending their sovereignty. It was an honor to sit down with
you when I visited Standing Rock two weeks earlier.
The Dakota Sioux’s struggle to defend land and water rights at Standing
Rock against government assault and the intrusion of profit-hungry
Dakota Access Pipeline bosses deserves the solidarity of workers and
farmers everywhere.
Socialist Workers Party members explain and champion your fight as we
talk with workers on their doorsteps, at strike picket lines and protest
actions. We all face growing attacks from the bosses and the government
as they try to make us pay for the deepening crisis of their dog-eat-dog
capitalist system. Our answer must be growing solidarity against their
attacks.
Instead of using the federal Emergency Management Assistance Compact to
mobilize armed police power against you, we demand a federally funded
public works program to provide jobs at union wages, building schools,
medical facilities, child care centers and other necessities — something
sorely needed at Standing Rock where unemployment approaches 90 percent.
The SWP backs your fight to defend your sovereignty and treaty rights.
We demand immediate withdrawal of all the cops arrayed against you. We
call for all the charges brought against protesters there to be dropped.
And we demand an immediate halt to efforts to push the pipeline over
your sacred ground and threaten your drinking water.
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Rallies oppose cop attack on Standing Rock Sioux protest
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