I'm a bit confused by this article. The horrific scenes coming out of the
Sstanding Rock Protests are happening now, under President Obama, not under
Trump. The Army Corps under Obama, is removing an encampment. It is during
the Obama Presidency that fracking has increased, as have oil spills. It is
during the Obama Presidency that huge numbers of mostly unarmed black people
have been killed by police who have been found to be not guilty of any
crime. It is under Obama, that people's homes were foreclosed, banks paid
fines they could well afford, and individual financiers who stole money from
us were never brought to trial. It is during the Obama Presidency that
white ranchers used our public lands for their private profit and paid no
penalty and white anti government activists took over government property
holding the government at bay, and were not physically removed or attacked
in any way by police or soldiers. Yes, I'm sure things will get worse under
Trump, but it's not as if they've been fine for the past 8 years.
Miriam
Aronoff writes: "The way opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline have been
treated by police is likely to be replicated on a massive scale under Donald
Trump."
Police confront protesters near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North
Dakota on 20 November. (photo: Stephanie Keith/Reuters)
The Standing Rock Protests Are a Taste of Things to Come
By Kate Aronoff, Guardian UK
23 November 16
The way opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline have been treated by police
is likely to be replicated on a massive scale under Donald Trump
Horrific scenes have been coming out of North Dakota these last several
days, where the battle is ongoing to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. On
Sunday night, police turned tear gas and rubber bullets on hundreds of
unarmed "water protectors", as those taking on the pipeline prefer to be
called. They deployed water cannons as well, in temperatures well below
freezing. More than 160 people were injured, and many sent to the hospital.
As a result of the standoff, a young woman could lose her arm.
For those with a passing knowledge of the kind of tactics faced by America's
civil rights movement, the above might sound like blast from our more brutal
past. As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, it should also
sound like our possible future.
Every signal we have from the president-elect points to an administration
defined by three core tenets: white supremacy, unprecedented corporate
influence and an uptick in state violence. Aside from climate catastrophe,
the result could be a disturbing and dystopian new normal, where episodes
like the one unfolding in Standing Rock become all too common.
The signs aren't hard to spot. Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon will be
chief strategist. Jeff Sessions could be attorney general, with a resume
that includes a battle against the 14th amendment and joking about the Ku
Klux Klan. Beating up protesters was a regular fixture of Trump rallies, and
one surrogate recently referenced internment camps as a precedent for how
the Trump administration might deal with Muslim Americans.
As with Trump's fledgling regime, the notion that certain lives don't matter
is also at the core of the Dakota Access pipeline. At one point slated to
run just north of Bismarck, Energy Transfer Partners rerouted the project
away from the overwhelmingly white city due to concerns about the threat it
might pose to water supplies there. Of course we can't know exactly what
ETP's motivations were in this case, but other fossil fuel companies have a
long history of treating indigenous and poor communities - overwhelming
black and brown neighborhoods - as sacrificial zones, where they can hide
their toxic externalities and keep profits flowing in at full speed.
Trump hopes to streamline that process, and has invested heavily in two of
the companies behind the pipeline, Phillips 66 and ETP. Company CEO Kelcy
Warren gave more than $100,000 to the president elect through the campaign.
(Warren has since relayed that he was "very enthusiastic about what's going
to happen with our country".) Fossil fuel executives could reign over the
Department of Energy. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was floated as an
option to run the Treasury. The US Chamber of Commerce is feeling
optimistic, and so is Bloomberg Businessweek, whose cover this week invited
readers to "Cheer up! Business is going to be great."
While he ran a populist candidacy, Trump is building a cabinet for the 1%.
If his history of dealing with protests is any indication, he'll protect
their interests - his interests - by force. At campaign events, when
interrupted by protesters, Trump reminisced about the "good old days", when
"this doesn't happen because they used to treat them very, very rough". Come
January, he'll be commander-in-chief, potentially with a man who called
Black Lives Matter an "enemy within our borders" by his side as secretary of
homeland security. With the national guard already in Standing Rock, what
comes next - in North Dakota and elsewhere - could be far more brutal than
what water protectors have faced.
Standing Rock has for months been a frontline in the fights for indigenous
sovereignty and against reckless extraction. It may also now be the
frontline of Trump's America. Anyone looking for clues about what the next
four years could entail should be paying close attention to the battle over
the Dakota Access pipeline - and doing everything in their power to support
it.
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Police confront protesters near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North
Dakota on 20 November. (photo: Stephanie Keith/Reuters)
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The Standing Rock Protests Are a Taste of Things to Come
By Kate Aronoff, Guardian UK
23 November 16
The way opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline have been treated by police
is likely to be replicated on a massive scale under Donald Trump
orrific scenes have been coming out of North Dakota these last several
days, where the battle is ongoing to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. On
Sunday night, police turned tear gas and rubber bullets on hundreds of
unarmed "water protectors", as those taking on the pipeline prefer to be
called. They deployed water cannons as well, in temperatures well below
freezing. More than 160 people were injured, and many sent to the hospital.
As a result of the standoff, a young woman could lose her arm.
For those with a passing knowledge of the kind of tactics faced by America's
civil rights movement, the above might sound like blast from our more brutal
past. As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, it should also
sound like our possible future.
Every signal we have from the president-elect points to an administration
defined by three core tenets: white supremacy, unprecedented corporate
influence and an uptick in state violence. Aside from climate catastrophe,
the result could be a disturbing and dystopian new normal, where episodes
like the one unfolding in Standing Rock become all too common.
The signs aren't hard to spot. Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon will be
chief strategist. Jeff Sessions could be attorney general, with a resume
that includes a battle against the 14th amendment and joking about the Ku
Klux Klan. Beating up protesters was a regular fixture of Trump rallies, and
one surrogate recently referenced internment camps as a precedent for how
the Trump administration might deal with Muslim Americans.
As with Trump's fledgling regime, the notion that certain lives don't matter
is also at the core of the Dakota Access pipeline. At one point slated to
run just north of Bismarck, Energy Transfer Partners rerouted the project
away from the overwhelmingly white city due to concerns about the threat it
might pose to water supplies there. Of course we can't know exactly what
ETP's motivations were in this case, but other fossil fuel companies have a
long history of treating indigenous and poor communities - overwhelming
black and brown neighborhoods - as sacrificial zones, where they can hide
their toxic externalities and keep profits flowing in at full speed.
Trump hopes to streamline that process, and has invested heavily in two of
the companies behind the pipeline, Phillips 66 and ETP. Company CEO Kelcy
Warren gave more than $100,000 to the president elect through the campaign.
(Warren has since relayed that he was "very enthusiastic about what's going
to happen with our country".) Fossil fuel executives could reign over the
Department of Energy. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was floated as an
option to run the Treasury. The US Chamber of Commerce is feeling
optimistic, and so is Bloomberg Businessweek, whose cover this week invited
readers to "Cheer up! Business is going to be great."
While he ran a populist candidacy, Trump is building a cabinet for the 1%.
If his history of dealing with protests is any indication, he'll protect
their interests - his interests - by force. At campaign events, when
interrupted by protesters, Trump reminisced about the "good old days", when
"this doesn't happen because they used to treat them very, very rough". Come
January, he'll be commander-in-chief, potentially with a man who called
Black Lives Matter an "enemy within our borders" by his side as secretary of
homeland security. With the national guard already in Standing Rock, what
comes next - in North Dakota and elsewhere - could be far more brutal than
what water protectors have faced.
Standing Rock has for months been a frontline in the fights for indigenous
sovereignty and against reckless extraction. It may also now be the
frontline of Trump's America. Anyone looking for clues about what the next
four years could entail should be paying close attention to the battle over
the Dakota Access pipeline - and doing everything in their power to support
it.
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