[IPSMO] Stand With Standing Rock! Direct Action, Monday Dec. 5

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#NODAPL SOLIDARITY NON-VIOLENT MASS DIRECT ACTION: Stand with Standing 
Rock!

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When: December 5, 1pm-3h30pm
Where: Meet at Confederation Park, Middle Fountain. Bank Branch T.B.A at 
meet up location.
What: Based on Global Calls for Action, we are organizing a Non-Violent 
Direct Action to demand that banks divest from the Dakota Access 
Pipeline (DAPL). The Action seeks to disrupt business at the targeted 
bank branch from the outside.

If you’d like to help out, email indigsol at riseup.net!

If your group would like to endorse or support this action please get in 
touch with us ASAP!

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CALLING for individuals and groups in unceded Algonquin territory, 
Ottawa, to join together in direct action on December 5 to demand that 
Canadian banks stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)!

This protest and direct action will target a branch of a Canadian bank 
funding DAPL. Please join us if you would like to support OR join this 
act of civil disobedience.

Join us in refusing the expansion of pipelines across Turtle Island. 
#NoDAPL #NoEnergyEast #StopKinderMorgan

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On December 5, the Oceti Sakowin Camp — the biggest encampment of water 
protectors — is threatened with possible eviction or other violence, 
including cutting off of services and supplies, or being charged with 
trespassing.

In response to the escalating and violent attacks against water 
protectors, The Sacred Stone Camp has put out a call for a month of 
action starting on December 1: 
https://www.facebook.com/CampOfTheSacredStone/

See: nodaplsolidarity.org

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MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE ACTION:

Come out to act in solidarity with Indigenous water protectors at 
Standing Rock; to condemn the human rights violations that have been 
carried out in order to force the Dakota Access Pipeline through 
Indigenous lands without consent; and to demand that [X Bank] 
immediately withdraw its financing for the pipeline.

Join us in a peaceful protest in solidarity with water defenders and 
frontline communities at Standing Rock, who are resisting the 
construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. March with us to support the 
Indigenous-led movement.

We will stay outside the branch and will voice our demands, which will 
shortly be available in our press release. There will be designated 
negotiators.

We will also have jars to fundraise for the Standing Rock Camp.

For more information, contact indigsol at riseup.net!

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Print your own posters using graphics for land and water protectors 
here:
http://onamancollective.com/murdoch-belcourt-banner-downloads/

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WHY TARGET BANKS?

A coalition of groups at Standing Rock have endorsed a global day of 
action. The main targets are financiers of the Dakota Access Pipeline 
and the police departments that have been brought in from across the 
Midwest to brutalize water protectors.

The financial footing of the Dakota Access Pipeline is in jeopardy if 
they do not complete the project by January 1st. If this deadline is 
missed, a majority of the stakeholders with contracts to ship oil 
through the pipeline will be able to renegotiate or cancel their 
contracts. This could be devastating to Energy Transfer Partners and the 
other pipeline companies behind DAPL.

With its vulnerabilities exposed, our solidarity efforts are needed now 
more than ever.

Canadian banks connected with DAPL and Energy Transfer Partners include 
RBC, Scotiabank, and TD Bank. TD Securities, for instance, is providing 
over $360 million in direct financing to Dakota Access LLC.

For more context: An article about Canadian financiers of the pipeline - 
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-stewart/2016/10/canadian-banks-are-helping-bankroll-dakota-access-pipeline

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DO YOU BAN AT TD TRUST, RBC OR SCOTIABANK?

Fill this form out and hand it to a bank manager at your branch. Make 
sure to take their time with questions and info, ask to see another 
manager-- and ideally, come with your friends! We'll be passing out 
these forms, and you can also print your own by downloading the pdf 
here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9YYnyCuewmKSnRCUDZqUFVmN2M

Let's let the financiers know what we think about their dirty oil 
projects. Stop the violence at Standing Rock and keep the oil in the 
ground. #WaterIsLife #StandWithStandingRock

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THE PIPELINE'S CORPORATE BACKERS:

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is owned by the Texas-based Energy 
Transfer Partners, which created the subsidiary Dakota Access LLC. The 
DAPL, also known as the Bakken Pipeline, would transport half a million 
barrels of crude oil per day from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to 
Patoka, Illinois. This crude oil comes from fracking, which threatens 
the land and water. In August 2016, the final finances were secured when 
Enbridge and the Marathon Petroleum Company bought a 2 billion dollar 
share.

TD, RBC and Scotia Bank are 3 of the 24 banks that have provided 
project-level loans for the Dakota Access Pipeline. TD has the seventh 
largest commitment ($360 million+). For more info on the financing of 
the project: 
https://littlesis.org/maps/1634-who-s-banking-on-the-dakota-access-pipeline

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SUPPORT THE FRONT LINES - Information from the Solidarity Campaign:

Oceti Sakowin Camp http://www.ocetisakowincamp.org/donate

Indigenous People's Power Project 
https://www.youcaring.com/standingrock-682966

Water Protector Legal Collective https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/11B5z8

Winterization of Camp 
https://www.crowdrise.com/winterize-water-protectors-camp

Medic & Healer Council 
https://www.holisticlivingschool.org/standing-rock-medic-healer-council/

Always needed are supplies (http://www.ocetisakowincamp.org/donate), and 
folks with experience or skills in winter camping and winterizing, 
direct action, construction, chopping/hauling wood, cooking, dishes, 
childcare, etc. It is especially useful to commit to 2 weeks or longer.

White people are expected to be arrestable. White folks, Please read 
these 
(http://www.standingrocksolidaritynetwork.org/going-to-standing-rock.html) 
before going to Standing Rock.

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QUOTES FROM WATER PROTECTORS AND LAND DEFENDERS:

“The place where pipeline will cross on the Cannonball is the place 
where the Mandan came into the world after the great flood, it is also a 
place where the Mandan had their Okipa, or Sundance. Later this is where 
Wisespirit and Tatanka Ohitika held sundances. There are numerous old 
Mandan, Cheyenne, and Arikara villages located in this area and burial 
sites. This is also where the sacred medicine rock [is located], which 
tells the future.” - LaDonna Bravebull Allard (Lakota, Dakota)

“The dangers imposed by the greed of big oil on the people who live 
along the Missouri river is astounding. When this proposed pipeline 
breaks, as the vast majority of pipelines do, over half of the drinking 
water in South Dakota will be affected. How can rubber-stamping this 
project be good for the people, agriculture, and livestock? It must be 
stopped. The people of the four bands of Cheyenne River stand with our 
sister nation in this fight as we are calling on all the Oceti Sakowin 
or Seven Council Fires to do so with our allies, both native and 
non-native in opposing this pipeline.” - Joye Braun (Cheyenne River)


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IPSMO - Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement - Ottawa
On stolen Algonquin land
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