Why don't we care about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests?

[ghostsinthemachine]

Thirty-eight activists were arrested in two states on Wednesday as protests against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) continue.

While construction on one section of the pipeline has been halted until a court ruling expected next week, work continues at other sites. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Des Moines, Iowa, foiled an attempt by DAPL parent company Energy Transfer Partners to silence protests there by denying its request for a temporary restraining order.

Subsequently, 30 people were taken into custody on Wednesday, during "one of the largest demonstrations yet" in that state against the four-state pipeline project, according to the Des Moines Register.

"It also was the first time a formal effort was made to encourage a large number of arrests in a bid to obstruct construction work in Iowa," the Register noted. "Organizers vowed afterward that additional demonstrations will be forthcoming, along with more arrests."

Eight more "water protectors" were arrested in North Dakota on Wednesday, during a protest that saw several people lock themselves to heavy machinery and authorities shut down a stretch of highway. One man, Iyuskin American Horse of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux Tribe), spent more than six hours attached to a digger at a DAPL worksite in Mandan, North Dakota.

"I am here to protect the water for the children and all of the unborn, and to protect our ways of life," said American Horse. "I came here to let them know that what they're doing is wrong. This is nonviolent civil disobedience—and this is what it comes down to, and I'm here."

More here: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/01/world-watching-tribal-members-put-bodies-path-dakota-pipeline

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I have seen no news coverage of the protests on CBS, ABC, or NBC.

[Hortensis]

2. I've seen coverage. How about because there is TOO MUCH

and WAY TOO MANY THINGS to care about?

Way too many things to know all we should about before we decide on our emotional reactions?

Because I don't know if I should object to this? (See above.)

Many things are so dreadful that nature equips healthy minds with protections against feeling them too strongly? Like mass deaths from interruptions of the energy needed to sustain life.

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[Travis_0004]

3. Pipelines are the safest way to transport oil

A bunch of these people probably dont like the idea of trains full of oil either, yet they drive their pickup trucks 500 miles to protest and questions the need for an oil pipeline

[BronxBoy]

4. So route it through Bismarck...

Where it was originally planned to go and where I'm sure they have more and larger pickups than those coming from dirt poor reservations. But it was rerouted from there because of potential water safety issues. Safety issues that seem to be acceptable to you for "those people". What a racist post. Funny how the consequences of "acceptable" environmental solutions should always be borne by communities of color

[Travis_0004]

5. We have 2.5 million miles of pipeline.

There are pipes going through every area.

[BronxBoy]

6. Not answering the key point

They rerouted this pipeline from a predominately white area to a Native American on the grounds of potential water safety issues. Something the native Americans are asserting now. Yet you ridicule this

And your reponse doesn't even begin to explain the blatant racism in your reference to "those people" and the supposed pickup trucks they drive. If you believe in a racist sentiment, own up to it

And here's something for you to hang your racist hat on

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?321694-Those-Natives-let-s-screw-em-again!-(DAPL)