Standing Rock protest leaders to speak at Berkeleys La Pea
BERKELEY — Two prominent figures in the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and its routing under the Missouri River will be at La Peña Cultural Center on Aug. 25 to discuss their campaign to dismiss charges against people arrested during the past year’s protests at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.
Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the 2016 Democratic candidate for North Dakota’s Congressional seat, is lead counsel of the Santa Cruz-based Lakota People’s Law Project. He faces 10 years in prison if convicted of felony charges in connection with the protests, according to a news release from the law project.
Daniel Sheehan, a constitutional attorney, is chief counsel of Lakota People’s Law Project and head of the legal team defending Iron Eyes and another water protector, Holy Elk, according to the press release.
“In the coming months, my trial and those of other water protectors falsely charged with crimes at Standing Rock will expose the illegal wedding between big oil, their militarized private security, and the government intent on silencing the people and exploiting the Earth for the sake of profit,” Iron Eyes said in the release.
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