I Stand With Standing Rock

Currently, protestors in Dakota are being tear-gassed because of them preventing the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built. Why are these people protesting?

These people are protesting because of environmental injustice. The current group of people being discriminated against native to the land the Dakota Pipeline is being built over. This pipeline could possibly poison their water source. This pipeline is in Dakota, but it affects us Philadelphians. Our tax dollars and teachers’ pensions are being used to pay part of this project. If this project could possibly endanger others why are we funding it? This question has been avoided.

The government hasn’t made any solutions to the conflict surrounding the Dakota Pipeline, but this hasn’t stopped the efforts of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. They’ve been creating social media pages, petitions, hashtags, and protests. There might be hope the ending of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the near future. A big foreign investor has divested from the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Energy Transfer Crude Oil Company is scrambling for money to continue their project, but they’re running thin in time to meet their deadline.

“Pennsylvania Oil Spill”

Pennsylvania…. The place where the greatest things of this country were accomplished. Where the representation of what Brotherly Love was originated. What is this happy place? Full of different people as idealistic as can be. Children sprouting with knowledge like vines. The perfect state and perfect home, but where there is light it must be darkness.

A third-grade teacher 15 years into their career pray for a peaceful retirement. Not only peaceful but guaranteed like how you expect the ground always to be beneath your feet when you take your next step. A monstrous oil poisons and forbids our pursuit of happiness as Pennsylvanians. We’re blinded of where these “tax dollars” that supposedly help to make a better society go…
Our money has no intent to be used for good, but to harm the water supply of others. Yes, water the source of all life! Without water we wouldn’t be in existence. Yet our voices are gripped and ripped apart by officials that don’t care about our lives. Let your voice be heard or continue to let your tax dollars get burned!

NoDAPL WaterIsLife StandingRock

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“Norway’s Largest Bank Sells Assets in Dakota Access Pipeline Company.” Democracy Now! N.p., 18 Nov. 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.

Post, By The Washington. “Standing Rock Sioux Making Last Stand to Block Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.” The Denver Post. N.p., 25 Nov. 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.

“Standing Against Dakota Access Pipeline- No DAPL.” Facebook. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2916.

“Standing Rock Sioux.” Facebook. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2016.