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Members of Veterans For Peace have joined in solidarity with thousands of people who have traveled to Standing Rock, North Dakota to stand with our Indigenous sisters and brothers in opposing the construction of an oil pipeline by the Dakota Access company that threatens drinking water and sacred burial grounds. Veterans For Peace will continue to support this effort. As veterans, we see the connections between greed, racism, violence and environmental destruction in our own communities, and war and militarism abroad. We strive to achieve "Peace at Home and Peace Abroad” as a lens through which we view our mission.
We believe the Standing Rock action is consistent with our philosophy and approach to help build a more just, peaceful and sustainable world. Read our full statement supporting Standing Rock resistance, our Thanksgiving statement and our statement supporting the Dec 4th Victory at Standing Rock.
If you are a Veterans For Peace member, please upload your pictures to our VFP at Standing Rock shared album!
Take Action For Standing Rock
Just a few days ago the Trump Administration and the Army moved to approve the easement for Energy Transfer Partners to drill under Lake Oahe on the Missouri River and build the Dakota Access Pipeline through Native land at Standing Rock, despite threats to the environment and the likely contamination of drinking water for millions of people living near the Missouri River. They also suspended a 14-day waiting period which means that the drilling could already be starting.
Leaders at Standing Rock are calling for solidarity actions around the country and around the globe to protest the recent order and for a large demonstration on Washington on March 10. Here's how you can take action, today!
Participate in a solidarity action near you
?Organize to pass a local resolution in support of Standing Rock
?#DefundDAPL - Divest from the banks that are invested in DAPL
Download this flyer, created by VFP members to hand out
Native Nations March on Washington: March 10th
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous grassroots leaders call on our allies across the United States and around the world to peacefully March on Washington DC. We ask that you rise in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of the world whose rights protect Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth) for the future generations of all.
Standing Rock and Native Nations will lead a march in prayer and action in Washington D.C. on March 10th 2017.
See the Call to Action and the Demands
If you are planning on going to Standing Rock or the March on Washington, please let us know by filling out this form.
Contact: Brian Trautman, 518-390-8250, trautman@veteransforpeace.org
- Websites:
- Facebook pages:
- Important Readings for Non-Indigenous People Traveling to Standing Rock
How To Talk About #NoDAPL: A Native Perspective by Kelly Hayes
Standing Rock Solidarity Network Ally Resource Packet
- Veterans For Peace at Standing Rock
A Veterans Day Dispatch from Standing Rock by Four Arrows, VFP member
: An interview with Matthew Hoh, VFP Advisory Board Member
Minnesota Chapter At Standing Rock: A reflection of breaking down one of the camps.
- Other Helpful Resources
Reflections From Standing Rock: VFP Members Share Experiences
press release:
...We understand that different nonviolent struggles for social and ecological justice are linked by the common thread of resistance to subjugation and oppression.
As Veterans For Peace we are committed to acting nonviolently and many of our members are trained and experienced in nonviolent resistance. We have responded to the Standing Rock Sioux call for international observers by facilitating the presence of VFP members at the Camp of the Sacred Stones.
Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), aka Don Trent Jacobs, an American Indian scholar and activist and co-founder of the Northern Arizona chapter of Veterans For Peace,has this to say regarding the Standing Rock resistance: “The last healthy land masses on our planet are not coincidentally those occupied by Indigenous Peoples. That they are on the front lines in standing against oil and mining operations threatening to destroy waterways should not be surprising. The Indigenous worldview, one that guided humans to live in relative ecological harmony, sees this place as sacred...At this crossing point in American history, at the threshold of a mass extinction, the Standing Rock protest is much more than symbolic and deserves all the support VFP can give it.”
For more information on how you can support this profound and historic struggle, go to: www.ocetisakowincamp.org.
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On February 9, mentioning a well-known water protector’s recommendation that others stop using Facebook, TigerSwan notes: “Remaining protestors are acutely aware of LE infiltration, and the monitoring of Social Media, seeing themselves as increasingly vulnerable to prosecution.”
As it was throughout the operation, TigerSwan was particularly alarmist about the potential for violence and sabotage, speculating about “flammable liquids being gathered” and “homemade incendiary weapons.”
At times, the speculative nature of its observations is almost farcical. “There is no indication the protesters have planned sabotage activities; however successful sabotage of equipment will hinder ongoing construction,” a report dated February 15 reads. “The threat of IEDs is of concern, however there is no indication that such devices are employed along the routes used by DAPL personnel.”
The February documents also repeatedly refer to water protectors with derogatory terms such as “snow poopers” and “sewage producers,” apparently in reference to a refuted narrative spread by local officials that water protectors had polluted the grounds of their camp. Occasionally, the documents openly display racism toward Native Americans. On February 24, for instance, after listing the names of various water protectors, the author adds, “Editors note! These names were not made up at a bar!”
While earlier documents had focused on the presence of Palestinians and Muslims at the camps, in February TigerSwan zeroed in on groups like Veterans for Peace and the Catholic Worker, which it accused, respectively, of “anti-American/Pro-communist activities” and gathering funds “from various democratic parties, communist groups, and various other groups that seek to establish a revolutionary movement in the United States.”
As was the case in the fall, the January and February reports name dozens of individuals, with particular focus on some whom TigerSwan deemed to be the “most radical.”
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DOCUMENTS
Internal TigerSwanSituation Report 2017-02-11
Jun. 21 2017
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DAPL SITREP 152
February 11, 2017
John Porter
Chief Security Officer
INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS PROPRIETARY AND SENSITIVE.
DO NOT RELEASE OUTSIDE OF AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED RECIPIENTS.
INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS PROPRIETARY AND SENSITIVE
DO NOT RELEASE OUTSIDE OF AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED RECIPIENTS
The Highlights
Reporting suggests no offensive operations being planned in the last 24 hours, with discussion
instead focusing on resistance to camp evacuation bySRST representatives and LE. The stated
intent of “Veterans Respond” as a defensive effort to protect the camps has been highlighted in
mainstream media articles, but indications of training and perimeter defense in Camps 2,4 and
7, will be evident as their presence continues.
Divisions between the original protestor population and new arrivals to Camp 4 are beginning
to come to a head, with many physical altercations, including fights being mentioned on Social
Media. Friction is further mounting over the looting of equipment and residents of Camp 2 not
aligning with new leadership.
An unknown benefactor has been purchasing hotel rooms for some well-known protesters via
social media requests, mirroring previously seen levels of support last year.
Protestors, rather than gathering trash, have begun to move waste and refuse into abandoned
structures, then setting fire to them from 0300 to 0500 to ensure it is not recorded on video.
One of several open sewage pits and trash piles has become a health hazard, and people have
been forced to move away from the northwest section of the camp.
The Details
A. NORTH DAKOTA FUSION CENTER
ii.
Intel Update
a. “Veterans Respond” is assessed to be in the planning phase. The first indications
show a consolidation of buildings and tents to facilitate follow-on security
measures.
b. Most Facebook live feeds now consist of partying and small concerts held in
Camp 2, after daily work has been completed. Protestor leadership is aware of
the approaching warm weather, and have asked that movement across the
Cannon Ball river be limited, due to dangers of ice melt.
c. Following a fight involving Cannon Ball residents and some members of Camp 4,
posted a video documenting the forced evacuation of Camp 2
residents by Camp 4 volunteers, supported by native representatives of SRST.
d. Protestors such as Julie Kurylowicz,
, Aubree Peckham, Mike Fasig,
Franz Sanchez,
, and Roni Mathis have been provided rooms at the
Prairie Knights Casino. BIA has been tracking these individuals as they are
..
assessed to be assisting in the facilitation of moving money and supplies to the
camps. This mirrors the activities of paid protestorfacilitators during the earlier
stages of the movement, with one individual purchasing 100 rooms a night
during the surge in October. While this level of assistance is not being provided,
the same model is being used to support the reconsolidation of camp resistance.
It is also likely these individuals have been told to stay away from the frontlines
to provide continuity of support via these belligerent organizations.
e.
iii.
REDACTED BY ?has connections with various protestor groups, including
“Veterans Stand”, and works as a facilitator for “Veterans for Peace”, a known
funding organization for anti-American/Pro-communist activities. This
organization is closely tied to the Catholic Workers, an organization that gathers
funds from various democratic parties, communist groups, and various other
groups that seek to establish a revolutionary movement in the United States. He
is most likely and agent, and inserted on behalf, of these groups.
Past 24 Hours
a. Myron Dewey illegally flew a drone at night to HDD-W. DAPLSEC unsuccessfully
attempted to disable it with less-lethal ammunition, before it left the area to be
recovered by protesters.
b. OSINT confirms that “Veterans Respond” (VR) has started arriving at Standing
Rock. Six VR members have been already been identified in the area.
c. Two protesters associated with VR were arrested last night in Mobridge, SD for
possession of hash oil. During a search of their vehicle LE found gas masks, body
armor plates, and eight 1-gallon propane tanks. Propane tanks have been
weaponized in the past. One of the protesters has already posted bond while the
other is still in jail. The vehicle and its contents were seized. SD LE noted an influx
of protesters traveling through the area toward Standing Rock starting last night.
iv.
Next 24 Hours
a. ConductIMINTanalysis of Camp 2 disposition and supply capability.
b. Verify protestors numbers within Camp 2/3/4/7 using IR measurements.
TigerSwan
Prepared for Energy Transfer Partners
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INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS PROPRIETARY AND SENSITIVE
DO NOT RELEASE OUTSIDE OF AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED RECIPIENTS
B. IOWA SECURITY ADVISORY
ii.
Intel Update
a. Mississippi Stand Protesters continue to highlight Defund DAPL efforts across the
country.
b. Bold Iowa Protesters have a statewide direct action planned for 22 February,
2017.
• Link to Event
iii.
Past 24 Hours
a. Nothing significant to report.
iv.
Next 24 Hours
a. Assess the Cambridge Pump Station and valve sites as needed.
C. ILLINOIS FUSION CENTER
ii.
Intel Update
a. The current conversation within NoDAPL Illinois is attempting to formulate a
strategy to attempt to have the City of Chicago to divest from Wells Fargo citing
this article
•
www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/08/514133514/twocities-vote-to-pull-more-than-3-billion-from-wells-fargo-over-dakotapipelin
iii.
Past 24 Hours
a. Conducted intelligence analyst of multiple activist groups in Chicago,
consolidating efforts in preparation in future events.
iv.
Next 24 Hours
a. Conduct pipeline infrastructure security inspections.
TigerSwan
Prepared for Energy Transfer Partners
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FORT YATES, N.D. — After four deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, after being hit by a roadside bomb and losing two friends to explosions, Jason Brocar floated from job to job, earning enough to pay for long solo hikes where his only worries were what he would eat and where he would sleep. He was deep into a rainy trek through Scotland when he noticed friends back home talking about a place called Standing Rock.
He decided to join them, which is why he was lined up inside a huge shed this weekend with hundreds of other veterans, some of them Native Americans, who have come to North Dakota to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s fight to block an oil pipeline.
On Sunday, they cheered the Department of the Army’s announcement that it would seek other routes for the pipeline and would not allow a crucial section to be drilled under the Missouri River just upstream from the tribe’s reservation, where there were worries it could pollute their drinking water and cross near sacred burial sites.
But President-elect Donald J. Trump’s support for finishing the pipeline means the saga is far from over. His administration could undo the Sunday decision and order the pipeline through, though the tribe and environmental activists would almost surely sue to stop him. Reflecting the continued uncertainty, the veterans were out singing and marching on Monday in gale-force winds and driving snow.
The presence of many hundreds of veterans — organizers were anticipating 2,000 or more — adds another potent layer to a fight that is already steeped in sharp contrasts, between a tribe and an oil company, between environmentalists and pro-energy advocates, between tan-shirted sheriff’s deputies armed with rubber bulletsand water cannons and protesters wearing traditional dress and feathers in their hair.
“Fall in!” came a cry one night this weekend. Hundreds of men and women packed into the building to get their orders from Brenda White Bull and Loreal Black Shawl, who are leading the veterans’ groups at the protest camps.
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A camp in Cannon Ball, N.D., where cold weather has set in.CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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[pix: A camp in Cannon Ball, N.D., where cold weather has set in.CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times]
Theorders, they said, were “peace and prayer.” No confrontations between veterans and law enforcement officers who are guarding a still-closed highway at what protesters call the front lines. On Monday, many protesters defied an order by the Army Corps of Engineers to leave a campsite north of the Cannonball River.
“You guys are very symbolic,” Dave Archambault II, the Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman, told the lines of veterans at a meeting at Sitting Bull College here on the tribe’s reservation. “What you’re doing is sacred.”
Law enforcement officials leading the response to the monthslong protest in Morton County say they have only used force when threatened or attacked by protesters.
Sheriff Paul Laney of Cass County said that officers wanted to calm things down after weeks of rising tensions and violent flare-ups, and that they were willing to pull back from ablockaded bridge where several confrontations had occurred. He said protesters first needed to meet conditions like agreeing not to cross the bridge and not to tear down barriers or wires that law enforcement had put up.
“We all want this to de-escalate and end peacefully,” Sheriff Laney said.
Veterans’ views are hardly monolithic, and as the veterans began to arrive, the Morton County Sheriff’s office — whose ranks include veterans — sought to show it had the support of local veterans. The county released a
featuring Raymond Morrell, a Marine veteran. He criticized the protests and questioned why veterans arriving from outside North Dakota would join what the sheriff has called an unlawful protest.
At a news conference, Sheriff Laney said he had received information that an “element” within the protest camps wanted to exploit veterans with post-traumatic stress and goad them into acts of violence. Tribal leaders and protesters say they are nonviolent and have no weapons.
Several of the veterans who lined up wore caps saying, “Native Veteran.” Some were old men, veterans of Korea and postwar Europe, who said they had grown up in Indian boarding schools where they were beaten for speaking their language. Some drove in from reservations across the Plains.
Ben Wright, a Native American and Army veteran who served in Vietnam, at left, walked with Rob McHaney, a retired Navy diver, through the camp in Cannon Ball.CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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Ben Wright, a Native American and Army veteran who served in Vietnam, at left, walked with Rob McHaney, a retired Navy diver, through the camp in Cannon Ball.CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times]
Some of the arriving veterans have spent years in the antiwar movement after returning from Vietnam or Iraq. They said they saw the pipeline protests as a new chapter in that activism.They came with open letters and leaflets, and they raised flags in the camp that fluttered alongside the names of Native American nations.
Many said they came ready to form a barrier between protesters and law enforcement.
“A lot of people here are willing to sacrifice their body, willing to give their life,” said Vincent Emanuele, 32, a former Marine who served in Iraq and has spoken out extensively against what he called a futile war. “You might as well die for something that means something.”
Others said they did not care much about politics and had never joined a protest. But they said they had been moved by the tribe’s fight to block a crucial section of the 1,170-mile pipeline. Or they said they were angry at seeing images of violent clashes between lines of law enforcement and Native Americans.
“I just couldn’t believe what was happening in the United States,” Mr. Brocar, 44, said. “Even in Iraq, there was some rule of engagement. If these guys don’t have weapons, it just doesn’t make sense to me that it’s a shooting gallery.”
Like other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who came here — any many who did not — he said he had grown disillusioned with the grinding wars and their human toll. On his wrist were two metal bracelets with the names of his two dead friends — “hometown guys who joined to save the world.”
After the meeting ended, the veterans dispersed across the dark plains to sleep, some heading to tents and yurts at the camp, others to borrowed beds. Robert Abbey, 37, a former soldier who joined the military at 17 and deployed once to Iraq, ended up sleeping at the community college.
He said he came because he wanted to help, and to see what was unfolding five hours north of his home in Hermosa, S.D.Some of the veterans here said they might stay for weeks, but Mr. Abbey had to get back home for an appointment at the local Veterans Affairs agency.
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 5, 2016, Section A, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: Veterans at Standing Rock Cheer Pipeline Decision
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