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Thousands Take to the Streets Across the Country to Oppose the Dakota Access and Keystone Pipelines

On Tuesday, January 24th thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across the United States to protest President Donald Trump's signing of a series of Executive Memorandums, seeking to resume and advance the construction of the previously suspended Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipeline projects.

In Washington, D.C., demonstrators gathered at sunset before the White House, in the shadow of the security gates and crowd stands at the Presidential Inauguration that took place just days earlier.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18205

Quebec coroner blames aboriginal suicides on Canada's "ancient apartheid system"

The five suicides that occurred within a nine-month period in 2015 in a small indigenous community in northern Quebec were avoidable and fundamentally the result of Canada’s “ancient apartheid system,” a Quebec coroner wrote in a searing report released Saturday.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/aboriginal-suicides-fundamentally-the-results-of-canadas-ancient-apartheid-system-coroner

Leonard Peltier: Hoffnung versiegt

Obama verwehrt Peltier endgültig Begnadigung. Kongress wegen Lager Guantanamo kritisiert. In den letzten Stunden seiner Amtszeit hat US-Präsident Barack Obama nochmals Entscheidungen über Gnadenakte und Freilassungen von Gefangenen getroffen. Auch dieses Mal nicht auf der Liste der Begnadigten ist der indigene politische Gefangene Leonard Peltier.
http://baskinfo.blogspot.de/2017/01/leonard-peltier-hoffnung-versiegt.html

Standing Rock Sioux to Trump: ‘Creating a Second Flint Does Not Make America Great Again’

No longer just tweeting, President Donald J. Trump has been issuing a stream of executive orders and memoranda since his inauguration. On Tuesday, his pronouncements involved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Both projects were denied or delayed by the Obama administration, each after massive public protests. Now, with the Trump administration’s actions, buttressed by a servile Congress under Republican control, fossil-fuel megaprojects are getting the green light.

But it will take more than the stroke of Trump’s pen to quash the vigorous resistance to these two pipelines, or the growing global demand for urgent action to combat climate change.

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is the 1,100-mile long, $3.8 billion pipeline that would carry fracked oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota, through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois, where it would connect with another pipeline to carry the crude to the Gulf of Mexico.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/26/standing_rock_sioux_to_trump_creating