Rep. Tulsi Gabbard & hundreds of her fellow Veterans to join Water Protectors in North Dakota

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Hundreds of Veterans to Join Water Protectors at Standing Rock to Protest Dakota Access Pipeline

Lorraine Chow - Nov. 23, 2016 10:46AM EST

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A Facebook page for the event, Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, has more than 600 confirmed reservations with more than 4,500 other people expressing interest.

High-profile veterans including U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and retired Baltimore police officer/whistleblower Michael A. Wood, Jr. plan to attend.

"This country is repressing our people," Wood Jr. told Task & Purpose. "If we're going to be heroes, if we're really going to be those veterans that this country praises, well, then we need to do the things that we actually said we're going to do when we took the oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic."

The "operations order" states:

"In response to the assertion of treaty rights, citizen rights, tribal rights and protection of the most valuable of resources, water, the Sioux tribes and allied comrades, are under sustained assault by agents of and working for private interests under the color of law. First Americans have served in the United States Military, defending the soil of our homelands, at a greater percentage than any other group of Americans. There is no other people more deserving of veteran support and this situation encapsulates whether we are called heroes for violence and cashing paychecks or for justice and morality."

Read more:
http://www.ecowatch.com/veterans-standing-rock-dakota-access-pipeline-2106672407.html

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1. Wow! Go Tulsi!

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2. I thought we could not support her

I am so confused

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3. It is confusing isn't it. I for one am glad one of our representatives cares about this...