Seattle Committee Responds to Standing Rock

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Wednesday, Seattle's Affordable Housing, Neighborhoods and Finance Committee voted unanimously to forward a bill to pull $3 billion from DAPL lender Wells Fargo to the full City Council. This follows a Tuesday announcement that the U.S Army Corps of Engineers will issue an easement allowing them to begin the last stages of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The bill would terminate the city's contract with Wells Fargo and require the city to consider social justice issues when granting city contracts for construction and other projects, the Seattle Times reports.

Demonstrators gathered at City Hall on Wednesday in anticipation of the vote, decrying the pipeline's construction in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and protestors in North Dakota.

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[Amaryllis]

1. Great news.

[2naSalit]

2. I hope there will be more of this type of

action from now on. I hope to see divestment in as many corporations and banking institutions as we can... all of us. I have pared down a long time ago but I always find new ways to not participate in their capitalism.