As Pipeline Construction and Repression Grows, DAPL Protest is Looking More Like a Mass Movement
As Pipeline Construction and Repression Grows, DAPL Protest is Looking More Like a Mass Movement
November 2, 2016
by Oscar Ortega
News this past week from the front line of the Dakota Access Pipeline battle has been alarming.
As they seek to block construction on the 1200-mile long pipeline, water protectors — as the activists call themselves — are getting arrested by the hundreds in North Dakota, victims of a police force now virtually indistinguishable from an occupying army.
In the latest round of mass arrests Thursday, more than 300 cops raided a recently-erected teepee camp near highway 1806; as they rolled through, officers used the tips of their automatic weapons to push open teepee doors, a scene witnesses likened to US Army raids on native villages in the 1800s.
Some protectors were even marked with id numbers on their arms and housed in dog kennels.
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