Protesters Continue Direct Action Planning as Pipeline Nears Completion
From Marfa Public Radio:
As protesters in Standing Rock clean up camp and head home, Sioux tribes in North and South Dakota are still battling in court to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Their fight has inspired protesters who are trying to stop pipeline construction in other parts of the country. In the Big Bend region of Texas, construction on the Trans-Pecos Pipeline is nearly complete.
Destiny Willcuts is a native Lakota Sioux. She left Standing Rock with her mother when extreme winter weather hit the area. They headed south, to a newly erected pipeline protest camp in Presidio County, Texas.
“I didn’t want to give up the fight so I just decided to head to another front line,” Willcutts says.
Willcuts is 16. She was arrested in January for chaining herself to a bulldozer on a Trans-Pecos Pipeline construction site in Presidio County. So far, 16 people have been been arrested while protesting the pipeline. Willcutts is facing felony charges.
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