September 16, 2016 Hello ,
Fannie Sellins would say it's deja vu all over again. Let me know what you think of the video. I am considering adding video more in the newsletter.
Century Later, Same Tactics |
Back in 1914, when Colorado coal miners stood up to John D. Rockefeller demanding justice, the National Guard
arrived with machine guns.
Strikers thought the soldiers would protect them, but they joined company guards in harassing union families and attacking a tent camp.
This week in North Dakota
the National Guard was called out against peaceful citizens, and private company guards attacked an unarmed crowd of men, women and children.
After Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and her camera crew shot video of private guards unleashing dogs on the crowd protesting the Dakota Acess Pipeline, local authorities issued an arrest warrant for the
journalist.
Video courtesy democracynow.org https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and https://www.facebook.com/RedWarriorCamp/videos/1748189495433003/
Despite the arrests, protesters are not giving up.
Thousands of "protectors" are preparing to
spend the winter at Standing Rock and Red Warrior Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, including Native Americans from more than 100 tribes across the country.
They're determined to stop the “Dakota Access” Pipeline (DAPL), a 11-hundred mile fracked-oil pipeline under construction from the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota to Peoria, Illinois.
Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) plans to tunnel under the Missouri River — the main source of water for the reservation. Earlier the company proposed running
the pipeline under the Missouri north of Bismarck, but authorities feared a pipeline spill would pollute the capital city’s water
supply. The Standing Rock Tribe claims the pipeline endangers it's water and land and that the bulldozers are desecrating burial grounds and cultural sites.
Since early April, young people have been leading the charge against the pipline.
Photo courtesy Josue Rivas
A number of youth participated in a relay run from North Dakota to Washington DC, delivering over 140,000 signatures to the Army Corps of Engineers and the White House,
calling for a halt to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
While authorities held tribal members without bail back in Morton Country, Jasilyn Charger delivered a plea to President Barack Obama and spoke to protesters in front of the white house. Ranchers and residents in the countryside around Standing Rock are mostly conservative, overwhelmingly white and watching the demonstrations with frustration and fear. See New York Times story here... Dakota Access LLC, the company that owns the pipeline, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) founded by oil and gas tycoon Kelcy Warren
of Dallas, Texas, also chairman and CEO of ETP. Photo courtesy celebrityfamily.com.
Bloomberg, a magazine for the
global financial elite, with in-depth stories on the companies and people who move markets, ran an exposé on Warren last year, saying...
“Energy Transfer Partners is one of four master limited partnerships over which Warren has effective control. MLPs, used primarily by energy companies, don’t pay income taxes. Instead, investors holding units—the rough
equivalent of shares—pay taxes on the quarterly cash distributions they receive.
That gives MLPs a lower cost of capital for acquisitions and construction projects. But they have to crank out those cash payments to keep unitholders happy, which means they must keep acquiring new properties or expanding existing ones. “You must grow until you die,” Warren says.” Full story here...
NoDAPL
demonstrations swept the nation this week, and people all around the world send their support.
This week FANNIE NEVER FLINCHED garnered two starred reviews! Publisher's Weekly says, "Over
six brief chapters, Farrell deftly places Sellins’s story within the larger context of immigration and industrialization at the time. Readers....shouldn’t miss this entrée to the subject." Read the full review here.. The Booklist starred review releases October 15, but I'll just say it may be the best review my writing has ever received. Here's a sneak peek, "The author may be
addressing this stirring story of an early union activist—Fannie Sellins—to middle-schoolers, but the rigor of her approach yields a book with solid scholarly features..."
Full review to come!
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