kropotkitten:

kropotkitten:

Few things about DAPL if you haven’t heard

Army Engineers said no to a permit. Doesn’t mean that DAPL can’t keep drilling and just pay the fines. 50K a day in fines is nothing for a company like them to brush off. 

They could literally just wait, and lose money of course, until Trump gets into office and streamlines the project. He could just use the Federal government’s powers over interstate commerce to get it put through. 

This is part of a colonial frontier war against the original peoples and the land

Celebrate a victory but don’t fall for the State’s trick. This is far from over. 

“Yet even as men and women began drumming and dancing around the fire, many Native Americans were unconvinced that Sunday’s news was the end.

“It’s not over. It’s never over,” said a Standing Rock member who gave his name as Ghost. “They say one thing and do another.”