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Energy Transfer Partners lawsuit reveals desperation to finish troubled DAPL project 
CANNON BALL, ND, November 15, 2016 – Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) today filed a lawsuit charging the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has no right to delay easement to pipeline construction....
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 2:23pm PST
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers delays DAPL easement and calls for further environmental review 
CANNON BALL, N.D., November 14, 2016 – The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers today announced they are delaying an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline project until it conducts further environmental review with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The Corp noted that “construction on or under Corps land bordering Lake Oahe cannot occur because the Army has not made a final decision on whether to grant an easement.”...
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 2:19pm PST
Secession 
Secession is the departure of a group or community from a larger organization such as a state, province, country, or empire. Talk of secession has increased since Trump won the presidential election. Secession is the correct response to the election of Trump. States, regions, counties, towns, and cities should secede from the United States. Cities and states where most people did not vote for Trump must secede from the US. The United States is not worth saving....
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2016 3:07pm PST
The Electoral College Giveth, And The Electoral College Can Taketh Away 
Elijah Berg’s viral petition calling on electors to make Clinton President over Trump is no more outlandish than the result we got: coronating a rapey, racist, misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, thin-skinned, Narcissist whose very being is a threat to the dignity and safety of millions of people at home and abroad....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2016 6:40pm PST
To Defeat Trump … And the Democrats, Fight for Workers Revolution After all the media hype, suddenly it turned out that Republican Donald Trump was elected. The racist, sexist, immigrant-bashing, woman-molesting Trump would be the next CEO of the United States and commander-in-chief of U.S. imperialism. In deep shock and disbelief, tens of millions asked, how could this happen? In Muslim, Latino, African American and immigrant families there was raw fear. Soon mass protests began, with many chanting “Not My President” (as if Democrat Clinton, a certified wa...
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2016 12:49pm PST
U.S. Electile Dysfunction--A Tyranny of the Minority When is 2016 equal to 1984? In what Universe does a losing candidate who receives 2 million votes less than his opponent, become the declared WINNER of an election? Is this the New Math of the Failed State of Trumpistan? By contrast, in the 2014 Syrian election, when President Bashar Assad received 9 million more votes than his opponent, Washington--as a totally illegitimate outside agitator--had the "audacity" to insist that "Assad must go!" And the CIA started shipping lethal weapons to th...
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2016 2:32am PST
Trump’s popular vote deficit may approach two million The scale of Trump’s defeat in the popular vote underscores the political cowardice that has been displayed by the Democratic Party in its response to the election. Given the circumstances, the Democrats are under no political obligation to do more than acknowledge that Trump, because of his electoral vote majority, has merely won the right to plant his backside in the presidential chair of the Oval Office....
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2016 8:12am PST
#DisruptJ20: Call for a bold mobilization against the inauguration of Donald Trump 
We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2016 3:23pm PST
As Protests Gain Momentum In Bay Area, Trump Campaign Is Scrubbing His Website As the protests against President Elect Trump gain momentum in the Bay Area, and President Obama and Hillary Clinton tell us to accept Trump as our president, the Trump campaign is moving rapidly in scrubbing the Trump Campaign Website!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 9:29pm PST
This Election, Keys Residents Vote “NO” on GE Mosquitoes 
WASHINGTON, November 9th, 2016 — Residents of Key Haven, Florida made it clear with their votes this Election Day that they do not want genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes released in their backyards. Key Haven was selected by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District board to be the site of the first-ever U.S. release of GE mosquitoes, manufactured by Oxitec. The people in Key Haven pushed hard to have their voices heard in a non-binding vote on whether or not to allow the release – and ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2016 12:22pm PST
Pipeline Expert: Government Underestimated Risk of an Oil Spill from Dakota Access Pipeline 
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe demands government reconsider its finding that pipeline poses no risks. Photo: The DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) being installed between farms, as seen from 50th Avenue in New Salem, North Dakota (TONY WEBSTER / CC BY-SA 2.0)....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2016 5:28pm PST
Standing Rock Water Protectors Report Escalating Surveillance, Civil Rights and Privacy Violations 
Impounded cars ransacked, sacred items destroyed; one water protector arrested and held for conspiracy while transporting donated supplies to camp....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2016 4:53pm PST
ACLU Urges Justice Department to Investigate Militarized Response at Standing Rock Protest 
WASHINGTON. November 4, 2016 — The American Civil Liberties Union and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights sent a letter today to the Justice Department calling for an investigation of possible constitutional rights violations in the police response to peaceful protestors demonstrating against the Dakota Access pipeline....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2016 4:45pm PST
My Answer to the Question--Why on Earth Would Anyone Vote for Bernie? 
With the general election a few days away, more and more details are coming out about the crimes and corruption of both worser-of-two-evil candidates. While many progressive voters are leaning towards Jill Stein, she does not have a chance of winning this time around. In this article I explain how Bernie still has a path to the White House in 2017, and why it is imperative that we vote for him....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 2:05pm PDT
The marijuana election is days away! (This Month in Marijuana - October 2016) 
Just over one week from today, voters in nine states will decide on important marijuana ballot questions. Look for Election Day alerts from Marijuana Majority as results come in....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2016 8:58am PDT
The FBI intervenes in the 2016 election In an extraordinary and unprecedented action, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has stepped into the 2016 presidential campaign only 11 days before Election Day, sending a letter to Congress announcing new “investigative steps” related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2016 10:42pm PDT
Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear 1851 Treaty Camp 
Cannonball, ND, October 28, 2016 - Over 300 police officers in riot gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline camp just east of Highway 1806. The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently purchased by DAPL. Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Lakota territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 185...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2016 11:56pm PDT
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe responds to today's law enforcement escalation 
Cannon Ball, N.D., October 27, 2016 - Law enforcement officials from North Dakota and several other states today moved in to forcibly remove protesters on what water protectors claim is tribal land. Armed with batons, weapons and dressed in riot gear, law enforcement were flanked by military tanks as they moved in to remove and arrest campers....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2016 6:45pm PDT
OpDeny270 is a Strategic Plan, to Write In Bernie Sanders, and Force a 12th Amendment Vote Op Ed about the Write-In Campaign for Bernie in CA and 10 other states...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2016 11:57pm PDT
The 2016 elections and the dead-end of “lesser evil” politics The final two weeks of the US presidential election campaign will be dominated by appeals to working people and young people from unions and liberal publications and organizations to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Given that Clinton is widely despised as a creature of Wall Street and the political establishment and an advocate of a more aggressive and militaristic foreign policy, this sales effort encounters significant obstacles....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2016 12:19am PDT
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