Several
Indigenous Activists from the West were arrested. At this point Crow, Sacheen and Kanahus have been released. However West Coast warriors are still in need of legal funds.
Please e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com [as requested by family
members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD = 3000$ CDN
immediately.
More
information and updates below
LEGAL FUNDS NEEDED ASAP! SUPPORT WEST COAST WARRIORS!
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Read update from Kanahus below *
Today
eighty water protectors were violently arrested near Dakota Pipeline construction
sites. As written by Red Warrior Camp “You are trespassing on Native
Land. You are protecting the destruction of our sacred sites. Put down your
guns, turn in your badges. Understand the indestructible spirit of indigenous
people walking with prayers and sacrifice of our ancestors for sacred
water.”
Four
of those arrested are well known West Coast land defenders and members of the
Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society, Ancestral Pride and West Coast Women
Warriors Media Cooperative: Kanahus Manuel, Queen Sacheen, James Joe Crow and
Rose Stiffarm.
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IMMEDIATE LEGAL FUNDS ARE NEEDED! ***
Please
e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com
[as requested by family members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD
= 3000$ CDN immediately.
Legal
is needed ongoing for all water protectors: https://www.generosity.com/…/red-warrior-camp-legal-fund-no… andhttps://fundrazr.com/campaigns/d19fAf
ALSO
SUPPORT BY CALLING AND DEMANDING RELEASE:
The Morton County Sheriff’s dep’t: (701)
667-3330 or (701)667-3405
Jail: 1-701-667-3318
or 701-328-9921
WORDS
FROM KANAHUS:
“Things
are very disorganized at the jail, because they arrested 80+ people today.
Earlier in the day they did not even have a list of all the people they had
in custody. In a cell with 30 women and there are others in other cells. Sacheen Seitcham
and Joe James Crow are also among those arrested as is cinematographer Rose
Stiffarm. we were doing a peaceful prayer march through fields. Construction
has been happening in important areas and some people chained themselves to machinery.
The riot police put paper/cloth bags over the heads of those defenders. The
people in the prayer march were away from the construction zone and just in a
field when the riot police swarmed the field, they pepper sprayed people,
threw underage girls on the ground and swept and arrested all the people on
the field. Again, that was not supposed to happen, we were all in a peaceful
prayer march away from construction. It was local, state and federal police
that descended on them and arrested.”
The supervisor said they will all be charged with “criminal
trespass” and “inciting a riot”.”
