The Heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff

Published in MOTHER JONES

Mother Jones, abbreviato in MoJo, è una storica rivista progressista americana, che si occupa di politica, diritti umani e ambiente. In edicola dal 1976, oggi è anche on-line, con splendidi contenuti multimediali.

Qui un filmato di Lucian Read, che ci porta nel cuore della protesta degli Indiani d’America contro il Dakota Access Pipeline. 

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Premiering here, Read’s latest short film, Mni Wiconi: The Standing at Standing Rock, turns a camera on the plight of Native Americans, a group that has been neglected and wronged perhaps more than any other in this nation. “We were thinking of ways to continue the America Divided project with groups that weren’t included in that series,” Read says. “And I’d especially been thinking about poverty and inequality in Indian country.”

In September, when members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota made national headlines for their protests against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline—which the tribe says interferes with its ancestral land and water rights, Read thought it might be the perfect subject.

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