Despite sub-zero winter temperatures, a conflict over a controversial new pipeline is threatening to boil over in rural Minnesota, turning it into the next Standing Rock. 22 people were arrested last week during protests in Aitkin County, around 120 miles north of Minneapolis, for trespassing against the construction of the …

Where was the mainstream media during Standing Rock, Bayou Bridge, police murders, sex trafficking, and in-custody deaths of Native Americans?

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Police and National Guard forces began raiding camps at Standing Rock Wednesday afternoon, not long after reports stated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would be granting an easement necessary for completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Reports from the scene suggested …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Cannon Ball, ND – A steady stream of U.S. military veterans continued to pour into the Standing Rock protest camps over the weekend, with our sources on the ground estimating nearly 5,000 vets already there, and more arriving throughout the night to …

The stand at Standing Rock has reached a critical point. State officials have ordered the protesters to vacate U.S. Army Corp of Engineer’s land, but there is no sense that anyone is prepared to leave. Instead, some 2,000 veterans are headed into the camp to act as a human shield …

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has issued a mandatory emergency evacuation order for all encampments north of the Cannonball River. This would include all those people who are actively protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. The order, though not necessarily forceful, is obligatory and would advance an eviction that was set …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Flint, MI – After seemingly tipping the scales of justice in favor of the Standing Rock Sioux, the “Veterans for Standing Rock” are now taking their community activism to Flint, Michigan. “We don’t know when we are going to be there but …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. As the battle to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline kicks up a notch, news of yet another water body contaminated by an oil spill — this one just 200 miles from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation — reinforces the legitimacy …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Mandan, ND – In an amazing display of humanity and compasson, water protectors from the Oceti Sakowin camp, on Friday, donated various supplies to the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in Mandan after the department posted a request for donations late last month. …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Balking at an earlier decision by the Army Corps of Engineers, Energy Transfer Partners — the company responsible for constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline — says the denial of an easement necessary to drill under the Missouri River is of no consequence …