No DAPL Solidarity March: Stand with Standing Rock!

press release: RALLY: 1pm at Library Mall, UW-Madison

MARCH and finally rally in front of US Bank on S. Pinckney, one of those 17 banks financing DAPL.

Speakers:

- Art Shegonee, leading 1st Nation/Native American Rights activist, Founder & presenter at Call For Peace Drum & Dance Co

- Madison Alder Rebecca Kemble - who recently got arrested protesting @ Standing Rock #noDAPL occupation

- Chaous (Carrie) Riddle, member of Laborers' International Union of North America(LIUNA) Local 236, who led her local in courageously defying the international leadership and passing a resolution in solidarity with NoDAPL protests and opposing the pipeline.

- Brandi Grayson, co-founder of Young, Gifted and Black Coalition

- Carl Sack - TAA Executive Board

- PK. Hammel - Madison Action for Mining Alternatives and National Lawyers Guild

- Teddy Shibabaw, Organizer with Socialist Alternative

In a historic and important resistance, over a hundred 1st Nation tribes and thousands of other activists, the Water Protectors, have united to stop the climate destroying Dakota Access Pipeline, and in defense of the Sioux Tribe's sacred sites and ancestral burial grounds. On Thursday, Oct 27, a police force backed by corporate paramilitary agents and armored vehicles moved against indigenous people and other activists courageously protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline(DAPL). Organizers were beaten, maced, shot with rubber bullets, threatened with automatic weapons, and more than 100 arrested for having the audacity to stand up and protect indigenous treaty rights, the region’s watershed, and the climate. This brutality on behalf of multibillion dollar energy companies and the 17 multinational banks financing the project continues unabated. We must act! We must stand in solidarity with Standing Rock to say NO to DAPL and in defense of the rights of 1st Nation Peoples, the right to protest and to protect our planet.

WE DEMAND:

- End all acts of political repression against NoDAPL protestors

- Release all political prisoners

- Stop and reverse all construction on DAPL

- Green jobs building renewable energy and retrofitting current buildings and engines

- An economy that puts people and the planet above profit

Sponsored by Madison Socialist Alternative

Endorsed by following

- Teaching Assistants Association(TAA) - Executive Board

- Madison Action for Mining Alternatives

- International Socialist Organization-Madison