the-movemnt: “Dakota Access pipeline activists set their sights on the Flint water crisis• With their fight at Standing Rock seemingly won, at least for now, Dakota Access Pipeline protesters will refocus their efforts elsewhere: Flint, MI. • The...
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the-movemnt: “Dakota Access pipeline activists set their sights on the Flint water crisis• With their fight at Standing Rock seemingly won, at least for now, Dakota Access Pipeline protesters will refocus their efforts elsewhere: Flint, MI. • The...
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the-movemnt:

Dakota Access pipeline activists set their sights on the Flint water crisis

  • With their fight at Standing Rock seemingly won, at least for now, Dakota Access Pipeline protesters will refocus their efforts elsewhere: Flint, MI.
  • The activists plan to take on the city’s ongoing water crisis.
  • “This problem is all over the county,” Wes Clark Jr., a veteran of the U.S. Army, told MLive. Clark was one of the nearly 2,000-strong group, Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, that formed a first line of protection at the Oceti Sakowin Camp over the weekend.
  • “It’s got to be more than veterans,” Clark said. “People have been treated wrong in this county for a long time.”
  • Veterans and activists do not know exactly when they’ll head to Flint and many have vowed to stay until the Standing Rock Sioux ask them to leave. 
  • But they’re hoping that their presence in Flint can call media attention to the crisis and force meaningful action in the same way their presence did in North Dakota. Read more

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