The week after the election, DC activists will take non-violent direct action in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

If you're in DC wondering: what can I do?  We have an invitation: join us Tuesday in support of the brave men and women at Standing Rock. We'll be peacefully sitting in at the Army Corps of Engineers to insist that they deny the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to cross the Missouri River.

We need not, we think, rehearse all the reasons for this stand: by now you've heard of the environmental racism involved in the routing of the pipeline, and of the violent treatment of those who peacefully protested.

But we should say, in all truth, that we don't know what the effect of our protest will be. We need the Obama administration to act, and act decisively--not to simply run out the clock on their responsibilities. Even if he does so, his successor may undo his work and grant the permit. But many things may happen after January 20, and we had best get in the practice of resistance, or at least of bearing witness.

And that is what this protest will do: bear witness not just to the troubling events at Standing Rock but to the hundreds of years of US Army onslaught against this continent's original inhabitants. Yes, last Tuesday's election was a historic moment in American history, but it was not the first historic moment, or the only shameful one. We are part of a long chain of resistance to that history, and we invite you to join us.    

Sincerely,

Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Tara Houska, Honor the Earth
Ladonna Allard, Sacred Stone Camp
Eryn Wise, International Indigenous Youth Council
Judith LeBlanc, Native Organizers Alliance
Bill McKibben, 350.org
Jane Kleeb, Bold Alliance
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Hip Hop Caucus

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