Ronda Rousey joins Standing Rock protesters, delivers supplies

After the news about Trump’s new Dakota Access Pipeline order broke, Woodley vowed to continue her fight against the potentially environmentally devastating pipeline. For this reason, we ask the protectors to vacate the camps and head home with our most heartfelt thanks.

John Linstrom, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, attended the protest today at Columbus Circle.

“Not only that, but our tribal members have said ‘Enough now.'” Archambault added.

“One of the really powerful things at the Women’s March in D.C. on Saturday, which I was also at, was the sense of solidarity”, Linstrom said.

With the pipeline moving forward, there is no doubt the protests will increase and one person who will be there fighting against its construction is UFC star Ronda Rousey. “Creating a second Flint does not make America great again”.

“There are other ways you can battle this”, he said.

The Morton County Sheriff’s Department urged activists to remain peaceful in light of Trump’s order and said they were bracing for a possible resurgence in protests.

Other tribal leaders say there are other ways people can fight the pipeline. Before the project can be finished, builders need permission to lay pipe under Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir from which an American Indian tribe draws its drinking water. The Keystone XL project was rejected by the president himself in November 2015 after the state department concluded that the pipeline promised no major benefit for energy security or pricing. While not all of these incidents are as environmentally harmful or significant as others, it’s still important to remember that they made an impact, and, whether large or small, that matters. Protesters thought they had won, but now, with a stroke of Trump’s pen, victory has been snatched away.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and supporters have said they will resist US President Donald Trump’s executive order to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) that threatens to destroy water supply of the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, as well as Native American sacred sites. There are also Native American sites in the area. Yet expediting the construction of DAPL is the obvious goal of the executive order. “This is proof his administration is racist and doesn’t respect its own laws”.

“Should the White House continue to push on this issue and disregard federal policy, the more likely this will not end anytime soon”, said Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, which is working with the tribe to move people from the flood plain.

“Not only do I have faith in God, but I have faith in my people“, she said.