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Take Action to Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

I couldn’t keep my opinion on the matter quiet anymore! They scream about profit like it is the ultimate prize, what good are material things without an Earth to survive? Hard, cold, harsh water is spraying at you full force from a hose only mere feet away. Each drop hits like a needle against your skin and causes you to shiver more. Moments ago mace filled the eyes of your 19 year old daughter and still her eyes are blood red and she cries out in pain. In the last months alone your family has been caged, shot with rubber bullets, and mauled by dogs. One may think in these conditions that you live in a special kind of hell on Earth, a rare place of horrors only heard of in nightmares or the worst depths of history books but you live in North Dakota, USA in the year 2016 and all you are doing is peacefully protecting your land. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota and other water protecting activists have been enduring harsh conditions for months now in peaceful protest to protect their land from the Dakota Access Pipeline, a pipeline that will carry toxic fracked oil across 200 waterways in 4 states and across sacred land of the tribe. Oil and profit are the only things being considered in the decision to place the pipeline and to use inhumane policing in effort to stop the protest, forgetting very important things such as nature preservation, water quality and basic humanity. Not only does this pipeline run through sacred burial grounds to the Sioux tribe but it runs through land period, which should be enough for you to want to end it. Oil pipelines have an infamous history of leaks or spills and the effects of these spills last for decades to come. The oil sticks to everything in its path, poisoning water, destroying plants and killing wildlife. Pipelines effect the air quality around them causing people living within close proximity to become ill and sometimes even die. This particular pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline could have one single leak and destroy water for thousands of people. With people becoming sick, the Earth reaping the ultimate consequences what really are the benefits? Sure, we can move oil from point A to point B faster, but at what cost? I realize oil equals profit but what good is profit if we are not alive to enjoy it, if our Earth is not alive to allow us to? When we have no Earth, no water, no trees, no land we don’t have life, that is simple science. What good does getting 570,000 barrels of crude oil across the country in one day do then? None. We can wait days, months and years to stop ignoring the damage that we are doing to our planet but we are only stealing those days, months and years from future generations, from our grandchildren, from the future. We can wait and rob them of the opportunity of nature, prosperity and life or we can continue to be selfish and wait. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” Now you know what is going on in Standing Rock, North Dakota. For my local friends in Indy that means that people are being arrested, maced, shot and caged for peacefully exercising their first amendment right to protest only 1,034 miles from your home. 1,034 miles from your home people are being arrested, maced, shot and caged for choosing the health and well being of our Earth and its inhabitants over the profit of oil. Now you know and you no longer have an excuse to ignore what is going on. Stand with Standing Rock but more importantly Stand Up For Standing Rock!! Here is how you can help: (Please be professional and courteous when making calls.) -Call North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple at 701-328-2200 -Donate at http://standingrock.org/news/standing-rock-sioux-tribe–dakota-access-pipeline-donation-fund/ -Donate items from http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/ Together there is nothing we cannot do! By: Chyanna Scherer #NoDAPL #CantDrinkOil #WaterIsLife #StandWithStandingRock #FrackNo #NoPipelines