It is outrageous to see the photos of people injured by North Dakota’s brutal police actions at Standing Rock. The police were using a water canon on Standing Rock water protectors in sub-zero weather potentially subjecting them to life-threatening hypothermia....

There is taking responsibility for one’s circumstances and then there is outsourcing responsibility for one’s circumstances, just as there is acknowledging injustice without imposing judgement upon legitimate victims of circumstances, situations beyond one’s control....

Yesterday we were notified that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not grant the easement to cross Lake Oahe for the Dakota Access Pipeline....