Headed back to Standing Rock

To the Editor:
Last night (Nov. 20), in 27-degree weather, police in North Dakota fired water cannons on people peacefully protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. The brutality of weaponizing water against peaceful water protectors at Standing Rock is beyond appalling.
This week I am headed back to Standing Rock to stand with our brothers and sisters and to report from the front lines. Now, more than ever, it is important to go. Stopping this pipeline is at the heart of the climate movement and protecting the sovereign rights of the Standing Rock Sioux is at the heart of the fight for the morality of our country.
Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest updates from on the ground at Standing Rock this critical week.
Watch the reporting from my first trip to Standing Rock.
And please continue to support independent journalist reporting on climate change.
"How To Let Go of the World" producer, Deia Schlosberg and HTLG cameraman Steve Liptay are still facing charges in North Dakota and Minnesota for filming a climate action where activists shut down all the pipelines transporting tar sands oil from Canada to the United States.
We’re seeing a dangerous trend of reporters being arrested for covering climate protests. We must vigorously defend our first amendment rights to peaceful assembly and free press. And we must vigorously spread the truth about the Dakota Access Pipeline.
It will ship dirty fracked oil that climate science is telling us must stay in the ground. It will threaten the water supply of 17 million people when it crosses under the Missouri River.
And the company’s drill is close to the River. We must stop construction now.
So please, follow our reports from the ground. Please, support climate change journalism.
In love and solidarity,
Josh Fox
Solutions Grassroots
solutionsgrassroots.com
See related story: "Local pipeline activists stand with Standing Rock": http://bit.ly/2gVeP87