‘Oil war’

As Trump took the oath of office in Washington last Friday, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota called for the three DAPL protest camps to be dismantled and for protesters to go home.

Roughly a thousand protesters have remained, among them, lawyer, activist and former Democratic House candidate Chase Iron Eyes, who characterized the protests — and crackdown by law enforcement — as “an oil war going on in the middle of America.”

“Trump has presented himself as a threat to all those who value constitutional rights, native nations who seek to liberate from domestic dependent nationhood which is imposed by the United States,” Iron Eyes said. “Trump presents a threat to those who seek water security as a human right and who want to avoid the privatization of water.”[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense-responsive”]Currently, about 1,000 protesters remain near Standing Rock, but Iron Eyes expects that number will swell.

“We are going to orchestrate a callout as soon as we know we can logistically provide for people who want to come and stand in the fight against tyranny, come and stand in the fight of the corporate takeover of our very democracy,” he said.

Source: VOA

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