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General News    H3'ed 2/6/18

Indigenous Women March in Women's March for their Missing and Murdered

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This article has a lot of links that fill in more information about crimes against Indigenous women. What this article DOESN'T talk about is how many Indigenous women and girls are raped, trafficked and murdered due to man camps - "temporary" housing for hundreds  of oil & gas pipeline workers - mostly men - for projects such as Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and other extractive industry projects being built across the U.S. and Canada - often on Indigenous lands that are supposed to be protected by treaty.

In the DAPL trials, Water Protectors who were protesting the disappearences of Indigenous women are being charged and tried with felony crimes for "obstructing" - while the corporate purveyors of these murderous and corrupt systemic abuses go uncharged for their crimes of violence and murder against women and girls (boys, too), and against the earth itself.

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I am a low-to-no-income person getting-older. I work (when i have work) as a seasonal gardener. I'm tired of seeing America eroded by corporate neo- fascists, and tired of watching the gift of life on this miraculous planet be exploited and (more...)
 

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