As people nationwide rallied last year to support the Standing Rock Sioux’s attempts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, a private security firm with experience fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan launched an intrusive military-style surveillance and counterintelligence campaign against the activists and their allies, according to internal company documents.
Standing Rock
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Standing Rock and beyond
On Reveal, we team up with Inside Energy to go behind the scenes at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and meet the young people who started the oil pipeline protests.
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‘Brute force’ at Standing Rock was on taxpayers’ dime
Law enforcement’s militaristic presence at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests was made possible by the taxpayers of North Dakota.
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An end and a beginning at Standing Rock
Bulldozers dug into temporary structures, police slashed open teepee-style dwellings and more than two dozen people were arrested at the heavily militarized evacuation of the last protesters at Oceti Sakowin, the main camp at Standing Rock.
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What Obama can actually do about Standing Rock
As the protests at Standing Rock become increasingly dangerous, calls for President Barack Obama to intervene are growing louder.