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STOP DAPL Rally & March

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Stand with Standing Rock and join us in targeting multiple Green Snakes (banks) that fund the Black Snake (pipeline).

This peaceful, family-friendly demonstration will involve a march through downtown Palo Alto of about 1.2 miles. Wear comfortable walking shoes, bring NoDAPL signs and banners and be ready to take group pictures in front of multiple banks that fund DAPL to the tune of over $2.6 billion.

Palo Alto City Hall Sat. Feb. 11, 2017 Noon – 2 PM

March to banks funding DAPL Photo Op to Social Media

Action Network Event Link: https://goo.gl/cm7b4N

New Year’s Eve Prayer for Standing Rock

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Election Day and Standing Rock

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We recently received this email from Tracy B. Ann and wanted to share! This is how we can help with #NoDAPL on #ElectionDay!

Help Get Out The Vote for Standing Rock in North Dakota: “With the whole nation, and even many parts of the world, watching with growing interest what is happening at Standing Rock, this is the perfect time for us to reach out and help North Dakota. As outside oil interests, with the help of current government officials, try to steamroll a pipeline past citizens and the First People of North Dakota, it’s a chance for us to go into action. There are people running for office in North Dakota who would not have allowed this in the first place, would have stopped it in the second place and never would have let peaceful protesters be attacked in the third place.”

With the whole nation, and even many parts of the world, watching with growing interest what is happening at Standing Rock, this is the perfect time for us to reach out and help North Dakota.As outside oil interests, with the help of current government officials, try to steamroll a pipeline past citizens and the First People of North Dakota, it’s a chance for us to go into action.There are people running for office in North Dakota who would not have allowed this in the first place, would have stopped it in the second place and never would have let peaceful protesters be attacked in the third place.

We can start by sharing this on our Facebook and asking them to share as well!

The simple math of “6 degrees of separation” says we will reach a whole bunch of voters in ND with this list of candidates who can, and will, do something about this and future pipelines.

Chase Iron Eyes running for At Large Congress. He was born and lives on Standing Rock Reservation. The top contributors to his opponent, Kevin Cramer’s campaign are: Oasis Petroleum, MBI Energy Services, Armstrong Corp, Western CO of Texas, Cody Oil & Gas. Let’s help Chase Iron Eyes level the playing field.Marvin Nelson running for Governor of ND. He has an insiders knowledge of the oil industry because of the work he does as an agricultural consultant. He supports all the Native American candidates running in ND and they support him as well.Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun — running for North Dakota Public Service Commission — they issue permits for PIPELINES, among other things.Ruth Buffalo — running for North Dakota Insurance Commissioner

Standing Rock – Support from Jewish Community

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We received this letter from the Jewish Community yesterday in regards to North Standing Rock and wanted to share: 

We are asking you to join 17 Rabbis — leaders from every stream of American Jewish life — in signing the following statement, calling for an end to the building of the Dakota Access Pipe Line and supporting the Lakota Nation and other Native Nations in their opposition to it.

The two of us are adding our own urgency because even in the few days since the statement was drafted, the situation at Standing Rock in North Dakota has become one of life and death. 

The police appear to be on the verge of clearing the Water-Protectors camp that is on the pipeline route. 

It would be a sad and horrifying continuation of one of the worst strands of American history, if in this Native-led effort to protect Native lands, the Missouri River, and our Mother Earth, a Native person were to be killed. We need to do what we can to prevent that.

This is not only about American history, American values, and the American future. Torah teaches us both to protect the Earth and to nurture the “outsiders” among us.

The Native Nations are taking prayerful nonviolent action to protect the water for all of us. The knowledge that Mini Wa’coni — Water is Life — is the guiding principle of all their actions. During the week that one of us (Rabbi Liebling) spent there, every meeting, every action began with prayer. Until 1978 it was illegal for Native peoples to practice their religion — part of the cultural genocide that was and is inflicted on them — so even the act of public prayer is reclaiming their way of life. As Rabbis, we remember the days when the Jewish community was dealt with in these ways – and we utterly reject this behavior by American governments and corporations.

Racism is the original sin of America, and the Native Nations were the first victims. To redeem our nation from racism, we must begin with the First Nations. From the bottom of our hearts we ask you to sign this statement. And we ask you to share this letter and statement with your colleagues, inviting them to sign as well.

You can sign by clicking here.

Peace and Blessings,
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
and 
Rabbi Arthur Waskow