• Plenty #10: Raising the Stakes of Fossil Fuels at Standing Rock

  • Nov 24 2016
  • Length: 48 mins
  • Podcast

Plenty #10: Raising the Stakes of Fossil Fuels at Standing Rock

  • Summary

  • The human stories connected to social movements are, almost without exception, highly charged with emotion. Details about the violence and intimidation directed at protesters by corporations and law enforcement generate instantaneous, visceral reactions in people with any amount of compassion. The chronicles of the struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux, and their allies ignite just such emotions. Few stories could be cast with more contrasting players: unarmed indigenous people and their supporters up against the gargantuan machine (and machines, literally) of corporate power in a existential crisis. The core issue encapsulates the clash of a basic human need, water, with
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