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NODAPL Daniel Sheehan and Larry Sinkin give Update on Chase Iron Eyes Case April 2018
NODAPL Daniel Sheehan and Larry Sinkin give Update on Chase Iron Eyes Case
Daniel Sheehan and Lanny Sinkin give an update on some very positive developments in the latest hearing of the Chase Iron Eyes NoDAPL case.
There were 800 cases against DAPL protestors but most were dealt with and very quickly dismissed. The Iron Eyes case is being used as a flagship case and done in detail to expose what really happened at Standing Rock.
(Chase Iron Eyes was jailed for “inciting a riot” and “trespassing” – on land that has belonged to the Native American peoples for hundreds of years)
Larry Sinkin explains what was actually taking place when the protesters were attacked by police:
‘What was going on on February 1st was the Lakota People were establishing a new Sacred Site, so they were up at the Last Child Camp on a hill, they built the Sacred Fire, they put up the Seven Sacred Teepees and they were beginning to do a religious ceremony calling upon their ancestors to come and help them stop the Black Snake – the pipeline and the police came and arrested them for engaging in a riot.
The only confrontation that went on at all was the Police trying to break people apart who had locked arms and the police engaging in violence in doing that, and they put this totally phony charge against the prayerful people of the Lakota Nation. In order to “prove their point” that these were terrorists, they had to attack them and try and provoke them. And they were not provoked, they went peacefully, they were arrested and now are being defended by us and the Water Protectors Legal Corps.”
Daniel Sheehan explains why the Iron Eyes case is such a historical and important case:
The attempt on the part of the Petroleum Industry to establish a working partnership with one of the private military corporations made up of retired special forces who have now become employees of the private military corporation. These forces have been very active overseas in the Middle East but this is the first time they have come home to the US and deployed against American Citizens.
Their targeting the Native American people charectarises them as anti Christian, religiously driven jihadist terrorists – trying to invoke the Terrorism statute against the Native People to keep them from organising against these pipelines.
This template that they are attempting to establish in North Dakota has to be confronted by our people, it has to be revealed to the court and we need to be able to develop the legal precident that will allow the discovery against these corporations to show the type of tactics that they engaged in.
That they are engaged in these anti-terrorism tactics of infiltrating the organisations, surveilling them, monitoring their cellphone conversations, their internet communications. They are inserting agents provocateur into the organisatons trying to instigate them to engage in unlawful activities.
They are engaged in a huge public diplomacy campaign, they’ve hired private PR firms that were involved in being hired by the George Bush junior administration to try to sell the war in Iraq, to try to convince people here in our country, falsely that Iraq was in possession of Nuclear weapons. They instigated a completely false invasion of the Middle Eastern Oil Fields.
These are the soldiers of that effort and they are invoking the same procedures that they used against the indigenous people and tribal people of the Middle East, now against the indigenous people here in North America.
This is extremely important that it be stopped, that there be an effective counter strategy developed to stop that type of activity and to stop that alliance between the major Oil Corporations and these private Military Corporations.”
The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
In a talk for the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, Social innovator Rachel Botsman charts the growth of a movement that is transforming the way we consume and contribute.
She starts by talking about the Global Village and the Digital Sharing Revolution and Collaborative Consumption that takes many forms – traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting and swapping, which are all being redefined through technology and peer communities.
Rather than creating a world in which people only interact remotely, and lose touch with the "real world", we are starting to “use the internet to get off the internet to form a stronger, bigger society", which is opening up all kinds of creative ways of interacting such as land sharing, bike sharing, car sharing:
"Car companies have to realise they are no longer in the business of just selling cars, they are in mobility services and BMW, Peugeot and Daimler and have launched car-sharing service in the last 18 months."
"A new generation is growing up not wanting to own "stuff" it wants the needs or experiences it fulfils. Usage is proving "better than possession, access is better than ownership"
She quotes Mark Levine, of the New York Times:
“Sharing is to ownership what the iPod is to the eight-track, what the solar panel is to the coal mine. Sharing is clean, crisp, urbane, postmodern; owning is dull, selfish, timid, backward."
She talks about different types of new interaction:
Redistribution markets, such as EBay, "like for like trading" (swapping) that is now powered by technology, and the enabling of free-giving on sites such as Freecycle, saying this is creating a new kind of wealth which is giving people a bit more control over their life and creating a renewed belief in the importance of community.
These changes have been powered by:
A torrent of social technologies,
Pressing unresolved environmental concerns
A global recession that has shocked consumer behaviours and forced us to re-evaluate all our value systems.
"If the last generation – the Baby Boomers was all about keeping up with the Joneses, our generation is going to be all about getting to know the Joneses."
"Twentieth Century consumer behaviours were very much driven by our credit history.
Now we leave a replication trail as we interact across the web, of how well we can or can’t be trusted."
"The 20th Century was defined by Credit, Advertising, Individual Ownership and Hyper consumption, the 21st Century will be defined by Reputation, Community, Shared Access and Collaborative Consumption."
"If you look back in history, every financial crisis marked the beginning of a paradigm shift, and a way of game-changing innovation."
"I believe we’re going to look back and we’re going to see this period as a momentous turning point, when we use the incredible technology we have to re-shape the kind of society we want. "
"I think it’s going to be called a revolution, when society facing very great challenges woke up from a humongous hangover of emptiness and waste and made a seismic leap to being defined not by what we consume, but by what we contribute, and along the way empowers millions of people, including us to play a larger role in building a stronger, healthier system…"