[grc] NewsUp! story: "Standing Rock: Volunteers Urgently Needed"

[Ann Garrison]

Peggy: Here is a radio interview with your friend, Native journalist Jenni
Monet:
http://ksfr.org/post/water-protectors-are-everywhere-jenni-monet-updates-standing-rock-situation

I will respond further later.

For real,
Ann Garrison <http://www.anngarrison.com/>
Independent Journalist,
SKYPE: Ann Garrison, Oakland
415-503-7487


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Peggy Berryhill <peggy at kgua.org> wrote:

> I’m very alarmed by the tone of this story. I spoke wth reporter Jenni
> Monet, please follow her on Facebook, and Charon Asetoyer, also on
> Facebook. I have interviews about this situation from the first person
> Native/Tribal perspective. I, too, am following form a distance, however, I
> have credible resources to rely on.
> The environmental mess left by the visitors to the Oceti Sakowin is real.
> Yes, it is on a flood plane and this disgusting mess has everyone worried.
> Please we do not need fake news. For those of you who don’t know me, just
> google,
> In peace, Peggy
>
>
> Peggy Berryhill
> General Manager KGUA
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> Gualala, CA 95545
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> Peggy at kgua.org
>
>
> On February 19, 2017 at 8:44:14 PM, Ann Garrison via grc (
> grc at maillist.peak.org) wrote:
>
> I just uploaded the news story I produced about Standing Rock yesterday to
> NewsUp! I've been following this as closely as I can from a distance and
> there are a number of things I'm still trying to understand or confirm.
> The
> person I spoke to this week believes that the Army Corps and North Dakota
> Governor are actually threatening to flood the Oceti Sakowin Camp, which
> Water Protectors have been exhausting themselves trying to clear out
> before
> the Feb 22 deadline. He thinks the flood control system can be used to
> flood Oceti Sakowin before the melting snowpack requires them to do that
> to
> protect Bismarck. It is in the floodplain, but he doesn't think there's
> reason to flood it now except to clear out the Water Protectors. Again,
> this is something I'm trying to confirm.
>
> Another thing I believe I understood is that people donated huge amounts
> of
> food, clothing, tents and the like that have been at Oceti Sakowin, but
> now
> - in the harsh weather - there are far fewer volunteers and Water
> Protectors there and they are exhausting themselves moving all this stuff
> to higher ground or reservation land where the Army Corps and their
> militarized police can't 'doze it.
>
> Today I saw a live video from Standing Rock in which cops with "FEDERAL
> POLICE" on their jackets were demanding to search vehicles and the storage
> containers for gear affixed to the top of them. I didn't know we had any
> FEDERAL POLICE but I looked it up online and apparently this was an Obama
> innovation.
>
> One thing I feel sure of is that North Dakota Governor Doug Burum is lying
> through his teeth when he accuses the Water Protectors of creating a human
> waste problem that could pollute the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers; he
> says this in his evacuation order. I explained a few things about the
> human waste system in the story but I wasn't able to explain that the
> technology for handling human waste in the camps was developed for the
> refugee camps burgeoning all over the world. The person I interviewed -
> Hanson Lee - described it as an "international solution" - but I didn't
> have time to ask what he meant by that till after the broadcast. It sounds
> like a huge improvement over previous sani-can tech and worth a story in
> itself. I'll get it into the text version of the interview that I'm
> working on now.
>
> I was trying to reach someone from Veterans Stand who was arriving
> yesterday, but he didn't pick up at the appointed time, so I spoke to
> someone here who had just returned from his third trip. I hope someone can
> get a veterans story this week and post it to NewsUp!.
>
> For real,
> Ann Garrison <http://www.anngarrison.com/>
> Independent Journalist,
> SKYPE: Ann Garrison, Oakland
> 415-503-7487 <(415)%20503-7487>
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