On the Nov. 15 #NoDAPL National Day of Action, Chico-area residents demonstrated in front of U.S. Bank, one of a number of American financial institutions said to be funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. According to the environmental advocacy organization Food & Water Watch, U.S. Bank has some $275 million invested. The pipeline would carry fracked oil from North Dakota to Illinois, and the Standing Rock Sioux are leading what is now an international movement to halt construction in order to protect the Missouri River and sacred grounds.
Dakota Access Pipeline protest in Chico news photo of the week
photo by Karen Laslo
A large number of people came and went all during this 6 hour long demonstration, probably over one hundred. A unity circle at the end was appreciated by about 25 people- native and non-native. Water is Life. Leave the oil under the soil.