Defend Democracy and Dissent
We must defend our First Amendment rights to speak freely, protest loudly, and voice our dissent. Those rights — and many more human rights which should also define our democracy — are under legal attack from the federal government and lawmakers. When the courts fail to protect the people, the people must rise.
No Concentration Camps!
The South Florida Detention Facility, colloquially known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” would be better termed “Alligator Auschwitz." It doesn’t have gas chambers, but make no mistake: this abomination meets the dictionary definition of a concentration camp. Every compassionate American should be ashamed that a nation which once helped defeat fascism has failed to learn one of the most important lessons of its past. Don’t let the USA become a fascist state. Tell your state’s governor and attorney general to stop the building of concentration camps.
Making a Difference
Victory for Native Children & Sovereignty in the Supreme Court!
Standing Rock changed the world
Dakota Access pipeline continues America’s oldest narrative: Cowboys vs. Indians
The Hill: op-ed by Chase Iron Eyes
On Dec. 3, 1875, the US Army ordered my Lakota ancestors back to the reservation, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others who were out hunting at the time. The full might of the US military would subdue all those who did not comply. More than 140 years later, the Army Corps of Engineers issued a similar directive, in effect right now.
emailed ND State's Attorney to demand he drop charges against all water protectors
Standing Rock the Vote!
Thousands of Native voters in North Dakota getting free IDs
The Associated Press
We're at our best in crisis," said Phyllis Young, an organizer on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for the Lakota People's Law Project, adding that the issue "is only making us more aware of our rights, more energized, and more likely to vote this November."
secured for Oglala Nation flood relief
Recovering from 2019’s bomb cyclones
Victory over KXL!
A Big Win for Native Voting Rights in South Dakota
Know that you have so many people who are beside you and stand behind you in this fight.
Greta Thunberg speaking at the Pine Ridge Reservation
cared for in Lakota Law's Native-run kinship home on Standing Rock in 2020
Greta and Tokata lead anti-KXL rally
Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families
National Public Radio
These are all the different people who had their kids taken away from their entire families," explains Sheehan, who works for the Lakota People's Law Project. "Not one of them has had their children left with a relative of any kind."
AOC joins Lakota Law and tribes in opposing KXL
Thank you, Lakota People's Law Project, for assisting us in being a part of history, helping us get out the Native vote in 2020.
Janet Thomas, former executive director of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
of free technical assistance to Lakota families challenging ICWA violations