Solidarity for Standing Rock
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I am raising money for my dear friend and mentor Karen Brammer who is going to Standing Rock as a minister and healer to support the people at Standing Rock as the winter approaches. I am proud and inspired by her and want her supported and comfortable as she does whatever is needed through this process. The flight for her is booked for Novemer 21st through the 30th which she has willingly paid for out of her own funds. I am blessed and comfortated knowing someone like her is able to participate in this very important time as I cannot, and will do everything to support the ones that can. Please help me suppport her and this cause.
Here are her own words.
I am Karen Brammer, a resident of Red Hook, NY and a Unitarian Universalist Minister. Along with clergy and people of conscience all over the world, I have been called to respond to the violence at the Standing Rock site in North Dakota.
Below is a portion of a letter from my colleague whose congregation in Bismark is heavily involved in supporting their Indigenous neighbors.
I’m writing to you, as I head south in a carpool from Bismarck, North Dakota toward Standing Rock.
We are driving to Sacred Ground Camp, where we’ve been told police are again arresting water protectors.
Indigenous leaders with allies have peacefully reclaimed 1851 treaty land that is in the would-be path of the Dakota Access Pipeline. As we speak, militarized police have descended on the new camp.
We need you and we need you now. People of faith and conscience are being called to take immediate action and come to Standing Rock in solidarity. Unarmed water protectors have been met with militarized responses at every step. There is an opportunity for us to show up and affirm this prayerful movement.
A movement calling for direct action to center Indigenous communities’ autonomy, history and spirituality. A movement working to ensure our collective future.
Rev Karen Van Fossan, Bismark
Mandan Unitarian Universalist Congregation
I am just about ready.
I have booked a flight to be with the movement during Thanksgiving week.
I hope to be able to stay in one of the churches, or a hotel if necessary. I would like to rent a car and stay in a local hotel as I have heard the churches are overwhelmed at this point. In addition I would like to give a gift of cash to the people.
My job as I understand it will be to help winterize the encampment and support the workers, as well as stand in prayerful witness as the Indigenous people face ongoing pressure and state-sanctioned violence.
If you feel a call to respond, but cannot physically go, consider contributing so that I can go this time and perhaps multiple times along with others I know. Whatever money I am able to raise I will use only as I must, and will give to the encampment or legal assistance that works to free those who have been arrested.
I thank you for reading this and considering support of the Indigenous water protectors in North Dakota.
In covenant and with love,
Karen Brammer
Here are her own words.
I am Karen Brammer, a resident of Red Hook, NY and a Unitarian Universalist Minister. Along with clergy and people of conscience all over the world, I have been called to respond to the violence at the Standing Rock site in North Dakota.
Below is a portion of a letter from my colleague whose congregation in Bismark is heavily involved in supporting their Indigenous neighbors.
I’m writing to you, as I head south in a carpool from Bismarck, North Dakota toward Standing Rock.
We are driving to Sacred Ground Camp, where we’ve been told police are again arresting water protectors.
Indigenous leaders with allies have peacefully reclaimed 1851 treaty land that is in the would-be path of the Dakota Access Pipeline. As we speak, militarized police have descended on the new camp.
We need you and we need you now. People of faith and conscience are being called to take immediate action and come to Standing Rock in solidarity. Unarmed water protectors have been met with militarized responses at every step. There is an opportunity for us to show up and affirm this prayerful movement.
A movement calling for direct action to center Indigenous communities’ autonomy, history and spirituality. A movement working to ensure our collective future.
Rev Karen Van Fossan, Bismark
Mandan Unitarian Universalist Congregation
I am just about ready.
I have booked a flight to be with the movement during Thanksgiving week.
I hope to be able to stay in one of the churches, or a hotel if necessary. I would like to rent a car and stay in a local hotel as I have heard the churches are overwhelmed at this point. In addition I would like to give a gift of cash to the people.
My job as I understand it will be to help winterize the encampment and support the workers, as well as stand in prayerful witness as the Indigenous people face ongoing pressure and state-sanctioned violence.
If you feel a call to respond, but cannot physically go, consider contributing so that I can go this time and perhaps multiple times along with others I know. Whatever money I am able to raise I will use only as I must, and will give to the encampment or legal assistance that works to free those who have been arrested.
I thank you for reading this and considering support of the Indigenous water protectors in North Dakota.
In covenant and with love,
Karen Brammer
Organizer and beneficiary
Emily A. Bobson DC
Organizer
Red Hook, NY
Karen Brammer
Beneficiary
