Our Stand with Standing Rock

Over the last few months, we have been inspired by the resilience and passion of those standing at Standing Rock. If completed, the $3.8 billion pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield to Illinois thru sacred Native American land and burial grounds as well as beneath and across the Missouri River. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada.

However, this protest is about more than just standing up against a single pipeline. It is about standing up for the equal treatment of the peaceful protestors, who have been illegally and unfairly treated. There are reports of peaceful protesters being maced, shot with rubber bullets at point blank, tased, and then arrested and even strip searched, held in dog kennels, and identified with numbers drawn on their arms all for small misdemeanors.

The funds raised here will pay for much needed supplies for the camp such as firewood, sub-zero sleeping bags, tents and tarps. Mainstream media has been mostly silent, so this trip is about creating content to help bring awareness to the protests, and most importantly, awareness to the mistreatment of the peaceful water protectors. Their First Ammendment Rights must be protected and respected.

We will be updating this page as we travel with information about supplies we have bought, been gifted, we have delivered, as well as photos and video of our trip.