Standing Rock DC
Donation protected
On Sunday, Dec. 11, from 7 p.m.-2 a.m. a collection of Washington D.C. restaurant and entertainment staff will team up at Bourbon in Adams Morgan (2321 18th St. NW) for Standing Rock DC, a benefit to raise money to help the encampment of protesters gathered along the Cannonball River on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
DONATIONS | You're at the right spot!
• Donations can be made [email redacted] as well as in person at our Standing Rock DC fundraiser event @Bourbon on Sun 12/11 @7pm.
• Businesses / Artists are encourage to donate gift cards, products, services and/or art.
• Guest have a chance to win prizes from several local businesses including but not limited to: Meats and Foods, Saint Ex, Bar Pilar, El Cento, Marvin, American Ice Company, All Souls, Capitol Hemp, The Rememberables, Bourbon, Black Cat, Pi Pizzeria, Tail Up Goat, Compass Rose, Immortal Beloved, Smoke and Barrel, and Georgetown Wellness & Message.
• 100% of donations go directly to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and are used to purchase supplies to help Water Protectors winterize camp and ensure they have what they need to continue blocking DAPL.
FUNDRAISING EVENT | #StandingRockDC
• Sun 12/11 @7pm!
• Bourbon (AdMo): 2321 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009-1814, United States
• DJ line-up includes Billy the Gent, DJ NativeSun, iyah Peter from Selassie I Sound, Elliott Ness, Mista Selecta, and more to be announced! A suggested donation of $10 will be collected at the door (cash or credit). Donations include the chance to win gift cards, services, and products from local restaurants and businesses. Please invite your friends!
THE FACTS | Please take a moment to touch up on the facts:
ON SITE UPDATES
Dec 4, 2016 | 1,172-mile pipeline was almost complete except for a small part under the Missouri River reservoir. Water protesters have been camped out in the area day and night, seeking to protect their sacred land and the waters from pollution. The Army Corps Of Engineers denied the easement and will, instead, look into rerouting the pipeline. They also called for an Environmental Impact Study on the project. DON'T STAND DOWN!! Supporters of Standing Rock should NOT let down their guard. Energy Transfer Partners could try to appeal the decision, and of course President-Elect Donald Trump’s team continues to fully support the pipeline. Stay tuned for what happens next!
Want more info? We gotcha covered:
• Since April, people from hundreds of sovereign nations have gathered along the Cannonball River on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to stand in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
• Designed to transport nearly 500,000 barrels of fracked oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois, the pipeline threatens biodiversity and irreparable damage to the water supply and sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux. A spill from this pipeline would pollute the Missouri River, just as spills in recent years have damaged the Kalamazoo and Yellowstone rivers.
• There are many groups with an interest in the project: Energy Transfer Partners; the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American tribes; environmental activists; farmers and ranchers in the area; state and local governments; the federal government, including the Army Corps of Engineers, and President Donald J. Trump, who stands to personally profit from the pipeline project.
• The Army Corps of Engineers granted Energy Transfer Corporation (where Trump is an investor) the permit necessary to start construction near the reservation, despite a petition signed by 150,000 people, and carried—on foot—by young people from the reservation all the way to Washington.
• The standoff has been picturesque and dramatic, featuring American Indians on horseback. But mostly it’s been brave, cold and lonely, as they are up against the same forces that have made life hard for Indigenous Peoples for centuries. The Standing Rock Reservation is one of the poorest census tracts in the entire country and who are they up against? The fossil fuel industry, the U.S. Army, and President-Elect Donald Trump.
• Water Protectors (protesters) have been bitten by dogs, maced, and, most recently, a female protester’s arm was almost blown off. Protesters also said they were kept in cages that resembled dog kennels after a mass arrest. Law enforcement stationed at the Dakota Access Pipeline turned water cannons on protesters in freezing temperatures along with rubber bullets, tear-gas and percussion grenades in the latest clash with unarmed protesters. According to the Guardian, the cannons were deployed at around 6pm local time, as protesters attempted to remove one of two burned trucks from a bridge that blockaded the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The bridge is the most linear way to get from Standing Rock to Bismark, North Dakota. Police placed a barricade behind the trucks.
• Over 2,000 Veterans from multiple branches of the U.S. Military are heading to North Dakota to stand between Water Protectors and law enforcement at the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
• Close to 100 scientists have signed onto a letter decrying "inadequate environmental and cultural impact assessments" for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), proclaiming "We as scientists are concerned about the potential local and regional impacts from the DAPL, which is symptomatic of the United States' continued dependence on fossil fuels in the face of predicted broad-scale social and ecological impacts from global climate change." Specifically, they cite the Standing Rock Sioux's concerns that the pipeline project threatens biodiversity and clean water.
TAKE ACTION | Don’t stand on the sidelines!! You can contribute by making a donation, raising awareness, promoting our event, hosting a fundraiser of your own, or joinging the Water Protectors. So get to it!
Mother Nature and the many tribe members and water protectors at Standing Rock are grateful for your contribution!
DONATIONS | You're at the right spot!
• Donations can be made [email redacted] as well as in person at our Standing Rock DC fundraiser event @Bourbon on Sun 12/11 @7pm.
• Businesses / Artists are encourage to donate gift cards, products, services and/or art.
• Guest have a chance to win prizes from several local businesses including but not limited to: Meats and Foods, Saint Ex, Bar Pilar, El Cento, Marvin, American Ice Company, All Souls, Capitol Hemp, The Rememberables, Bourbon, Black Cat, Pi Pizzeria, Tail Up Goat, Compass Rose, Immortal Beloved, Smoke and Barrel, and Georgetown Wellness & Message.
• 100% of donations go directly to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and are used to purchase supplies to help Water Protectors winterize camp and ensure they have what they need to continue blocking DAPL.
FUNDRAISING EVENT | #StandingRockDC
• Sun 12/11 @7pm!
• Bourbon (AdMo): 2321 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009-1814, United States
• DJ line-up includes Billy the Gent, DJ NativeSun, iyah Peter from Selassie I Sound, Elliott Ness, Mista Selecta, and more to be announced! A suggested donation of $10 will be collected at the door (cash or credit). Donations include the chance to win gift cards, services, and products from local restaurants and businesses. Please invite your friends!
THE FACTS | Please take a moment to touch up on the facts:
ON SITE UPDATES
Dec 4, 2016 | 1,172-mile pipeline was almost complete except for a small part under the Missouri River reservoir. Water protesters have been camped out in the area day and night, seeking to protect their sacred land and the waters from pollution. The Army Corps Of Engineers denied the easement and will, instead, look into rerouting the pipeline. They also called for an Environmental Impact Study on the project. DON'T STAND DOWN!! Supporters of Standing Rock should NOT let down their guard. Energy Transfer Partners could try to appeal the decision, and of course President-Elect Donald Trump’s team continues to fully support the pipeline. Stay tuned for what happens next!
Want more info? We gotcha covered:
• Since April, people from hundreds of sovereign nations have gathered along the Cannonball River on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to stand in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
• Designed to transport nearly 500,000 barrels of fracked oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois, the pipeline threatens biodiversity and irreparable damage to the water supply and sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux. A spill from this pipeline would pollute the Missouri River, just as spills in recent years have damaged the Kalamazoo and Yellowstone rivers.
• There are many groups with an interest in the project: Energy Transfer Partners; the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American tribes; environmental activists; farmers and ranchers in the area; state and local governments; the federal government, including the Army Corps of Engineers, and President Donald J. Trump, who stands to personally profit from the pipeline project.
• The Army Corps of Engineers granted Energy Transfer Corporation (where Trump is an investor) the permit necessary to start construction near the reservation, despite a petition signed by 150,000 people, and carried—on foot—by young people from the reservation all the way to Washington.
• The standoff has been picturesque and dramatic, featuring American Indians on horseback. But mostly it’s been brave, cold and lonely, as they are up against the same forces that have made life hard for Indigenous Peoples for centuries. The Standing Rock Reservation is one of the poorest census tracts in the entire country and who are they up against? The fossil fuel industry, the U.S. Army, and President-Elect Donald Trump.
• Water Protectors (protesters) have been bitten by dogs, maced, and, most recently, a female protester’s arm was almost blown off. Protesters also said they were kept in cages that resembled dog kennels after a mass arrest. Law enforcement stationed at the Dakota Access Pipeline turned water cannons on protesters in freezing temperatures along with rubber bullets, tear-gas and percussion grenades in the latest clash with unarmed protesters. According to the Guardian, the cannons were deployed at around 6pm local time, as protesters attempted to remove one of two burned trucks from a bridge that blockaded the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The bridge is the most linear way to get from Standing Rock to Bismark, North Dakota. Police placed a barricade behind the trucks.
• Over 2,000 Veterans from multiple branches of the U.S. Military are heading to North Dakota to stand between Water Protectors and law enforcement at the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
• Close to 100 scientists have signed onto a letter decrying "inadequate environmental and cultural impact assessments" for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), proclaiming "We as scientists are concerned about the potential local and regional impacts from the DAPL, which is symptomatic of the United States' continued dependence on fossil fuels in the face of predicted broad-scale social and ecological impacts from global climate change." Specifically, they cite the Standing Rock Sioux's concerns that the pipeline project threatens biodiversity and clean water.
TAKE ACTION | Don’t stand on the sidelines!! You can contribute by making a donation, raising awareness, promoting our event, hosting a fundraiser of your own, or joinging the Water Protectors. So get to it!
Mother Nature and the many tribe members and water protectors at Standing Rock are grateful for your contribution!
Organizer
Alex Ansu
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC
