So two Buddhists and a Lutheran walk into a forest... Bret Clanton sends photos of his encounter with Buddhist monk Shodo Spring and her Compassionate Earth Walk team. Spring's group is protesting our alienation and environmental predations and offering "a…
Posts tagged as “protest”
Last week the Rapid City Council voted to draft a resolution expressing the city's official opposition to Powertech's proposed uranium in-situ leach mining project in the southern Black Hills. They initially kicked that task to the Public Works Committee, which…
What got Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer arrested yesterday in Whiteclay, Nebraska? He was leading his people to block a beer truck from making its delivery: That yellow object the deputy draws at 1:19 is a taser. The protester…
Canadian mining company PowerTech held another dog-and-pony show on May 22 in Custer to promote its plan to squirt uranium out of the ground in Custer and Fall River counties. The Custer County Chronicle reported that the project "could mean…
As of this early morning, 791 people have signed this online petition protesting our Legislature's use of tax dollars to pay dues to the crony-capitalist American Legislative Exchange Council for all 105 of its members and their travel expenses to…
Various South Dakota Tea Party folks (bothersomely anonymous on their website and Facebook page, so I can only assume they are South Dakotans) are raising fuss and feathers over the Common Core standards. I wouldn't mind if they got some…
Area students and a Lakota/Dakota drum group will honor all Chamberlain High School graduates with a Native song at Sunday's graduation ceremony. They'll do it outside the high school as graduates leave the building. For not accepting that honor song…
TransCanada representatives showed up at the tribal office in Eagle Butte to talk up the Keystone XL pipeline, which will cross the Cheyenne River just outside the southwest corner of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. They had a closed-door meeting…