The Chamberlain School District remains committed to honoring the dominant European conquering culture over that of its large American Indian minority population. Last night the Chamberlain school board voted to uphold tradition and again reject inclusion of a Lakota honor…
Posts tagged as “protest”
Our Legislature has reversed some previous good sense, deciding this year that South Dakota is so flush with cash that we can afford to pay for memberships and travel expenses for every legislator to go to the partisan lobbying meetings…
A South Dakota ex-pat friend cheers the Minnesota House's vote for marriage equality and says he's glad to call Minnesota home. I suggest that perhaps my ex-pat friend and Governor Dennis Daugaard's other targets should bring their respectful debate and…
Just like last time and the time before, the Environmental Protection Agency has declared that the TransCanada-biased industry players who wrote the State Department's review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline didn't do their homework: In a comment on the…
Brookings artist and activist Phyllis Cole-Dai is using her music to fight TransCanada and the Keystone XL pipeline. She's put together this text-show with her piano solo "Circling": "A Mother's Letter to TransCanada & Big Oil" from Phyllis Cole-Dai on…
Nebraska rancher and lifelong Republican Randy Thompson understands what South Dakota Republicans (and Senator Tim Johnson) refuse to admit: the Keystone XL pipeline is all risk and no reward: The risks to our country’s freshwater, and the risks to our…
On a weekend about salvation, Fast for the Earth is planning to save the planet with a roadtrip to Nebraska. The Brookings group is organizing carpools from eastern South Dakota to join the protest events Bold Nebraska is organizing on…
In West River mining news, Black Hills residents concerned about clean water won a victory this month. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources originally planned to review Powertech's applications to waste billions of gallons of water on its proposed…