1
00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,370
Greetings, trouble-makers.

2
00:00:04,370 --> 00:00:05,910
Welcome to Trouble….

3
00:00:05,910 --> 00:00:07,530
my name is not important.

4
00:00:07,530 --> 00:00:10,900
In the year of 1990 my community, 
the Mohawks of Kanehsatà:ke,

5
00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:14,130
began to fight the construction of a golf course
that would have destroyed

6
00:00:14,130 --> 00:00:15,620
one of our sacred burial grounds.

7
00:00:15,620 --> 00:00:20,590
We filed petitions, we protested, and finally
we took up arms against the Quebec police

8
00:00:20,590 --> 00:00:23,060
and eventually the Canadian army, 
to protect our land.

9
00:00:23,060 --> 00:00:25,710
After a 78 day stand off... we fuckin won!

10
00:00:25,710 --> 00:00:29,380
And the cemetery and the surrounding pines,
that would have been cleared and used by rich

11
00:00:29,380 --> 00:00:31,670
men to play golf on, are still there today.

12
00:00:31,670 --> 00:00:33,390
Fast forward to 26 years later.

13
00:00:33,390 --> 00:00:37,300
The Lakota community of Standing Rock, 
faced off with oil infrastructure company,

14
00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:42,340
Energy Transfer Partners against their attempt
to build the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL,

15
00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:44,420
through their territory, 
and under the Missouri River.

16
00:00:44,420 --> 00:00:48,310
A pipeline that they say, if built, will almost
certainly rupture and contaminate

17
00:00:48,310 --> 00:00:50,540
the water of millions of people 
in the United States.

18
00:00:50,540 --> 00:00:53,320
The fight against DAPL became the 
stuff of legend.

19
00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,470
Thousands of Indigenous and Settler allies
converged in North Dakota to stop this project

20
00:00:57,470 --> 00:00:58,910
against incredible odds.

21
00:00:58,910 --> 00:01:03,750
They became known as water protectors, and
in November of 2016 they had a temporary

22
00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:08,140
victory, when outgoing president Barack Obama
denied a permit for a key part of the construction.

23
00:01:08,140 --> 00:01:11,970
For some, this executive action seemed
to validate a particular strategy

24
00:01:11,970 --> 00:01:14,020
and corresponding set of tactics.

25
00:01:14,020 --> 00:01:18,030
But history has clearly shown that states
have never had any qualms breaking the countless

26
00:01:18,030 --> 00:01:20,170
promises they’ve made to Indigenous peoples.

27
00:01:20,170 --> 00:01:22,720
As for those who’d forgotten, 
or neglected this fact...

28
00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,540
Donald Trump wasted no time in reminding them.

29
00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:25,690
At the same time,

30
00:01:25,690 --> 00:01:28,450
there were many water protectors
who saw this political maneuver

31
00:01:28,450 --> 00:01:31,110
as the dirty trick it was, 
and who continued to stress

32
00:01:31,110 --> 00:01:34,990
the need for a strategy based on 
physical confrontation and direct action.

33
00:01:34,990 --> 00:01:38,580
During the next thirty minutes, we’ll bring
you the voices of some of these individuals,

34
00:01:38,580 --> 00:01:41,501
as they relate their experiences fighting
the black snake...

35
00:01:41,501 --> 00:01:43,720
and making a whole lotta trouble.

36
00:02:25,790 --> 00:02:30,290
It's hard to just even use the English word
"warrior" when you're talking about

37
00:02:30,290 --> 00:02:32,580
what it means to be a warrior.

38
00:02:32,580 --> 00:02:39,310
Because as Indigenous people, we we born into
this life and we believe that it's our duty

39
00:02:39,310 --> 00:02:44,110
and responsibility to defend our land,
in which our language, our culture,

40
00:02:44,110 --> 00:02:46,410
our existence flows from.

41
00:02:46,410 --> 00:02:49,050
There is no separating us from our land.

42
00:02:49,050 --> 00:02:53,640
It's a spiritual connection that goes deep
since the beginning of our people.

43
00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:55,570
So as a warrior we are a defender.

44
00:02:55,570 --> 00:02:57,010
We are a protector.

45
00:02:57,010 --> 00:03:03,619
And as a warrior we would do and by any means
protect and defend our people.

46
00:03:03,619 --> 00:03:06,540
Anything that comes in the way of that

47
00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:12,220
-- and here we're talking about the contamination
of water that so much people depend on.

48
00:03:12,220 --> 00:03:15,570
I've been down here since the middle of September.

49
00:03:15,570 --> 00:03:20,650
And here to be in solidarity with people
that are fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

50
00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,590
Across the river is Sacred Stone camp
where it originally started.

51
00:03:31,590 --> 00:03:35,380
There was like a handful of people there
for a long time.

52
00:03:35,380 --> 00:03:41,170
Once these guys actually came here and really
started building and destroying the earth,

53
00:03:41,170 --> 00:03:44,140
so everyone just started coming here faster.

54
00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:47,160
And every day it was just growing and growing.

55
00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,270
Before you knew it, Sacred Stone camp
was just overflowing.

56
00:03:51,270 --> 00:03:57,059
I came out here in response to a call
for medical support.

57
00:03:57,059 --> 00:04:02,779
We received an invite from some of the matriarchs
and Indigenous leadership from this Lakota/

58
00:04:02,779 --> 00:04:07,580
Dakota/Nakota territory to come and help fight
the black snake, help fight the pipeline.

59
00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:10,740
And in some matriarchs' opinions, "by any
means necessary".

60
00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:16,000
And in a spirit of collective resistance,
and use a diversity of tactics to do that.

61
00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,329
There's hundreds of camps in this bigger 
Standing Rock encampment that's called

62
00:04:20,329 --> 00:04:21,499
Oceti Sakowin camp.

63
00:04:21,499 --> 00:04:24,029
It got up to around twenty thousand people.

64
00:04:24,029 --> 00:04:28,579
But a lot of the people that are here and
have maintained camps here.

65
00:04:28,579 --> 00:04:31,329
There's High Star camp, there is Wild Oglala
camp.

66
00:04:31,329 --> 00:04:34,880
So this is a big massive mobilization. 
There’s a lot of people here

67
00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,910
and they want to stop a pipeline.

68
00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:42,860
It went from just a few of us in little small
groups, going out and shutting down the pipeline

69
00:04:42,860 --> 00:04:44,719
wherever we could, y'know?

70
00:04:44,719 --> 00:04:46,910
Like multiple sites a day... everything.

71
00:04:46,910 --> 00:04:48,060
We were just on it.

72
00:04:48,060 --> 00:04:51,049
Black Snake Killaz! Black Snake Killaz!

73
00:05:13,049 --> 00:05:14,889
Alright, now from here.

74
00:05:14,889 --> 00:05:16,360
On three, we're gonna move.

75
00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,930
One, two, three!

76
00:05:17,930 --> 00:05:19,880
Move! Move! Move!

77
00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:27,010
Diversity of tactics is a turn of phrase that
represents the very real fact that for every

78
00:05:27,010 --> 00:05:31,609
one person on the frontline who's there and
who can stand and catch rubber bullets,

79
00:05:31,609 --> 00:05:33,400
there are many folks behind them.

80
00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:38,599
Be those folks medics, be those folks logistics
personnel, be those the folks in the kitchen

81
00:05:38,599 --> 00:05:41,119
who fed them that day.

82
00:05:41,119 --> 00:05:45,990
I believe that the only way that anyone could
organize is as a diversity of tactics

83
00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:49,620
because we are all so diverse people.

84
00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:55,199
Where else could you get thousands of people
to all come together like that and form this

85
00:05:55,199 --> 00:06:02,059
community and actually people are not,
y'know... like killing each other?

86
00:06:02,059 --> 00:06:03,739
Look at the rest of society!

87
00:06:03,739 --> 00:06:04,919
We need all the things.

88
00:06:04,919 --> 00:06:09,649
We need people litigating in court, we need
people doing "petitions", we need people praying,

89
00:06:09,649 --> 00:06:11,509
and also people that are doing direct action.

90
00:06:11,509 --> 00:06:13,259
A lot of people did a lot of different things.

91
00:06:13,259 --> 00:06:19,800
They went to courthouse, went to the State
Capitol, locking down on the machinery and

92
00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,670
actually physically stopping the construction
and the machines for the day.

93
00:06:23,670 --> 00:06:29,060
They had massive caravans out to just make 
a presence and stop the construction.

94
00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:32,820
Stopping it everywhere we could...
anyway we could.

95
00:06:32,820 --> 00:06:38,220
Using our bodies, locking down, just showing
up in force and scaring the workers off.

96
00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:51,179
Just the pure presence of four hundred
water protectors and Native people

97
00:06:51,179 --> 00:06:54,050
would shut DAPL down for the day.

98
00:06:54,050 --> 00:06:57,099
And sometimes they would actually be running
to their trucks.

99
00:06:57,099 --> 00:07:01,450
Because they know what they're doing is wrong.
Like... I would be scared too!

100
00:07:01,450 --> 00:07:03,569
At one point, lockdowns were really effective.

101
00:07:03,569 --> 00:07:07,859
They could stop construction, they could stop
what was happening for the day on

102
00:07:07,859 --> 00:07:09,139
prospective work sites.

103
00:07:09,139 --> 00:07:11,180
But then it got to the point where it was
so militarized.

104
00:07:11,180 --> 00:07:15,909
And with the resources that we were up against,
it didn't matter that we had the intention

105
00:07:15,909 --> 00:07:17,210
to go and lock down to something.

106
00:07:17,210 --> 00:07:18,309
It just wasn't an option.

107
00:07:18,309 --> 00:07:23,009
So then people had to reevaluate the situation
and ask themselves what it means to be effective,

108
00:07:23,009 --> 00:07:27,729
look at the violence that is being perpetrated
on them, and then collectively come back together

109
00:07:27,729 --> 00:07:29,860
and decide what tactics they're going to use.

110
00:07:29,860 --> 00:07:35,049
And then people started seeing things like
flaming cars on highways, and what-have-you.

111
00:07:35,049 --> 00:07:39,969
Because a lot of the time, that sacred fire
was the only thing protecting people from

112
00:07:39,969 --> 00:07:44,749
the crazy cops and military from coming in
and wrecking shop.

113
00:07:46,929 --> 00:07:51,459
The climax of everything that
I witnessed when I was here,

114
00:07:51,459 --> 00:07:54,479
was when the police took 
the front line camp.

115
00:07:54,479 --> 00:07:58,019
People sacrificed vehicles that day, to blockade.

116
00:07:58,019 --> 00:07:59,980
"What does that mean, to sacrifice vehicles?"

117
00:07:59,980 --> 00:08:00,980
Lit up.

118
00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:08,149
Were it not for people who had been training
for these sorts of non-violent civil disobedience

119
00:08:08,149 --> 00:08:13,379
confrontational situations...
that pipe would've been built by now.

120
00:08:18,369 --> 00:08:22,099
Success in stopping a pipeline or
other major infrastructure project

121
00:08:22,099 --> 00:08:24,029
depends on a number of factors.

122
00:08:24,029 --> 00:08:28,959
And despite what lots of people wanna believe...
facebook likes aren't one of them.

123
00:08:28,959 --> 00:08:34,360
A strong heart, patience, and determination
on the part of land defenders are all crucial.

124
00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,789
But timing and proper planning are also key.

125
00:08:36,789 --> 00:08:40,799
It's important to get out in front of the
pipeline, both physically and by knowing

126
00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:42,539
when and where to make your stand.

127
00:08:42,539 --> 00:08:47,120
On the west coast of Turtle Island, in the
unceded territories of the Wet'suwet'en nation

128
00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,500
in so-called "British Columbia", warriors
and tribal elders from the Unis'tot'en clan

129
00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:54,510
have been blocking the construction of 
multiple pipelines through their territories

130
00:08:54,510 --> 00:08:56,050
for seven years now.

131
00:08:56,050 --> 00:09:01,080
This anchor of land defense has been the Unis'tot'en
Camp, a resistance community constructed

132
00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,890
smack dab in the pipelines' proposed path
-- similar in some ways to Oceti Sakowin,

133
00:09:05,890 --> 00:09:08,730
also known as Sacred Stone camp, 
that has served as the home base

134
00:09:08,730 --> 00:09:12,090
for water protectors fighting
to block the Dakota Access Pipeline.

135
00:09:12,090 --> 00:09:15,930
Here’s camp spokesperson Freda Huson, 
kicking the cops out of her territory.

136
00:09:15,930 --> 00:09:20,040
People don’t just freely walk in
because were blocking pipelines out,

137
00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,240
we’re not blocking everybody out.

138
00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:22,040
I’m not a pipeline.

139
00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,630
And here she is again kicking out 
pipeline workers who illegally

140
00:09:24,630 --> 00:09:26,980
choppered in to do survey work.

141
00:09:26,980 --> 00:09:29,790
Is there a problem why you’re not leaving?

142
00:09:32,850 --> 00:09:36,980
And here she is denying access to 
Chevron executives, who had the audacity to

143
00:09:36,980 --> 00:09:40,460
offer her corporate bottled water 
and industrial tobacco.

144
00:09:40,460 --> 00:09:47,200
We’re here today to talk to you about doing
work on your land and are requesting access

145
00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:48,440
onto your territory.

146
00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:53,230
We’ve already said no to these projects
and that no pipelines would come on our territory.

147
00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:01,080
In November of 2016, Canada's walking photo-op
of a Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau,

148
00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,730
signed an order killing 
the Northern Gateway pipeline,

149
00:10:03,730 --> 00:10:07,610
one of the pipelines that had been slated
to cross paths with the Unis'tot'en.

150
00:10:07,610 --> 00:10:11,480
But at the same news conference where he 
signed Northern Gateway's death certificate,

151
00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,940
Trudeau announced the approval of two other pipelines
including Enbridge's Line 3

152
00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:17,840
and Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain

153
00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,530
-- which is expected to face serious resistance
in the months and years to come.

154
00:10:21,530 --> 00:10:26,240
In addition to logistical considerations,
those seeking to block pipelines need to be

155
00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:31,040
prepared to deal with internal dynamics, and
for the potential for disagreements over tactics

156
00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,560
to sow further discord and disunity.

157
00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,430
Here you have hundreds of different people
and hundreds of different tribes

158
00:10:49,430 --> 00:10:50,890
that are coming together.

159
00:10:50,890 --> 00:10:54,720
People that have many different views
on how we're gonna fight this pipeline.

160
00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,370
People believe that the only way we're going
to fight this pipeline is if we face off

161
00:10:58,370 --> 00:11:00,380
and when we fight direct head-on.

162
00:11:00,380 --> 00:11:03,010
Some people think the best way is the legal
route.

163
00:11:03,010 --> 00:11:06,290
Some people feel that prayer is 
the most powerful thing

164
00:11:06,290 --> 00:11:09,790
and that's the only way that we're 
going to beat this.

165
00:11:09,790 --> 00:11:15,810
But as Indigenous people, we have to understand
that we come from respect.

166
00:11:15,810 --> 00:11:18,130
Y'know... that's who we are 
as Indigenous people.

167
00:11:18,130 --> 00:11:21,890
Respecting the way that people believe.

168
00:11:21,890 --> 00:11:26,570
There has been a group ever since we got here,
y'know, that wanted some of us out of here.

169
00:11:28,130 --> 00:11:29,990
But we're still here.

170
00:11:29,990 --> 00:11:32,300
We didn't want to go and we weren't 
gonna go nowhere cause we knew

171
00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:34,510
nothing was gonna happen if we left.

172
00:11:34,510 --> 00:11:37,470
There was a lot of fighting that went on too
because they didn't want our camp

173
00:11:37,470 --> 00:11:38,920
doing actions no more.

174
00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:44,000
They didn't understand direct action so they
just didn't want it, you know?

175
00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,770
The whole tribe and all the council and everybody.

176
00:11:47,770 --> 00:11:50,240
There has been a lot of issues with 
"peace police" and how people

177
00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:51,440
have been fighting this struggle.

178
00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,610
Even when it's been just lockdowns.

179
00:11:53,610 --> 00:11:59,870
The peace police both here in treaty territory,
much as I've seen them over the years

180
00:11:59,870 --> 00:12:07,200
in urban settings and demonstrations, 
are folks who tend to, for one reason or another,

181
00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:13,250
feel that their concern for other people's safety 
trumps any good tactics, or any of those

182
00:12:13,250 --> 00:12:17,150
individuals who may be putting themselves 
knowingly in harm's way.

183
00:12:17,150 --> 00:12:22,280
Trumps their opinions that they have made
to choose to be in harm's way.

184
00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:23,520
Who are the Peace Police?

185
00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,070
It's a combination of people that are 
closely affiliated with the tribe,

186
00:12:26,070 --> 00:12:28,920
people that have, like, monetary interest
in different NGOs.

187
00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,190
So even some people that came here that
threw down in Ferguson and Baltimore,

188
00:12:33,190 --> 00:12:37,440
that were part of those struggles, have come
here and have felt relatively immobilized.

189
00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:42,230
Because they've tried to be good comrades
in deferring to Indigenous leadership.

190
00:12:42,230 --> 00:12:48,460
But there's such a struggle between different
groups as to, like, who is Indigenous leadership

191
00:12:48,460 --> 00:12:51,280
and what it means to be here in a good way.

192
00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:56,310
And what it means to resist in a way that's
beneficial to the local community.

193
00:12:56,310 --> 00:13:01,050
There was this group of people that came in
and they were just all about "peace! peace!"

194
00:13:01,050 --> 00:13:05,350
And they were bringing around spiritual items
and trying to use them against the people

195
00:13:05,350 --> 00:13:09,650
and it caused a lot of confusion and fear
and, I don't know, anger.

196
00:13:11,270 --> 00:13:12,270
Don't touch me!

197
00:13:12,270 --> 00:13:13,270
Back up!

198
00:13:13,270 --> 00:13:15,650
Back up!

199
00:13:15,650 --> 00:13:20,450
Some of our own people that were policing
our own people, telling our own warriors

200
00:13:20,450 --> 00:13:23,610
and water protectors that were 
taking direct action to go back.

201
00:13:23,610 --> 00:13:25,200
Go back to camp.

202
00:13:31,090 --> 00:13:34,540
"Keep it peaceful!"

203
00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:38,940
"Come on you guys...that's not okay" 
"We need to be peaceful!"

204
00:13:38,940 --> 00:13:45,280
You can't both ask people to come and fight
and use civil disobedience and nonviolent

205
00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:51,920
direct action tactics and similarly lose
your spine for those tactics when people

206
00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,510
start getting injured or the police start 
responding with the sorts of violence

207
00:13:55,510 --> 00:13:57,240
that we train folks to expect.

208
00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,860
When we instead tell folks that this will
be accomplished through the courts,

209
00:14:01,860 --> 00:14:04,050
or this will be accomplished 
through prayer...

210
00:14:04,050 --> 00:14:07,380
why were so many people asked to come
to be physically present?

211
00:14:07,380 --> 00:14:13,940
These peace police have time and time again
scuddled and interfered with actions that

212
00:14:13,940 --> 00:14:17,940
were well under the momentum to be successful.

213
00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:19,390
And they were hampered.

214
00:14:20,010 --> 00:14:21,990
“love will find a way!”

215
00:14:24,150 --> 00:14:28,030
If there's one good thing you can say about
nazis, it's you know that they are your enemy.

216
00:14:28,030 --> 00:14:29,030
No doubt about it.

217
00:14:29,030 --> 00:14:32,340
You see one of those racist idiots walking
down the street, or giving an interview with

218
00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:34,740
a reporter, you just wanna punch 'em 
in the head.

219
00:14:35,980 --> 00:14:36,650
Ouch!

220
00:14:36,650 --> 00:14:40,070
But within movements of liberation,
there are actors within our ranks

221
00:14:40,070 --> 00:14:42,340
that claim to be our allies, 
but who are really not.

222
00:14:42,340 --> 00:14:46,010
Putting aside police infiltrators and informants,
who pose a real threat,

223
00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:50,300
we'd like to talk to you about 
Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGO's.

224
00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:54,860
NGO's have a sordid history of infiltrating,
pacifying and co-opting movements.

225
00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:59,560
Now... not all NGO's engage in these practices,
and some actually do good work,

226
00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,890
but in recent memory we've seen far too many 
examples of Environmental NGO's

227
00:15:03,890 --> 00:15:07,200
royally screwing over Indigenous folks 
engaged in land defense.

228
00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,810
Take the battle for the Great Bear Rainforest
in Western Canada, where Greenpeace and ForestEthics

229
00:15:11,810 --> 00:15:16,420
joined the Indigenous grassroots forest protectors,
later to sideline them and negotiate with

230
00:15:16,420 --> 00:15:20,760
logging companies to save a fraction of the
one of the most important temperate rainforests

231
00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:21,830
left in the world.

232
00:15:21,830 --> 00:15:26,080
What the logging companies got in return,
was a promise that the Environmental NGO's

233
00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,810
would not protest or oppose logging 
in Western Canada.

234
00:15:28,810 --> 00:15:31,460
This deal became a template for 
an even bigger betrayal.

235
00:15:31,460 --> 00:15:34,160
At stake this time was the 
Canadian Boreal Forest,

236
00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,670
one of the largest continuous forests 
in the world.

237
00:15:36,670 --> 00:15:41,070
This time Greenpeace and ForestEthics teamed
up with the Canadian Forests Products Association,

238
00:15:41,070 --> 00:15:43,920
i.e. the logging industry, for a similar deal.

239
00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,240
Once again, Indigenous communities who have
land in the Boreal Forest were not consulted

240
00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,140
and NGO's promised not only to stop 
anti-logging campaigns in the Boreal Forest,

241
00:15:52,140 --> 00:15:54,070
but also to defend the industry.

242
00:15:54,070 --> 00:15:57,770
One interesting piece of the 
agreement is, uhhh....

243
00:15:57,770 --> 00:16:04,180
with Greenpeace, David Suzuki, ForestEthics,
Canadian Parks and Wilderness on our side,

244
00:16:04,180 --> 00:16:07,300
when someone else comes
and tries to bully us,

245
00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:13,330
the agreement actually requires that they
come and work with us in repelling the attack.

246
00:16:13,330 --> 00:16:16,380
And we’ll be able to say... 
fight me, fight my gang.

247
00:16:16,380 --> 00:16:19,920
The latest deal of this type was signed 
between NGO's like ForestEthics,

248
00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,180
and Alberta's Tar Sands industry.

249
00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:26,410
Given the public backlash of the previous
two agreements, this one was done

250
00:16:26,410 --> 00:16:29,180
behind closed doors, 
so we don't know all the details.

251
00:16:29,180 --> 00:16:33,950
What we do know is that oil companies agreed
to place limits in Tar Sands extraction,

252
00:16:33,950 --> 00:16:38,010
in exchange for the enviros backing down on 
their opposition to pipeline construction.

253
00:16:38,010 --> 00:16:41,020
We now turn our attention to another movement
enemy hidden in plain sight.

254
00:16:41,020 --> 00:16:45,810
That is the federally-funded tribal governments
that rule over and police Indigenous communities.

255
00:16:45,810 --> 00:16:50,740
In the US, these so called "sovereign tribes"
govern federal government-assigned pieces

256
00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:53,860
of land called reservations, 
or reserves in the case of Canada.

257
00:16:53,860 --> 00:16:57,050
Their leaders are members of the community,
and are chosen through elections,

258
00:16:57,050 --> 00:16:59,820
and have little or nothing to do with 
traditional governing structures

259
00:16:59,820 --> 00:17:01,880
of the Indigenous communities 
they oversee.

260
00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,637
Historically, although there are some exceptions,
tribal government officials are more likely

261
00:17:05,637 --> 00:17:09,709
to cut deals with mining, logging and other
extractive industries to exploit traditional

262
00:17:09,709 --> 00:17:11,909
territories of the Indigenous nations they
belong to.

263
00:17:11,909 --> 00:17:15,409
This is land outside the reservation and land
in which they have no jurisdiction.

264
00:17:15,409 --> 00:17:19,319
Both in the US and Canada, Tribal Councils
have their own police forces.

265
00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:23,887
Let's not forget that Indian Police killed
Chief Sitting Bull at the Standing Rock Reservation.

266
00:17:23,887 --> 00:17:27,647
And in my community of Kanehsatà:ke, 
Mohawk police shot and severely crippled

267
00:17:27,647 --> 00:17:29,200
Oka Crisis veteran Joe David.

268
00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:30,849
He later passed away from those injuries.

269
00:17:30,849 --> 00:17:33,110
Today we see the same thing happening 
in Standing Rock.

270
00:17:33,110 --> 00:17:36,910
Just this month Bureau of Indian Affairs cops
brutally beat a water protector

271
00:17:36,910 --> 00:17:39,869
fighting to stop DAPL, 
in their campaign to clear out

272
00:17:39,869 --> 00:17:42,559
the last remaining people 
out of the protest camps.

273
00:17:44,449 --> 00:17:53,639
I believe, and it is my belief, that any type
of DIA, or Department of Indian Affairs,

274
00:17:53,639 --> 00:17:58,780
or Bureau of Indian Affairs, you know Tribal
Government or elected Chief and Council

275
00:17:58,780 --> 00:18:03,940
that receives federal funding from
the federal government that pays their bills,

276
00:18:03,940 --> 00:18:10,900
that gives them the paycheck, 
has [no] right within a people's movement.

277
00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:16,459
Because we've seen it time and time again,
them be co-opted.

278
00:18:16,459 --> 00:18:19,880
And it's not the true voice of the people.

279
00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,879
And we're dealing with this back home with
our fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline

280
00:18:24,879 --> 00:18:32,320
and I see us as Indigenous people battling
with this straight across the whole hemisphere,

281
00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:38,390
where there are Native people that side
with the corporate interests.

282
00:18:38,390 --> 00:18:42,459
And it really does damage to our people 
and to our movements.

283
00:18:42,459 --> 00:18:50,280
And a lot of times our people fear exposing
the corruption within tribal government,

284
00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:54,399
or even take this tribal government 
as their own government

285
00:18:54,399 --> 00:18:59,060
-- when that was invented by 
the American and Canadian state

286
00:18:59,060 --> 00:19:01,299
to continue to control the people.

287
00:19:01,789 --> 00:19:06,149
As discussions about the Dakota Access Pipeline
continue, Standing Rock tribal council

288
00:19:06,149 --> 00:19:09,589
will take all the support they can get, 
provided they abide by

289
00:19:09,589 --> 00:19:11,429
the rules of peaceful protest.

290
00:19:12,179 --> 00:19:17,279
Folks who overly fetishize Native peoples
and populations on Turtle Island but don't

291
00:19:17,279 --> 00:19:22,130
have a real understanding of the reservation
system, or that these reservations used to

292
00:19:22,130 --> 00:19:28,389
be prisoner of war camps, they think that
Tribal Council is part and parcel with the

293
00:19:28,389 --> 00:19:33,240
traditional leadership, which is only played
into when you see tribal council members wearing

294
00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:38,190
full war bonnets when they've not done 
anything that the traditional mandate

295
00:19:38,190 --> 00:19:42,269
to get such a sacred item would dictate.

296
00:19:42,269 --> 00:19:50,090
And so you have this real kind of constant
simmering conflict between these more traditional

297
00:19:50,090 --> 00:19:56,240
Native folks and these IRA governments who
you even see in much of the mainstream media

298
00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:01,599
who talk about Chairman Dave Archambault,
and don't talk about the International Youth Council

299
00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:04,260
or the Youth Runners, or
Ladonna Bravebull-Allard,

300
00:20:04,260 --> 00:20:08,099
who it was their spark that started
the first sacred fire over at Sacred Stone.

301
00:20:08,099 --> 00:20:12,029
There has been a lot of self-proclaimed Elders
that are men that are not all from this community,

302
00:20:12,029 --> 00:20:16,730
or are not deferring to the matriarchs in
this community that are supposed to have power.

303
00:20:16,730 --> 00:20:19,540
And that has created conflict and divide 
when we don't need it.

304
00:20:19,540 --> 00:20:23,359
Which is exactly what the gov wants and what
COINTELPRO and shit like that does.

305
00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:31,709
As a friend kinda put it as the question of
the year around here.... is "which Elder?"

306
00:20:31,709 --> 00:20:36,510
Because you always have these instances of
people coming and saying they're speaking

307
00:20:36,510 --> 00:20:39,040
on the authority of "the Elders."

308
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,580
Or "a Elder."

309
00:20:40,580 --> 00:20:43,580
But often time they don't know the 
name of that Elder.

310
00:20:43,580 --> 00:20:47,749
And so you can't help but wonder 
how good of a way they are operating in

311
00:20:47,749 --> 00:20:50,639
if they're coming in and barking orders 
but they don't really know

312
00:20:50,639 --> 00:20:52,879
where those orders originated from.

313
00:20:52,879 --> 00:20:56,770
"The chiefs told us to go around asking people
if we could-" "There is no chief here!

314
00:20:56,770 --> 00:20:58,950
There are no chiefs!"

315
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,469
"No, nobody's listening right now!

316
00:21:02,469 --> 00:21:06,290
The Elders asked you guys to go back to camp!"

317
00:21:06,290 --> 00:21:08,389
"See... fuckin people are 
always doing that shit.

318
00:21:08,389 --> 00:21:09,890
Trying to split everybody up."

319
00:21:09,890 --> 00:21:11,559
You see it clearly.

320
00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:16,589
The players that come in to be able to co-opt.

321
00:21:16,589 --> 00:21:21,060
And we have to be able to pinpoint that 
and to be able to address it

322
00:21:21,060 --> 00:21:29,089
in a way that's going to expose it, 
but also eliminate it from happening again.

323
00:21:29,089 --> 00:21:33,059
"And what we need to do is 
we have to be proud of what we did.

324
00:21:33,059 --> 00:21:37,879
We have to be honored by the victory 
and it's time now.

325
00:21:37,879 --> 00:21:40,510
It's time to go home."

326
00:21:40,510 --> 00:21:47,120
There is a lot of different ideas and lot
of discussion around why Dave Archambault

327
00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:49,450
asked people to go home.

328
00:21:49,450 --> 00:21:52,769
One of the things is someone said
that the tribe could be held liable

329
00:21:52,769 --> 00:21:54,459
if he didn't publicly say this.

330
00:21:54,459 --> 00:21:58,700
But this land is what they call 
"1851 Treaty Land."

331
00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:04,150
This land that the government calls 
"Army Corps Lands" is out of the jurisdiction

332
00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:08,179
of the Reservation so it's supposedly 
out of the jurisdiction of

333
00:22:08,179 --> 00:22:10,970
Dave Archambault 
and the Tribal Chairman.

334
00:22:10,970 --> 00:22:14,550
This one pipeline where people refuse to leave.

335
00:22:14,550 --> 00:22:18,670
This is not gonna be detrimental to our Nation.

336
00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:20,139
He's a politician.

337
00:22:20,139 --> 00:22:20,959
That's what it is.

338
00:22:20,959 --> 00:22:23,520
Like, is that who people defer to
in the community here

339
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,689
as like the end-all be-all?
No.

340
00:22:25,689 --> 00:22:29,869
People defer to the matriarchs from the community,
or their Elders from their tribes

341
00:22:29,869 --> 00:22:32,840
that they're representing 
that have been, like, invited to be here.

342
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,279
Does that make people leave?
Obviously not.

343
00:22:35,279 --> 00:22:39,880
So obviously the people that are left here,
think it's bullshit, or they would have left.

344
00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:45,880
Despite all our best efforts... 
sometimes pipelines still get built.

345
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:50,660
The US alone contains over 2.5 million miles
of oil and natural gas pipelines.

346
00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:53,320
That's enough pipe to encircle the earth 
more than 100 times.

347
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,360
Thankfully, there are a number of ways
to stop the flows of existing pipelines

348
00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:57,520
for those who know what they're doing.

349
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,541
Last year, Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline was
shut down three times by trouble-makers

350
00:23:01,541 --> 00:23:04,821
who broke into Enbridge's stations 
and shut down manual valves.

351
00:23:04,821 --> 00:23:08,680
This happened once in so-called Quebec, 
and twice in so-called Ontario.

352
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,981
Activists used a similar tactic to simultaneously
shut down five Tar Sands pipelines

353
00:23:12,981 --> 00:23:15,710
coming into the US, 
in a coordinated action

354
00:23:15,710 --> 00:23:18,911
carried out in solidarity with 
water defenders in Standing Rock.

355
00:23:18,911 --> 00:23:23,130
Since they cover huge tracts of land, pipelines
are extremely vulnerable to sabotage.

356
00:23:23,130 --> 00:23:28,370
Between 2008 and 2009, Encana pipelines 
in and around the towns of Dawson Creek

357
00:23:28,370 --> 00:23:32,790
and Tomslake, in so-called BC, 
were targeted by a series of bombings.

358
00:23:32,790 --> 00:23:37,920
Earlier this year, someone used heavy machinery
to dig up a section of pipe in so-called Alberta,

359
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,911
causing about half a million dollars in damage.

360
00:23:39,911 --> 00:23:42,971
Oil infrastructure has also been a choice
target for armed rebel groups,

361
00:23:42,971 --> 00:23:46,730
such as the ELN, and the Movement for 
the Emancipation of the Niger Delta,

362
00:23:46,730 --> 00:23:48,230
or MEND, in Nigeria.

363
00:23:48,230 --> 00:23:52,881
Of course, when taking action against existing
pipeline infrastructure, it's incredibly important

364
00:23:52,881 --> 00:23:55,921
that people know what they're doing, and are
fully aware of all the risks involved.

365
00:23:55,921 --> 00:23:59,620
States go to extreme lengths to criminalize
people they catch messing with the flows of

366
00:23:59,620 --> 00:24:02,940
crude and natural gas, and will try 
to deter activists with the threat of

367
00:24:02,940 --> 00:24:04,680
extremely long prison sentences.

368
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,890
And it should be obvious, but it's worth stressing
that the whole point of shutting oil pipelines

369
00:24:08,890 --> 00:24:10,320
is to avoid environmental damage.

370
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,260
So it's vitally important that anyone carrying
out these types of actions take all the necessary

371
00:24:14,260 --> 00:24:18,501
precautions to ensure that they don't accidentally
end up causing a leak or spills themselves.

372
00:24:18,501 --> 00:24:21,321
That said...we're in for a long fight 
with high stakes.

373
00:24:21,321 --> 00:24:26,050
What looks like a defeat can also be a chance
to regroup, reflect on how things went down,

374
00:24:26,050 --> 00:24:29,930
and figure out how to adapt our strategies
and tactics as necessary.

375
00:24:32,209 --> 00:24:38,640
What I learned from here is that, going home
and working with our community and Nation,

376
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:44,669
we really have to set out some type of template
or way to organize that's going to respect

377
00:24:44,669 --> 00:24:48,339
the whole range of diversity of tactics.

378
00:24:48,339 --> 00:24:51,379
And I believe that it's 
going to take education

379
00:24:51,379 --> 00:24:55,349
and y'know... it's going to
have to take leading by example,

380
00:24:55,349 --> 00:24:59,030
because we can't have 
history repeat itself.

381
00:24:59,030 --> 00:25:02,030
There is just regrouping that needs to happen.

382
00:25:02,030 --> 00:25:06,810
Recollectivizing. And the biggest part, that
comes back to what we've been talking about

383
00:25:06,810 --> 00:25:10,239
is trying to get either 
the peace police out of here

384
00:25:10,239 --> 00:25:14,599
or have them be accountable for their actions, 
so that they can see that what they're doing

385
00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:17,849
is really negative to the struggle as a whole.

386
00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:21,709
And it's negative to community building,
and that they are not protecting the community.

387
00:25:21,709 --> 00:25:23,429
They're endangering the community.

388
00:25:23,429 --> 00:25:27,220
They think they're protecting the community
from the cops and the military "coming in."

389
00:25:27,220 --> 00:25:29,550
But the fact is, they're already here.

390
00:25:29,550 --> 00:25:31,419
They're gonna build this thing.

391
00:25:31,419 --> 00:25:35,419
It'll eventually break, rupture, 
what have-you, and then it will hurt

392
00:25:35,419 --> 00:25:36,779
and destroy the community more.

393
00:25:36,779 --> 00:25:40,840
So, like, regardless of what inter-conflicts
that may or may not be happening in camp,

394
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,479
or that the people on the "other team" the
cops and the police are creating,

395
00:25:44,479 --> 00:25:49,149
- - if we can remember that what they're doing
is gonna cause more harm than anything,

396
00:25:49,149 --> 00:25:52,929
it can help us make better decisions 
as a radical resistance.

397
00:25:52,929 --> 00:25:58,589
And it can also help us understand like, what
kind of help to ask for.

398
00:25:58,589 --> 00:26:02,439
And if we don't need help, where to send other
people so that they can be more effective

399
00:26:02,439 --> 00:26:06,760
so that more of these encampments can keep
popping up in other places in the United Snakes,

400
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,100
cause that's the idea.

401
00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:11,240
Like this happened here, why can't it happen
somewhere else?

402
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:19,670
The skillsets that were brought in by folks
who had been training to fight pipelines

403
00:26:19,670 --> 00:26:21,090
was crucial.

404
00:26:21,090 --> 00:26:25,819
In many of these coming fights, we're gonna
see communities who are standing up

405
00:26:25,819 --> 00:26:29,639
as they get fed up with how 
the oil companies and gas companies,

406
00:26:29,639 --> 00:26:31,389
and mining companies treat them.

407
00:26:31,389 --> 00:26:35,219
But they don't have the skillsets 
with them to necessarily bring

408
00:26:35,219 --> 00:26:37,860
a solid resistance to those things.

409
00:26:37,860 --> 00:26:43,760
While these legal machinations are going on,
while the public comments are going on,

410
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,510
we can't continue to have faith that the process
will work 'cause the process is rigged.

411
00:26:48,510 --> 00:26:50,659
We must go in tandem.

412
00:26:50,659 --> 00:26:56,870
And we can hope and we can pray that the easier
paper route will get a project stopped.

413
00:26:56,870 --> 00:27:01,950
But we also need to prepare ourselves and
prepare our youth in the tactics that they'll

414
00:27:01,950 --> 00:27:07,250
need to successfully fight these pipelines
rather then when all the paper fight is done,

415
00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:10,320
all the public comment is done and the thing
gets approved.

416
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,510
That's not the time to start bringing people
in to get trained.

417
00:27:13,510 --> 00:27:15,959
That's the time when you gotta start your
attack.

418
00:27:15,959 --> 00:27:23,479
We have to completely look at ourselves as
as our whole life is dedicated to the movement.

419
00:27:23,479 --> 00:27:27,709
To spark this whole revolution so we can fight
for our freedom, so we can fight and have

420
00:27:27,709 --> 00:27:32,039
what we're fighting for: 
our land, our water, our territory.

421
00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:37,829
So we can live where we want,
hunt where we want, swim where we want,

422
00:27:37,829 --> 00:27:41,009
like our ancestors
before white man came.

423
00:27:41,009 --> 00:27:42,409
That's why we're here.

424
00:27:46,209 --> 00:27:50,730
On January 24th, Donald Trump signed an executive
presidential order approving the remaining

425
00:27:50,730 --> 00:27:52,570
construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

426
00:27:52,570 --> 00:27:56,690
With the same stroke of the pen, he also gave
the go-ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline,

427
00:27:56,690 --> 00:28:01,050
which had been shelved by the Obama 
administration in 2015 following a multi-year fight

428
00:28:01,050 --> 00:28:03,470
by anti-pipeline activists 
and environmental groups.

429
00:28:03,470 --> 00:28:08,029
On Thursday February 22nd, an army of state
and county police, flanked by members of the

430
00:28:08,029 --> 00:28:12,279
National Guard and Department of Homeland
Security, cleared out the last remaining pockets

431
00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:16,750
of resistance at the Oceti Sakowin camp, 
bringing a bitter end to the NoDAPL encampment.

432
00:28:16,750 --> 00:28:20,240
As we enter into a new phase of struggle 
against ramped up fossil fuel production,

433
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,020
and even more unrestrained 
militarization of policing,

434
00:28:23,020 --> 00:28:27,520
the dynamics that played out at Sacred Stone
camp can provide valuable lessons moving forward.

435
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,210
These are lessons that our movements 
must learn and properly internalize

436
00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:33,619
in order to better prepare us 
for the battles yet to come.

437
00:28:33,619 --> 00:28:36,470
With that said, I hope you enjoyed 
this first episode of Trouble.

438
00:28:36,470 --> 00:28:38,059
Stay tuned for more to come.

439
00:28:38,059 --> 00:28:42,000
These short films are intended to be watched
in groups and to be used as a resource to

440
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,409
promote discussion and collective organizing.

441
00:28:44,409 --> 00:28:46,509
Interested in running screenings in your area?

442
00:28:46,509 --> 00:28:47,759
Become a Trouble-Maker!

443
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:51,190
For 10 bucks a month, we'll hook you up 
with an advanced copy of the show,

444
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:54,599
and a screening kit featuring additional resources 
and some questions you can use

445
00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:55,979
to get a discussion going.

446
00:28:55,979 --> 00:28:58,759
If you can't afford to support us financially...
no worries!

447
00:28:58,759 --> 00:29:05,020
You can stream and/or download all of our
content for free off our website: sub.media/trouble.

448
00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:08,929
If you've got any suggestions for show topics
or just wanna get in touch, drop us a line

449
00:29:08,929 --> 00:29:11,339
at trouble@submedia.tv.

450
00:29:11,339 --> 00:29:15,500
We produced this documentary with the generous
assistance of the West Coast Women Warrior

451
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:17,959
Media Cooperative and Mutual Aid Media.

452
00:29:17,959 --> 00:29:20,129
Now... get out there and make some trouble!