Teresa Walrod

Making Change: Nick Tilsen

July 6, 2017Teresa Walrod

On South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, Nick Tilsen is upending entrenched poverty and rebuilding his Lakota community.

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Tiger Swan Tactics

June 28, 2017Teresa Walrod

In a four-part series, The Intercept examines the blurred lines between private security and public law enforcement, and the impact of corporate money on the increasing opposition to oil pipelines.

TigerSwan Tactics

Part 1: Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Use at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”

Part 2: Standing Rock Documents Expose Inner Workings of “Surveillance-Industrial Complex

Part 3: As Standing Rock Camps Cleared Out, TigerSwan Expanded Surveillance to Array of Progressive Causes

Part 4: Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania’s Mariner East 2 Pipeline

Dakota Access security firm operated in ND without license, board says

June 28, 2017Teresa Walrod1 Comment

In a complaint dated June 12, attorneys for the North Dakota Private Investigative and Security Board said the agency denied an application to James Patrick Reese, the founder of North Carolina-based TigerSwan, to become a licensed private security provider earlier this year. But Reese “and/or” the firm have “illegally continued to conduct private investigative and/or private security services in North Dakota following the denial of their application of licensure.”

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Oil will keep flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline — for now.

June 23, 2017Teresa Walrod

From Grist.org:

At a Wednesday hearing, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg established a summer timeline for the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux to submit arguments that the pipeline should be shut down while additional environmental review takes place.

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The quiet crisis: mass eviction shows toll of homelessness on Native Americans

June 12, 2017Teresa Walrod

From The Guardian:

To Jenece Howe, it seemed like an ordinary yard sale. But as she surveyed the items, arrayed on a patch of land on the Native American reservation, she paused. It appeared to her as if the contents of a home had simply been dumped outside. And the elderly women selling them looked distraught.

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Paramilitary security tracked and targeted DAPL opponents as “jihadists,” docs show

June 2, 2017Teresa Walrod1 Comment

From Grist.org:

“As people nationwide rallied last year to support the Standing Rock Sioux’s attempts to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, a private security firm with experience fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan launched an intrusive military-style surveillance and counterintelligence campaign against the activists and their allies, according to internal company documents.”

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