When Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed HB 1124 into law in May
2017 it was yet another strike against Native Americans and the entire
nationwide working class of which they are a part – a strike against the 99
percent.
At heart is the Plains All American Pipeline which has been
protested several times in Norman, Oklahoma. The law is designed to harshly
penalize protesters. The protest movement uses hashtag #NoPlainsPipeline to
document their concerns.
Members of several federally recognized Oklahoma tribes
will be impacted by the project. That list includes the Absentee Shawnee,
Citizen Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and Chickasaw nations.
An American Indian Movement (AIM) chapter in Oklahoma is
actively still protesting the Plains All American Pipeline in Oklahoma. Mike
Casteel, the red-bereted director of AIM-Indian Territory said, “We cannot sit
idly by — our ancestors died along this trail, and we have many unmarked graves
there,” Casteel said in a media release. “We no longer accept poisoning for
profit by any government or private corporation.”
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