Standing Rock is is to me
a Selma moment for the environmental
movement, for the indigenous movement,
a moment when you, when you
found your true self.
You found the mettle that you had come
from. You tested
yourself, and you had to see if you were
brave and courageous and enough to go
one more time up and face them. You know,
I'm proud to say I'm a water
protector. I'm proud to say that I spent a
lot of time making sure that people got
their charges
dismissed. I spent a lot of time
housing refugees from Standing Rock.
They have come to White Earth, and they
have come to fight Line 3. I've
spent a lot of time saying that our
rights as humans should supersede the
rights of corporations. And that is the
moment that we are in in this society:
where the rights of corporations are
superseding the rights of humans.
