Standing Rock Is the Civil Rights Issue of Our time – Let’s Act Accordingly
The US government sent helpers to protect integration efforts in the 1960s. Why not do more to protect the Dakota Pipeline protesters today?
McKibben writes:
When John Doar died in 2014, Barack Obama, who’d already awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, called him ‘one of America’s bravest lawyers.’ Without his courage and perseverance, the president said, ‘Michelle and I might not be where we are today.’
Read the full essay here: FOCUS: Standing Rock Is the Civil Rights Issue of Our time – Let’s Act Accordingly
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