© 2024 Milwaukee Public Media is a service of UW-Milwaukee's College of Letters & Science
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Milwaukee Protesters March in Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux

Milwaukee demonstrators joined the chorus of hundreds nationwide on Tuesday in opposing a pipeline project in North Dakota. The line would pass through four states, carrying oil from North Dakota to a shipping site Illinois. The developer insists the pipeline would be safe. A tribe – the Standing Rock Sioux claims the line would threaten its cultural sites and water. The planned route goes under a lake and the Missouri River.

In downtown Milwaukee protesters shared their reasons for opposing DAPL, the Dakota Access Pipe Line.

Rose Hayes-Dineen: “We are here because water is sacred and water is life and we cannot stand for the destruction of what brings this whole Earth life.”

Mike McCallister: “Fossil fuels need to stay in the ground otherwise we won’t survive. The planet cannot sustain any further carbon in the atmosphere and that’s what we need to stop.”

Julia Williams: “My grandfather was born on this reservation and he moved up. I have family there and it is something I feel connected to. When I heard there was a protest, I grabbed my bike and came right down.”

Clyde Winter: “We need to protect the ability of our planet to continue to be able to sustain life as we know it.”

George Ananchev: “To bring awareness to the fact that Wells Fargo is one of the many banks that have helped finance the pipeline. To make people think about smaller things that they could be doing. Actions like that would help bring change.”

Jeanette McCallister: “The more pressure that we put on our government, the better chance we have saving the environment and stopping the pipeline.”

Danielle Adisi: “This is clearly another piece in that dirty history if it goes through. But I’m so proud of the whole country how they’ve come together to stand up for indigenous sovereignty.”