Stugelmeyer claims that no water protectors were stripped searched or held in chain link dog cages upon arrest. Jason Stugelmeyer of the Bismarck Police Department. Our level of security protocols is necessary because we are under intense scrutiny, as validated by the TigerSwan report.Ī recent pro-DAPL propaganda film features an interview with Lt. Their report dated, September 22, 2016, states, “Information control within the camp, despite causing dissention, makes any internal source information difficult to acquire.” This information did not surprise us, given the dozens of drone flyovers and imminent threats that occurred daily. In a recent Intercept expose’ ( ) on Energy Transfer Partner’s security contractor TigerSwan, and their counter-terrorism tactics, it was revealed that Big Oil’s hired guns focused their attention on Red Warrior Camp over a four-month period. Government-led COINTELPRO tactics employed against indigenous resistance movements in the 1970’s. The recent array of propaganda films being released on the NoDAPL camps are reminiscent of the U.S.

These principles are utilized in our actions, both at the NoDAPL direct action in North Dakota and other actions and trainings throughout Turtle Island. Red Warriors are self-sufficient, with minimal impact to the land and resources. Every movement and resistance group and camps should carefully set their standard accordingly to ensure the safety of those involved in the protection of all that is sacred. There are many definitions of security culture. Red Warriors are highly disciplined, principled individuals who encompass a unique skill set to provide non-violent direct-action trainings, decolonization tools and organize actions to primarily youth with an emphasis on security culture. Collectively, known as Red Warrior Society, we have decades of experience in grass roots, community-based organizing to protect our natural resources.

We represent 27 tribal nations and 10 countries with no regard to the United States’ imaginary borders, to defend the land and protect the water through Non-Violent Direct Action. We are Red Warriors,” stated Debra White Plume. Our collective experience is a powerful weapon we took to Standing Rock to share with others to help stop DAPL. We come from all walks of life, races, ages. We carry on with water and land defense work, cultural revitalization, decolonization.

We have people still engaged in the judicial process, going to court. All the camps moved, were burned or torn down. Tactics of infiltration, dissension, rumors, divisiveness, and lies orchestrated by DAPL and its hired guns soon began to weaken the solidarity of all the camps. We protected our work through principles of security culture, knowing the corporation would stop at nothing to realize their financial investment and future profits. We gathered allies from proven social justice movements. In acknowledgment of the 500 years of genocide, treaty breaking, and human rights violations against our people by the United States government in favor of resource extraction and land thefts, we knew we must have a strong frontline. We committed ourselves to the tactic of non-violent direct action to slow or halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline north of the Standing Rock Reservation while the tribes and lawsuits moved forward. Our focused, singular, collective goal was to manifest our training and energy to protect sacred water. We formed a self-sufficient camp and lived together with love, ethics, principles, and protocols guided by ceremony, prayers and medicine. From the four directions, we traveled alone or in caravans, to gather at the river banks.

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