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Standoff at Standing Rock: Even Attack Dogs Can't Stop the Native American Resistance By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The Missouri River, the longest river in North America, has for thousands of years provided the water necessary for life to the region’s original inhabitants. To this day, millions of people rely on the Missouri for clean drinking water. Now, a petroleum pipeline, called the Dakota Access Pipeline, is being built, threatening the river. A movement has grown to block the pipeline, led by Native American tribes that have lived along the banks of the Missouri from time immemorial. Members of the Dakota and Lakota nations from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation established a camp at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, about 50 miles south of Bismarck, North Dakota. They declare themselves “protectors, not protesters.” Last Saturday, as they attempted to face down massive bulldozers on their ancient burial sites, the pipeline security gua

Sherwood, Arkansas: Operating a "Hot Check" Court as an Illegal Debtors’ Prison? The Criminalization of Poverty: Woman Describes Fines & Arrests After $29 Check Bounces Over the course of five (5) years the city of Sherwood, Arkansas has generated revenue of over 12 million dollars by way of their southern-fried, Good-'Ol-Boy-operated, nepotistic "Hot Check" debtor's prison scam. READ ABOUT: Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner A woman in Sherwood, Arkansas, just spent 35 days in a county jail after she accidentally bounced a $29 check five years ago. Nikki Petree was sentenced to jail last month by a judge accused of running a debtors’ prison. She had already been arrested at least seven times over the bounced check and paid at least $600 in court fines. Her release comes as the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the  ACLU  and an international law firm have filed a lawsuit to challenge the modern-da

BREAKING-MASTURBATING IN HIS TRUCK: New details released in arrest of State Police Captain in Fort Smith READ ABOUT: Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner FORT SMITH (KHBS/KHOG) — Arkansas State Police Captain Steven Bryan Davis of Troop H in Fort Smith was arrested Tuesday afternoon. The arrest location was listed as 2500 Riverfront Drive, which is where Highway 255 crosses a trail in a wooded area near the Arkansas River. In the report released Thursday, an undercover officer reports Capt. Davis appeared to be masturbating in his truck near Fort Smith Park. When the officer and another undercover officer confronted him, they say Davis said he wanted to watch the two undercover officers perform sex acts in the back of his truck, according to the report. The undercover officers then identified themselves and handcuffed Capt. Davis, the report says. Davis was booked on a misdemeanor loitering charge, Fort Smith Police told 40/29 News