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| Protesters participate in a prayer circle on Turtle Island on Thanksgiving day |
Today at 2 o'clock (N. Dakota time) many will leave the Oceti Sakowin Camp in prayer and ceremony, others (including some veterans) have chosen to make a stand and to be arrested rather than leave.
Water Protector Lisha Sterling writes:
Good morning, water protectors! This is not a vacation! It is time to pray!
In fact, it will be hard to do anything else besides pray today as my thoughts are constantly on Oceti Sakowin, Sicangu and Sacred Stone. May the water protectors stand today in one mind. May peace and strength emanate from the heart of every water protector throughout the camps, and may that peace and strength connect them all like a mycelial web, from heart to heart, mind to mind. May the ancestors and spirits of place rise up to defend the water protectors even as the water protectors stand to defend all our relatives. May those on the side of DAPL and those who would block, remove, or in any way harm the water protectors be confounded today, and let those who have good hearts have their eyes opened and their minds changed so that they too will stand with us.
Let there be peace. Let there be power. Let there be right thinking and right actions.
May our people have the time to fully clear the land that we have called home these many months, leaving no trace, and may we continue to stand together in new places for the protection of the water, the land, the air, and all our relatives as a community of prayer.
Previously live broadcast of the evacuation here:
https://www.facebook.com/Truthdig/videos/10154205741756367/
or here:
https://www.facebook.com/jenni.monet.journalist/videos/1636962879650702/
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