Truthout: Standing with Standing Rock

Interview with Jaskiran Dhillon and Nick Estes, editors of Standing with Standing Rock

Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline

Colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism are impacting people across the globe, both historically and in the contemporary moment,” write Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, editors of Standing With Standing Rock: Voices From the #NoDAPL Movement. In this interview, Estes and Dhillon discuss how this collection situates the #NoDAPL movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline within a broader historical context — a context that transcends the Oceti Sakowin-led movement and emphasizes Indigenous sovereignty and decolonization as central to successfully resisting extractivism.

 

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