A brigade size deployment of veterans are set to head to Standing Rock to protect the protectors. They are currently at $350,000 in their GoFundMe campaign.
From the FB event page.
2K EVENT CAPACITY ACHIEVED: Event capacity based on accommodations, travel logistics and supplies; given the time we have to coordinate, resources available and the special shipping and weather conditions in the regions has been set at 2,000 rostered participants. We currently have over 2,100 Veterans on the roster. Our goal now is to prioritize this list to Veterans and Civilian personnel involved with operations, planning & onsite execution. We will be collecting names for future missions on a new roster we will launch on 11/27, next mission could be as early as the 2nd week of December. More to come
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UPDATE: 11/25 COMMANDER AND STAFF MEETING
OP ORDER UPDATE: 11/27 will be posted to this page
GUIDANCE HAS BEEN UPDATED FOR ACTIVE PERSONNEL & CHILDREN. We ask that active military personnel NOT participate in any onsite activity at Standing Rock, we understand why you want to be there, but cannot reconcile that with the risk to you or or our mission, stand down -with respect. We also ask that Parents keep children at home. Between weather conditions, potential for hostility and limited accommodations for the overwhelming support we've received we cannot provide adequate protection for them so we have made the decision to ask you to leave them at home, for their safety.
Here then is the plan: On Dec. 4, Clark Jr. and Wood Jr., along with a group of veterans and other folks in the “bravery business,” as Wood Jr. puts it — 500 total is the goal, but they’re hoping for more — will muster at Standing Rock. The following morning they will join members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, including Young, for a traditional healing ceremony. With an eye toward the media, old military uniforms will be donned so that if the veterans are brutalized by the police, they are brutalized not as ordinary citizens, but as people who once served the government they are protesting against. Then body armor, ear plugs, and gas masks will be issued to those who didn’t bring their own. Bagpipes will play, and traditional Sioux war songs will be sung. The music will continue as everyone marches together to the banks of the Missouri, on the other side of which a line of guards in riot gear will be standing ready with rifles, mace, batons, and dogs. Then, the veterans and their allies — or at least the ones who are brave enough — will lock arms and cross the river in a “massive line” for their “first encounter” with the “opposing forces.” The goal is to make it to the drilling pad and surround it, arm in arm. That will require making it through the line of guards, who have repelled other such attempts with a level of physical force Sioux tribal members and protesters have described as “excessive” — claims that recently prompted a United Nations investigation. Of course, that’s what the body armor and gas masks are for.
“We’ll have those people who will recognize that they’re not willing to take a bullet, and those who recognize that they are,” says Wood Jr. “It’s okay if some of them step back, but Wes and I have no intention of doing so.”
On Wednesday I wrote a diary Bring Body armor, gas masks, earplugs AND shooting mufflers.
At that time they had 612 signed up and had raised $76,000. Something tells me this is going to get interesting as the Army Corp of Engineers has issued a letter warning the Water Protector they will be “evicted” on the 5th, although they will allow “free speech zones”.
Going to get interesting.
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