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‘We’re protectors, we’re not protesters:’ Northerner talks about Dakota arrest

Daniel T’seleie — who has roots in Fort Good Hope and Yellowknife — and two other men were arrested on Sept. 14 and charged with reckless endangerment for attaching themselves to construction equipment with a steel device. (Facebook)
Activist Daniel T’seleie says his arrest is part of an escalation of state force against pipeline opponents
By Mark Rendell, CBC News, September 21, 2016
A Northern activist arrested last week while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline plans to return home later this week, although he’ll have to head back south for his court date, he says.
Daniel T’seleie — who has roots in Fort Good Hope and Yellowknife — was arrested on Sept. 14, for allegedly attaching himself to an excavator at a Dakota Access work site. Read the rest of this entry
Review: The Failure of Nonviolence: from the Arab Spring to Occupy
by Peter Gelderloos, Left Bank Books, Seattle 2013
Review by Zig Zag, Warrior Publications, August 11, 2013
The basic premise of this book is that advocates of pacifism have lost the debate over tactics and strategies used by social movements, and only those that have used a diversity of tactics have been successful. A promising premise and even more promising title, considering the recent manifestations of revolt and protest that characterized the Arab Spring and Occupy movements, and the “official” pacifist narrative that portrays these as victorious examples of nonviolence. Since these two movements are both recent and have served as inspiring examples for a new generation (including, it could be argued, the Idle No More wave of protests), the task of unraveling the false narratives pushed by pacifists seems both timely and highly relevant. Read the rest of this entry