Kandi Mossett on Native American Pipeline Protests

This week on CounterSpin: For months now, hundreds and then thousands of indigenous people have been taking part in peaceful protests at the Sacred Stones camp in North Dakota. They’re protesting the construction of what’s called the Dakota Access pipeline, slated to carry fracked oil across the state and across the Missouri River. The Standing Rock Sioux say the Army Corps of Engineers approved the pipeline without their consent. For many people, what’s happening right now in North Dakota is a crucial story of a frontline fight of indigenous people against extractive industry—and on behalf of humanity, really, and the planet.

So far, though, for corporate media, it’s not much of a story at all. As we record, none of the big 3 tv networks have so much as mentioned it.

We’ll hear about the pipeline protests from Kandi Mossett, Native energy & climate campaign organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network. She joins us from the Sacred Stones camp to talk about this evolving, undercovered story.

And in our usual review of the week’s press, we take a look at who controls the presidential debates.