HOG FARM PROTEST - YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE

 

 

A PROTEST HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER A WEEK OVER THE CONSTRUCTION OF A HOG FARM. THIS FARM IS BEING BUILT BY AN OUT OF STATE OUTFIT AND WILL IMPACT THE LIVES OF ALL THOSE AROUND IT. WE WILL POST INFORMATION AS IT IS AVAILABLE.

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People are being arrested daily and there is great need for financial donations and legal help. If you can help please email us and we will let our relatives know. Please email your friends and get the word out. This could happen to you.......THANK YOU, Lelie

 

There are many you tube videos now about the Hog Farm Protest. Please send this out to your list and get the word out. This could happen anywhere and the children have no say...this hog farm will be near a head start program and the school. What would you do if you were in this situation? you would email everyone you know...please email this to your local news and help these people. They are my family..  we are all related...thanks, lelie
 

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There are videos from other t.v. stations about the protest. Click on a link below

http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=042208protest

http://www.keloland.com/index.cfm?VideoFile=protest1

http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=041608farmprotest

 

 

 

Hog farms are very toxic. Click here to see what has happened to others. HOG FARMS AND YOUR HEALTH

 

U.S.: Police Occupy Yankton Reservation
 

AIM GOVERNING COUNCIL: Police occupation and arrests in Yankton, SD
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT GRAND GOVERNING COUNCIL
 

Selma, Alabama – Wagner, SD – Bull Conner Lives On!
 

Sheriff Ray Westindorf, Sheriff of Charles Mix County in South Dakota and the SD Highway Patrol has initiated a police occupation of Indian Land on the Yankton Reservation. An out of state Hog Farm Corporation has set up shop on the Reservation against the wishes of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, local farmers and community members. The Hog Farm is surrounded by Reservation land and the only access road is under the jurisdiction of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs.


 On April 15th Yankton Sioux Tribal Members began a peaceful protest against the Hog Farm and were met immediately with illegal law enforcement presence and arrest. To date twenty-two people have been arrested on trumped up charges and there has been a total over reaction of law enforcement numbering up to 52 SD Highway Patrol Cars with 22 more Highway Patrol cars waiting in reserve. Some patrol cars from as far away as the state of Iowa. The Highway Patrol has set up snipers with rifles on top of two command posts they have established near the scene. The State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction on Indian land and the highway leading to the Hog Farm is Indian Land where Tribal members and others have been arrested while peacefully protesting. This amount of law enforcement presence is unprecedented for a peaceful protest and violates the legal Jurisdiction of the Yankton Sioux Tribe.


 Sheriff Westindorf is carrying on the Spirit of Bull Conner in Selma, Alabama during the Civil Rights era of the nineteen sixties. The Sheriff’s son was awarded the electrical contract for the building of the Hog Farm. Is law enforcement now being used to protect out of state corporate interests and family members of the Sheriff in the State of South Dakota? Corporate Hog Farms have been outlawed in many states in the US. How many Highway Patrol cars have been dispatched to White Peoples’ protests in South Dakota? Racism is alive and well in South Dakota! The Peace and Justice Center has been notified and has dispatched observers to the scene with Catholic Nuns vowing to protest and be arrested if necessary to bring attention to the violation of Human Rights of the Yankton Sioux Tribal Members. The Dakota American Indian Movement has observers at the scene and if the community decides to invite the National American Indian Movement to the reservation to protect the People
 from the SD Highway Patrol we will respond with a call to all of our members in the Upper Midwest to travel to Yankton to help the community in any way possible.
 

KELOLAND TELEVISION


04/23/2008 - Lawsuit Says Hog Farm Is Health Risk
04/23/2008 - Lawsuit Filed To Halt Hog Farm Construction
04/22/2008 - Hog Farm Demonstrations Turn Disorderly
04/22/2008 - Lawyer: Hog Farm Dispute Will Go To Court
04/22/2008 - Arrests Made At Protest
04/22/2008 - Protesters Back At Hog Farm Today
04/21/2008 - Tensions Obvious At Meeting About Hog Farm
04/21/2008 - Hog Farm Owner Talks To Community
04/18/2008 - Man Pledges To Finance Hog Farm Lawsuit
04/18/2008 - Hog Farm Construction Stops
04/17/2008 - Press Secretary: No Troopers At Protest Today
04/17/2008 - Protest Expected To Continue
04/16/2008 - Hog Farm Protest: Day 2
04/16/2008 - Land Dispute Over Hog Farm
04/16/2008 - More Than 40 State Troopers Respond To Protest
04/16/2008 - Tension Mounts As Protest Continues
04/16/2008 - Hog Farm Protest Continues
04/16/2008 - Tribal Official: Authorities Escalated Tensions
04/15/2008 - Dozens Protest Hog Farm
04/15/2008 - Group Protests Hog Farm Development
04/14/2008 - Tribal Court Rules Against Hog Farm

 

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