Urgent Call For Help From Water Is Life Camp | Indigenous Environmental Network

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Urgent Call For Help From Water Is Life Camp | Indigenous Environmental Network: By Cherri Foytlan, L’eau Est La Vie Camp

June 10, 2018
| Resist!

Water protectors, I’m writing to you personally because my hope is shrinking and my worry is deeper than it has ever been.

Quite frankly and equally unashamed – WE NEED YOU. I am asking you to make plans to joins us at L’eau Est La Vie Camp ASAP, within the next 6-8 weeks (most effectively in the next four).

We’ve been fighting this battle to stop the tail end of DAPL, known as Bayou Bridge. We have won on both a state and federal level, yet the construction continues… The hundreds-of-years-old Cypress trees continue to fall, the water and wildlife cry out from the war zone, and the people in the path are squashed even further beneath the shoes of the oppressor.

I realize that it is ceremony time. I realize that there are other important fights out there, and I wouldn’t want anyone to do what they are unable or morally opposed to… but if you ever thought about coming to fight beside me/us, that time is now and honestly like no other.