NO DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE SOLIDARITY IN BOZEMAN
October 1, 2016-Bozeman, MT-Community Organizers Plan Trip to Support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Hands On Self-Care Collective, Gallatin Progressive Action Network and Bozeman based community organizers will host a protest in Bozeman then the members will travel nearly 600 miles to bring donations and provide free massage to those involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance.
Join Hands On Self-Care Collective and community organizers at Bozeman Public Library, Small Conference Room on Saturday, October 1 at 4:30 PM – 6 PM for a panel on working with indigenous communities, information about materials needed, and drop off and collection sites for donations. A march and rally in solidarity with indigenous peoples defending water and life at Standing Rock in front of the Gallatin County Courthouse is scheduled Sunday, October 2 at 1PM by the Gallatin Progressive Action Network.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota has been embroiled in a battle against the Dakota Access
Pipeline since July 2016. During this time the community of water protectors has grown and they have increased calls for support. The struggle has included federal level court cases and is currently being brought to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Resistance on the ground to the pipeline has drawn thousands from around the world to support the tribe, a call heard by KD Segura and Mark Chavez of Bozeman. “I am proud to help our protectors in any way I can. Tribes became united as one voice and are rising up for all of us and our future,” said local community organizer KD Segura, of Peruvian indigenous descent, who was already drawn to the encampment once and felt the struggle hit close to home. Chavez founder of Hands On Self-Care Collective–a community of health care practitioners that provide free work to those in need–sees this movement as the exact reason he has been working so hard to start the group saying, “If we can’t leave our families, homes and jobs to be side-by-side with them, it is our responsibility to support those who are on the front lines of the struggle to protect water, air and land.”
Hands On Self-Care Collective is dedicated to positive social change by providing body work to those typically denied proper access to the health care system. This work is based on the belief that every person has a right to proper and adequate health care and it is the responsibility of those trained properly to provide it.
