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Carlton Williams
@carltonewilliams.bsky.social
Movement Lawyer & Clinical Law Prof

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September 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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The Water Protector Legal Collective was born at #StandingRock to provide legal support to water protectors defending land, water, and Indigenous rights. We continue to honor this legacy and stand with all communities resisting extractive projects threatening our lands and waters. #NoDAPL #MniWiconi
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Nine years later, this same fight is not over. There is still ongoing litigation stemming from the same concerns: the shutdown of a pipeline that desecrated sacred sites in its construction and continues to operate illegally without proper permits or a full Environmental Impact Statement.
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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“This case has highlighted the need for a serious discussion on whether there should be nationwide reform with respect to considering [T]ribes' views on these types of infrastructure projects,” the agencies said.
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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That same day, the DOJ, DOI, and DOA issued a joint statement calling on the pipeline company to voluntarily halt construction near Lake Oahe, a site of immense cultural and spiritual significance to the Standing Rock Sioux.
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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The Tribe had argued that the pipeline’s construction threatened sacred sites, water, and Treaty rights, but despite acknowledging the long history of injustices toward Indigenous Nations, Judge Boasberg ruled against the Tribe.
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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#OnThisDay in 2016, a federal judge denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for a temporary injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). www.npr.org/sections/the...
Judge Rules That Construction Can Proceed On Dakota Access Pipeline
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had sought a temporary stop to work on the pipeline. But after the ruling, three U.S. agencies said work would halt in an area particularly sensitive to the tribe.
www.npr.org
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Genocide in Gaza.

w.wiki/AipY
September 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
www.latimes.com
July 31, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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If Burnham stops arming genocide, stops imprisoning those brave enough to try to stop it, ends new oil and gas, imposes rent controls, and renationalises mail, rail, water and energy, no one would be happier than Green Party members, despite it hurting us in the polls.

A debate:
July 26, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Boston agrees to $850,000 settlement in lawsuit over police force during 2020 George Floyd protests

archive.ph/AjAuM
April 29, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Boston agrees to $850,000 settlement in lawsuit over police force during 2020 George Floyd protests

archive.ph/AjAuM
April 29, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Rollins gathering signatures in race for Suffolk County DA
Three years after she resigned under pressure from her post as US Attorney, Rachael Rollins has returned to the political world, pulling nomination papers to run for the seat she won in 2018.

flipsidenews.net/rollins-gath...
April 19, 2026 at 9:07 PM
The US military apparently "lost" a $65 million KC-135 Stratotanker airplane over Iraq.

aje.news/2s21hi?updat...
March 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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We are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias.

Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom and civil society groups: www.freepress.net/news/coaliti...
March 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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March 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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It was just round 1. It is not over. It’s time to resist.

We will APPEAL this ruling in North Dakota. Energy Transfer’s intimidation lawsuit is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. We won’t back down.

Learn more: www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-tod...

#TimeToResist
What today’s judgment means for Greenpeace USA - Greenpeace
A final judgment has officially been entered in Big Oil company Energy Transfer’s massive lawsuit against us.
www.greenpeace.org
March 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM