Water is life:Bainbridge Island activists stand with Standing Rock
Published 11:00 am Friday, November 18, 2016
A group of nearly 30 activists gathered at the Waypoint in downtown Winslow Monday night, carrying signs and candles and shouting chants decrying the construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Standing Rock Native American Reservation is a Hunkpapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota Native American reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota, where for several months, demonstrators — calling themselves water protectors — have occupied land along the slated path of the pipeline, staging prayer ceremonies and protest rallies in opposition to the project.
The Bainbridge group gathered near the Bainbridge Island Art Museum and eventually marched in a procession along Harborview Drive to the area of beach between the ferry maintenance facility at Eagle Harbor and the nearby condos.
