While Democracy Now! was covering the standoff at Standing Rock, we spoke to longtime Lakota water and land rights activist Debra White Plume, who was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and lives along the banks of Wounded Knee Creek. She is executive director of Owe Aku. She described what the Dakota Access pipeline means to her.
Democracy Now! is an independent, daily global news hour anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We air live weekdays 8-9AM ET and rebroadcast throughout the day on nearly 1,400 TV & radio stations in 43 countries. Here we post excerpts from our interviews and key moments from our daily show.
Today we remember Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated in her home in Honduras yesterday. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras, standing up to mining and dam projects that threatened to destroy her community. Last year, Cáceres won the Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest environmental award.
A 2015 report by the group Global Witness found that Honduras is one of the deadliest countries for environmentalists. Between 2010 and 2014, 101 environmental campaigners were killed in the country.
Today we broadcast footage of Cáceres and spoke with her nephew Silvio Carillo and her longtime friend Beverly Bell.