What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

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Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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While protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation garnered international news coverage, at the southern end of the pipeline, cops moonlighting as pipeline security were suppressing free speech with impunity. In this episode, reporter Karen Savage tells us what happened at Bayou Bridge, and what lessons the story holds for the climate movement and for anyone who believes in the importance of democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode includes instances of police violence, harassment, racism, and assault.
0:07.8	Please take care while listening.
0:09.6	Me daku yapi, hehani washaste, chante was Washtee Nape Chusapi, Ohi Taka we Meena, and White Hat, Machia Pichsto.
0:18.0	Relatives, I greet you today with a heartfelt handshake in my beautiful Lakota language.
0:23.3	I'm Sichangu Lakota from Rosebud, South Dakota,
0:26.2	and a resident of the state of Louisiana.
0:28.3	As a mother, I never intended to get arrested.
0:31.3	However, on September 18, 2018, I was arrested. However, on September 18, 2018, I was arrested and charged with two felony counts
0:36.7	under new amendments to Louisiana's critical infrastructure law.
0:40.4	I was facing up to 10 years in prison. I was told that I was being arrested for
0:44.5	trespassing two weeks prior on remote land being worked on by the pipeline company
0:48.9	in the Achatholiah Basin, despite my having the express permission of the landowners to peacefully
0:54.2	protest there. That was Anne White Hat testifying last year at a
0:59.6	congressional subcommittee hearing on free speech and the Legal Assault on Environmental
1:04.3	Activists and the First Amendment.
1:06.3	Anne is a co-founder of Loelavie, Water is Life, a South Louisiana Resistance Camp camp founded in 2017 to resist energy transfers
1:16.7	by you bridge pipeline. Just make sure you caught the significance of what she
1:21.7	was saying there. She and a handful of other folks were
1:25.2	arrested for trespassing and assaulted in the process as you'll hear later in this episode.
1:32.4	Except they had permission to be on that land, written
1:37.6	permission from the landowners, but someone was trespassing.
1:42.4	A Louisiana state court later ruled that it was in fact the pipeline company that was
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