Stunning New “Water is Life” Video on the Stand at Standing Rock Eight things you can do to support the Standing Rock Sioux in stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Jonathan Greenberg

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This stunning short film explains why more than 300 Native American tribes, the largest gathering in human history, have joined together to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In the film, Native American Winona Duke proclaims: “Don’t operate out of fear. operate out of hope. Because with hope, everything is possible.

Eight things you can do to support the Standing Rock Sioux in stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline:

Donate to support the Standing Rock Sioux .
Contribute to the Sacred Stone Camp Legal Defense.
Learn about and support the Lakota People’s Law Project’s work in North Dakota here.
Sign the petition to the White House to stop the pipeline.
Sign this Change.org petition by Oceti Youth to stop the pipeline.
Sign this Credo petition urging President Obama to stop the pipeline.
Sign this MoveOn petition to Stop the Violence Against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Sign this MoveOn petition to stop the state of North Dakota from forcing hundreds of Lakota children into foster care and group homes.

For more about the oppression of Lakota Sioux families by the State of North Dakota, watch and share the Lakota People’s Law Project video here:

Jonathan Greenberg

Jonathan Greenberg is the editor and publisher of the award winning Sonoma Independent, which he founded in 2015 to serve the public interest with insight, solutions and advocacy.

Jonathan has been an investigative legal and financial journalist with 40 years of experience contributing to national publications. His professional career began as a fact checker at Forbes Magazine, where he advanced to the role of the lead reporter in creating the first Forbes 400 listing of wealthy Americans. Jonathan has been an investigative financial and political journalist for such national publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Mother Jones, Forbes, Town & Country, Money, GQ, Manhattan, Inc., The New Republic, and Alternet. From 2011 through 2017, Jonathan was a blogger for the Huffington Post, where his narrative-transforming reporting and analysis about subjects like Bernie Sanders, Monsanto and Native Hawaiian water protectors achieved some of the widest readership of any HuffPost writer on these subjects.

Jonathan was a Web 1.0 pioneer. In 1996 he started Gist Communications, a disruptive new media company that competed successfully with News Corp’s TV Guide Online. In 1997, Gist was one of just 14 websites in the world to be named a winner of the First Annual Webby Awards in San Francisco. Following Gist and the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Jonathan served, in 2002 and 2003, as Policy Director for the New York City Council’s Select Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment, where he directed media and public policy campaigns and was the city council’s lead analyst for federal relief programs.

In 2007, Jonathan founded Progressive Source Communications, a public interest digital advocacy company that has created scores of impactful videos and campaigns to build awareness of solutions that serve the common good. Progressive Source owns the Sonoma Independent.

Jonathan is a graduate of Yale Law School's Masters Degree in Law fellowship program. A fuller bio and links to Jonathan's work can be found at JonathanGreenberg.com.