04.04.2012 - 00:27 [ Huffington Post ]

Lakotas Launch Hunger Strike Against Tar Sands Pipelines

In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a 48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline—and all tar sands pipelines—they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the U.S and in Canada.