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<p>September 6, 2016<br>
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<p>G4S, a U.K.-based security multinational, admitted to
having personnel deployed at “remote sites” where Native
Americans are defending their lands from the planned
US$3.8-million Dakota Access pipeline that they say
would pollute the drinking water of millions. </p>
<p>The actions have brought together over 200 tribes in
solidarity and faced a heavy offensive by private
security companies and state officers deployed under a
state of emergency. </p>
<p>The security company has been under fire for providing
services to <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/BDS-Victory-Worlds-Largest-Security-Firm-to-Exit-Israel-20160310-0056.html">Israeli
prisons and settlements</a>, expanding across the
Middle East including Afghanistan and Iraq and operating
juvenile detention centers and handling deportations
from the U.S. </p>
<p>In an email to teleSUR, G4S Communications Director
Monica Lewman-Garcia wrote, “G4S Secure Solutions is
providing fewer than 10 security officers, assigned to
remote sites, providing limited short-term unarmed
patrol services.” </p>
<p>G4S recently published a new job opening for an armed
custom protection security officer in Mandan, North
Dakota—next to the campsites—which was reposted on
Facebook by Lakota Sioux Tribe member Olowaan Plain. </p>
<p>Lewman-Garcia said that “there are other names” of
security companies but failed to name any others. She
would not answer other questions and was not available
to speak by phone. </p>
<p>Organizers told teleSUR that 10-Code LLC, a local
veteran-run company, is also providing security, but
they were not able to be reached. </p>
<p>A direct action to stop construction on Saturday ended
in security <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Security-Forces-Attack-Dakota-Pipeline-Protesters-with-Dogs-20160903-0024.html">deploying
dogs</a>, who bit six people including a pregnant
woman and a child. The private security forces also
maced 30 people, activists said<span>. G4S officers
“were not present and not involved at the location
where the incident occurred,” wrote Lewman-Garcia.</span>
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<p>The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which set up the <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Sioux-Nation-Rallies-Against-Environmentally-Damaging-Pipeline-20160409-0028.html">Sacred
Stone Camp</a> in April, was <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Judge-Halts-Parts-of-Dakota-Pipeline-But-Not-on-Standing-Rock-20160906-0032.html">denied
a request</a> for a temporary restraining order
against the companies behind the pipeline Tuesday. It
filed the request after construction workers bulldozed
“burial sites, prayer sites and culturally significant
artifacts," said tribal chairman David Archambault II in
a press statement. </p>
<p>Over 200 tribes and First Nations and over 100
organizations and businesses, including an Ohio mosque,
have signed statements of solidarity with the protests,
which are said to be the largest Native American
mobilization in almost 150 years. </p>
<p>The state has mobilized armed patrols and requested the
help of federal officials following an <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/North-Dakota-Pipeline-Protesters-Hit-With-Emergency-Declaration-20160819-0024.html">emergency
declaration</a> and a <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Authorities-Remove-Water-Supply-to-Dakota-Pipeline-Protest-Site-20160823-0002.html">state
of emergency</a>, justified by claims of “hundreds of
criminal acts” and “outside agitators,” according to
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple—a claim that
protesters deny. </p>
<p>The state homeland security director also pulled out
state-owned water and medical services to punish
"unlawful" protesters and ensure "equipment is secure.”
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<p>The FBI has also been sent to investigate “laser
strikes” against a surveillance aircraft circling the
camp. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said the
planes were there to ensure public safety, but people at
the site said they were used to disrupt cell phone
signals. Occupiers also complained about limited freedom
of movement, with armed military checkpoints restricting
entrance to the camps. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Red Warrior Camp has been continuing its
direct actions at construction sites, which led the Army
Corps of Engineers to support Tuesday’s temporary halt
to some construction work on the basis of “ensuring
peace.” </p>
<p>Two week-long <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Indigenous-and-Latino-Activists-Take-Dakota-Protests-to-Dallas-20160902-0034.html">solidarity
protests</a> have started across the country,
targeting other companies benefiting from the pipeline,
like Citibank and TD Securities. </p>
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