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On this Date in October 2016: Authorities investigated threats against journalists at Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp

By Nicholas Malfitano | Oct 19, 2024

On this Date in 2016, Morton County authorities investigated an attack against three journalists who had been invited to the main camp occupied by individuals protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

On this Day in October 2016: 14 individuals arrested for unlawful Dakota Access Pipeline protest acts

By Nicholas Malfitano | Oct 15, 2024

On this day in 2016, 14 people were arrested at three different locations south and east of St. Anthony, for illegal activities during protests over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

On this Day in October 2016: 27 individuals arrested for unlawful Dakota Access Pipeline protest acts

By Nicholas Malfitano | Oct 10, 2024

On this day in 2016, 27 people were arrested for illegal activities during two separate protests over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Former Dakota Access Pipeline protestor: 'We ended up creating a local ecological disaster'

By Nicholas Malfitano | Oct 6, 2024

A former social media content producer is reflecting on what she and thousands of other like-minded activists actually accomplished at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016, describing in hindsight their efforts as “a misplaced movement of idealistic people” that resulted in a “local ecological disaster”—over a pipeline that now provides reliable energy to a large region of the U.S.