Indigenous water protectors and their allies celebrate that the Army Corps of Engineers has denied an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline on December 4, 2016.(Reuters / Lucas Jackson)
Naomi Klein reports from Standing Rock on the victory there over the Dakota Pipeline—the lesson, she says, is that resistance and organizing can win.
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Plus, Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark, says “when big dangers arise, you have to think big.” She finds grounds for hope in the Standing Rock story.
And Zack Exley, who organized grassroots supporters in the Bernie campaign, talks about the campaign for a Brand New Congress in 2018. Zack’s new book is Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing can Change Everything.
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