End the Continued Genocide of the Lakota People

End the Continued Genocide of the Lakota People--- Lakota Activists and Allies March for Justice Always in memory of Wally Black Elk and Ron Hard Heart

On Saturday, June 9th at 12:00pm members of the Oglala Lakota Tribe and their allies, including Deep Green Resistance, will rally in Pine Ridge, SD and march for justice to demand an end to predatory liquor sales in the border town of Whiteclay, Nebraska.

The town of Whiteclay, Nebraska lies less than 300 feet from the border of the Pine Ridge Reservation, where the sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited. While Whiteclay has a population of 14, there are 4 liquor stores in the town, selling tens of thousands of cans of beer each day The stores knowingly sell to bootleggers, intoxicated people, minors, and trade beer for sexual favors. The alcohol border town is feeding off the continued destruction of the Lakota people, and it must be stopped.

The saturation of alcohol has turned Whiteclay into a place of violence; every year, people die from exposure after passing out while drunk, and others are murdered. In 1999, Wally Black Elk and Ron Hard Heart were brutally murdered in Whiteclay, and it is in their memory that we will march for justice on Saturday.

In the words of one member of the tribe, "to keep Whiteclay open is another form of genocide."

Allies will be coming to participate and march in solidarity from all over the country, and Deep Green Resistance has organized caravans of supporters from Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, California, and Colorado.

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