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System Change Not Climate Change
#StandingRockSyllabus
This syllabus places the Standing Rock struggle in a broader historical, political, economic, and social context going back over 500 years to the first expeditions of Columbus, the founding of the United States on institutionalized slavery, private property, and dispossession, and the rise of global carbon supply and demand. Indigenous peoples around the world have been on the frontlines of conflicts like Standing Rock for centuries. This syllabus brings together the work of Indigenous and allied activists and scholars: anthropologists, historians, environmental scientists, and legal scholars, all of whom contribute important insights into the conflicts between Indigenous sovereignty and resource extraction.
Naomi Klein and Michelle Alexander, The Spirit of Justice, Union Theological Seminary, 2/15/18