Hi Salvatore and Dianne, Thank you very much for sharing your moving and very helpful update and reflections on your experience in N. Dakota. I hope the movement continues to build with support from all over the world. Almost every place in the world is dealing with water issues either from contamination, climate change--too much or too little water, access to water (land grabbing that prohibits access or damns that limit quantity) , siphoning of water by agro business and other companies, etc. Indeed WATER IS LIFE. What we do to the water, we do to ourselves... Ellie Stock elliestock@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Caruso via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical ICA-USA <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sat, Sep 24, 2016 1:40 pm Subject: [Dialogue] UPDATE ON STANDING ROCK RESERVATION INDIGENOUS GLOBAL FORUM Dear friends: Dianne and I participated in the current protection stand by the Standing Rock Tribe at Cannon Ball. N. Dakota ( and Now over 280 tribes globally) to stop the oil pipeline under construction beginning at the reservation lands near the Missouri river. The proposed pipeline is 60% completed but 20 miles of sacred land have been halted by the Justice Dept ( Obama) court decision on Sept 9. What follows is our reflections on what’s happening at Standing Rock and how you may choose to involve yourself if so moved. There are 3 PDF’s below: Salvatore Caruso & Dianne Greenwald reflections from our participation there; followed by a just published article by Bill McKibbin in Yes magazine that focuses on this event and the broader implications. Be well, Salvatore & Dianne _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net

Do we have your permission to post on Facebook or other social media? I find both of your reports really clear and helpful. Take care, Jo

On Sep 24, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Raymond Caruso via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

Dear friends:

Dianne and I participated in the current protection stand by the Standing Rock Tribe at Cannon Ball. N. Dakota ( and Now over 280 tribes globally) to stop the oil pipeline under construction beginning at the reservation lands near the Missouri river. The proposed pipeline is 60% completed but 20 miles of sacred land have been halted by the Justice Dept ( Obama) court decision on Sept 9 <http://9.at/>.

What follows is our reflections on what’s happening at Standing Rock and how you may choose to involve yourself if so moved.

There are 3 PDF’s below: Salvatore Caruso & Dianne Greenwald reflections from our participation there; followed by a just published article by Bill McKibbin in Yes magazine that focuses on this event and the broader implications.

<salvatore reflections.pdf> <dianne reflections.pdf> <Yes Mag. McKibben.pdf>

Be well,

Salvatore & Dianne _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net

-- Jo Nelson, CPF, CTF <jnelson@ica-associates.ca> Certified Professional Facilitator and ICA Certified ToP™ Facilitator ICA Associates, Inc. 401 Richmond Street West, Suite #405, Toronto, Canada. M5V 3A8 Ph. 1 416-691-2316, x2230 Toll-free 1 877-691-1422 Fax 1 416-691-2491 Website http://ica-associates.ca Cellphone 647 233 6910 Skype “jofacilitator” Vendor of Record: Government of Ontario Learning and Training Services #OSS00536903 Vendor of Record: ProServices Canada E60ZT-120001/826/ZT Business Consulting/Change Management Pre-qualified Vendor, Alberta Education Resource List “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Richard Buckminster Fuller”