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The Atlantic: Court Victory for the Standing Rock Sioux By Robinson Meyer

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Canvas User

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won their first legal victory in its year-long battle against the Dakota Access pipeline on Wednesday, when a D.C. district court ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not perform sufficient studies on the pipeline’s environmental consequences when it first approved its construction.

The Wire: Elderly South Koreans Protest Anti-Missile Defense System in their Neighborhood By Christine Kim

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Canvas User

Elderly women in a small South Korean farming village, Soseong-ri, are leading a series of protests against the installation of an anti-missile Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system next to their neighborhood. A group of the women, who range between 60 and 80 years old, organize neighborhood watch every day to ensure no military vehicles can enter the deployment site through its only access road.

https://thewire.in/148104/south-koreans-thaad/