The Standing Rock protest rages on, and well-known names are getting involved to bring it more attention.
“It probably seems as though a bunch of your friends on Facebook suddenly picked up and headed out to North Dakota on Monday to join the protest against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
“Thousands of Facebook users appeared to have checked in at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Cannon Ball, N.D.
“But it’s unlikely many were actually near the site of a tense standoff over construction of a $3.7 billion pipeline designed to move oil from North Dakota to a shipping point in Illinois — construction that opponents argue will harm cultural artifacts and local drinking water supplies.”
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