Events

[ACTIVISM] In early December, as the weather grew colder and local law enforcement became increasingly belligerent in their treatment of protestors fighting the North Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, an astonishing thing happened: More than 4,000 US military veterans traveled to North Dakota to join Native protestors, to provide material support to them, to stand between them and law enforcement, and to draw attention to their cause. Among the organizers of the veterans action was US Navy veteran Matthew Crane of Buffalo (local music aficionados know Crane as a member of the Albrights), and this Sunday, January 8 Crane will join fellow veterans Joseph George (US Air Force), Brandee Paisano (US Navy and Pueblo-Laguna Native), Mark Sanderson (US Army and Purple Heart recipient), and Neil Conway (US Navy) at Babeville’s Asbury Hall to discuss their experience and the future of the VeteransRespond movement. Michael Mato Tanka, an Oglala Lakota and descendant of Chief Red Cloud (and a former US Marine), will also speak, along with Erin Heaney of Shopwing Up for Racial Justice. The moderator of the event, sponsored by Hallwalls, is actor and producer Peter Johnson.