ACTRESS SHAILENE WOODLEY WAS ARRESTED LAST WEEK WHILE
PROTESTING THE DAKOTA ACCESS PRICE BLIND WHILE PROCESSING THE
200 PEOPLE NOW SHE IS OUT AND SHE HAS WRITTEN AN
EDITORIAL ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE AND WHAT FOR HER THE SUGAR
REPRESENTS BUT ALSO FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE FOR
MONTHS AND CONTINUE TO BE THERE LIKE SHALY.
1ST OF ALL SHE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT IN THIS
COUNTRY, WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE A TRAGIC HISTORY GOING BACK
WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND
VARIOUS NATIVE COMMUNITIES AND NOW, IT IS ONE OF THE
GROUPS IN OUR COUNTRY THAT YOU ARE SIMPLY ALLOWED TO TAKE
THEIR CULTURE AND USE IT FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT IN A LIE
AND SHALLOW WAY WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT
REALLY REPRESENTS THAT SHE HAS BEEN WITNESSING THAT AS WELL.
SHE SAYS WE WEAR THEIR HERITAGE, THEIR SACRED
TOADIES AS DECORATION AND FASHION TRENDS THE FILLING
TO HONOR THEIR CULTURE.
HEADDRESSES, FEATHER, ARROWS, SAGE, BEADWORK.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT COACHELLA.
WALKING ON THE FLEAMARKET THIS WEEKEND I CAN EVEN TELL YOU
HOW MANY NATIVE REFERENCES I SOBBING USED IN A WAY THAT
FEEDS OUR WESTERN NARRATIVE.
SHE TALKS OF THE CONSEQUENCES.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN OUR COUNTRY
WE DO NOT A MAINSTREAM LEVEL INCLUDE NATIVE AMERICANS.
WE TALK ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING IN OUR COUNTRY, WE DO NOT A
MAINSTREAM LEVEL INCLUDE NATIVE AMERICANS.
WE TALK ABOUT GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY, WE DO NOT A
MAINSTREAM LEVEL INCLUDE NATIVE AMERICAN STOCK TREATIES ARE
BROKEN, LAND IS STOLEN, DAMS ARE BUILT, RESERVATIONS ARE
FLOODED, PEOPLE ARE DISPLACED I GET WE FILL THE NOTICE WE
FELT KNOWLEDGE AND WE FELT ACT.
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS SHE WANTS TO BE ARRESTED.
SO MUCH SO THAT IT TOOK ME A, A WHITE NON-NATIVE WOMAN
BEING ARRESTED ON OCTOBER 10 IN NORTH DAKOTA ON INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES DAY TO BRING THIS CAUSED MANY PEOPLE'S ATTENTION
INTO THE FOREFRONT OF NEWS PUBLICATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
THE DAY WAS OCTOBER 10, 26 OTHERS HAD TO DRESS IN ORANGE AS WELL
AS THEY WERE BOOKED INTO THE MORGAN COUNTY JAIL.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THEM?
SHE SAYS SHE IS HAPPY THAT PEOPLE ARE RALLYING AROUND
HER AND WE DID A VIDEO RIGHT AFTER IT HAPPENED BUT WHAT IF
WE TOOK THE HASHTAG FREE CHILEAN AND MADE IT PROTECT CLEAN
WATER OR HONOR NATIVE TREATIES OR I STAND WITH STANDING ROCK?
WHAT IF WE DON'T LET THAT STOP TRAINING ON SOCIAL MEDIA,
AT HER DINNER TABLES, IN THE STREETS?
WHAT IF WE MAKE IT TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF NOTICING,
CHOOSING AND OF ACTING ON OUR AWARENESS?
WE CHOOSE MONEY OR YOU CHOOSE CHILDREN?
WE CHOOSE IGNORANCE OR WE CHOOSE LOVE, WE CHOOSE BLINDNESS
OR WHAT YOU CHOOSE FREEDOM?
SHE CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY ON THE GROUND
PROTESTING AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTION THOUGHT
LEMAY JUST SAY SOMETHING QUICKLY THOUGHT TURNER CLASSIC
MOVIES IS NOT THE PLACE TO AIR ONE'S POLITICAL BELIEFS, NOBODY
THERE HAS BEEN IDEA, THEY KNOW WHERE I STAND.
WHATEVER POLITICS BELIEVES IN ANYTHING I GRIEF ON TWITTER.
THERE IS A RICH HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD ACTIVISM, AN
IMPORTANT HISTORY.
SHE IS THE BEST AMERICA HAS TO OFFER AND SHE HAPPENS TO
ALSO BE A RISING HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS.
IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT.
YOU GO BACK TO THE 1940S
AND YOU LOOK AT THOSE IN HOLLYWOOD WHO STOOD AGAINST
THE BLACKLIST AND MCCARTHYISM IN THE LEAD THAT FIGHT.
TO SEE SOMEBODY WHO IS SMART AND ROUNDED AND EDUCATED AND
UNBELIEVABLY TALENTED AS A NICE BONUS, IT IS INSPIRING.
IT
MAKES ME FOR GOOD ABOUT SPENDING A CAREER TALKING ABOUT MOVIES.
THERE CAN BE A LITTLE MORE SUBSTANCE AND THERE SEEMS TO BE.
SHE DOESN'T NEED ME TO BE PROUD OF HER, BUT I AM.
I THINK ON ACTIVISM FRONT, WE HAVE YET BEGUN TO FIGHT.
THIS IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
I THINK OF THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, THE ICEBERG IS COMING THOUGHT
PEOPLE LIKE HER MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE AND THE REASON THEY
DO IS BECAUSE PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO IT AND WE WISH THAT
THEY WOULD PAY ATTENTION TO THE 26 OTHERS THAT WERE ARRESTED AS
SHE SAYS IN HER EDITORIAL, BUT OFTENTIMES THEY DON'T.
THAT IS WHY PEOPLE GET SO MAD, PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT YOU
PAYING ATTENTION WHEN SHE DOES IT, WHEN ROSARIO DAWSON
TALKS ABOUT GETTING MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, WHEN COLIN
KAEPERNICK TALKS ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER.
PEOPLE GET SO UPSET BECAUSE THEY'RE LIKE OH NO, THIS
WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION.
THE REALITY IS THAT IT'S A WONDERFUL THING.
IT IS A
COURAGEOUS THING FOR THEM TO DO AND I THINK WE ARE GOING TO SEE
A LOT MORE OF IT AND WE ARE GOING TO STOP LISTENING TO THOSE
NAYSAYERS WHO SAY NO, DON'T YOU DARE VOICE YOUR OPINIONS
ARE TRY TO PROTECT OTHERS.
I THINK HER COURAGE IS GOING TO GO FOR A LONG TIME GOING
FORWARD.
THAT IS WHY IT'S REALLY NICE THING EVEN THOUGH WE WON'T TAKE
A CALL FROM SWEDEN WHY A GUY LIKE BOB DYLAN TO THE NOBEL
PRIZE.
HE IS TALKING ABOUT IT FOR A LONG TIME.
IT MATTERS.
GOD BLESS THESE PEOPLE FOR DOING IT.
WE SHOULDN'T CARE MORE WHAT GEORGE CLOONEY THINKS THAN
ANY OF THOSE OTHER 26 PEOPLE BUT WE PAY ATTENTION SO GOOD
FOR HIM FOR SPEAKING OUT AND MOSTLY THIS IS ABOUT HER.
JUST REAL QUICK, WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE WE ALREADY ARE
CONSIDERING PEOPLE WHO ARE PROTESTING AS TERRORISTS AND
JOURNALISTS ARE BEING JAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS
USING EXTREME MEASURES TO JAILED JOURNALISTS.
WE ARE LIVING IN A SCARIER TIME THAN PEOPLE REALIZE AND I
THINK WE ARE CLOSER TO THE ICEBERG WHEN PEOPLE
REALIZED I HOPE WE ARE.