Hey Everyone, Rob Greenfield here.
I'm making this video to let you
know that I'm Standing up
with Standing Rock.
I want to let you know 10
different ways that I'm doing so.
In hopes to inspire you
to take action and be a part of
the solution to the problems
that are occurring in the
United States and around
the world right now.
As well as to help
educate you on this issue.
There's 10 ways that I'm
standing up for Standing Rock.
And some of these are things
that I've been implementing
in my life over the last 5 years
since I've woken up to the
destruction that our lives
are causing through some
of our daily actions that
are involved with the
extract of fossil fuel industry.
One of the big, big ones for me
was getting rid of my car
and instead going pedal powered,
riding a bike, walking and using
public transportation
as much as possible.
Number 2, living a mostly
zero-waste and plastic-free life
Plastic is a by-product of the
fossil fuel industry.
So getting rid of all those
disposable plastics.
Trying to rid your life from
the connections that you have
from the fossil fuel industry.
Number 3, I drastically reduced
my consumerism, the less that
I needed to buy, the less
dependent I was on this
fossil fuel industry that
I'm fighting against and
that millions of us are.
Number 4, taking all of my
money out of the big banks.
A lot of the big banks are
the one's funding
the Dakota Access Pipeline
as well as other pipeline
projects and extractive
projects around the world.
So I took my money
out of Chase bank, where
it was a couple years back.
The same goes with Wells Fargo
and other banks like that,
Bank of America...taking the
money out and I put mine into
a local credit union instead.
Number 5, I withdrew
all of my investments
that had any relationship to
the extractive industry
or to any of these industries
or corperations that
I didn't agree with.
So I took it all out of when
I had Roth IRA's in the past
and any of this.
To not support them
because investing in them
is supporting them.
Number 6, I changed my diet
drastically, a big part of the
fossil fuel industry is the
industrial animal agriculture.
And the globalized food system
in general, all of this is heavily
dependent on fossil fuels.
So eating a local, organic,
mostly unpackaged diet.
A mostly plant based diet
is a great way to drastically
reduce your dependency
upon what we are fighting against
at Standing Rock and at
other pipelines around the world.
Number 7, so this is where its
getting into those changes
that I've been making over the
last 5 years. Now this is what
I'm going to start doing today.
Number 7, I will be attending
local boycotts, protests and
peaceful marches.
The first one is going to be here
in New York city this weekend.
This will be the first one that
I'm going to be attending.
I'll also be signing petitions
and calling governors and
calling the people that can
put a stop to this.
Trying to help people flood
those phones and show
that we care.
Its one thing among the
many things that we can do.
Number 8, I only have
about $150 to my name
so I don't have much money
to support but however,
I have a check coming in
from my book for about $600.
100% of that will be going
straight to the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe to help support
everything they're doing there.
Number 9, I will be sharing
daily, for the rest of 2016.
I'll be sharing daily about
what's happening at
Standing Rock, what's whappening
with the extractive fossil fuel
industry, not just at Standing Rock
but around the world.
How you can get involved
in the solutions, trying to
help educate you, so that
you can really be the change
that you wish to see with this.
And lastly, Number 10,
I will be going to Standing Rock.
I'm not going to be going for
about 4 weeks.
It's a ways out, but I really
some commitments that
I feel like I should take care of.
One of them, is that I put up
something, that if someone
gets arrested for dumspter
diving for food,
that I will get them out
of jail and cover them.
That is something that
just happened in Pennsylvania.
So I have to take care of that.
Just getting out of my most
recent project, I have to honest...
I'm...
I'm distraught with everthing
that's going on and I feel
like I need to rest up
mentally and physically.
But I will be going to
Standing Rock.
I encourage everyone out there
to make positive changes
in their life, to stand with
Standing Rock on every
single day as well as do
things in solidarity with
Standing Rock. Going to
Standing Rock. If you can't,
going to the local events
that you can be involved in.
All of these are things that
I'll be sharing all for the
rest of 2016.
But really, I believe that we
need to make lasting changes
in our life so that when
we're successful at Standing Rock
and we stop this pipeline,
we live that legacy out
every single day because
without living that legacy out
we're going to continue seeing
these problems and we can
stop these problems
within ourselves by making
positive changes in our life.
Standing Rock is a stand against
the extractive fossil fuel industry.
It's a stand against fracking.
It's a stand against destroying
our land, our water, our air.
All of these things that we
depend on. It's a stand against
the mass extinction of other
species, the 10's of thousands
of other species that are
going extinct.
And it's a stand against
killing those off.
And it's a stand against the
unfair and appalling treatment
of people on the reservation,
people all around the world
and all of our fellow humans.
Standing Rock is a stand for
cleaner energy. It's a stand for
purer air, water and pristine land.
Standing Rock is a stand for all
species and all creatures.
It's a stand for Native American
rights and indigenous rights
of people around the world
and a stand for all of our rights
as human beings
It's a stand for peace and justice
and it's a stand just to save life
on earth as we know it.
The only place that we have.
So I really encourage you,
get involved. I have to be
honest, its been a very
heavy week for me watching
all of these videos online.
It's almost crippled me,
feeling like I don't know what to do.
But the fact is, we can all do
something and I'm one person.
I can only do so much,
and it's only so much but,
we can all do something
and it starts with ourselves.
Making positive changes and
standing up for the things
that we believe in.
So I encourage you to do so.
This will help you grow as well.
Time and time again if you
continue this, you'll become
a stronger person that has
no problem standing up
for the things that they believe.
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