The US government sent helpers to protect integration efforts in the 1960s. Why not do more to protect the Dakota Pipeline protesters nowadays?When John Doar died in 2014,Barack Obama, who’d already awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and called him “one of America’s bravest lawyers”. Without his courage and perseverance,the president said, “Michelle and I might not be where we are nowadays”. Related: The Standing Rock protests are a symbolic moment | Neil Young and Daryl Hannah Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com