People demonstrating at North Dakota's Access Pipeline protest have expressed frustration at white demonstrators who are reportedly turning up to "colonise" the camp. Concerns have been raised by protestors on social media, who claim that people are arriving at the Standing Rock demonstration for the "cultural experience" and treating it like Burning Man festival.

Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in Seoul for a fifth straight week of protests against President Park Geun-hye, in the largest ongoing series of demonstrations in the country since the 1987 movement to democratise South Korea. Prosecutors have indicted her friend, Choi Soon-sil, and are seeking to question the President about her role in the scandal.

The agency on Friday ordered anyone in the encampments north of the Cannonball River in North Dakota to immediately leave. Anyone remaining on Corps-managed property risks arrest.. By Martha Ann Overland.

How five large trees in remote Oregon ended up as winter housing for water protectors, including their first newborn baby. By Jane Braxton Little.

Pipeline protesters attempted to remove burned out vehicles blocking the Backwater Bridge on Highway 1806, which led to an hours-long standoff with police using water cannons to repel protesters on [a below freezing] Sunday night. By Caroline Grueskin.

A subversive urban agricultural group in San Francisco is turning ornamental trees into fruit-producing surprises for the local population but while technically breaking the law. A simple incision…

Protesters plan to descend on Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s Inauguration, and may number in the hundreds of thousands. By Evan Osnos.

As arrested water protectors’ cases head to court, attorneys and funds are needed to fight the charges, and here’s a list of what lawyers can do. By Steffani Cochran.

The anti-pipeline protesters descending by the hundreds on rural North Dakota in support of the Standing Rock Sioux aren’t necessarily standing with Beverly Fischer. Or her dead buffalo. An enrolled tribal member, Mrs. Fischer and her husband, Ernie, are convinced that at least 13 of their bison have been butchered, barbecued and eaten by some of the hundreds of activists trespassing through the livestock pastures of Cannonball Ranch since the protests erupted in August.

The city may have a kumbaya image, but it was founded as a white utopia. By Leah Sottile.

Armed men in jackboots, some masked and toting assault rifles, stand mockingly, defiantly, heavily on the mound of graves – a sacred indigenous burial ground.  A site non-natives can understand as similar to Arlington National Cemetery… By Robert Barsocchini.

Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners’s which is building the Dakota Access Pipeline, said he is “100 percent” confident Trump will support it. By Lorraine Chow.

Violence erupted in Stockholm on Saturday as neo-Nazis took to the capital’s streets following Donald Trump’s election victory.  As many as 600 far-right demonstrators from Sweden’s Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) marched towards Sweden’s parliament in the historic district of Gamla Stan, in the biggest march in the group’s history.  Five people were arrested and two were injured after violence broke out between the demonstrators and anti-fascist protest groups. 

Angry over Donald Trump’s election victory, thousands of protestors took to local streets for nearly nine hours Wednesday and into early Thursday in an intense show of opposition to the president-elect. The Chicago demonstrations were among several held across the country, including New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Oakland, in the wake of Trump’s stunning defeat of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The drawn-out Chicago event – which drew as many as 2,000 people, according to police estimates – was relatively peaceful and devoid of any of the heavy vandalism or effigy burning that occurred elsewhere.

Donald Trump’s victory prompted protests in the early hours of Wednesday morning that picked up again in a handful of cities across the country Wednesday night… By Elliot Hannon.

Going Underground with Afshin Rattansi (RT)

Inside the political group that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called ‘the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.’ By Savannah Cox.

A bloody summer of protest in Kashmir has been met with a ruthless response from Indian security forces, who fired hundreds of thousands of metal pellets into crowds of civilians, leaving hundreds blinded. By Mirza Waheed.

The Dakota Access pipeline, a symbol of America’s casual racism and endless money-worship, is the perfect opportunity to write a new chapter. By Bill McKibben

Jakarta Governor Basuki Purnama has given Islamic extremists the opportunity they were looking for. By John McBeth.