Huffington Post: For the last few weeks many of the finest organizers in North America have been gathering in a remote camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation along the Missouri River. And yesterday they won a battle that — though temporary and tenuous — should stand with what happened at Selma and Birmingham in the annals of America’s protest history.
The backstory is fairly simple. Oil companies wanted to build a pipeline to get some of the crude that they’ve been fracking out of the Dakotas to market….