A-list superheroes, or at least the A-list stars who play them in the Justice League, gathered for a video to support a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protest and stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Who needs national media attention when the Justice League is on your side?
Actors Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller posted a video on Change.org’s YouTube page as A Special Message From The Justice League. The film stars respectively portray Batman, Cyborg, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Flash in the upcoming Justice League film, which will come out in November 2017.
In the video Miller states:
“As a gang of Earth Defenders, we want to send a big shoutout to the Oceti Sakowin and those that stand with them in opposition the Dakota Access Pipeline.”
He also refers viewers to visit SacredStonecamp.org and learn more about the protest. The youth of the Oceti Sakowin tribe have been promoting information across a variety of digital platforms, including Change.org.
The video was posted on the Change.org YouTube channel in support of the youth of Standing Rock and the RezpectOurWater movements, a group that has asked members of the public to contact members of Congress and the White House to oppose a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to allow drilling under Lake Oahe in North Dakota.
It’s hardly a first foray into activism for many of the stars.
Mamoa, who is of Native Hawaiian descent, has long championed Native American causes in films like his own Road to Paloma. Miller protested oil and gas development during a trip to the Arctic in 2013.
Affleck, long active in Democratic politics, started the Eastern Congo Initiative to help indigenous people in that nation. Gadot previously served for the Israel Defense Forces and has criticized Hamas.
Fisher and Miller, in fact, posted a separate video opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Standing Rock issued a call for support of the Earth.
The pipeline will transport nearly 570,000 barrels of oil each day from North Dakota to Illinois, and the tribe says the Army Corps green-lighted the project without satisfying requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act and its trust responsibility with the Sioux tribe.
No word on where Superman was supposed to be. Seriously, Henry Cavill, you know what can happen.
Check out this Democracy Now news report on what is really happening at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock:
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