(Note Bold Alliance is no longer active as Bold Oklahoma in the state of Oklahoma.)
Bold Oklahoma under the Bold Alliance — led by organizer Mekasi Camp Horinek — was launched in 2016 to bring together an unlikely alliance of farmers, ranchers, Tribal Nations, urban and rural communities in a state of diverse culture. In addition to working in the state of Oklahoma to stop the Plains All-American Diamond Pipeline; expose methane leaks at oil and gas facilities on Tribal lands; work with Tribal Nations to enact fracking moratoriums on their lands; and organize opposition to a state bill targeting peaceful pipeline protests — while working with Bold, Mekasi spent 6 months organizing on the ground with the Water Protectors at Standing Rock.
ACTIONS & EVENTS
(April 13, 2017) PETITION: Stop the Pipeline Protestor Bill (HB 1123)
(Jan. 31, 2017) Bold Oklahoma Joins Coalition Fighting Diamond Pipeline
(Jan. 31, 2017) PETITION: Stop the Diamond Pipeline
(Jan. 30, 2017) Press Release: Fight Against Diamond Pipeline Spans Three States
http://newsok.com/activists-threaten-to-block-oklahoma-pipeline-construction/article/5536229
(Dec. 5, 2016) Bold Oklahoma’s Mekasi Camp Horinek Statement on Dakota Access Pipeline
(Nov. 21, 2016) Water Cannons Fired at Water Protectors in Freezing Temperatures, Hundreds Injured
(Oct. 28, 2016) Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear 1851 Treaty Camp
(Sept. 26, 2016) Updates: Mekasi Camp Horinek at the Standing Rock Camps in North Dakota
(Aug. 13, 2016) Bold Oklahoma Joins Coalition Supporting Tribal Lawsuits Against US Army Corps Permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline
Bold Oklahoma coordinator and Ponca Nation member Mekasi Camp Horinek has been on the ground at the Standing Rock camps in North Dakota, set up to protect sacred water and lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.
Long night many casualties rubber bullets tear gas and water cannons water mixed with mace but the water protectors are still here we shall prevail! !!
Posted by Wes Mekasi Horinek on Monday, November 21, 2016
WATCH: Mekasi is interviewed during visit to camp by Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and actor Mark Ruffalo on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
WATCH: Bold Oklahoma‘s Mekasi Camp Horinek leads a morning meeting at the Sacred Stone Camp.
