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We are challenged not just to imagine, but to demand the emancipation of earth from capital. For the earth to live, capitalism must die.

— Nick Estes Our History Is the Future:Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistan (2019)

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