NDN Collective and Others File Suit Against the State of South Dakota for Violation of First Amendment

03/29/19 • 28 min

Conversation with NDN Collective President and CEO, Nick Tilsen, citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, on a lawsuit that NDN Collective, ACLU, and others, just filed on March 28, 2019, to challenge a recent set of South Dakota laws that function to violate our free speech rights while at the same time, functioning to protect construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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