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Michael Markus, known as Rat­tler, had mixed emo­tions when he heard that a fed­er­al judge had ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline to stop pump­ing oil because it had been built unlawfully. "This would heal," Markus wrote to Rural America In These Times. At the same time, he wrote, "It's hard not to be heart­bro­ken." Markus sent the mes­sage from Sand­stone fed­er­al prison in Min­neso­ta, where he's serv­ing a three-year sen­tence for try­ing to stop the pipeline from being built in the first place. Olive Bias, member of the NoDAPL Political Prisoner Support Committee, put it this way: "Peo­ple have got to rec­og­nize that peo­ple are still putting their bod­ies on the line in prison to stop this pipeline."

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