amy: i want to bring tara houska into the conversation with honor the earth. warrior is also named in the lawsuit. can you respond to the owner of the dakota access pipeline suing ists who livental in protesting for a year? >> you are seeing a corporate head that is seeking all of the allies and support mechanisms in that that happened standing rock. people showing up in deciding to give up potentially their freedom and put themselves on the line to stop a pipeline going through the drinking water of the standing sioux reservation and the people along the missouri river, to say this is somehow type of criminal operation, you know, orchestrated by greenpeace and all of these folks who really did not have a very large presence there, this was indigenous-led. these people were supporting what we were doing, not leaving and trying to manipulate us. i thought it was disparaging and paternalistic that they characterized these organizations as misleading the tribe somehow and misleading the indigenous people. amy: you were not named? >> not personally. i thought it w

we will speak with greenpeace usa annie leonard and tara houska, national campaigns director for honor the earth. she is the ojibwe the coaching first nation. >> they are calling us the terrorists. they are the ones who are armed. these are unarmed men, women, and children who want nothing more than two protect their own water and protected for all future generations. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome e to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in houston, texas, floodwaters from hurricane harvey have begun to recede, revealing human remains and mass devastation to the nation's fourth-largest city. texas officials say at least 44 people were killed by the storm and nearly 100,000 homes are damaged by flooding. more than 30,000 people remain in shelters. health officials are taking steps to minimize the spread of diseases such as cholera and typhoid, and nearly 150,000 homes have been told to boil their water. east of houston, in hard-hit beaumont, drinking water remains completely shut off and emergency workers have begun evacuating the ci