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One year ago this week, Sophia Wilansky stood on a bridge outside Bismarck, North Dakota, in a crowd of hundreds of protesters. Wilansky, then 21, had traveled to North Dakota to protest the construction of a natural gas pipeline at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. She planned to stay the winter. Instead, in the early…
The young Jewish woman whose arm was nearly torn off by a grenade at the protests against a natural gas pipeline at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation is back home this week, preparing for more surgeries. Sophia Wilansky posted a photo of herself with her dog, Angus, at her parents’ home in The Bronx after…
A police concussion grenade tore off much of the arm of 21-year-old Jewish activist Sophia Wilansky at the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, activists. “There’s no words to be a parent and look at your kid, look at her arm that’s not there,” said Wilansky’s father, Wayne Wilansky, struggling to speak through his tears…
A police concussion grenade tore off much of the arm of a 21-year-old Jewish woman at the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, activists say. Sophia Wilansky was evacuated to Minneapolis, where she is undergoing rounds of surgery. It’s not clear whether she will lose her hand. “There’s no…
