In response to President Donald Trump’s decision to continue with work on Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, Iowans and organizations such as Bold Iowa, Iowa Citizens for Community Development and Indigenous Iowa will join together to have a rally at the Neal Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

The decision to have the rally is after the announcement from the Army Corps that they will follow Trump’s orders and grant the final easement to the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners.

“We decided on doing the rally after they [Army Corps] made their announcement yesterday,” Christine Nobiss, co-chairman of Indigenous Iowa, said.

Within the past week, groups representing farmers, landowners, tribes, environmentalists and climate activists have collected hundreds of thousands of comments to be delivered to the Army Corps during the open-comment period of the environmental review and with the yesterday’s announcement, the comments of thousands have been ignored.

Nobiss said that once she heard the announcement the first feeling she had was rage.

“I’m very much imposed to injustice and I find this to be a mockery of justice,” Nobiss said.

Nobiss is also very concerned that Trump is unfit to make decisions concerning citizens and the environment around them.

“The more we harm our Earth, the more we hurt ourselves,” she said.

Those expected to speak at Wednesday’s rally are individuals from Iowa who have been dedicated in the opposition of the pipeline including Ed Fallon of Bold Iowa.

Currently other actions by the organizations involved are being planned in conjunction with Wednesday’s event in cities nationwide, including Iowa City, Washington, D.C., New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and many more.