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Support Indigenous Resistance to Line 3, April 9 and beyond

December 12, 2020

Jackie Fawn

Join a covid-safe protest and street-mural painting calling on Wells Fargo bank and one of its major shareholders, BlackRock, to stop financing Enbridge’s Line 3 Tar Sands pipeline.

Indigenous organizers in Northern Minnesota need our support to stop  the pipeline, which Enbridge intends to run right under the Mississippi River.  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recently granted the pipeline its final permit.

The Line 3 pipeline,  now under construction, encroaches on Indigenous land and creates a new path to import Canadian tar sands oil.

The movement to #DefundLine3 is growing! In the last month, ago, bank CEOs have received more than 600,000 emails, 2,000 phone calls and over 6,000 calendar invitations demanding that they stop funding Line 3. There have been actions at bank branches in New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Seattle, LA., and Chicago.

WHEN

Friday, April 9
Mural painting: 10 AM to 12 PM
March to BlackRock: 12:30 PM

WHERE

420 Montgomery St. (between California and Sacramento), SF

East Point Peace Academy, Diablo Rising Tide, and other organizations will host this event. They’re asking participants to bring an 8  1/2  by 11  headshot of a young person in your life (landscape or portrait) to add to “Protect Future Generations” poster.

More info and RSVP here

MORE WAYS TO HELP:

Click here to send a message to the CEOs of 18 major banks to demand they stop funding the toxic Line 3 pipeline.

Donate generously to Honor the Earth or directly to the frontline defense.

Sign the 350.org petition to Biden here. Ask him to review the permits granted by Trump and immediately stop construction on this tar sands pipeline.

Track the following Facebook pages for breaking news:

Stop Line 3
Giniw Collective

Northfield Against Line 3

Background:

On December 16, twenty-two Water Protectors were arrested for blocking pipeline construction—a blockade that began in early December, when two determined Water Protectors began tree-sits in a frozen Minnesota forest targeted for leveling. The resistance and number of arrests have only increased since then. This video brings you there.

Tribal nations and local groups are seeking an injunction to stay construction while pending lawsuits are considered. We have seen other pipeline struggles, and this one is even more fraught. There are massive health risks involved in building Line 3 at the roaring height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, Enbridge has established multiple worksites along the Line 3 route with temporary housing facilities, or man camps, for its workers. It’s not only workers who are imperiled: man camps result in serious physical harm to women in nearby Indigenous communities.

There are many reasons to stop this project. From the Stop Line 3 website:

The existing Line 3 is an Enbridge pipeline that ships crude oil from Alberta to Superior, WI. It spans northern Minnesota, crossing the Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations and the 1855, 1854, and 1842 treaty areas. A ticking time bomb, it was built with defective steel in 1961, has had numerous ruptures and spills, and is now running at half pressure due to severe corrosion. Instead of cleaning up this liability, Enbridge simply wants to abandon it in the ground forever and cut a brand new energy corridor through our best lakes, wetlands, wild rice beds, and the heart of Ojibwe treaty territory. They first proposed this new route for the Sandpiper pipeline in 2013, but years of fierce resistance in Minnesota drove them to cancel that project and buy a share of the Dakota Access pipeline instead.

At $7.5 billion, the proposed new Line 3 would be the largest project in Enbridge’s history and one of the largest crude oil pipelines in the world, carrying up to 915,000 barrels per day of one of the dirtiest fuels on earth: tar sands crude. They call it a “replacement,” but it is larger, with higher volume, in a new corridor. First Nations, tribal governments, land owners, environmental groups, and communities across the Great Lakes have been fighting for five years now to stop this new corridor and #StopLine3. We are here to protect the water and our future generations.

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The Sunflower Alliance consists of grassroots individuals and organizations committed to environmental justice and the health and safety of  San Francisco Bay Area communities threatened by toxic pollution and climate disruption.  We’re an all-volunteer group helping to build an equitable and regenerative economy—fueled by renewable energy, love of Mother Earth, and the vigorous pursuit of justice.  Let’s go!

 

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