Rep. Omar and Squad at Stop Line 3 Protest in Minnesota

Rep. Omar said, “We leave more resolved than ever to fight against corporate greed,
for our planet and for indigenous women.” Photo courtesy Honor the Earth.

Photo Kevin Whelan on Twitter.

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Rep Omar and the Squad urge Biden to stop Enbridge Line 3

U.S. Ilhan Rep Omar and the Squad urged President Biden to stop Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. The damage of the construction will be followed by dirty crude oil from Canada endangering the rivers, water supply and wild rice.

“They want to prioritize corporate profits over the lives of indigenous women and the future of our planet,” said U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, reports CBS Minnesota.

Native Attorney Tara Houska Shot with Rubber Bullets and Jailed by Enbridge's Sheriffs' Deputies

Photo Tara Houska

Native Attorney Tara Houska Shot with Rubber Bullets and Jailed by Enbridge's Sheriffs' Deputies

Brenda Norrell

Censored News

English/French

Updated Aug. 6, 2021

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota -- Native attorney Tara Houska was shot with rubber bullets and jailed by Sheriffs deputies, bought and paid for by Enbridge and its dirty crude oil.

Tara has just been released from jail after brutal attacks on Water Protectors near Red Lake in northern Minnesota. Water Protectors are defending the rivers from pipeline construction by the Canadian corporation Enbridge and its dangerous tar sands crude oil on Line 3.

"People were shot in their faces. I saw a young woman's head get split open right in front of me," Houska told Democracy Now.

During the brutal arrests, Sheriffs deputies shoved and smashed Water Protectors faces down into the dirt. At least 20 Indigenous water protectors were arrested in Minnesota over the weekend during protests against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.

"The level of brutality that was unleashed on us was very extreme," Houska said.

Pennington County Sheriff's deputies based in Thief River Falls, with Sheriffs deputies from throughout the state of Minnesota, have targeted, abused and jailed Native Water Protectors -- grandmothers, women and youth -- during the past week.

Watch Tara Houska's interview -- Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/8/4/tara_houska_line_3_pipeline_resistance

Photos of brutal arrests by Sheriffs deputies -- Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/08/brutal-arrests-pepper-spray-rubber.html

Minnesota police have billed over $1.7 million to account set up by Canadian company building Line 3 pipeline -- Peace Brigades International

https://pbicanada.org/2021/08/05/minnesota-police-have-billed-over-1-7-million-to-account-set-up-by-canadian-company-building-line-3-pipeline/

Thank you Christine Prat for translating into French! Please share in French speaking countries.

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=6572

Two Indigenous Water Protectors Ascend Trees and Stop Line 3 Construction

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Two Indigenous Water Protectors Ascend Trees and Stop Line 3 Construction 

Giniw Collective

July 7, 2021

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LAKE WASHBURN, Minnesota -- Today, two Indigenous water protectors blockaded an Enbridge Line 3 worksite in tree sits directly anchored to the pipeline, while two others crawled into a pipeline segment. The sits follow 14 lockdowns at another Line 3 worksite last week, including one Indigenous matriarch.

Enbridge has begun drilling rivers across northern Minnesota, including the Willow River, where it appears construction hit an aquifer while drilling yesterday. Drilling mud was documented spreading into the river as a “spill kit” sat ashore.

Police repression has dramatically escalated in recent weeks, as Hubbard County sheriffs blockaded Namewag camp and continue to randomly issue citations since the initial riot line. One vehicle was cited while attempting a water delivery to the private property encampment.

Over 500 people have been arrested to date fighting Line 3 destruction of Anishinaabe treaty territory and expansion of the fossil fuel industry as climate crisis rages across the planet.

JD, White Earth Anishinaabe, said, “At this point it should be obvious why anyone would take action against the fossil fuel industry. The ocean is on fire, heat waves are killing people by the hundreds. We are in the middle of an extreme drought, our wild rice beds, lakes, and rivers are drying up. And while they dig up our Mother for Line 3, the bodies of our relatives are being dug up from the grounds of boarding schools. They are people who were taken from us as children, who never got to have children of their own, to live their lives. I am thinking of generations of relatives that are not here with us. My elders, aunties, uncles, cousins, and peers I will never know on this Earth. But my Grandma survived and that’s why I am still here, proud to be Anishinaabe. These colonial governments have done everything they can to kill our land, kill our culture, kill our people, but they will never kill our spirit. We will never go willingly to our own destruction. So today I sit in the path of this pipeline, tomorrow it could be you.”

From inside the pipe, Water Protector Magpie said, “As a descendant of settlers, it’s my job to stand up to white supremacy, and doing what I can to disrupt projects like Enbridge’s Line 3, which perpetuates climate chaos and brings destruction and violence to Anishinaabe territory is part of that. We must do everything we can. We are running out of time.”

Giniw Collective is an Indigenous-women, 2-Spirit led frontline resistance to protect our Mother, defend the sacred and live in balance. We stand unafraid. Prayers into action. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram @GiniwCollective

MINNESOTA -- Hundreds in lockdowns and blockades in massive direct action to Stop Enbridge Line 3

Police move in on Water Protectors at 5:25 pm today, Monday, at pump station lockdown. Screenshots by Censored News.
Police have arrested more than 100 Water Protectors. At 10 pm a group of 30 locked arms to protect those remaining locked down.

Hundreds now in blockade at Enbridge's Mississippi River Crossing near Itasca State Park in Northern Minnesota. New camp established at headwaters of Mississippi River at drill site.