Mother Earth Day with Honor the Earth & Native Roots Radio

Miigwech to all of you who joined us on Mother Earth Day for a Special Event from Honor the Earth & Native Roots Radio!

This event celebrated the Radio Premier of "No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong),” ft. featuring Waubanewquay, Winona LaDuke, Day Sisters, Mumu Fresh, Pura Fe, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Kreisberg, Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, and 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo.

We went live from Welcome Water Protectors Culture Camp and Celebrated Earth Day "Water Protector Style!"

Featured artists included:

  • Indigo Girls

  • Annie Humphrey

  • Corey Medina

  • Chastity Brown

  • Featured Speakers:

  • Winona LaDuke

  • Dawn Goodwin

  • Bad River Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins

  • Shanai Matteson

Hosted by Native Roots Radio's Robert Pilot & co-hosted with Paul DeMain & Tania Aubid

Here is the Film, and Song we launched that honors the women water protectors and our resistance to #StopLine3

"No More Pipeline Blues' beautifully illustrates in music, singing, spoken word, and images the threats of a totally unnecessary tar sands pipeline at the end of the age of Big Oil. But it also illuminates the sacredness of our environment, and yet more destructive, historical impacts to indigenous culture. Still, the song and the music video are also like prayer offered in ceremony, asking for strength, justice and preservation."

Over the past few months the Line 3 fight has become one of the biggest environmental struggles in the nation. As the Biden administration looks to grow clean energy and address the climate crisis, the Line 3 pipeline looks more and more egregious, as it will contribute millions of tons of air pollution and lock in additional fossil fuel infrastructure for decades.

The "blues" get darker the closer one looks at Line 3

Not only has Line 3 failed to deliver on its jobs promises to Minnesotans, with only about a quarter of jobs going to locals and risk our precious water resources, but it has also brought with it a rise in sex trafficking and thrown local government finances into chaos. In a story that led the Business section of yesterday's Star Tribune, it was revealed that Enbridge has shelled out more than $750,000 to law enforcement for protection in what a leading legal expert calls a "fraught" relationship that blurs the line between public safety and the private interests of multinational corporations.