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“You have declared a code red climate emergency, stating that ‘the nation and the world are in peril.’ We agree. It is past time to act in accordance with your declaration- you must act now and stop the Line 3 pipeline, or risk irreversible damage to our land, water, and climate.”
As Oil Spills Add Urgency to Calls For Biden To Act, Indigenous & Climate Justice Activists Preview Next Week’s Major Protests at the White House
“Line 3 is a crime against the environment and Indigenous rights, waters and lands,” said Winona LaDuke, executive director of Indigenous rights organization Honor the Earth. “Enbridge has raced to build this line before the Federal court has passed judgment on our appeals about the line.”
EIS before the Oil. Treaty People Fight Back
“The complaint is notable as it is the first enforcement action under a 2018 White Earth Band law establishing the inherent rights of wild rice, the tribe's main treaty food, which grows in water. Manoomin, the Ojibwe word for wild rice, is lead plaintiff in the case.” by Law360
On August 31, CERD published a letter to the U.S. Government dated August 25, requesting that the U.S. respond to these allegations. The letter notes, among other things, that these rights violations would amount to a violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which the U.S. has signed and ratified.
More than 600 people have now been arrested or received citations over protests amid growing opposition to the Line 3 oil sands pipeline currently under construction through Minnesota.
In the face of an alarming new IPCC report, droughts and wildfires, the Biden Administration and Minnesota elected officials face increasingly loud calls to stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 5, 2021
Press Contact: Cassidy DiPaola, cassidy@stgresults.com, 401-441-7196
NEW SIX-FIGURE AD CAMPAIGN:
Ads in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Minneapolis Star Tribune Feature Anishinaabe Water Protectors:
“Honor the treaties. Honor your commitments to climate action. Stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline”
(Washington, DC) -- Today, Honor the Earth, in partnership with Indigenous Environmental Network, renowned artists, donors, and movement leaders, launched a six-figure ad buy, including full page print ads in the New York Times and Minneapolis Star Tribune, and digital ads in the Washington Post, calling on President Biden and Jaime Pinkham of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to stand with the Anishinaabe people and stop the reckless Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota.
The proposed Line 3 pipeline would carry nearly a million barrels of tar sands oil -- one of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet -- per day through untouched wetlands and the treaty territory of Anishinaabe people; endangering the headwaters of the Mississippi River and critical hunting, fishing and wild rice areas.
The ad creative features portraits by Nedahness Greene (@nedahnessgreene) of Anishinaabe women water protectors who have devoted their lives to fighting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline and includes the names of 200+ artists, donors, and movement leaders including Leonardo DiCaprio, Joaquin Phoenix, Bon Iver, Amy Schumer, US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, and Tom Steyer.
Two of the water protectors featured in this ad, Gina Peltier and Nancy Beaulieu, were among seven arrested on Tuesday night, August 3rd, while practicing a traditional ceremony for healing at the site of Enbridge’s recent pipeline spills near the Headwaters of the Mississippi. Tara Houska, another Indigenous water protector featured in the ad was among 20 people brutally arrested last Friday, July 30th, as they peacefully protested at the drill pad on the Red River. Police officers at the scene met the peaceful water protectors with mace, tear gas, rubber bullets, and pepper bullets (Video) -- the first time these weapons have been used against Line 3 water protectors, marking a significant police escalation.
The campaign follows on the heels of a letter signed by more than 200 artists, donors, and movement leaders calling on President Biden to follow through with his campaign promises to respect Indigenous and Tribal rights and to take bold climate action, and cancel Line 3 before it is too late. The letter was delivered to White House chief of staff Ron Klain in early July.
“President Biden,
We are Anishinaabe women. We are fighting for the water, the land, and the future of our people.
We are fighting against Enbridge, a foriegn oil company that is draining our lakes, endangering our sisters, jailing our people, destroying our rice beds, and putting our way of life at risk.
We ask you to stand with us. Honor the treaties. Honor your commitments to climate action. Stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline.”
The ad also calls on the public to take action and join the fight to protect our land and water and stop Line 3, directing people to the website, WeProtectTheWater.org, where you can write your own letter to President Biden demanding that he #StopLine3.
Additional digital ads, and two full-page print ads in the Duluth News Tribune and Bemidji Pioneer will come in the following days.
"Line 3 violates the rights and lifeways of the Anishinaabe people by endangering the headwaters of the Mississippi River, including critical areas for hunting, fishing, harvesting wild rice, and cultural resources — rights that the US is bound by treaty and integrity to uphold," the letter says. "At this time of reckoning with our history, we need to move forward in the spirit of reconciliation toward our national ideals."
The Biden administration has a chance to show whether they stand with the people or the polluters.
LEGAL FUNDS NEEDED FOR Red Lake Treaty Camp
DEVELOPING ARRESTS: Minnesota Police and DNR Ignore June 18 Treaty Rights Cease and Desist Letter and U.S. Corps of Engineers Stop Work Order from December to Personally Escort Enbridge Line 3 Workers to Protected Camp
A pipeline is threatening their homeland. Indigenous women are fighting back.
