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TIL from The Heat Will Kill You First and @nomoredeaths that the low-altitude rotor wash attack the CBP helicopter did to us up in northern Minnesota, covering us in choking dust and dirt, is because they do that -- they call it 'dusting' -- literally every day to migrants near the southern border, explicitly to scatter them and pick off individuals when they're isolated from the group. These motherfucking pigs
#Line3 #BorderViolence
https://www.twincities.com/2021/06/09/border-protection-helicopter-team-under-investigation-for-rotor-washing-line-3-protesters/

Image from the linked Twin Cities Pioneer article, it's a photo of the CBP helicopter maybe 20 feet off the ground at a Line 3 pipeline pump station near Park Rapids, MN, forcing a choking layer of dry loose soil and debris in all directions

Screen grab from the Libby app, displaying that I'm 28 minutes into chapter 4 of Jeff Goodell's book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

[Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender.

“In a report released in 2021 by the Indigenous Environmental Network, they calculated that Indigenous resistance to twenty fossil fuel projects has ‘stopped or delayed’ carbon emissions equivalent to approximately 25% of ‘US’ and ‘Canada’s’ overall emissions. While non-profit climate activists who wrote the report reveal the power of #DirectAction, they also assign their campaigns more credit than is due. Particularly by citing significant losses such as #DAPL and #Line3 project in their reports, this statistic tends towards a deluded climate optimism that we view as a path fraught with peril and death. Again, if we’re not being honest with and about the failings of our movements, what does shifting tactics, and more importantly adjusting our overall strategies, toward the end of yet more changing statistics matter? we’re not convinced about making this a numbers game to celebrate the disrupting of 25% of an industry, when we’ve lost over 98% of the battle in a war with such high stakes. Particularly when those activist campaigns have spent hundreds of millions of dollars with thousands of our relatives jailed and dragged through racist court systems.”

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#IndigenousAnarchy
#Ecosystem #DefendTheSacred
#CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders

There’s an #Enbridge #gas #pipeline maybe a block from where I live that seems to be running along the highway. This is the same company from so-called Canada that brought us the Dakota Access Pipeline that lead to the encampment protests at Standing Rock and Line 3 which lead to the largest inland oil spill in the so-called US.

This seems to be part of the Atlantic Bridge Project whose purpose is to move fracked gas from Pennsylvania to Northern New England and Canada.

They recently sent everyone a brochure with numbers to call in case of emergency.

Fuck Enbridge

#DakotaAccessPipeline #NoDAPL #StandingRock #Line3 #oil #fracking #frackedgas #oilspill #climate #climatechange #naturalgas #FuckEnbridge #somerville #massachusetts

Small sign saying “warning! Gas pipeline nearby”
Nailed to a telephone poll

#ClimateCrisis

Winona LaDuke on Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline #Line3 #waterprotectors

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aimvpZ96MtE

‘They #criminalize us’: how #felony charges are weaponized against #PipelineProtesters

Twenty states have passed laws that criminalize protesting, including on infrastructure including #pipelines. In #Minnesota, at least 66 felony theft charges against #Line3 protesters remain open

Alexandria Herr for Floodlight
Thu 10 Feb 2022

"Last summer [2021] Sabine von Mering, a professor of German at Brandeis University, drove more than 1,500 miles from Boston to Minneapolis to protest against the replacement of the Line 3 #OilPipeline that stretches from #Canada’s #TarSands down to Minnesota.

"Along with another protester, she locked herself to a semi-truck in the middle of a roadway, according to a filed court brief, as a means of #peaceful #resistance. But when she was arrested, she was charged with a serious crime: felony theft, which carries up to five years in prison.

"'It’s very scary that they criminalize us like that, and to face jail time,' said Von Mering, 54, of her June arrest. 'But what can I do? I feel responsible to my kids and #FutureGenerations.'

"The felony charges come as more than a dozen states have passed laws to criminalize #FossilFuel protests, and as the federal government has ramped up its own tactics for surveilling and penalizing protesters.

"Von Mering is one of nearly 900 protesters who were arrested in Minnesota for protesting against the pipeline’s construction, with the vast majority of arrests taking place during the summer of 2021, and one of dozens facing felony charges. Construction on the Line 3 pipeline was finalized in October 2021 and carries 760,000 barrels of oil per day across northern Minnesota. But its construction for years has stoked fierce protests and legal challenges, led by #Indigenous activists in northern Minnesota who worried about potential impacts of oil spills and the pipeline’s threat to #treaty rights to gather wild rice. While most of the arrests have led to misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor charges for crimes including 'disturbing the peace' and 'trespassing', felony charges like Von Mering’s mean protesters are facing years of jail time.

"Legal advocates say that in Minnesota the elevated charges are a novel tactic to challenge protest actions against pipeline construction. They see them as furthering evidence of close ties between Minnesota’s government and the #FossilFuelIndustry. It follows reporting by the Guardian that the Canadian pipeline company #Enbridge, which is building Line 3, reimbursed Minnesota’s #police department $2.4m for time spent arresting protesters and on equipment including ballistic helmets. Experts say the reimbursement strategy for arrests is a new technique in both Minnesota and across the US, and there’s concern it can be replicated.

"'I do a lot of representation for people in political protests and I’ve never seen anything like that,' said Jordan Kushner, a defense attorney representing clients charged in relation to Line 3 protests.

"Two of Kushner’s clients were charged with felony 'aiding attempted suicide' charges for crawling inside a pipe. The charge is for someone who 'intentionally advises, encourages, or assists another who attempts but fails to take the other’s own life', according to Minnesota law and carries up to a seven-year sentence. Authorities alleged that the protesters were endangering their lives by remaining inside the pipeline."

#StopEnbridge #NoLine3 #Protestors #ClimateActivists #Fascism #WaterIsLife #ACAB #IndigenousNews

Judge dismisses #pipeline #protest charges against 3 #Native women

Kirsti Marohn
Brainerd, #Minnesota
September 18, 2023 3:45 PM

"Opponents of the #Line3 oil pipeline are celebrating an Aitkin County judge’s decision to dismiss charges against three Native women related to a 2021 protest.

"Activists #WinonaLaDuke, #TaniaAubid and #DawnGoodwin helped lead rallies as #Enbridge began work on a new #OilPipeline across northern Minnesota more than two years ago.

"The charges against them stemmed from a rally on Jan. 9, 2021, when a large group gathered at a pipeline construction site near the #MississippiRiver in Aitkin County.

"The opponents, who called themselves #WaterProtectors carried signs and walked down a county road. Some Native women danced in jingle dresses, a healing tradition.

"Some group members later moved to another Aitkin County location, where they walked along U.S. Highway 169 and refused to leave a Line 3 construction site.

"LaDuke, Goodwin and Aubid were not arrested on Jan. 9. Authorities charged them weeks later by summons after identifying them in social media posts. They faced gross misdemeanor charges of trespassing and harassment, as well as misdemeanor unlawful assembly and public nuisance.

"A jury trial was scheduled to begin this week. But in a forceful opinion filed Sept. 14, District Court Judge Leslie Metzen dismissed all the charges.

"Metzen’s order noted the government’s historical mistreatment of #Indigenous people.

"'In the last 20 years I have come to a broader understanding of what we, the now dominant culture, did to try to eradicate our indigenous neighbors,' she wrote. 'We moved them by force and power and violence off the land where they lived for thousands of years. To make peace, we signed treaties with them that promised many things they never received.'

"Metzen wrote that she finds it 'within the furtherance of justice' to protect the defendants who were peacefully protesting to protect the land addressed in those treaties.

"She wrote that as respected members of #Anishinaabe tribes, LaDuke, Aubid and Goodwin were exercising their #FreeSpeech rights and #spiritual beliefs, including 'their heartfelt belief that the waters of Minnesota need to be protected from damage that could result from the #pipeline.'

'To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,' she added."

#IndigenousNews #LaDuke #StopEnbridge #NoLine3 #Protestors #ClimateActivists #Fascism #WaterIsLife #RespectTheTreaties

"To criminalize their behavior would be the crime." ✊

All charges against Anishinaabe water protectors Tania Aubid, Dawn Goodwin, and Winona LaDuke have been dismissed (by Aitkin County Judge Leslie Metzen) in the interest of justice. #Line3

Mylene Vialard, a Line3 water protector who chose not to plead down and is facing 5 years in prison (sentencing will happen soon) has an interview with Jackie Sedley on KGNU that will air today at 9 am. I'll be listening. #copolitics #Line3Pipeline #line3

#Portland, did you know that your compost is going to be sent to Washington state to be turned into natural gas by Enbridge, the evil-ass pipeline corporation that has brutalized so many protestors against #DAPL and #Line3Pipeline? https://globalnews.ca/news/9945552/enbridge-divert-break-ground-renewable-fuel-facility-washington/ They are going to take your municipal compost and compost from Vancouver, rot the food into methane, and send it off to be burned for power. This is somehow considered #RenewableEnergy and somehow counts towards Washington state carbon reduction goals.

#enbridgelies #enbridge #canada #line3 #dapl #pipeline #pipelineprotest #NaturalGas

US pipeline protester has ‘no regrets’ after conviction for felony obstruction

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/mylene-vialard-us-pipeline-protester-convicted

Mylene Vialard, 54, found guilty after Minnesota trial beset by legal irregularities after effort to block fossil fuel pumping station. “I did not get a fair trial and there were so many reasons for an acquittal and mistrial, this cannot be the justice system we have … I am not at all surprised by the verdict but I am surprised by the outrageous way the prosecution behaved,” said Vialard, a self-employed translator from Boulder, Colorado.
The Aitkin county prosecutor, Garrett Slyva, who is reportedly under investigation for alleged misconduct in North Dakota, has been contacted for comment.

#fossilbribery #corruptjustice #prosecutormisconduct #proceduralmisconduct #illegaltransmission #enbridgeowned #court #ALEC #Line3 #Minnesota #groundwater #pollution #wetland #bogs #profits #taxpayercleanup

The entire #Minnesota #DFL and its office holders in St Paul, and every Walz-appointed state regulatory commissioner, as well as both #DemocraticParty US Senators from MN - the entire liberal capitalist establishment in the state - were all in for this pipeline and vindictively happy to violently punish pipeline opponents who they viewed as a more serious threat to their power than the fascist GOP.

The DFL forced through a pipeline that only fascists wanted. #Line3

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/27/climate-activist-mylene-vialard-line-3-pipeline-protest-climate-activism-crackdown

TTC’s Line 3 Scarborough RT will permanently close following derailment
The TTC says it will not resume train service on Line 3 for the Scarborough RT and will instead "improve" bus replacement service in advance of back-to-school in September.
#globalnews #Canada #CityofToronto #Line3 #Line3Scarborough
https://globalnews.ca/news/9917113/ttc-line-3-scarborough-train-service/

Investigation into Toronto derailment continues, test trains set to run: TTC
On July 27, the TTC said the Scarborough RT would be closed for at least three weeks to allow for the investigation.
#globalnews #Canada #Line3 #scarboroughrt #TorontoTransitCommission
https://globalnews.ca/news/9903659/ttc-scarborough-rt-investigation/

In the youth #climate case, the MT state’s argument is the same tired old argument (e.g., #KXL, #DAPL, #Line3, #MVP, #TCP,…) that no single action anywhere changes anything, so no one has any responsibility to act. It’s an argument against leadership.

Glad to see that lazy argument & cynical abdication of responsibility convincingly refuted.

You can't eat fish out of Hastings area waters. Certain community's water supplies have been ruined by nitrates. The supposedly "safe" #Line3 punctured a 4th hole in an aquifer.

Maybe we should realize we need to save what water we can, now! https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/08/02/mpca-was-arbitrary-and-capricious-in-granting-polymet-permit-supreme-court-rules/

#Museum & Cultural Center of the North will teach #Minnesotans - #Indigenous & non-Indigenous, about #rights guaranteed to #TribalMembers today, starting w/ones established in #1855Treaty which applies to land that includes #ParkRapids .

The new museum is partly an extension of the #movement against the #Line3 project. Indigenous #PipelineOpponents - #WaterProtectors, argued the pipeline violates their rights to #HuntFishGather on their #AncestralLand .

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/04/10/the-next-act-in-the-fight-against-line-3-a-museum-on-treaty-rights

#NativeRights