Biden might have stopped Keystone XL, but that's not enough. The Dakota Access Pipeline is still running illegally, and in Minnesota, the suicidal, genocidal plan to build the new Line 3 pipeline is still advancing. The climate coalition must urgently rise up against Line 3 and send a clear message to the Biden administration: America's days of dirty pipelines are DONE.
HOW TO TAKE ACTION: FROM THE FRONTLINES
Are you ready to come to the frontlines?
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This Google Doc has helpful links to different on-ramps to the movement. Check the Line 3 resistance dashboard for current opportunities.
Resist Line 3 coalition is hosting weekly orientation calls on Sundays and Tuesdays to bring new people into the movement. Register for orientation via this form.
What’s at stake?
- Indigenous sovereignty: Line 3 is modern-day colonialism, pure and simple. The pipeline crosses Anishinaabe treaty lands, and would destroy sacred Ojibwe wild rice beds, which are central to the Anishinaabe creation story and identity.
- Climate stability: the new pipeline would contribute the equivalent of 50 new coal plants’ worth of fossil fuels to the environment—and even worse, there's no proven need for it.
- Ecosystem health: oil spills are always bad, but tar sands spills are worse than most. This dirty oil sinks, making it much harder to clean up. And Line 3 would endanger pristine, endangered wetland ecosystems as well as critical watersheds including the Great Lakes.
- Public health: aside from the risks of construction during a pandemic and the public-health injustice of building dirty oil infrastructure through Native territories, tar sands extraction releases cancer-causing chemicals into Alberta communities.
Can't make it to the frontlines on June 5–8? Here are more ways to take action:
HOW TO TAKE ACTION: FROM HOME
Check out Stop Line 3's action toolkit, including a petition to President Biden; how to donate directly to the frontlines or to an Indigenous-led advocacy service; and how to divest your money and your community's money from the big finance organizations that fund Line 3 and other pipelines like it.
