💖#DefendTheSacred: Native Matriarch Locks Down at Enbridge Line 3

Actions continue against Line 3, which has yet to receive any comment from the White House. While the federal and state administrations pledge action on violence against Native women, there are nearly 5000 employees in northern Minnesota building Line 3, most of whom are from out of state. A second sex trafficking ring that included Enbridge employees was busted on Monday.

Park Rapids, MN (1 JULY 2021) Read the full article Native Matriarch Locks Down at Enbridge Line 3 — Protecting Water and Wetlands

Today, dozens of water protectors flowed over a Line 3 construction site while one Native matriarch locked to heavy equipment and the executive director of Rainforest Action Nework risked arrest, halting construction.

The action comes as Enbridge has begun drilling over 20 rivers and 800 wetlands in Anishinaabe treaty territory.

Hubbard County Sheriff brings in tear gas launcher, arrests underway at noon hour. Live coverage by UnicornRiot. Thursday, July 1, 2021.

Sheriffs in Hubbard County continue to blockade Giniw Collective’s Native-led resistance camp from accessing their own land by stating they cannot return by vehicle once they leave home.

A dozen people were arrested in their driveway on Monday night; Hubbard County police sent a riotline. Police continue to barricade Namewag, the Native-led encampment who owns the land, into their property. One water protector was pulled over this morning by Hubbard County as they left camp, the sheriff claimed they “violated the easement”. Governor Walz and Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan remain silent about the ongoing gross abuse of power by the Hubbard County Sheriff.

Ginger Cassidy, Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network said, “This pipeline is a violent assault on Indigenous People and their treaty rights and a climate catastrophe that threatens all of us. Climate chaos is already causing real world suffering and massive new fossil fuel expansion like this is completely reckless. Biden and the banks financing this project must withdraw support for Line 3 immediately.”

Sowing & Reaping (nemesis | the catharsis of hubris)

Structures destroyed by wildfire are seen in Lytton, B.C., on Canada Day 2021, Thursday, July 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

While Canadian company Enbridge continued to invade, kill, steal & destroy US Indigenous people & their property, AND on the same day that the Matriarch locked down, a town in Canada was wiped off the face of the map — Lytton, Canada — by a fast-moving wildfire. Human-cause (& heat above 120 degrees Fahrenheit) is suspected to have lead to over 200 active fires, one of which just took this town down to the studs.

“It’s dire. The whole town is on fire,” Polderman told CBC News. “It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere.” Video captured by residents fleeing the town show numerous structures on fire in every direction.

They may have lost some property, but they did not lose their people, their children, their water, their land, their dignity or their minds.

Officials say the town of Lytton, B.C., was essentially destroyed by a wildfire overnight Wednesday as blistering heat sparks more fires throughout the province. 0:00 The National for July 1, 2021
2:01 Heat fuels wildfires across B.C.
2:46 Hundreds displaced by fire that destroyed Lytton, B.C.
6:57 How the Lytton wildfire spread
9:20 Evacuation order for Deka Lake, B.C.
10:00 Heat wave creates conditions for fires and floods