‘Strong Hearts to the Front!’: Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline: Indigenous-led water protectors on Friday engaged in multiple direct
actions against Enbridge’s highly controversial Line 3 tar sands
pipeline in Minnesota, on the same day that state regulators denied a
request from two tribes to stop the Canadian company from proceeding
with the project.

“Clean
water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential
to our survival… [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our
well-being.”
—Minnesota Chippewa Tribe

Water protectors blocked pipeline traffic and climbed and occupied
trees as part of Friday’s actions. Urging other Indigenous peoples and
allies to “take a stand,” the Anishinaabe activists at one of the
protests told other Native Americans that “your ancestors are here too.

‘Strong Hearts to the Front!’: Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline: Indigenous-led water protectors on Friday engaged in multiple direct
actions against Enbridge’s highly controversial Line 3 tar sands
pipeline in Minnesota, on the same day that state regulators denied a
request from two tribes to stop the Canadian company from proceeding
with the project.“Clean
water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential
to our survival… [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our
well-being.”—Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Water protectors blocked pipeline traffic and climbed and occupied
trees as part of Friday’s actions. Urging other Indigenous peoples and
allies to “take a stand,” the Anishinaabe activists at one of the
protests told other Native Americans that “your ancestors are here too.Read More