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Water Protectors Blocade Enbridge Office Demanding #StopLine3!

Title (Dublin Core)

Water Protectors Blocade Enbridge Office Demanding #StopLine3!

Description (Dublin Core)

Water Protectors Blockade Enbridge Office Demanding #StopLine3!

This morning, 11 water protectors locked to one another in front of all entrances to Enbridge’s Bemidji, MN, office, protesting the company bulldozing through Minnesota wetlands, watersheds and Anishinaabe treaty territory as lawsuits led by three Ojibwe tribes opposed to Line 3 remain pending.

The Enbridge office sits in Beltrami County, one of the top-billing counties to the “Public Safety Escrow Trust” funded by Enbridge and overseen by Minnesota to pay police for all costs associated with Line 3 protests. Much of Northern Minnesota has heavily militarized, purchasing riot gear, less lethal weapons and ammunition, etc.

Law enforcement along the proposed route have billed thousands of hours of “overtime” to Enbridge, with Cass County alone billing 7,500 hours to the Enbridge escrow account in 3 months. Indigenous people and local residents have reported heavy surveillance, targeted pullovers and harassment by law enforcement in connection with Line 3 resistance.

Water Protector Khalea said, “During Ferguson so many people came out and supported us, and I want to keep doing that... I am here for the liberation of all oppressed people, for the earth, for the liberation of all of our people, I am here to stand with Mother Earth and to protect the water and the wild rice and to stand with my Indigenous friends and loved ones as we all fight this collectively, we are all opposing these systems of oppression.”

Water Protector Alex said, “This is part of my responsibility as someone who is a guest on this land and as someone who faces the impacts of climate change. Enbridge lies.”

Water Protector Ishmaiah said, “I have spent the last several years fighting for the liberation in St. Louis, specifically Black St. Louis, and I see this as expanding and having a more holistic approach to what that fight can look like, because this land and this water touches us, and I think without that connection, grounding myself in the land and the water, doing solidarity with my Indigenous family, we can sometimes forget about the universal struggles around us.”

Date (Dublin Core)

April 9, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

giniw collective

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Dana Bell

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Instagram

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNc4VTLn1gS/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Instagram

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Conflict
English Environment & Landscape
English Government Federal
English Protest
English Social Issues

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

social justice
protest
Beltrami
Anishinaabe
treaty
Ojibwe tribes
Indigenous
Minnesota
climate change
Bemidji

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Line 3
Social Justice
militarized
protest
riot
water protectors
Beltrami county
treaty
Anishinaabe
Ojibwe tribes
Enbridge
Minnesota
wetlands
watershed
territory
lawsuit
wepons
police
ammunition
demonstration

Collection (Dublin Core)

Environment
Indigenous POV

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/10/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/11/2021
05/04/2021
06/12/2021
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/09/2021

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Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on April 10, 2021 by Dana Bell using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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