Winona LaDuke calls on President Biden to stop the #Line3 tar sands pipeline project, noting that a federal Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) hasn’t been done at a federal level.
Lack of a proper federal EIS was the reason that a federal judge found the Dakota Access Pipeline was built illegally. (DAPL is still operating as this ruling is being appealed.)
A Democratic delegation from the Minnesota House & Senate is now speaking about their attempts to #StopLine3 in the MN state legislature:
A banner reading 'Water is Life' was just unveiled by the mentorship group Youth N Power - it was made by volunteers at George Floyd Square
New security fence that wasn’t here on Saturday has been set up at the MN capitol for today’s #StopLine3 protest. Similar perimeter was here throughout 2020 but hasn’t been seen for a while this year
Another new fence specifically protects statues at the Minnesota Capitol - clusters or of state troopers inside this fence are gathered around each statue.
During the #GeorgeFloyd uprising last year, Indigenous protesters toppled the statue of Christopher Columbus outside the Minnesota Capitol grounds: unicornriot.ninja/2020/felony-ch…
“This is more than a pipeline. This is about justice - racial justice, environmental justice, social justice - we’re here because it’s time to honor those treaties…”
- Dawn Goodwin from the White Earth reservation
The police presence at the Mn capitol for today’s rally against #Line3 is mostly state troopers but also includes some other agencies involved in the Northern Lights Task Force who aren’t usually seen at protests in the Twin Cities.
This includes Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR) Conservation Officers, seen w duffel bags that likely contain crowd control supplies:
The large law enforcement presence surveilling today’s #StopLine3 rally at the capitol includes deputies from the Anoka County Sheriff (St. Paul, where the MN capitol is, is not in Anoka County.)
Anoka deputies have also been deploying to anti-#Line3 actions in Northern MN:
Some surveillance aircraft seen over today’s rally as well - police use of ‘spy planes’ over protests in the Twin Cities, including events with no allegations of law-breaking, has increased dramatically over the last year.
Law enforcement outside the capitol made up mostly of Minnesota State Patrol but sheriffs from various counties also present -agencies not always apparent via uniforms. Outside officers from elsewhere in the state may be bolstering their work monitoring #Line3 opponents today
Thousands of people have been gathered outside the Minnesota capitol for hours now as the Indigenous-led rally calls on Governor Walz and President Biden to stop the #Line3 tar sands oil pipeline as its construction nears completion.
Another look at the extensive police presence at today’s anti-#Line3 event - MN DNR Conservation Officers just replaced formations of MSP state troopers at a 6:30 PM shift change
Water protectors opposing #Line3 just announced they’ll be occupying/staying at the Capitol to demand the cancellation of state and federal permits for the environmentally harmful tar sands pipeline that will ship oil across Minnesota for international export
The massive police operation around the #Line3 protest at the MN Capitol includes about a dozen members of the Washington County Mobile Field Force (mobile field force is cop jargon for SWAT teams/riot cops). The MN Capitol is in Ramsey County, not Washington County
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The 6,416 people killed last year by police in #Brazil are a 190% increase from 2013. Black Brazilians were killed at the highest rate, accounting for 79% of the deaths by police in 2020 while only representing 56% of the population in the country of 211 million people.
The vast majority of the families of those #KilledByPolice in #Brazil never receive justice and the lack of accountability has led to the Human Rights Watch seeking a dedicated prosecutorial body to handle cases of police abuse: hrw.org/news/2021/04/1…
This year’s Running Down The Walls marathon in Philly is in honor of longtime political prisoner, journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, and features a large puppet in Mumia’s likeness: unicornriot.ninja/2021/running-d…
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s grandson, Jamal Jr. is addressing the crowd now:
In response to @JailLawSpeak's callout for #ShutEmDown2021 actions, autonomous prison abolitionists in MN vandalized the office door of prominent jail/prison designer Klein McCarthy Architects with red paint & "No new jails" flyers referring to Klein designing new Winona Co Jail.
This morning, along with targeting the office of Klein McCarthy, prison abolitionists in St. Louis Park dropped a banner reading "Klein McCarthy: Architects Of White Supremacy" over Hwy 100 & spray painted "Abolish Prisons", "Klein Cages Kill" & "Avenge Attica". #ShutEmDown2021
An anonymous participant of this morning's #ShutEmDown2021 action at Klein McCarthy Architects said although police came, those involved in the action "evaded arrests."
Ruby Montoya admitted along w Jessica Reznicek to sabotaging the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Recent motions filed by Montoya seek to nullify her guilty plea, in part by claiming other activists coerced her into acts she previously stated she undertook freely: unicornriot.ninja/2021/ruby-mont…
Ruby Montoya’s codefendant, Jessica Reznicek, recently reported to prison to begin her 8 year sentence, saying she was “feeling strong in spirit and ready to move on to the next phase of my life”: unicornriot.ninja/2021/dapl-sabo…
Unlike Reznicek, Montoya has had her sentencing hearings delayed, and has filed sealed motions with the court - activists charged for direct actions generally avoid sealed filings because they are often a sign that a cooperating deal may have been reached with prosecutors.
NEW: Protests Highlight U.S. Non-Profits Driving Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine
Palestinian Homes Stolen; Theft Abetted by U.S.-Based Settler Organizations unicornriot.ninja/2021/protests-…
On July 27th, Palestinians & allies held protests in East Meadow, Long Island & Brooklyn as part of the Defund Racism campaign targeting US settler orgs that support the theft of Palestinian land. unicornriot.ninja/2021/protests-…
The Long Island protest was outside the home of Yaakov Fauci, an American settler currently living in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem. He told Muna El-Kurd, whose home he non-consensually occupies, that if he did not steal her house, then “someone else” would.
Two years ago #ElijahMcClain had a deadly encounter with police officers and paramedics in Aurora #Colorado. Today, three of the officers and two paramedics were charged in connection to his death.
The charges handed down by a grand jury to each of the five defendants are one charge of manslaughter, one charge of criminally negligent homicide, and various assault charges.
On August 23, 2019, McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, was walking home from a convenience store listening to music through his headphones and dancing, while also wearing a ski mask for warmth since he was anemic. Someone who saw him thought he looked suspicious and called 9-1-1.