I wrote about Line 3 and the culture of care & resistance Water Protectors have built on the frontlines. If you have been feeling despondent about the climate crisis, please take a moment to absorb this story, because we need what these folks are bringing. truthout.org/articles/line-…
"A culture [of resistance] defined by mutual aid, and a spiritual & physical struggle to defend the Earth, has held strong in the face of brutality and an increasingly entrenched alliance between police and the corporate forces fueling climate catastrophe" truthout.org/articles/line-…
@zhaabowekwe: "We’ve trained well over 1000 folks in non-violent direct action, decolonization, traditional knowledge and life in balance." truthout.org/articles/line-…
As an editorial that will be published in 200 health journals worldwide this fall states, “The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C and to restore nature.” truthout.org/articles/line-…
"[Line 3] would also tunnel under 20 rivers, including the Mississippi, threatening the drinking water supply of millions of people. In 2010, 1.2 million gallons of oil spilled from Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline into the Kalamazoo River." truthout.org/articles/line-…
This piece zeroes in on the work of @GiniwCollective, a group that has been engaged in the "beautiful, hard, sad, [and] sometimes painful" work of communal frontline resistance at Camp Namewag since 2018. Their work to stop Line 3 should be uplifted. truthout.org/articles/line-…
"'Man camps' are the modern embodiment of colonial raiding parties that have historically seized upon Native land, looted Indigenous resources and inflicted sexual violence on Native women." The blockade of a man camp discussed here was incredibly powerful truthout.org/articles/line-…
"Enbridge was initially authorized to pump about 510 million gallons of water out of the trenches it’s digging, but in June, the company obtained permission to pump up nearly 5 billion gallons of water" AMID A FUCKING DROUGHT. truthout.org/articles/line-…
The White Earth Nation has brought a “rights of nature” lawsuit against the Minnesota DNR, in an effort to defend wild rice, or manoomin, which means “good berry” in the Ojibwe language, against the destruction being waged by Enbridge. truthout.org/articles/line-…
.@HonorTheEarth: "Where there is wild rice, there are Anishinaabeg, and where there are Anishinaabeg, there is wild rice. It is our sacred food. Without it we will die. It’s that simple." truthout.org/articles/line-…
After the Standing Rock protests cost Morton County $40 million, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission created a provision in Enbridge’s Line 3 permit that allows the company to fund as much policing as it takes to get the Line 3 pipeline built. truthout.org/articles/line-…
"In April of 2020, The Minnesota Reformer reported that Enbridge had paid over $500,000 to local law enforcement in support of pipeline construction. That number has since ballooned to $2 million." truthout.org/articles/line-…
More than 800 Water Protectors have been arrested for protesting Line 3 since November 2020. The charges leveled by the state have continued to escalate. Two have been charged with attempted assisted suicide for locking down inside a pipeline together. truthout.org/articles/line-…
"For refusing to embrace the death march of capitalism, and resisting the destruction of most life on Earth, two Line 3 opponents are being charged with attempted assisted suicide." truthout.org/articles/line-…
.@zhaabowekwe: "These are 20, 21, 22-year-old people, who are literally chaining themselves to the machines, crawling inside of pipes, doing everything and anything they can to have a future." truthout.org/articles/line-…
A Chicago nanny who left her job and home to move to the camp to fight Line 3: "Living at Namewag shows us what a post-capitalist world could begin to look like, where labor is valued because it keeps our community safe, skilled up and fed from the land.” truthout.org/articles/line-…
Marla says the camp is a place “to see accountability in action, to learn and unlearn, and do better.” truthout.org/articles/line-…
Even amid repression, Marla says, “Cooking meals from the garden, living outside among the trees, washing the camp’s dishes, [providing] elder and childcare, and making space for joy — all of these things sustain us.” truthout.org/articles/line-…
Thanks for reading and sharing the piece, friends. I also wanted to drop a reminder that my podcast Movement Memos will return next week on September 15! You can check out previous episodes (including transcripts) here: truthout.org/series/movemen… 
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