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Mar 9, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Breaking news: Michele Naar, one of the Four Necessity Valve Turners, was just found NOT GUILTY on Line 3 charges! #DropL3Charges

Art by @jonasgoonface Text: Michele Naar not guil... Last March, Michele and dozens of others gathered at the Mississippi River in Grand Rapids, MN to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the largest oil spill in US history from the old Line 3.

Law enforcement kettled and cited most everyone present at that peaceful commemoration.
Feb 22, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
We stand with water protectors fighting the Line 3 pipeline, many of whom have been criminalized for their role in the movement. Today we're uplifting the words of Alisha from the so-called American Midwest, who's facing felony and misdemeanor charges.

This is her story. 🧵 A white woman with long bro... "Cops in Minnesota tortured me while I was protesting Line 3. The torture method the officers used is called “pain compliance” and is nothing but brutalization at the hands of the state to try to stop protestors from continuing to exercise their rights."
Feb 2, 2022 14 tweets 5 min read
Despite standing up to protect the land, water protectors are being criminalized by the state. We aim to give them their due and share their words.

Today we're hearing from Siihasin Hope, a 25-year-old land defender facing 4 misdemeanor charges. Read on for her story. 🧵 Text: CashApp: $Siihasinhope Paypal: @siihasinhope Venmo: Ho "Defending the water and Mother Earth is neither criminal nor violent. I got involved in the movement to stop Line 3, because I am of the Bitterwater clan in my community, it is my obligation as a Tódích'íí'nii clan member to protect and defend my relatives, such as the Water."
Nov 26, 2021 11 tweets 3 min read
Today let's hear from Adam, a 21-year-old water protector in Saint Paul. He's charged with Misdemeanor Trespass.

"I began climate justice work when I got to the Twin Cities in 2018 after many beloved friends and comrades taught me about the already years-long Line 3 fight." 🧵 A picture of Adam, a smiling person with tan skin and a brow "I knew that keeping the pipes out of the ground meant more to me than any other action I could take. When construction began, friends and loved ones began taking action up north, I joined them in February and was arrested and held for 72 hours in Beltrami County Jail in April."
Nov 12, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
New photo: Amy Klobuchar tried to spend the evening mingling with millionaires at a fundraiser.

Flooding in through a service entrance, Line 3 resistors shut it down. Humiliated, Amy Klobuchar ended her speech and fled the stage.
Nov 12, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: @SenAmyKlobuchar was just confronted at a fundraising event by a group of water protectors who SHUT DOWN her speech.

When faced with Indigenous youth questioning her inaction on Line 3, she rolled her eyes, tried to interrupt, and eventually fled the stage. #StopLine3 @SenAmyKlobuchar This isn't the first time that @amyklobuchar has been confronted on her Line 3 stance. This has happened several times already.

What's remarkable is that every single time, her response is to run away.

Senator, do you really think this is a good look?

Nov 11, 2021 10 tweets 7 min read
Wondering what's happening lately in the movement to #StopLine3?

Here's what's been going on in the last month. REad on for the updates. 🧵 Text: RESISTING LINE 3 Mont... While boring through the Mississippi River headwaters, @Enbridge spilled large quantities of drilling mud and industrial chemicals into the ecosystem. Months later, heavy rains are revealing the extent of the ecological devastation caused by the company’s negligence. In the fall, a tributary st...
Oct 15, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: Activists just SHUT DOWN Senator Tina Smith’s keynote speech, demanding she call on Biden to #StopLine3.

Two minutes after taking the podium, Smith *fled* to her car to avoid questions about the Line 3 pipeline.

Nice “climate leadership” @SenTinaSmith @TinaSmithMN. For years, water protectors have met with @TinaSmithMN and called on her to take action against Line 3. Yet she has refused to take a side.

"Not taking a side" on Line 3 enables @Enbridge to poison Indigenous land and water and wreck our climate.
Oct 15, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Update: we will occupy the Capitol en masse. And we will hold the ground as long as it takes. Join us and share widely. #PeopleVsFossilfuels Update: we are right now blockading the road to the Capitol. Police swarming in by the dozen. Youth climate activists holding the ground with fierceness & with love. Image
Sep 29, 2021 9 tweets 8 min read
After nearly 8 years of fierce resistance, we learned that Line 3 will become operational this weekend.

This fight is not over, only shifted, so it's a good time for a refresher: what is Line 3, why should it be stopped, and how can you help? A thread 🧵 (1/9)

#StopLine3 Image: march to stop Line 3 Line 3 is a pipeline that crosses 200+ bodies of water and treaty land in northern Minnesota. It's set to carry over half a million barrels of tar sands oil per day from Alberta, Canada through ND, MN, and WI, before being shipped across the country. (2/9)
Sep 19, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Evening thoughts:

The White House’s @PressSec - ie @jrpsaki - just said Biden can’t #StopLine3 because it’s “under active litigation.”

Isn’t that a reason he SHOULD halt construction? To @PressSec @jrpsaki:

If you are going to use legalese to justify ecocide, please don't insult our intelligence with such poorly reasoned arguments.
Sep 15, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read
Manoomin (wild rice)🌾is lead plaintiff in first ever "Rights of Manoomin" lawsuit filed by White Earth against @mndnr. The agency permitted Enbridge to take 5 billion gallons of water during a drought to build #Line3.

This case is reshaping the law as we know it: a thread (1/6) @mndnr Plaintiffs are claiming that the DNR violated the rights of manoomin as well as multiple treaty rights to hunt, fish and gather along Line 3's route.

“Manoomin will have its day in court; this is big,” said Michael Fairbanks, chairman of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. (2/6)
Sep 15, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
For those wondering why today @SenAmyKlobuchar literally turned her back on a youth water protector asking for a livable planet . . . Here’s the best explanation we’ve seen so far.
#StopLine3 Thank you to @davidsirota for flagging this monumental conflict-of-interest.
Sep 14, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
BREAKING: @SenAmyKlobuchar was just confronted by water protectors, asking her if she’ll call on Biden to #StopLine3.

She froze - then turned her back and stormed away. Let's talk about @amyklobuchar:

Asked about Line 3 in an interview, she said it was up to the state.

Funny because the **federal** Army Corps is in charge of granting the permits.

She's not dumb - she's deceptive. Image
Sep 6, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
What?

The governor of your state was booed off the stage moments into his speech - at this very event.

50 water protectors literally shut down the whole thing.

And you pretend nothing happened?

Unreal how far you’ll go to avoid mention of the #StopLine3 struggle. Here is the screen shot in case @RepWolgamott takes the tweet down
Sep 4, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: A speech by @GovTimWalz at a Democratic party event in Alexandria, MN was SHUT DOWN by 50 water protectors demanding he #StopLine3!

Minutes into his speech and vastly outnumbered, Walz fled the event.

Direct action gets the goods! Since he was elected, Walz has refused to take action against the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline- despite it having the potential to emit more carbon than his entire state.

We have tried for years to be civil. We have tried having a dialogue. None of it worked.
Jul 3, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
Jessica Reznicek, an immensely strong & courageous Water Protector, was sentenced on Wednesday to 8 years in federal prison for her actions to stop #DAPL. (1/7) A photo of Jessica smiling. Her shirt reads “You can jail She said, “I am saddened to be preparing for prison...my spirit remains strong, however, as I feel held in love, support & prayer by so many near and far. Regardless of my sentence I am hopeful that movements to protect the water live on in the struggles against #Line3 and #MVP.” Jessica writes “water” on a board that is part of a bloc
Apr 29, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
Let's talk about Minnesotans for Line 3, the propaganda arm of @Enbridge's #Line3 expansion project. 🧵 (1/10) Minnesotans for Line 3 (M4L3) was founded in 2018 by the late Bob Schoneberger, a previous Enbridge employee and the then-CEO of United Piping Inc., a fossil fuel infrastructure contractor that stood to benefit from a Line 3 expansion. (2/10)

linkedin.com/in/bob-schoneb…
Mar 22, 2021 12 tweets 7 min read
Every Monday we will be sharing #StopLine3 updates from the previous week.

Here is a thread on last week (Mar. 15-21) 🧵: Resisting Line 3 weekly updates: March 15-21 On March 15th, actress & climate activist @Janefonda joined Indigenous leaders on the frontlines to bring attention to the #StopLine3 fight.

She called attention to the impact of tar sands oil, and also to unfair policing practices in Northern MN. (1/11)
Mar 3, 2021 7 tweets 5 min read
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the largest ever inland oil spill in U.S. history - and it happened because of the current Line 3 pipeline, right here in Minnesota.

Here's the story of that spill. 🧵 (1/7) On March 3rd, 1991, a huge rupture in the Line 3 pipeline near Grand Rapids, Minnesota caused oil to shoot over 50 feet into the air. It soaked trees, saturated the surrounding wetlands, and coated icy rivers.

When all was done, 1.7 million gallons of oil had spilled. (2/7)
Mar 1, 2021 11 tweets 5 min read
Every Monday we will be sharing #StopLine3 updates from the previous week. Here is a thread on last week (Feb. 22-28) 🧵: On February 24th, @Giniw led an action where water protectors blockaded over a dozen Line 3 worksites. They locked down to a flipped-over vehicle, and ascended 35 ft into the air on a bi-pod. (1/8)

Watch the video on Giniw's FB page: fb.watch/3Z79sUo_0m/