January 18 – 2 important updates: Our original post is below, in case you want to check back on your local event or invite friends to join us. Late last year, our movement and our world lost Joye Braun, a true warrior for climate justice and a force of nature. In her honor, we are …
Last year, we were honored to join the Red Road to DC, a totem pole Journey from the pacific northwest to Washington DC, stopping at many native sacred sites along the way. The red road tour highlighted the hundreds of Indigenous sacred sites across the country — places of Indigenous foods, medicines, ceremony, burial sites, …
Read more “Running out of time for Congress to protect native sacred spaces”
We’ve told you before about the dangerous Line 5 pipeline proposal and the threat it poses to our climate, and the the Great lakes – the largest source of fresh water on earth. This is the final week that the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is accepting public comments on the draft Environmental Impact Statement …
Read more “This Indigenous People’s day, stand with native women to Stop Line 5”
Important update July 28 2021: After traveling thousands of miles with a 25-ft, 5000 pound totem pole, visiting dozens of Indigenous sacred places at risk from dams, mining, oil and gas drilling–from the Snake River to the Missouri River, Bears Ears to the Black Hills, Chaco Canyon to the Grand Canyon, and tribal treaty lands …
For decades, the Line 5 oil pipeline has been a threat to our climate, and the the Great lakes – the largest source of fresh water on earth. Only luck has prevented a major oil spill from happening in the last few years. And Enbridge, the pipeline’s owners, have repeatedly violated the law and their …
Read more “Tell President Biden: Oil and Water don’t mix! Shut Down Line 5 now.”
For the last few months, we’ve been sending you updates on how you can #DefundLine3 by demanding big banks and financiers stop funding this Minnesota tar sands boondoggle. Thanks to your actions so far, bank executives have received more than 700,000 emails, 7,000 calendar invites and 3,000 phone calls. There have been protests at more …
It’s no joke: On April first, frontline Indigenous youth and organizers from the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipeline fights will travel to Washington D.C. to demand that President Biden Build Back Fossil Free by stopping these climate-destroying projects. We are calling all water protectors, land defenders, climate activists and friends to join us at …
Read more “From DAPL to Line 3 RSVP to #BuildBackFossilFree”
As most of you know, the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota is a disaster for our climate and a gross violation Indigenous and treaty rights. For weeks, courageous activists on the front line have taken daily direct action to stop the construction of Line 3, including locking themselves inside sections of pipe, blockading …
When Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, we were elated. After years of fighting this tar sands pipeline, we finally had a President who understood the need to act – and took decisive action on his first day in office. But KXL wasn’t the only tar sands pipeline we need to stop. KXL’s twin …
Read more “Digital rally to tell Joe Biden: Stop Line 3 & DAPL! People power, not Pipelines!”
You remember Rick Perry as Trump’s former Secretary of Energy – the man appointed to lead an agency he famously said he would eliminate, but could not recall the name of during a 2016 Republican Presidential Debate. You might also remember that as one of the “three amigos” Perry was a minor player in Trump’s …