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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Brutal arrests, tear gas, rubber bullets used on Water Protectors at Stop Line 3</h1>
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<div><p><b><span>Water Protectors fighting Line 3 need your help!</span></b></p></div><div><div dir="auto"><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9Lr9LsT-VA/YQdBk0V0IsI/AAAAAAACFQQ/q4RfAkw9jwAsk390PUCZqc9ipRmG_l9rgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210801_193350.jpg"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9Lr9LsT-VA/YQdBk0V0IsI/AAAAAAACFQQ/q4RfAkw9jwAsk390PUCZqc9ipRmG_l9rgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/20210801_193350.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="447" height="447"></a></p><p><span>Water
Protectors at Stop Line 3 were brutally arrested by Sheriffs' deputies
using excessive force, tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper bullets.
Water Protectors now in Pennington County jail in northern Minnesota are
being denied medications and being fed moldy food, Giniw Collective
said.</span></p><p><b>By GINIW Collective</b><br><b><a href="mailto:giniw@protonmail.com">giniw@protonmail.com</a></b><br><b>Censored News</b><br><b>TRIGGER WARNING</b></p></div><p><span>THIEF
RIVER FALLS, Minnesota -- Water Protectors fighting Line 3 are enduring
increased repression and violence from the state and local police. For
the first time in this campaign, police used pepper spray, mace, pepper
and "less than lethal" bullets on unarmed Water Protectors just south of
Thief River Falls on July 29 at Red Lake River crossing at the Red Lake
Treaty Camp.</span></p><p><span>Twenty people were arrested and are
being held in Pennington County Jail over the weekend including Tara
Houska, other members of Giniw and Non-Native Accomplices.</span></p><p><span>This
is a call to action! Come Join us on the Frontlines. We need warriors
to the front! Enbridge is drilling under the rivers and using the local
police to target people wanting to stop this immoral and unethical
project. Call Pennington County Jail (218)681-6161.</span></p></div><div><p><span>After
facing excessive force in the form of pepper spray, pepper bullets and
aggressive arrests supporters are now learning that water protectors
have been denied medications as well as proper food due to dietary
restrictions and allergies. People have received moldy and inedible
food. Certain Individuals are being held in solitary confinement. These
tactics are being utilized to humiliate and punish Water Protectors for
taking action.</span></p><p><span><br>Tweet @govtimwalz @ltgovflanagan
and call Pennington County Jail (218)681-6161 and demand: Sample script:
"I am calling today to demand that water protectors are treated
humanely and fairly, that their dietary needs are respected and their
medications be given properly."</span></p><p><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mp6ds2GqxKs/YQdAfgTdMuI/AAAAAAACFPw/NDfCGttCtmUt_LSpKdpPW2Z78L7QfMZeACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h296/223789025_2906294839699769_1102425654985110037_n.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="447" height="206"></p></div><div><p><span><i>Giniw Collective said on July 30:</i></span></p><p><span>THIEF
RIVER FALLS, Minnesota -- Dozens of Water Protectors and Tribal Members
Flow Into Line 3 Drilling Site Under Red Lake River met with
“less-than-lethal” and chemical warfare yesterday, dozens of BIPOC water
protectors and tribal members flowed into the drill pad on the Red
River, where Enbridge is set to complete pullback against the will of
Red Lake Nation. Half a dozen Indigenous and BIPOC water protectors
scaled fences and others blockaded a gate into the site as allies helped
hold space.</span></p><p><span><br>Water Protectors were maced, tear gassed, shot with rubber bullets, and pepper bullets.</span></p><p><span><br>The
mass action comes as another spill was reported on the Mississippi
River headwaters, where Enbridge has continued to drill despite a
temporary halt buffer zone issued by White Earth Nation.</span></p><p><span><br>Last
week, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, along with
numerous representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers, met with two
Anishinaabe nations, tribal representatives, and land defenders to tour
portions of Line 3 construction, wild rice beds, and spill sites. The
Army Corps and the White House remain silent.</span></p><p><span>“If
those who can stop Line 3 will not take action, we will,” said Tara
Houska, Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe land defender. “This is our
land, our wild rice, our culture, our future we are defending.Human
beings are literally destroying life with our addiction to the status
quo of over-consumption. We have to be brave. We have to stand strong.
We have to try. Actions, not words.”</span></p><p><span><br>“I’m
standing in opposition of industrial development of my treaty territory
by a foreign corporation,” said John Shimek, Red Lake Nation. “An
estimated 20 percent of the freshwater supply left on the planet exists
in my treaty territory, it’s my obligation to protect it for my children
and all future generations.”</span></p><p><span><br>Twenty people were arrested and are currently being held in Pennington county till Monday. </span></p></div><p><span></span></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_y-H9pF4CA/YQfIY_ALBYI/AAAAAAACFQc/cGTbpdhmn9MNCIMFoG9HgbH4qnB9pQPmwCNcBGAsYHQ/s750/228863647_2906294859699767_1212204016081565835_n.jpg"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_y-H9pF4CA/YQfIY_ALBYI/AAAAAAACFQc/cGTbpdhmn9MNCIMFoG9HgbH4qnB9pQPmwCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/228863647_2906294859699767_1212204016081565835_n.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="447" height="335"></a></p><br><p><b>PROTECTORS SHUT DOWN WORKSITE</b></p><div><p><span>On
Thursday, July 29th, four Water protectors locked down to machinery at
an Enbridge worksite near Clearwater River to stop the drilling and
destruction of Mother Earth in Anishinaabe treaty territory.<br>Enbridge has been pumping thousands of gallons of water to flush the pipe and dewatering entire lakes and streams.</span></p><p>An
activist and their mother locked down together in solidarity with their
Indigenous kin in an act of love and bravery. Two other young people
locked down to machinery to shut down the work site. One water protector
locked down near an active water pump that was pumping hundreds of
gallons of water and overflowing onto them, as workers laughed nearby
with no regard for their safety. A deputy from the Red Lake Sheriff came
over and did nothing to stop the pump.</p><div><p><span><br>Sheriffs
from all over Minnesota arrived at the scene showing once again that
the police response to water protectors is excessive force against the
struggle to stop line 3.<br>"I’m here in solidarity with my Indigenous
and Black and Brown relatives, I’m an accomplice and if you want to be
an accomplice you have to be here doing this work. You got to lock down,
you gotta be taking action.</span></p><p>"I’m here not only as an ally,
but as an accomplice, because I’m putting my body on the line. I’m
putting myself to the machine."</p><p><span><br>"And here on the
other side I have my mother, she’s sixty-eight years old and she’s out
here. She’s doing this work because she cares and she’s an accomplice
too, so I urge you, if you’re listening to this, please get out here, we
need you. We need accomplices."</span></p><p><span><br>"Hi I’m the
mother of an accomplice which is on the other side of this device, and I
just want to say to all the mothers out there, if your child is
involved in activism with regard to line 3, it would be really great if
you could be here too, and show your support for your offspring and
become an accomplice and a water protector, its really important work
and I invite you to join."</span></p><p><span><br>Seven water protectors
are still being held in Polk County jail facing misdemeanor charges,
being kept over the long weekend in another display of elevating
punitive measures against water protectors.</span></p></div></div>
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