<div dir="ltr"><p><font size="4"><b>Water Protectors Shut Down Major U.S.-Canadian Tar Sands Terminal: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/stopline3?__eep__=6&__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWjwGD0cMXnvqt5sGS1w_1cfetLfYyEJFMlk3wwQPYyAB-BtprhKkU7_NZu0tTsGI3T1v3E52aWfMhxpH0LgQccro2DO8qyzUKOQ_PfpqOeEUbYXuoJmQYuScaLZMONp4iKcGAjnWFItLF4Zct1nUn3Gp-w4Qd_71FLctwBMswJdt_5R01owOup-qj8ckWs0Xs&__tn__=*NK-R">#StopLine3</a></b></font><br><b>By Giniw Collective</b><b>Sept. 7, 2021<br>Contact: <a href="mailto:giniw@protonmail.com">giniw@protonmail.com</a></b><b><a href="https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=6628">French translation by Christine Prat</a></b></p><p><font size="1"><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/09/water-protectors-shut-down-major-us.html">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/09/water-protectors-shut-down-major-us.html</a></font><br><br>CLEARBROOK,
Minnesota -- This morning, Water Protectors erected multiple blockades
at a major U.S. and Canadian tar sands terminal in Clearbrook, Minnesota
in direct opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3. From grandmothers to young
people, Water Protectors of all walks of life continue to stand up for
the sacred. <br>On one end of the mile-long blockade, grandmothers led
beautiful solidarity with Anishinaabe treaty territory and Mother Earth,
in front of a boat painted with MMIWG2S messages. <br>“We, elder women,
stand in loving solidarity with our Indigenous relatives and all Water
Protectors. We say to the Enbridge corporation, its stockholders, all
their workers and to President Biden: STOP THE LINE 3 PIPELINE NOW!""We
are here out of love for future generations and all life on our
beautiful MOTHER EARTH!” -- Ridgley Fuller, Trish Gallagher, Ellen
Graves, Rema Loeb, Priscilla Lynch, Paki Wieland.<br>Second and third
blockades of an overturned vehicle, concrete barrels, and a tripod held
off the other access points to the tar sands terminal. The action
follows a blockade of a Line 3 mancamp last week, which included an
all-BIPOC, mostly Indigenous femme and two-spirit team of land
defenders. <br>While the Biden and Walz administrations remain silent to
police brutalization of Water Protectors, the multiple sex trafficking
rings of Enbridge workers, and the huge impact of Line 3 on climate
crisis, the people’s resistance continues. <br>Wild ricing is underway
in lakes that are nearly dry in many places, some Native people are
turning to snow shoes to get into the beds and harvest the traditional
food that has sustained the Anishinaabe for generations. Enbridge
received permission from Minnesota to “de-water” 5 billion gallons of
water to build Line 3, paying a $150 application fee.Tara Houska for
Giniw Collective, said, “We fight for the land and for those to come, as
our ancestors did.” <br><br><i>Giniw Collective is an Indigenous-women,
2-Spirit led frontline resistance to protect our Mother, defend the
sacred and live in balance. We stand unafraid. Prayers into action.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram @GiniwCollective</i></p>
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