In the choice between water and oil, we choose water. Join us and help stop a 915,000 barrel a day tar sands pipeline project.
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I am writing to ask you, in the choice between water and oil, to join us and pick water. We are going to protect our sacred wild rice, our water, and our future. We are going to stop a pipeline project.


For seven years, the Anishinaabe people of northern Minnesota and our allies to the east in Wisconsin and Michigan have been fighting Enbridge, the largest oil pipeline company in the world. Enbridge wants to put in a 915,000 barrel a day tar sands pipeline, Line 3, to move oil to Canadian refineries and for export. That's the equivalent of putting up 50 new coal fired power plants. And, that's deadly for Mother Earth. We will protect our water and our Mother.

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We need your support to stand for our water. Your donation to Honor the Earth and the Giniw Collective will give us the support we need to stand with our lawyers, stand with our people, and shut down this pipeline.


Honor the Earth was created to raise awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. The Giniw Collective is an indigenous-women, 2-spirit led frontline resistance. Together, we are doing everything we can to stop this destructive pipeline.

This is the only land our people know, the place of our wild rice. It's the only place in the world this food grows, Manoomin—the food of our prophecies, and the food for spirit and soul. Each fall, we take to rivers and lakes by canoe and with gratitude harvest our sacred food, grateful for the nutrition and the life of this rice. Our manoomin has fed our people for thousands of years, and represents an enduring way to live. Let us continue.


This is what is threatened by the Enbridge pipelines, by mines to the north and industry to the west. Enbridge is our greatest threat. Our lives are threatened. The proposed new Line 3 would cross the heart of our wild rice territory, crossing 200 bodies of water, ultimately threatening Gichi Gummi, Lake Superior. It cuts through the heart of our lives.


For seven years, we have fought this project in the regulatory process of Minnesota, and despite almost 70,000 people testifying against the pipeline, and the clear need to deny this project on environmental, social and economic grounds, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz approved the final permits for the pipeline. This leaves tribes, Honor the Earth, and citizen groups to uphold the interests of the water and wild rice in Court. (We are, however, joined in our appeal by another state agency- the Minnesota Department of Commerce seeks to overturn the pipeline approvals as not meeting the requirements for a certificate of need, nor meeting route permit requirements.) The appeals will grow, as will the resistance.
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But we need your support right now to stand for our water. We stand with our lawyers, and we stand with our people. Please make your gift to now help our cause.


It's ironic that one day after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz approved the final state permits for Line 3, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer revoked the 1953 easement that allows Enbridge to operate pipelines through the Straits of Mackinac. Governor Whitmer, acted under the state's public trust doctrine, which requires state authorities to protect the Great Lakes. The pipeline in question, known as Line 5, has been in operation since the 1950s. It carries the oil which would move in Line 3.


“Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate our economy and way of life,” Whitmer said in a statement. “That's why we're taking action now, and why I will continue to hold accountable anyone who threatens our Great Lakes and fresh water.” Two different Governors, same company.


Here we are in the midst of a pandemic, catastrophes of epic proportions and a moment in time when the world is changing. Social movements have surged, a democracy has been shaken to its core, statues of idols are falling- from the Columbus statues to the Conquistadors and Confederate Soldiers. A social movement is surging, and our world is changing. There's a transition underway, and it's massive. It's brought on by the pandemic, and it's a perfect storm, a time for change.

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We are asking you to join with us to make the change—to a renewable energy economy, organic agriculture and restoration and preservation of biodiversity, like our sacred wild rice.


Let me put it this way. The fossil fuel era is ending, and it's time to move on. It's time to be a Water Protector.
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Miigwech

Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth

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