John,
I’m writing to you today about a major fight taking place in Northern Minnesota against the Line 3 pipeline. I’m going to ask for your help in a moment, but first let me explain:
Just like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, Line 3 violates Indigenous rights and would carry the pollution equivalent of 50 coal power plants.1 It would plow through sacred wild rice watersheds, over 800 wetlands, and 200+ bodies of water in Ojibwe treaty territory.
It would also contribute to the growing epidemic of Indigenous women who have gone missing or been murdered – which we’ve seen spike when fossil fuel projects and man camps invade our lands.2
Indigenous water protectors are taking peaceful direct action to protect their land as you read this. But the drones are overhead and the police are militarized. We need national pressure now.
President Biden can revoke the water permits granted by Trump, but he’ll only act if we generate enough public pressure. That’s why we’ve joined with MN350, Honor the Earth, and dozens of other groups to deliver thousands of petitions calling on Biden to stop Line 3.
Time is of the essence, John. The bulldozers and pipes have arrived, but we have a clear path to win. Biden can and must halt construction immediately.
When a pipeline is built, data shows that these workers are responsible for kidnapping, assaulting, raping, and murdering our Indigneous sisters who sometimes go missing and their bodies never found.
Stopping Keystone XL and re-joining the Paris Climate Agreement were important first steps, but Line 3 will be the next major test for the Biden Administration. If he means what he says about taking bold climate action, protecting Native women, respecting Indigenous sovereignty, this pipeline must be stopped.
Native peoples continue to fight for their lands and sovereignty, while facing extreme rates of poverty, suicide, and sexual and domestic violence. As an Oglala Lakota growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, I experienced many of the issues facing Indigenous communities first hand.
Stopping this pipeline would go a long way in helping reverse the disastrous impacts of Trump’s policies on Indigenous communities from green lighting the Dakota Access pipeline, to slashing the protected Bears Ears site by 200,000 acres, to cutting several federal assistance programs.3
It will take deep organizing to stop this project and all of us supporting the frontline resistance on the ground with supplies, bail money, online amplification, and more.
Please take the first step and add your name to the national petition calling on President Biden to stop Line 3 immediately.
Wopila and thank you,
Sarah Eagle Heart
Women’s March Board Member
1. The Guardian
2. Scientific American
3. Cultural Survival
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