John,
This weekend, Cori and her sisters in service Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib are in Minneapolis this weekend to protest the crude oil pipeline Line 3.
Cori spoke on the banks of the Mississippi River about why it’s urgent the Biden administration takes action immediately to stop the construction of Line 3.
Line 3 would destroy Indigenous lands, produce the pollution equivalent of 50 coal power plants, and plow through over 800 wetlands and 200+ bodies of water in Ojibwe treaty territory. The impact of a pollution spill in this area would reach Cori’s district and so many other communities already struggling with the challenges of environmental injustice. Especially now, as our climate crisis reaches a critical turning point, we cannot allow the fossil fuel companies who put us in this mess to build even more fossil fuel infrastructure.
That’s why today we need your help to echo Cori and her sisters’ calls to cancel the Line 3 Pipeline. Will you add your name right now and tell the Biden administration to stop this attack on Indigenous lands and our planet?
Cori knows how important this fight is because she sees in her very own district the generational impact of corporate pollution and our worsening climate crisis.
In Cori’s home district of St. Louis, there are increasing signs of how folks, especially Black and brown people, are hurting because of a lack of local funding and government support for climate action and environmental protection. Our children are increasingly making more trips to the emergency room for asthma attacks. Extreme temperatures are driving up electric bills. Our pipes and our walls are too frequently poisoning us with lead. And if we don’t take meaningful action soon — we risk handing down an unlivable planet to the next generation.
Whether it’s St. Louis or Minneapolis – our fight for environmental justice has no bounds – we must take action wherever we can. Climate change hurts all of us and the time for action is NOW.
In solidarity,
Team Cori
