Indigenous activists and allies gathered near Palisade, Minnesota, to protest against the Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline, marching down the Great River Road to the construction site, where speeches were given out and dances were performed. Later, protesters drove 45 minutes at a 2nd construction site, shutting down activity before sheriffs swiftly arrived and arrested several.
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Protesters returned to the Line 3 Tar Sands pipeline blockade in Minnesota after a protester was arrested for stopping construction for 5 hours. Demonstrators had gathered after a worker was killed in an accident 9 days before, and the pipeline even then resumed its normal affairs.
After months of resistance to stop the Line 3 pipeline expansion, a total of 17 water protectors, mostly belonging to the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe tribe, were arrested and several tree sits were brought down. Resistance is expected to continue, although many did not expect the repression to occur this soon. Demonstrators had been blockading the Line 3 construction site for […]