On Friday, March 19th, hundreds of activists joined the Defund Line 3 Campaign Rally. During the rally we heard from Indigenous frontline leaders who are taking bold direct action to stop construction, youth organizers who are fighting the pipeline and Stop the Money Pipeline organizers who shared the next steps in the #DefundLine3 campaign. Watch […]
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Reclaim Finance: Enbridge’s “sustainable” credit: tar sands and rights violations
11
Mar
Mar
From Reclaim Finance In February 2021, the Canadian midstream energy company Enbridge announced it had secured a $1.0 billion “Sustainability Linked” credit. Hiding behind laughable ESG goals, a company which specializes in the transportation of the most polluting fossil fuels uses so-called “sustainable” financial tools to help finance its new climate-destroying and rights-violating Line 3 pipeline. Financial […]
08
Mar
Mar
Boozhoo – There are now more than 130 Water Protectors facing criminal charges for protecting the land from the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. At the same time, the climate criminals are free to keep bulldozing through my peoples’ sacred lands. It is physically painful to witness the land being ripped apart, to see our […]
08
Feb
Feb
Stopping Line 3 is a matter of justice. It is about justice for the land. It’s about justice for the water. Justice for Anishinaabe people whose culture and way of life it threatens. Justice for people all over the world who are being impacted by the climate crisis. That’s why I am excited to announce […]
25
Jan
Jan
Join the Build Back Fossil Free campaign on Tuesday, January 26 at 8pm ET for a digital rally calling on President Biden to take bold executive action to end the era of fossil fuel production, protect communities reeling from the climate and COVID-19 crises, and #BuildBackFossilFree. The digital rally will feature frontline leaders fighting toxic fossil fuel […]
Last week was a powerful flurry of action demanding that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Joe Biden and Wall Street all take action to #StopLine3. In MN, student activists blockaded the entrance to a Chase branch in downtown St. Paul. In DC, people took CEO puppet heads to central branches of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, […]
26
Nov
Nov
Honor the Earth’sTara Houska, talks to DemocracyNow about construction beginning on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota by month’s end, despite years of Indigenous resistance. State leaders “are willing to put our children’s futures on the line,” says @zhaabowekwe of @Giniw Collective.
Biden, In The News, Press Release
A Biden Administration Can Pressure Wall Street to Stop Funding Climate Destruction
06
Nov
Nov
A Biden presidency and potentially divided Congress will increase the focus on the need for Wall Street to act on climate Washington, D.C. — Vice President Joe Biden’s imminent victory in the Presidential election will increase pressure on financial institutions to stop financing fossil fuels and deforestation, according to groups with Stop the Money Pipeline, […]