November 18, 2021

Water protectors arrested resisting Line 3 Pipeline call on state officials to 'Drop the Charges'

Author: Press Pool

News Release
Indigenous Environmental Network
Yesterday, defendants arrested while opposing the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline launched a campaign calling on Minnesota’s elected leadership to drop all criminal charges against over 700 water protectors. A Drop the Charges petition to MN Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison has already garnered over 13,000 signatures. Organizers of the campaign describe the charges as unjust based on the brutal policing tactic...