Meet the Pipeline Protester Facing 5 Years for Peaceful Action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FOZWJV6bJY&ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21

We speak with climate activist and water protector Mylene Vialard, whose trial for peacefully protesting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline began this week in Minnesota. Vialard faces up to five years in prison for her 2021 protest, when she attached herself to a 25-foot bamboo tower erected to block a pumping station in Aitkin County. Vialard, who lives in Colorado, had come to Minnesota to take part in a wave of Indigenous-led acts of civil disobedience to stop the pipeline. Between December 2020 and September 2021, police in Minnesota made more than 1,000 arrests. Mylene Vialard is just the second water protector facing felony charges to go to trial. “We’re destroying our planet. We’re destroying our way of life,” says Vialard. We also speak with Indigenous lawyer and activist Tara Houska, who was also arrested in 2021 for participating in a nonviolent action against Line 3. She says police violence against environmental and Indigenous activists has gotten “exponentially worse” since the 2016 Dakota Access protests at Standing Rock. “The crackdown on environmental protests is nationwide,” says Houska.

#MyleneVialard #waterprotector #enbridge #polluter #ecocide #communitydefense #nonviolent #felonycharges #fascism #crackdown #profitdefense #planetmurder

In Contempt #31: New Support Campaigns Rally Across the US Against Repression

https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-31/

In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis.

#abolition #rebelion #mutualaid #prisoners #anarchist #rally #support #antifa #indigenous #landdefender #waterprotector #international #uprising

#WaterIsLife
#Watering my #FoodGardens 👩‍🌾
I'm a longtime #WaterProtector & been arrested multiple times for #DirectAction for protecting water 💧#NoRegrets ✊

#Facscism Rises in the US, using legal mechanisms.

The process is:
1. Far Right does something violent
2. Laws are made ostensibly addressing what the Far Right did
3. Those laws are applied to crush constitutional rights of speech & expression for #Climate & other activists

Examples:
#WaterProtector Jessica Reznicek was charged with a terrorism sentencing enhancement created after the Oklahoma City Bombing

#StopCopCity activists are now being charged with terrorism

https://grist.org/protest/utah-critical-infrastructure-law-felony/

This #Lent Christians are fasting and praying for #CatholicWorker & #WaterProtector #JessicaReznicek & demanding Biden free her. Please join & share Jessica's case w/your community: http://fastingforjessica.com @FreeJessRez
#FreeJessicaReznicek

#mining #Colombia #GustavoPetro #AguaEsVida #WaterProtector
https://www.mining.com/president-of-colombia-promises-to-block-quebradona-project-to-protect-water-sources/

#nativetiktok
#native
#nativeamerican
#nativeamerican
#landprotectors
#landprotectorscanada
#waterprotector
#waterprotectors
#reconnectingnative
#nativeamericans
#indigenous
#indigenoustiktok
#landback
#landbackmovement
#landprotect
#FomotionalFinds
#tinyhouseonwheels

#justicefortinyhousewarriors
#tinyhouse
#tinyhousewarriors
#nativetiktok
#native
#nativeamerican
#nativeamerican
#landprotectors
#landprotectorscanada
#waterprotector
#waterprotectors
#reconnectingnative
#nativeamericans
#indigenous

#nativeamerican
#nativeamerican
#landprotectors
#landprotectorscanada
#waterprotector
#waterprotectors
#reconnectingnative
#nativeamericans
#indigenous
#indigenoustiktok
#landback
#landbackmovement
#landprotect
#FomotionalFinds
#tinyhouseonwheels
#tinyhouselife
#nojusticenopeace

"Why is it that if I want clean drinking water, I am called an activist. And if a multinational corporation is going to contaminate my water, that corporation is not a terrorist? That's because the system is not working."

-- Winona LaDuke
To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers

#WinonaLaDuke #ToBeAWaterProtector #WaterProtector #EcoJustice #bookstodon @bookstodon #AmReading #quotes

DID YOU GUYS KNOW THERE IS A SOCIETY OF FEARLESS GRANDMOTHERS?!?!?!?!?! They get mentioned in the #WinonaLaDuke book I'm reading (To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers) and I had to Google them to make sure they really exist. And they do!

Now I know what kind of old lady I want to be!

#EcoJustice #WaterProtector #SocietyOfFearlessGrandmothers #LifeGoals #AmReading

It's time for another #WinonaLaDuke quote! Seriously, if you haven't read #ToBeAWaterProtector yet but you want to know more about #EcoJustice and the #WaterProtector movement, this is a GREAT book to start with.

"The psychosis of Indian hating is one born of the self-loathing of your role in destroying another person, theft and destruction of a people. That's what people have in the north [in the context of this chapter, she's specifically talking northern Michigan, but I feel this also applies to other places like my country of Canada]. They know that what has happened to Native people is wrong, but it's uncomfortable to deal with what justice looks like, or perhaps to come to terms that we all drink the same water, so the Crazy Indian hating behavior continues. That's the Deep North."

@bookstodon #bookstodon #IndigenousStories #IndigenousAuthors #Resistance #LandBack #TruthAndReconciliation #Restitution

This quote gives me goosebumps.

"To me, it was in the camps at Standing Rock that we remembered what it feels like to be free. We remembered what it was like to create a village of thousands of people, a powerful Indigenous space that welcomed people of all different colors and nations. And we remembered what it feels like to create the infrastructure we need to care for ourselves entirely outside the colonized money economy - - to feed and clothe our people, to have stable housing and quality medical care for everyone, to have control of our children's upbringing, to practice our spirituality freely and share our stories unafraid."

To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers by Winona LaDuke

#AmReading #ToBeAWaterProtector #WinonaLaDuke #LandBack #EcoJustice #StandingRock #WaterProtector #Warrior #Indigenous #IndigenousStories #IndigenousAuthors #Resistance

I #AmReading To Be a #WaterProtector by #WinonaLaDuke, and this is a rabbit hole I intend to fall down. What are your #BookReccomendations for specifically the #DakotaAccessPipeline by #IndigenousAuthors and #Indigenous #EcoJustice warriors?

@bookstodon#bookstodon

RT @envirodefence@twitter.com

🛢️The Keystone oil spill is another tragic example of the devastating harm that fossil fuels have on freshwater sources.

📣TAKE ACTION: https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/87647/action/1

#line5 #oilandgas #leaveitintheground #climateaction #climate #climatechange #canada #cdnpoli #waterprotector

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/envirodefence/status/1603729216486383619

RT @movementrights@twitter.com

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“Today I honour my sisters who walk in healing to protect the water.
With your strength, you remind us to honour and care for the waters on which all life depends.
Women lead the way."
-Miss Chief Eagle Testickle

Water Walker
2020
Acrylic on canvas
60" x 36"

#indigenouswomen
#waterprotector
#leadership
#waterislife