1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: It is six am, June twenty nine. I have not 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: slept yet since the cops slept it around midnight last night. UM. 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: It's been a nice camp fire listening to birds. And 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: just now at six am, UH, we had the first 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: first share struck arrived for the day. Um. It's the 6 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: same kind of detective guy that was over yesterday. UM 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: and kind of in lead of things. Everyone in the 8 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: UH Stop Lane three camps brought in a wake up soon. Well, 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: we'll see what today has in store. Fifteen cars were 10 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: told the first day of the cop blockade, and the 11 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: tow trucks messed up the road so much that the 12 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: county had to send in a huge machine to regrade 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: the dirt road. Cops still weren't letting cars through, but 14 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: for day two people didn't put up a physical, cold 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: resistance to the sheriff's driveway blockade. There were other things 16 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: to figure out and strategize. It is early afternoon on 17 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: June nine. I'm still at the Stop Line three camp 18 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: in Minnesota. The all the all the protesters and water 19 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: defenders who got arrested yesterday just got back to the camp, 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: so they were released after one night in jail. UM 21 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 1: and they were they had there was a there was 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: a pretty pretty cheery greeting for them here at the 23 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: here at the Line three camp. Um. A few a 24 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: few of the people were a little little more somber 25 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: because of course their friends were in jail. But everyone 26 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: most people were pretty excited to see each other again. UM, 27 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: and most people seemed pretty optimistic. UM. So that's kind 28 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: of steady. Think that's kind of the state of things 29 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: right now. Uh to two Sheriff's trucks are still preventing 30 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: cars from going onto the driveway um at the stop 31 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: Line three camp, but so far there's been no passive 32 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: or active resistance to that today unlike yesterday. UM, So 33 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: we'll see if that changes in the next few hours. 34 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna head back to their first camp to 35 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: pick up some supplies and I'll decide what I do 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: from there. But I mean, the the atmosphere the Stop 37 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: Playing three camp is super unique. Um. It's a few 38 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: hundred probably people here now, pretty massive space. Uh. They 39 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: actually you know, own this property where they're basing the 40 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: camp out of them. They can move onto the like 41 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: for actions. They can move onto the like Line three site, 42 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: which is just like just across the way. Um, but 43 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: the fact that it's their property does give them some 44 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 1: distinct advantages in terms of how the law can crack 45 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: down on them without you know, having horrible objects on 46 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: the state's part. Um. But yeah, they have a really 47 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: they have a really good set up. They got farmed. 48 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: You know, they're growing food. They have really nice like kitchen. 49 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 1: You know, they like buildings and stuff. Um. Decent at 50 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: mant of tents. Um water is a little bit low, 51 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,839 Speaker 1: but people are trying to figure that out, so we're 52 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: trying trying to go easy on the water at least 53 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: at the moment. It took longer than I thought, but 54 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: eventually I made my way back to the Earth First camp. 55 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: Just got back to earth First Camp. It is a 56 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: little bit past midnight, so technically it's now June. But 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: still still not slept since uh the night of, So 58 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 1: I'm excited to finally be back in my tent. People. 59 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: When when I arrived, people were having a small fire 60 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: and singing songs, so that was nice. Um, fox the 61 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: spider in my tent, I'll have to deal with that later. Um. 62 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: But anyway, there's still a decent amount of Earth First 63 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: people staying at the at the Line three camp. Um, 64 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: I assume some more we'll head over tomorrow. It's not 65 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: fully made up my mind what I'm gonna do yet, 66 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: but on lean lean towards probably staying at this camp, 67 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: trying to talk to some more people, and then the 68 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: last day I'll join wherever other people are doing. If 69 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: they're doing action, I'll I will be there in whatever 70 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: reporting capacity makes the most sense. UM. So yeah, I 71 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: mean everyone, there's there's more, more and more people are 72 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: coming back to Earth First camp right now. Um, tomorrow 73 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: might actually have some you know, it may be more 74 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: more of a full day. I'll try to swim in 75 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: the lake because it'd be a shame if I did 76 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: not do that for this trip. Um. But yeah, I 77 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: mean it's it's been an interesting almost forty eight hours 78 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: without sleep. Um and uh in dealing with all of 79 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: these issues surrounding how the sheriffs are trying to crack 80 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: down on the on the Line three protesters. Um oh, 81 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: I guess the one thing is like the Sheriff's actually 82 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: left and like the late afternoon um on the on 83 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: on the on the twenty nine, So we don't really 84 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: know what their plan is. UM. I heard some people 85 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: from like the Line three side, like I have initiated 86 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: some like um legal proceedings to help get like like 87 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: more clear legal access to the driveway to their own property. UM. 88 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: So that could be the reason why we left, But 89 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: we don't totally know why they like left so early, 90 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: like they did not they didn't stay super late to 91 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: di continue blocking off access to the driveway. So that 92 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: part is still up in the air. I'm sure. I'm 93 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: sure I'll find out more tomorrow and find out we did. 94 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: It's the night of June Wednesday. UM, let's have to 95 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: get up at like five thirty tomorrow. UM. There is 96 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: uh people are planning in action for tomorrow. UM. I 97 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: don't have any details for what's going on in order 98 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: to my understanding as many other people, because just today 99 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: we found out that like the reason why the cops 100 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: were blocking the driveway to the Line three protest camp 101 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: is because during that time, en Bridge, the company it's 102 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: a pipeline, completed drilling on one of the two spots 103 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: planned under the Mississippi River and they wanted to make 104 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: sure there wasn't any people there to prevent that. So 105 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: that's why the cops are blocking off access. To the 106 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: road UM from the protest camp. UM So because now 107 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: that that drilling spot is complete, I think that kind 108 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: of through wrenching people's protest plans for for tomorrow. UM. 109 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: So things are kind of up in the air. All 110 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: all I know is that I have to be up 111 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: early and we will be driving somewhere. UM. I think 112 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: people are probably gonna be locking down, like with like 113 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: lock boxes and probably soft blockades. UM So expecting you know, 114 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: arrests to happen. UM. Yeah, but the mood, the mood 115 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: is pretty tense right now. Everyone's pretty anxious. UM. We're 116 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: just kind of doing doing doing doing a weight in 117 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: game at the moment. UM, I'm gonna try my form 118 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: my best to not get arrested, but that's not really 119 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: up to me, UM, because I mean, I just don't 120 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: know what the location is going to be. Like, I 121 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: don't know, there's just so little information, and I have 122 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: no idea what the what the cops reaction is going 123 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: to be to any of any of this. UM. The 124 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: sheer number of people committed to doing the land offense 125 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: and water defense and UM committed to like you know, 126 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: showing up in person to UM advocate for the treaties 127 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: to be actually followed. I mean, of course there this treaties, 128 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: most of them were you know, there's there's there's reasons 129 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: to talk about how how people were coerced into signing 130 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: certain treaties. But in fact is the ones that we 131 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: have right the ones that people have right now, aren't 132 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: even being voled um in terms of you know, stuff 133 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: for this Line three pipeline and crossing over indigenous land 134 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: um and sacred areas. So so yeah, there's just so 135 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: many people dedicated to doing this that I'm not sure 136 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: if the cops will be prepared for how many people 137 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: it looks like are going to be caravanning down um 138 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: and depending what their plans are, causing a scene. Um. 139 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: But I'm I'm about to go to bed. I have 140 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: to I have to sleep, have a have a long 141 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: day ahead of me, um, long day of trying to 142 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: not get arrested and then missing my right back to 143 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: my home UM on the other side of the country. 144 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: Before I recap what happened on the July first stop 145 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: Line three direct action, I want to give some background 146 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: for the whole Line three thing. Now, you probably heard 147 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: of the stop Plan three movement this year. A few 148 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: public actions have grabbed national attention, like the protest side 149 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: Chase Bank, and perhaps a few actions near the pipeline, 150 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: but you might be surprised to hear that the fight 151 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: has been going on for over seven years. Back en Bridge, 152 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: a Canadian oil giant, started the process of applying to 153 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: replace their existing Line three pipeline with a new, bigger pipeline, 154 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 1: large portions of which are along a completely new route, 155 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 1: including areas that would violate the treaty rights of the 156 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: indigenous Oshawanabe by passing through tribal territory, fresh water sources, ecosystems, 157 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: and public lands, while endangering primary areas of hunting, fishing, 158 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: wild rice, and cultural resources in the eighteen fifty five 159 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: treaty territory. For most of the past seven years, the 160 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: plans for the pipeline going through Minnesota have been caught 161 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: up in litigation and regulatory hearings. There have been on 162 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: the ground direct actions and protests, but all in hopes 163 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: of preventing the construction from starting. That changed November of 164 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: twenty when the Minnesota Pollution and Control Agency issued water 165 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 1: crossing permits in mid November, and then the Army Corps 166 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,079 Speaker 1: of Engineers issued the other necessary permits mere days later. 167 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: Embridge had been positioning pipes and equipment for years doing 168 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: so called pre construction, so as soon as they got 169 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: the go ahead they could rush to dig, drill and 170 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: start placing pipes in the ground. The first pipe was 171 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: laid out to wait all the way back in November, 172 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: three years before Mbridge got the permission to actually begin construction. 173 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: The current Line three, which carries crude oil from Edmonton, 174 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, was originally built in the sixties. 175 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: Pipe corrosion caused numerous spills from the seventies to the 176 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: early two thousands. To circumvent this, Mbridge reduced the operating 177 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: pressure and instituted yearly high resolution inspections using modern technology 178 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: to track ongoing corrosion. As a result of the existing 179 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: Line three pipe ships four hundred and thirty thousand barrels 180 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 1: per day. When finished, the new Line three would ship 181 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifteen thousand barrels of Tar San's crude 182 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: oil a day, one of the dirtiest fuels on Earth, 183 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: and that's more than double the current Line three pipeline. 184 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: The new Line three will carry enough oil to produce 185 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: about one hundred and seventy billion kilograms of carbon dioxide 186 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: per year. That's equivalent to about fifty coal power plants 187 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: or thirty eight million vehicles on our roads. Total project 188 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: costs have risen to nine point three billion, with the 189 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: Minnesota segment of the pipeline costing four billion. A big 190 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: part of the argument four Line three in Minnesota is 191 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: supposed job creation. The problem is that the majority of 192 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: these jobs are short term, part time higher workers from 193 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: out of state. M Bridges fourth quarter Jobs reports that 194 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: only thirty three percent of the almost five thousand workers 195 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: in the project were from Minnesota, and they worked only 196 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: twenty percent of the total hours. M Bridge has a 197 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: job promise that the Line three replacement project would create 198 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: about eight thousand and six hundred jobs, the majority of 199 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: which are local in Minnesota over a two year period, 200 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: including forty hundred union construction jobs, half of which are 201 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: expected to be filled locally. However, instead of seventy of 202 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: jobs being local, the opposite is true, with nearly scent 203 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: of hours being worked by out of state workers. In 204 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: Minnesota alone, the new Line three pipe would cross more 205 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: than two hundred water ecosystems and tunnel under twenty rivers, 206 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: including the Mississippi River twice, the source of drinking water 207 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: for millions of people. The new Line three would threaten 208 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: many pristine lakes, rivers, and streams, including where wild rice grows, 209 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: a foundation of the Oshanabes people's traditional way of life 210 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: and spiritual practices. Since the announcement that construction could begin 211 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: last November, and Bridge has been literally working non stop 212 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: to finish this pipeline as soon as possible. Resistance against 213 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: Line three has also been wrapped baly increasing the past year, 214 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: all leading up to this past summer, with many calls 215 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: going out for national support. People are continuing to try 216 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: to stop construction through litigation or pressuring public officials, while 217 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: others are taking direct action in hopes of slowing down 218 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: the construction itself. As protests have continued, the state response 219 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: has grown more harsh. The most recent Line three protesters 220 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: who have gotten arrested for locking down on equipment are 221 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: being charged with felony theft for quote temporarily taking control 222 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: of the construction equipment unquote by locking themselves to it. 223 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: These new harsh protest related charges like felony, resisting and 224 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: obstructing are usually first tested on bipop folks, and then anarchists, 225 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: and then eventually everyone. If you thought sheriffs shutting down 226 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 1: vehicle access to the main stop Line three camp right 227 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: as Mbridge was completing drilling under the Mississippi River a 228 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: little sus well, wait until you hear that Embridge is 229 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: also directly giving cops millions of dollars. This is from 230 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: Vice News quote. A Canadian oil company has given Minnesota 231 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: law enforcement two million dollars to fund the policing and 232 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: protests against the construction of its new pipeline ambridges that 233 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 1: have fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May 234 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: as a part of its permitting process for the Line 235 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: three pipeline route. The funds in this account have been 236 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: used to reimburse costs associated with maintaining the piece around 237 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: the pipeline, including for officer wages, lodging, and boom trucks, 238 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: according to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and Line three permits. 239 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: Since its creation, three d twenty seven thousand dollars of 240 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: the Mbridge fund has gone to the Cass County Sheriff's Office, 241 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: located one eighty miles north of Minneapolis, for security patrols 242 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: of their private property. This amounted to around seven percent 243 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: of the department's salary and overtime budget for the year. 244 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: Between November and February nineteen one, over forty employees dedicated 245 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: more than seven thousand hours to safety patrols. Another one 246 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one dollars went to the Belatrimi County's 247 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department for officer training going back as earliest seventeen 248 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: in preparation for the responses to the Line three protests. 249 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: All of this was paid for by Enbridge. In its 250 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: permitting documentation, the Public Utilities Commission cited increased law enforcement 251 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: expenses around pipelines in other parts of the country as 252 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: reasoning for establishing the fund. The funds lived in an 253 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: astro count managed by a state appointed official, to whom 254 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: agencies send requests for reimbursement from en Bridge of costs 255 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: related to quote coordination of public safety and emergency responders, 256 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: public safety related costs for maintaining the peace in and 257 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: around the construction site, review, an oversight of any private 258 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: security services, and other similar costs unquote. The account is 259 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: technically not meant to be used for equipment unless it's 260 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: quote personal protective equipment and extremely broad term that is 261 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: defined nowhere. New Ryan gear, for instance, has been paid 262 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: for by the escrow account. State appointed account manager has 263 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: rejected law enforcement requests for reimbursement for cutting tools for 264 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: lock boxes and such, but there are ways around that. 265 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: In Hubbard County, for example, Mbridge just donated cutting tools 266 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: separate from the escorow account entirely. Upon waking up at 267 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: five thirty am July one, I trudged myself to the 268 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: coffee station in the little forest kitchen, packed up my 269 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: recording equipment and batteries, wrote down a few lawyers phone 270 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: numbers on my stomach in case the day go south, 271 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: and hopped in the media car with other folks from 272 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: the Earth First Journal and began the second caravan of 273 00:16:54,520 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: my trip in Minnesota. It is July one, about nine am. 274 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: Care A many people just arrived at a pipeline construction 275 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: site UM, the Line three pipeline construction site in northern Minnesota. 276 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: I am on the ground here reporting with about I 277 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: don't know, a couple of dozen, a couple of dozen protesters, 278 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: water defenders, line defenders. It's spent a lot of coordination 279 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: between the activists to get here. UM and finding like 280 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: specific sites that are still active and drilling. Since n 281 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: Bridge just finished one of their drilling projects under the 282 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: Mississippi like three days ago. So currently people are walking 283 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: to the site that they are gonna be stationed at. 284 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: I'm a little bit behind. Yeah, I will be reporting 285 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: here as long as I as long as I can 286 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: be um. If I need to get out, then I 287 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: can evacuate, but goals to be here as long as 288 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: I can. Pretty pretty big caravan, A lot of a 289 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: lot of people here, going right up to the drilling site. 290 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: By the time I got to the construction site, there 291 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: were already about a dozen people locked down onto the 292 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: construction equipment. Got more people attached to the pipeline for 293 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: SHARE's vehicle at the site, got another SHARE's vehicle at 294 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: the site, got another about like three or four three 295 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 1: or four law enforcement vehicles have arrived. These abot of 296 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: people messed up, locked up, Camo block, black block, got 297 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: a few people attached the actual pipeline, fists raised up. 298 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: Overall the mood here's actually a lot less tent than 299 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 1: it was on the way. Most people are actually hooked up. 300 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: Now everyone's kind of falling falling into their place kind 301 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: of knows what they want to do, what impact they 302 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: want to have. WHOA, wow, everyone's pretty uh, a lot 303 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: of a lot of like opening cam lotterie gotten pipeline 304 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: workers kind of leaving. Um, looks like they're all gonna 305 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: clear to the site and then I'm guessing more cops 306 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: are gonna roll in arrest and arrest of many people 307 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: as they can. That is what I'm looking at right now. Um, 308 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: there are currently people hooked up to the Line three 309 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: pipeline that has just been a drilling under the Mississippi River. 310 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: People hooked up to the equipment. UM, on both sides 311 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: of the road here, there's people on that side and 312 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: there's people here on this side. We have law enforcement 313 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: on the scene now. Um, we have lots of people 314 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: holding up banners, people hooked up onto the equipment. We have. Yeah, 315 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 1: there's a it's on. It's less tense than the the 316 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: then the build up to the actual action. UM, we 317 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: have people's you know, anyone's have the road willing signs, 318 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: We've got it. We've got a lot a lot of 319 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: banners and I don't know about like I'm guessing fifteen 320 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: to twenty people locked down with lock boxes onto the 321 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: drilling equipment, onto the taking equipment, and onto the pipeline itself. 322 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: People channing stop line three. Fact the police. There were 323 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of line workers here when 324 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: UH people arrived, and they've all since left. Um, no 325 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: one seems super eager to chat. Uh. There is Hubbard 326 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: County Sheriff's here. I believe the I believe the main sheriff, 327 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: his name is Corey, is here. It's like Corey sheriff 328 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: man is talking to the people standing on the side 329 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: of the road. UM. I'm not sure what used to saying. 330 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: People on that side are not I'm not breaking any 331 00:20:54,760 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: loss there. They are just standing on public property holding 332 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: up signs that is not not a crime. There is. Yeah, 333 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: I'm guessing around twenty people have gone to various types 334 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: of equipment and pipelines. UM. People here in black blocks, 335 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: people here in cameo block. UM, and so people just 336 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 1: hearing like write regular clothes. UM. I've talked to a 337 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: few of these people in the last few hours. Why 338 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: they're doing this, why they think it's important. Um, it's 339 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,360 Speaker 1: about topping line three, about protecting the wild rice farms 340 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: in this area, but protecting the Great Lakes um, defending 341 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: people's access to water and honoring the treaties that were signed. 342 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: You know until years ago that the construction of the 343 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: pipelines breaks. Those are those are the things people are 344 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: talking about right now. UM. I believe the police are 345 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: gonna wait for all of the pipeline people to leave, 346 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: um before they start coming in and trying to like 347 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: to detach people and get folks arrested. Um. Yeah, more 348 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: shares off, more shares, vehicle showing up, It's gonna I think, 349 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: I think things are going to happen. Um, this will 350 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: be a long day. There was a brief instant where 351 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: a pipeline worker got into an argument with the protester 352 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: and the worker assaulted the protester. And then when the 353 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: last pipeline workers tried to leave in a pickup truck, 354 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: they almost ran over like a dozen people. As that 355 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: was happening, protesters tried to stop the vehicle to prevent 356 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: it from hitting more people. The truck got away and 357 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: people survived with limited injuries. I then made my way 358 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: over to the other side of the road where a 359 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: collection of moms and other protesters were in the ditch 360 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: holding up Stop Line three signs Sheriff Corey A. Yukes 361 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: was also there, and I had the pleasure of finally 362 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: getting to see him after I've heard so much talk 363 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 1: about him. As I arrived, he was arguing with protesters 364 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: about the pipeline and inevitable climate change caused water shortages. Drinker, 365 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: your family have cancer? You know what they make about. 366 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: Sheriff Corey of Hubberd County just said when the water 367 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: dries up, their kids can drink pop as in like soda, 368 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: soda pop. So I guess that is his plan for 369 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: when there's water shortages, Everyone's just gonna drink soda, according 370 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: to the elected sheriff of Hubberd County. Evidently Sheriff corne 371 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: Yukes was piste after that conversation, because a minute later 372 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: he sent over officers to arrest the two people he 373 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: was talking with. Wow, I don't know, Dylan, what's everything? 374 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: You're under arrest? You're under the two folks that Sheriff's 375 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 1: tried to arrest ran into the forest evading capture. After that, 376 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,399 Speaker 1: Corey turned his attention to me. All right, s Garrison 377 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: David's Pigheart Radio. You can't be within the right away 378 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: like this. I wish I stand I would try to 379 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: find some private property, all right, that they give you 380 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: permission to be on, then you're good like that kind 381 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: out the side of the public though, right, no, it's 382 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: within the right away. You can't do it, You've been 383 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: told according to Minnesota pedestrian law, standing on the side 384 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: of intersection on public property is completely acceptable, but as 385 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: has been shown before, it's impossible to argue with cops 386 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: in the street. So at this point I needed evac 387 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: due to Sheriff Corey threatening me specifically with arrest. Just 388 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: got back to Earth First Camp um from Park Rapids. 389 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: See the last time I chat, which is like a 390 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 1: second hour hour, I should go our half an hour 391 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,239 Speaker 1: and a half ago. I was like, I think at 392 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: least over over seven arrests at that time, probably close 393 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 1: to run ten now. But there was like fourteen people 394 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: still locked to uh the digging equipment at the at 395 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: the line three site. So the sheriffs and I think 396 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: now state police have been called in are having one 397 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: heck of a time on doing this lock boxes. So 398 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: all of work at that section of the site was 399 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: totally shut down for like basically basically the entire day. 400 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: Um So in terms of successfulness of the action. There 401 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: was less people arrested than what was gonna be initially predicted. Um, 402 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: it looks like mostly arrested are people who just fully 403 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,439 Speaker 1: locked down. Other people were either able to get away 404 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: hiding the forest, or I think some people set up 405 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: like a designated like site that that the cops didn't 406 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:55,440 Speaker 1: funk with eventually. Um, but yeah, so let's let's let's 407 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: arrest anticipated um work stop page went on for a 408 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: really long time. UMS, A lot of press attention there, 409 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: um coverage and yeah, and people have you know, there's 410 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: a lot of people locked down. Getting to Minneapolis tomorrow, 411 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: then I'll be back into Portland. So this is basically 412 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: the end the end of this trip. In all, fourteen 413 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: people locked down to various construction equipment, including vehicles and 414 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: the pipeline itself. Twenty eight people were arrested at the 415 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: July first action. Everyone arrested was released a day later. 416 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: Bales were set high at ten thou dollars without conditions 417 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: and five thousand with conditions. No cash bail at temper 418 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: cent was offered, and many of the activists were charged 419 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 1: with felony theft again for quote temporarily taking control of 420 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 1: the equipment they locked themselves to. Since the July first action, 421 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,479 Speaker 1: there's been about one action per week that has stopped 422 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: work on the pipeline, including lockdowns, tree sets, and human 423 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: body suspensions over equipment and roads using massive bipods or tripods. 424 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: Most actions have been done around the horizontal drill used 425 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: to drill under the waterways. It's a very specialized machine 426 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: that serves as a choke point for a clear line 427 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: of attack. Especially since this fight is mostly about water, 428 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: this makes it a sensible target. Also, since July first, 429 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: we've been seeing more felony charges against lockdown protesters. It's 430 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: kind of become the norm the past two months for 431 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: this type of protest felony theft, stacked with misdemeanors and 432 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: gross misdemeanors. Currently, they are about sixty people facing felony 433 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 1: charges just in the past two months. Since June eight, 434 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: the line three sites had at least twenty eight spills 435 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: of fracking fluid were called frackouts. One of them happened 436 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: at the head of the Mississippi after the camp up 437 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: there was cleared out by the cops. After this, in 438 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: mid July, some of the Mbridge water permits were temporarily 439 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: revoked while the state was in a drought, but that 440 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 1: did not really impact construction in some better news, Remember 441 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,120 Speaker 1: when the Hubbard County sheriffs were blocking off the driveway 442 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: to the Noma Wad Camp and we all thought that 443 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: was probably illegal. Well after I left, Sheriff's stopped physically 444 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: blocking the driveway, but did always have a deputy station 445 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,959 Speaker 1: nearby to watch insight everyone who goes on the driveway. 446 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: As of July twenty, Minnesota ninth District Judge Jenna Asted 447 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Hubbard County Sheriff's 448 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: office from blocking vehicular access to the Noma Wad Camp. 449 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: In the order, Judge Asted ordered the Sheriff's office to 450 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: stop quote barricading, obstructing, and otherwise interfering with access to 451 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: the property unquote, and prohibited deputies from stopping vehicles, issuing citations, 452 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: or arresting or threatening to arrest individuals for driving on 453 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: the driveway. Again, quoting investigative journalist Karen Savage quote. Assistant 454 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: Hubbard County Attorney Anna Emerling argued that the actions by 455 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: the sheriff's office were part of a large effort to 456 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: monitor Line three opposition. The judge, however, was not persuaded, 457 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,479 Speaker 1: ruling the driveway blockade and subsequent issuing of citations by 458 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: the Sheriff's office substantially violated the plaintiff's right to use 459 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: and enjoy the property. Quote this action is about an easement, 460 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: and there's no showing the laws being broken on the 461 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: disputed easement unquote, Ostad wrote in the order. It was 462 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: announced in June that TransCanada, another Alberta based whale company, 463 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: canceled the Keystone XL pipeline after Biden removed permits when 464 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: he first took office. High visibility and performative protests have 465 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: trying to get Biden and other officials to do this 466 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: same for the Line three, but at this point success 467 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: seems unlikely. According to Enbridge, Line three is over eight 468 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: complete and may be finished as soon as September one. 469 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: There's this concept called the meat grinder. You jump into 470 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: the grinder in hopes of either clogging the gears or 471 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: hoping that somebody with power to stop the grinder sees 472 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: you inside and will take action, But more often than not, 473 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: nothing will happen, and you'll just get ground up and 474 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: spit out stuff like the protest lockdowns can kind of 475 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: feel like that, especially when you're getting as and I 476 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: in charges like felony theft and there's over sixty people 477 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: with felony charges. On the other hand, just standing outside 478 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: the grinder holding anti meat grinders signs feels like it's 479 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: not nearly doing enough, and trying to covertly destroy the 480 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: grinder from the outside can be scary and potentially get 481 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: you into a lot of trouble. This is an issue 482 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: with activism in a broad sense. We saw a little 483 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: bit of this in Portland last year, with people showing 484 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: up at police stations the night after night, not really 485 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: knowing what to do, and then just getting attacked by 486 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: cops and getting tons of charges. One point members of 487 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: the Canoe Collective, the Indigenous Women and two Spirit led 488 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: group run out of now Mawag kept bringing up is 489 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: that no matter the result of line three, the fight 490 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: doesn't just end with this pipeline. There will be other pipelines, 491 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: other deforestation projects, and more industrialization that threatens indigenous territory. 492 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: All the mistakes and successes firebombs and lockdowns, marches and 493 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: rallies can be learned from to make whatever the next 494 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 1: mobilization effort is stronger, and time and time again. One 495 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,719 Speaker 1: of the most useful, if not the most useful things, 496 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: is just to have more people willing to do the thing. 497 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: Minor and infrequent, isolated acts, whether they be ecological sabotage, 498 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: monkey wrenching, or lock tents and marches, have been shown 499 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: to be inadequate against the international oil giants when happening 500 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: only every once in a while. Markers can be ignored, 501 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: damaged pipelines can be repaired, but if the system gets 502 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: overwhelmed all at the same time, then that might be 503 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 1: a different story. Congruent mass mobilization has to shock the 504 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: cogs in the machine enough to make instituting major change 505 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 1: the only possible outcome. That may seem far fetched or fanciful, 506 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: but if you look at his story and even modern 507 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: history in places outside the States, you can see echoes 508 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: inspects of this very thing. And if you look to 509 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: indigenous women and to spirit both in history and now 510 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: on the modern day, you can learn some really insightful 511 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: ways to resist the fascist behemoth and capitalist slash colonial leviathan. 512 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: Because they've been forced to resist these systems and structures 513 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: for a very long time. Listen to them, hear what 514 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: they have to say, and that wraps up my episodes 515 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: based on my trip to Minnesota, staying at the Earth 516 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: First and Stop Line three camp, I love to cover 517 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: and signal boost more stuff in this vein in the 518 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: near future. One other aspect about getting involved with movements 519 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: like this is that you could experience a little mini anarchy. 520 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: Whether in the Earth First camp or the Maywogue, you 521 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 1: get to see how the world could be outside of capitalism, 522 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: cops in the state, and once you get to live 523 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: like that, you start to wonder why do we have 524 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: any other way. It's almost intoxicating to be able to 525 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: experience the world as it could be. If you want 526 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: to donate directly to the New Collective, you can go 527 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: to bit dot l y slash stop Pipeline three. When 528 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: donated to the legal Fund, you can go to Protest 529 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 1: Law dot org slash line three, and the bail fund 530 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: is at Stop Line three Bail Funds dot org. You 531 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: can learn more about the Stop Line three movement from 532 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: the New Collective on social media that's g I n 533 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: I W Collective, or check out Stop Line three dot org.