Join us for a community screening of the film "First Daughter and the Black Snake" on July 17th at 8pm. We are gathering in solidarity on stolen Piscataway land to uplift the ongoing fight to Stop Line 3. We will be hearing from the filmmaker Keri Pickett, Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth, folx from Extinction Rebellion DC, Palm Collective, Arm in Arm for Climate Justice and Shutdown DC who have been to the frontlines, and learning how YOU can join the fight.
The film shows the journey of Winona LaDuke who believes Big Oil is the black snake predicted in Indigenous prophecy to bring the earth’s destruction. When proposed new oil pipelines threaten sacred wild rice lakes, Winona dreams of organizing a spiritual ride, riding her horse against the current of oil “because a horse can kill a snake.” Learn more about the film here https://www.blacksnakefilm.com/
This screening is part of a week of actions to defund line 3 where water protectors around the country will denounce the two loan renewals for Enbridge on July 22nd and July 23rd.
Water is Life, Stop Line 3.
Meet at the corner of E and 4th St NW
Time: Saturday July 17th, 8pm
Why We Must Stop Line 3
Line 3 is being built through Indigenous territory without consent. The Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe are all suing to stop the pipeline. Prominent native activists have described the pipeline as “cultural genocide” and Indigenous activists in northern Minnesota are leading the direct actions on the ground.
If built, Line 3 would release as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as fifty new coal-fired power plants. It would release as much greenhouse gas as the entire rest of the state of Minnesota.
The fight to stop this pipeline is the fight to save our planet.
“Now is the time for us to defund the White Supremacist, carbon bomb that is Line 3. We're going to make the financial companies that support Enbridge and its toxic Line 3 pipeline feel the heat.
The fight to stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline 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.
If enough of us take these actions together, we can make the companies funding Line 3 feel enough pressure that they will walk away from Enbridge. Throughout history people-powered movements have changed the world. And they sure as hell can stop Line 3.”
~ TARA HOUSKA, GINIW COLLECTIVE