FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 11, 2021
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Nancy Treviño | (786) 201-8958 | media@presente.org
Carolina Ortiz, 612-806-1791, carolinao@copalmn.org
Latinx and Migrant Communities Join Indigenous Leaders to Protect Water Rights and #StopLine3
MINNEAPOLIS –– This week’s Treaty People Gathering in Northern Minnesota brought together over 2,000 water protectors from across the country to demand an end to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline –– a massive pipeline that would put hundreds of waterways at risk of a spill from the 760,000 barrels of tar sands oil that would flow through Line 3 every day.
As Latinx and migrant communities committed to climate justice we are honored to be in solidarity with indigenous communities to see an end to this dirty pipeline. Nearly 200 people were arrested this week and an ongoing treaty encampment in the path of the pipeline was launched as well.
Latinx communities joining this fight is an incredible show of organizing that signals the beginning of a cultural shift that will require even more of us joining this movement. Another oil spill by the extractive oil industry will not only affect indigenous communities, it will also impact the water and land that Latinx families depend on. It’s imperative that we continue coming together to protect our planet and organizing for further systemic change.
As the fight to #StopLine3 continues, we call on President Biden to invoke his executive power to stop this project as he did when he revoked the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit –– a project that’s now officially dead. As organizations committed to creating an inclusive, equitable and sustainable way of life for migrant communities living in the United States and across the Americas, we pledge to continue the fight for climate justice and will keep organizing with frontline and indigenous groups to kill Line 3.
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