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August 23, 2021

Lawmakers Call on Biden to Halt Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline as Police Step Up Attacks on Protesters
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More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Biden
to halt construction on the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in northern
Minnesota until a thorough environmental review is undertaken.

Meanwhile, Indigenous leaders Winona La Duke and Tara Houska met with
the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights defenders last week to share
the police violence suffered by water protectors at the Line 3
construction site. Activists say law enforcement ramped up their brutal
attacks last week, dislocating one person's jaw. But land and water
defenders say they will continue their resistance.

Water protector: "We really need to be all standing beside each other
and behind the Indigenous leadership in this movement that is - has so
much to teach us about how to really walk right on this Earth and how to
move forward in a world where we actually want to raise our children and
live."



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