There’s still time to join us tonight (Jul 20) at 6pm or use the information below to act in your own time.
With the Session ended we’re going with a mix of state and federal actions:
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Thanks to folks who attended Time to Act tonight in real time. There’s still time to use the information below to act in your own time. All three actions are important and time sensitive:
· Stop Line 3 before construction over the Mississippi starts tomorrow
· Show your support for Congress passing S.1, the For the People Act
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WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Please sign the petition to President Biden to ask him to Stop Line 3! Then tell 3 friends to do the same. Even better, also call the White House and Climate Office of Gina McCarthy to tell them to Stop Line 3 at 888-724-8946.
What else can you do?
Women’s Marchers are good at standing up and SAYING NO.
Also, consider a cash donation or donate food or gear to support the Water Protectors who are camping at the sites where Enbridge plans to drill and/or consider a donation to the bail fund for protestors who are arrested.
1. Contact DFL House Leadership
Rep. Melissa Hortman (36B), Speaker of the House (DFL) Tel: 651-296-4280
Email: rep.melissa.hortman@house.mn
2. Contact Governor Walz
Governor Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan Tel: 651-201-3400
Email: https://mn.gov/governor/contact/
3. Contact Senate Leadership
Sen. Paul Gazelka (9), Senate Majority Leader (GOP)
Email: https://www.senate.mn/members/email-form/1169
4. Contact your own legislators (Rep. and Sen.), particularly if they are on the Public Safety Conference Committee.
Find your legislators and contacts here - https://www.gis.leg.mn/iMaps/districts/
Learn more…
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Today the water protectors have seized the site of an Enbridge Line 3 construction site. Led by indigenous women Winona LaDuke and Tara Houska and joined by celebrities such as Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, sources have reported more than 1,000 people in the group. So far, Enbridge says, the protestor have done little to impede the $4 billion project. But I read that in the Washington Post – so the water protectors are indeed having an impact.
If nothing else, they are letting people know the perils of Line 3 and that it can be stopped by President Biden. You can contact him now (202-456-1111) to tell him you support the water protectors and stopping Line 3.
As I write this I’m back in St Paul and watching the brave water protectors in the sweltering heat (90 degrees and sunny) chanting “water is life” as police from several Minnesota counties and cities work to silence and remove the protestors from the Treaty People Gathering in Northern Minnesota. A small team from Women’s March Minnesota was up in Northern MN…
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Tonight (June 1, 2021) at 6pm, a team of Women’s March MN members will be meeting to make calls to ask our policymakers to represent us! (It’s not too late to sign up to Time to Act now!)
We will address the following topics:
Establish and Fund the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relative Permanent Office
Stop Line 3 - write to Biden, call Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Smith
The Treaty People Gathering is a weekend-long initiative leading up to a non-violent direct action on June 7 in Northern Minnesota to stop construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 project in Northern Minnesota.
WMM members have been involved with Line 3 actions in the past by volunteering to document construction of the line and attending protests in Northern Minnesota as well as in the Twin Cities. A group of us plan to join the Treaty People Gathering on June 5-6 (Saturday and Sunday) to support the preparation of the non-violent direction action planned for Monday. The preparation will take place near Detroit Lakes; we will be leaving Saturday morning and returning Sunday night. Please let us know if you want to lend your time and energy for this important cause. (Contact us at admin@womensmarchmn.org.)
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Take a Minute to Take an Action
Couldn’t be with us last Tuesday but want to take action on important issues? Here are the instruction sheets for the three issues we took action on last night - MN Environment and Natural Resources omnibus; expansion of Medicare; THRIVE Act. Please use them to contact MN state and federal policymakers to affect change:
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