It Could Happen Here - Part Two: Welcome to the Ecological Resistance

Episode Date: September 1, 2021

Upon returning to the Earth First! camp we discover more about why sheriffs were blocking the Namewag camp driveway, and then learn about the long history of the StopLine3 movement. Finally, Garrison recaps a Direct Action at the pipeline construction site in northern Minnesota. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is 6 a.m., June 29th. I have not slept yet since the cops left at around midnight last night. It's been a nice campfire, listening to birds. And just now at 6 a.m., we had the first sheriff's truck arrive for the day. It's the same kind of detective guy that was over yesterday and kind of in lead of things. Everyone in the

stop line three camp is probably going to wake up soon. We'll see what today has in store. Fifteen cars were towed the first day of the cop blockade, and the tow trucks messed up the road so much that the county had to send in a huge machine to re-grade the dirt road. Cops still weren't letting cars through, but for day two, people didn't put up a physical

resistance to the sheriff's driveway blockade. There were other things to figure out and strategize. There were other things to figure out and strategize. after one night in jail, and there was a pretty cheery greeting for them here at the Line 3 camp. A few of the people were a little more somber, because of course their friends were in jail, but most people were pretty excited to see each other again, and most people seemed pretty optimistic. So that's kind of the state of things right now two sheriff's trucks are still preventing cars from going onto the driveway at the stop line 3 camp but so far there's been no passive or active resistance to that today, unlike yesterday

so we'll see if that changes in the next few hours. I'm probably going to head back to the first camp to pick up some supplies, and I'll decide what I do from there. But, I mean, the atmosphere in the Stop Line 3 camp is super unique. There's a few hundred people here now, pretty massive space. They actually own this property where they're basing the camp out of,

and for actions they can move on to the Line 3 site, which is just across the way. But the fact that it's their property does give them some distinct advantages in terms of how the law can crack down on them without, you know, having horrible objects on the state's part. Um, but yeah, they have a really, they have a really good setup. They got farms, you know, they growing food, they have a really nice like kitchen, you

know, they have like buildings and stuff. Um, decent amount of tents. Um, water's a little bit low, but people are trying to figure that out. So, we're trying to go easy on the water, at least at the moment. It took longer than I thought, but eventually I made my way back to the Earth First Camp. Just got back to Earth First Camp. It is a little bit past midnight, so technically it's now June 30th. But, uh, still, uh, still not slept since, uh, the night of the 28th, so

I'm excited to finally be back in my tent. People, when I arrived, people were having a small fire and singing songs, so that was nice. Um, oh fuck, there's a spider in my tent. I'll have to deal with that later. Um anyway, there's still a decent amount of Earth First people staying at the Line 3 camp. I assume some more will head over tomorrow. I've not fully made up my mind what I'm going to do yet, but I'm leaning towards probably staying at this camp, trying to talk to some more people.

And then on the last day, I'll join wherever other people are doing. If they're doing action, I will be there in whatever reporting capacity makes the most sense. So yeah, I mean, everyone, there's more and more people that are coming back to Earth First Camp right now. Tomorrow might actually have some, you know, it may be more of a full day. I'll try to swim in the lake.

Because it'd be a shame if I did not do that for this trip. But yeah, I mean, it's been an interesting almost 48 hours without sleep. And dealing with all of these issues surrounding how the sheriffs

are trying to crack down on the Line 3 protesters. Oh, I guess the one thing is, like, the sheriffs actually left in, like, the late afternoon on the 29th. So we don't really know what their plan is. I heard some people from the Line 3 side have initiated some legal proceedings to help get more clear legal access to the driveway to their own property.

So that could be the reason why we left, but we don't totally know why they left so early. They didn't stay super late to continue blocking off access to the driveway. So that part's still up in the air. I'm sure I'll find out more tomorrow. And find out we did. It's the night of June 30th, Wednesday. And find out we did. nor, to my understanding, does many other people, because just today we found out that the reason why the cops were blocking the driveway

to the Line 3 protest camp is because during that time, Enbridge, the company with the pipeline, completed drilling on one of the two spots planted under the Mississippi River, and they wanted to make sure there wasn't any people there to prevent that, so that's why the cops were blocking off access to the road from the protest camp. So, because now that that drilling spot is complete, I think that kind of threw a wrench in people's protest plans for tomorrow. So, things are kind of up in the air.

All I know is that I have to be up early and we will be driving somewhere. I think people are probably going to be locking down with lockboxes and probably soft blockades. So I'm expecting arrests to happen. Yeah, but the mood's pretty tense

right now. Everyone's pretty anxious, um, we're just kind of doing, doing, doing a waiting game at the moment, um, I'm gonna try my, try my best to, to not get, uh, arrested, but that's not really up to me, um, because, I mean, I just don't know what the location's gonna to be like I don't know there's just so little information and I have no idea what the cop's reaction is going to be to any of this the sheer number of people committed to doing the land defense and water defense

and committed to like showing up in person to advocate for the treaties to be actually followed. I mean, of course, those treaties, most of them were... There's reasons to talk about how people were coerced into signing certain treaties, but the fact is the ones that people have right now aren't even being followed in terms of, you know, stuff for this Line 3 pipeline

and crossing over indigenous land, um, and sacred areas. So, so yeah, there's just so many people dedicated to doing this that I'm not sure if the cops will be prepared for how many people it looks like are going to be caravanning down, um, and depending what their plans

are, causing a scene. But I'm about to go to bed. I have to sleep. Have a long day ahead of me. A long day of trying to not get arrested, and then missing my ride back to my home on the other side of the country. Before I recap what happened on the July 1st Stop Line 3 direct action, I want to give some background for the whole Line 3 thing. Now, you probably heard of the Stop Line 3 movement this year. A few public actions have grabbed national attention, like the protests outside Chase Bank, and perhaps a few actions near the

pipeline. But you might be surprised to hear that the fight has been going on for over seven years. Back in 2014, Enbridge, a Canadian oil giant, started the process of applying to replace their existing Line 3 pipeline with a new, bigger pipeline, large portions of which are along a completely new route, including areas that would violate the treaty rights of the indigenous Ashwinabe, by passing through tribal territory, freshwater sources, ecosystems, and public lands while endangering primary areas of hunting, fishing, wild rice, and cultural resources in the 1855 treaty territory. For most of the past seven years, the plans for the pipeline going through Minnesota have been caught up in litigation and regulatory hearings. There have been on-the-ground direct actions and protests, but all in hopes of preventing the construction from starting. That changed in November of 2020, when the Minnesota

Pollution Control Agency issued water crossing permits in mid-November, and then the Army Corps of Engineers issued the other necessary permits mere days later. Enbridge had been positioning pipes and equipment for years, doing so-called pre-construction, so as soon as they got the go-ahead, they could rush to dig, drill, and start placing pipes in the ground. The first pipe was laid out to wait all the way back in November of 2017, three years before Enbridge got the permission to actually begin construction. The current Line 3, which carries crude oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, was originally built in the 60s. Pipe corrosion caused numerous spills from the 70s to the early 2000s. To circumvent this, Enbridge reduced the operating pressure and instituted yearly

high-resolution inspections using modern technology to track ongoing corrosion. As a result, the existing Line 3 pipe ships 430,000 barrels per day. When finished, the new Line 3 would ship 915,000 barrels of tar sands crude oil a day, one of the dirtiest fuels on Earth. That's more than double the current Line 3 pipeline. The new Line 3 will carry enough oil to produce about 170 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide per year. That's equivalent to about 50 coal power plants, or 38 million vehicles on our roads. Total project costs have risen to $9.3 billion,

with the Minnesota segment of the pipeline costing $4 billion. A big part of the argument for Line 3 in Minnesota is supposed job creation. The problem is that the majority of these jobs are short-term, part-time hire workers from out of state. part-time hire workers from out of state. Embridge's fourth quarter 2020 jobs reports that only 33% of the almost 5,000 workers in the project were from Minnesota, and they worked only 28% of the total hours. Embridge has a job promise that the Line 3 replacement project would create about 8,600 jobs, the majority of which are local, in Minnesota over a two-year period, including 4,800 union construction jobs, half of which are expected to be filled locally. However, instead of 75% of jobs being local, the opposite is true, with nearly 75% of hours being

worked by out-of-state workers. In Minnesota alone, the new Line 3 pipe would cross more than 200 water ecosystems and tunnel under 20 rivers, including the Mississippi River, twice. The source of drinking water for millions of people. The new Line 3 would threaten many pristine lakes, rivers, and streams, including where wild rice grows, a foundation of the Ashinabe's people's traditional way of life and spiritual practices. Since the announcement that construction could begin last November, Enbridge has been literally working non-stop to finish this pipeline as soon as possible. Resistance against Line 3 has also been rapidly increasing the past year,

all leading up to this past summer, with many calls going out for national support. People are continuing to try to stop construction through litigation or pressuring public officials, while others are taking direct action in hopes of slowing down the construction itself. As protests have continued, the state response has grown more harsh. The most recent Line 3 protesters who've gotten arrested for locking down on equipment are being charged with felony theft for, quote, temporarily taking control of the construction equipment, unquote, by locking themselves to it. These new harsh protest-related charges, like felony resisting and obstructing, are usually first tested on BIPOC folks, and then anarchists,

and then eventually everyone. If you thought sheriffs shutting down vehicle access to the main Stop Line 3 camp right as Enbridge was completing drilling under the Mississippi River a little sus, well, wait until you hear that Enbridge is also directly giving cops millions of dollars. This is from Vice News. Quote, A Canadian oil company has given Minnesota law enforcement $2 million to fund the policing of protests against the construction of its new pipeline. Enbridge set up a fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May of 2020 as a part of its permitting process for the Line 3 pipeline route. The funds in this account have been used to reimburse costs associated with

maintaining the peace around the pipeline, including for officer wages, lodging, and boom trucks, according to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and Line 3 permits. Since its creation in 2020, $327,000 of the Enbridge Fund has gone to the Cass County Sheriff's Office, located 180 miles north of Minneapolis, for security patrols of their private property. This amounted to around 7% of the department's salary and overtime budget for the year. Between November 28, 2020 and February 19, 2021, over 40 employees dedicated more than 7,000 hours to safety patrols.

Another $171,000 went to the Bellatrimi County Sheriff's Department for officer training going back as early as 2017 in preparation for the responses to the Line 3 protests. All of this was paid for by Enbridge. In its permitting documentation, the Public Utilities Commission cited increased law enforcement expenses around pipelines in other parts of the country as reasoning for establishing the fund. The funds live in an escrow account managed by a state-appointed official to whom agencies send requests for reimbursement from Enbridge of costs related to, quote, coordination of public safety and emergency responders, public safety-related costs for maintaining the peace in and around the construction site, review and oversight of any private security services,

and other similar costs, unquote. The account is technically not meant to be used for equipment, unless it's, quote, personal protective equipment, an extremely broad term that is defined nowhere. New Ryan Gear, for instance, has been paid for by the escrow account. State-appointed account manager has rejected law enforcement requests for reimbursement for cutting tools for lockboxes and such. But there are ways around that. In Hubbard County, for example, Enbridge just donated cutting tools separate from the escrow account entirely. Welcome. I'm Danny Thrill. Won't you join me at the fire and dare enter Nocturnal Tales from the Shadows

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Upon waking up at 5.30 a.m july 1st i trudged myself to the coffee station in the little forest kitchen packed up my recording equipment and batteries wrote down a few lawyers phone numbers on my stomach in case the day goes south and hopped in the media car with other folks from the earth first journal and began the second caravan of my trip in Minnesota. It is July 1st, about 9 a.m. Caravan of people just arrived at a pipeline construction site, Line 3 pipeline construction site in northern Minnesota. Minnesota, I am on the ground here reporting with about, I don't know, a couple dozen, a couple dozen protesters, water defenders, land defenders. It's been a lot of coordination between the activists to get here and finding specific sites that are still active and drilling since Enbridge just finished one of their drilling

projects into the Mississippi like three days ago. So currently people are walking to the site that they are going to be stationed at. I'm a little bit behind. Yeah, I will be reporting here as long as I can be. If I need to get out, then I can evacuate, but the goal is to be here as long as I can. Pretty big caravan, a lot of people here, going right up to the drilling site. By the time I got to the construction site, there were already about a dozen people locked down onto the construction equipment. Three or four law enforcement vehicles have arrived. These amount of people messed up, blocked up. Camo block. Black block. Got a few people attached to the actual pipeline.

Fists raised up. Overall, the mood here is actually a lot less tense than it was on the way. Most people are actually hooked up now. Everyone's kind of fallen into their place. Everyone kind of knows what they want to do, what impact they want to have. Everyone's pretty, a lot of like open camaraderie. Got the pipeline workers kind of leaving.

Looks like they're all going to clear out of the site. And then I'm guessing more cops are going to roll in and try to arrest as many people as they can. That is what I'm looking at right now. There are currently people hooked up to the Line 3 pipeline that has just been drilling under the Mississippi River. People hooked up to the equipment. On both sides of the road here, there's people on that side, and there's people here on this side. We have law enforcement on the scene now.

We have lots of people holding up banners, lots of people hooked up onto the equipment. We have, yeah, there's, it's less tense than the build-up to the actual action. We've got people, you know, standing on the side of the road holding signs. We've got a lot of banners, and I don't know, about like, I'm guessing 15 to 20 people locked down with lockboxes onto the drilling equipment, onto the digging equipment, and onto the pipeline itself. Stop Line 3!

Fuck the police! People chanting, stop Line 3, fuck the police. There were a lot of line workers here when people arrived, and they've all since left. No one seems super eager to chat. There is Hubbard County sheriffs here. I believe the main sheriff, named Corey, is here.

Looks like Corey, sheriff man, is talking to the people standing on the side of the road. Not sure what he's saying. People on that side are not breaking any laws. They are just standing on public property, holding up signs. That is not a crime. There is, yeah, I'm guessing around 20, 25 people have gone to various types of equipment and pipelines. People here in black blocks, people here in camo block, and some people just here in regular clothes.

I've talked to a few of these people in the last few hours why they're doing this, why they think it's important. It's about stopping Line 3, about protecting the wild rice farms in this area, about protecting the Great Lakes, defending people's access to water, and honoring the treaties that were signed hundreds of years ago that the construction of these pipelines breaks.

Those are the things people are talking about right now. I believe the police are going to wait for all of the pipeline people to leave before they start coming in and trying to detach people and get folks arrested. Yeah, more sheriff's vehicles showing up. It's going to... things are going to happen. This will be a long day. There was a brief instant where a pipeline worker got into an argument with a protester and the worker assaulted the protester.

And then when the last pipeline workers tried to leave in a pickup truck, they almost ran over like a dozen people. As that was happening, protesters tried to stop the vehicle to prevent it from hitting more people. The truck got away, and people survived with limited injuries. I then made my way over to the other side of the road, where a collection of moms and other protesters were in the ditch holding up stop line 3 signs. Sheriff Corey Ayukes was also there, and I had the pleasure of finally getting to see him after I've heard so much talk about him. As I arrived, he was arguing with protesters about the pipeline and inevitable climate change-caused water shortages. Your kids are going to die thirsty. Or they die of cancer. They'll drink pop.

Did your family die of cancer? That's what you drink. Of the oil you're protecting? Did your family die of cancer? Of the oil you're protecting? You know what they make pop out of? Which one of your family members said that? Sheriff Corey of Hubbard County just said, when the water dries up, their kids can drink pop.

As in, like, soda pop. So I guess that is his plan for when there is water shortages. Everyone's just going to drink soda, according to the elected sheriff of Hubbard County. Evidently, Sheriff Correa-Yukes was pissed after that conversation, because a minute later, he sent over officers to arrest the two people he was talking with. Let her go. Dylan!

What'd they do? What's that? You're under arrest! You're under arrest! You're under arrest! The two folks that sheriffs tried to arrest ran into the forest, evading capture. After that, Corey turned his attention to me. Hi, my name is Garrison Davis on High Heart Radio.

Right, but here's the thing, you can't be within the right-of-way like this. So I'm just giving you fair warning. Yeah, where should I stand? I would try to find some private property that they give you permission to be on, then you're good. Like that concept on the side of the road is like public though, right? No, it's within the right-of-way, you can't do it.

You've been told. According to Minnesota pedestrian law, You've been told. I think he's having doubt. According to Minnesota pedestrian law, standing on the side of intersection on public property is completely acceptable. But as has been shown before, it's impossible to argue with cops in the street. So at this point, I needed evac due to Sheriff Corey threatening me specifically with arrest. Just got back to Earth First Camp from Park Rapids. Sheriff Corey threatening me specifically with arrest. but there was like 14 people still locked to the digging equipment at the Line 3 site. So the sheriffs and I think now state police have been called in are having one heck of a time undoing those lockboxes.

So all of work at that section of the site was totally shut down for basically the entire day. So in terms of successfulness of the action, there was less people arrested than what was going to be initially predicted. Um, it looks like most of the arrests are people who just fully locked down. Other people were either able to get away, hide in the forest, or I think some people set up like a designated like site that, that the cops didn't fuck with eventually. Um, but yeah, so let the rest of the anticipated. Work stoppage went on for a really long time. There's a lot of press attention there, coverage.

And yeah, people have, you know, there's a lot of people locked down. Getting to Minneapolis tomorrow, then I'll be back into Portland. So this is basically the end of this trip. In all, 14 people locked down to various construction equipment, including vehicles and the pipeline itself. 28 people were arrested at the July 1st action. Everyone arrested was released a day later. Bails were set high at $10,000 without conditions and $5,000 with conditions. No cash bail at 10% was offered, and many of the activists were charged with felony theft.

Again, for, quote, temporarily taking control of the equipment they locked themselves to. Since the July 1st action, there's been about one action per week that has stopped work on the pipeline, including lockdowns, tree sits, and human body suspensions over equipment and roads using massive bipods or tripods. Most actions have been done around the horizontal drill used to drill under the waterways. It's a very specialized machine that serves as a choke point for a clear line of attack. Especially since this fight is mostly about water, this makes it a sensible target. Also since July 1st, we've been seeing more felony charges against lockdown protesters. It's kind of become the norm the past two months for this type of protest.

Felony theft stacked with misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors. Currently there are about 60 people facing felony charges. Just in the past two months since June 8th, the Line 3 sites have had at least 28 spills of fracking fluid, or called frack-outs. One of them happened at the head of the Mississippi after the camp up there was cleared out by the cops. After this, in mid-July, some of the Enbridge water permits were temporarily revoked while the state was in a drought, but that did not really impact construction. In some better news, remember when the Hubbard County sheriffs were blocking off the driveway to the No May Walk camp, and we all thought that was probably illegal? Well, after I left, sheriffs stopped physically blocking the driveway,

but did always have a deputy station nearby to watch and sight everyone who goes on the driveway. As of July 23rd, Minnesota 9th District Judge Jenna Ostad granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Hubbard County Sheriff's Office from blocking vehicular access to the Nomewag camp. In the order, Judge Ostad ordered the Sheriff's Office to stop, quote, barricading, obstructing, and otherwise interfering with access to the property, unquote, and prohibited deputies from stopping vehicles, issuing citations, or arresting or threatening to arrest individuals for driving on the driveway. Again, quoting investigative journalist Karen Savage, quote, Assistant Hubbard County Attorney Anna Emmerling argued that the actions by the Sheriff's Office were part of a

large effort to monitor Line 3 opposition. The judge, however, was not persuaded, ruling that the driveway blockade and subsequent issuing of citations by the Sheriff's Office substantially violated the plaintiff's right to use and enjoy the property. Quote, this action's about an easement, and there's no showing the law is being broken on the disputed easement. Unquote. Ostad wrote in the order. It was announced in June that TransCanada, another Alberta-based oil company, cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline after Biden removed permits when he first took office. High visibility and performative protests have tried to get Biden and other officials to do the same for Line 3,

but at this point, success seems unlikely. According to Enbridge, Line 3 is over 80% complete and may be finished as soon as September 2021. There's this concept called the meat grinder. You jump into the grinder in hopes of either clogging the gears or hoping that somebody with power to stop the grinder sees you inside and will take action. But more often than not, nothing will happen

and you'll just get ground up and spit out. Stuff like the protest lockdowns can kind of feel like that, especially when you're getting asinine charges like felony theft, and there's over 60 people with felony charges. On the other hand, just standing outside the grinder holding anti-meat grinder signs feels like it's not nearly doing enough, and trying to covertly destroy the grinder from the outside can be scary and potentially get you into a lot of trouble. This is an issue with activism in a broad sense. We saw a little bit of this in Portland last year, with people showing up at police stations night after night,

not really knowing what to do, and then just getting attacked by cops and getting tons of charges. One point members of the GNU collective, the Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit-led group run out of NMWG, kept bringing up is that no matter the result of Line 3, the fight doesn't just end with this pipeline. There will be other pipelines, other deforestation projects, and more industrialization that threatens indigenous territory. All the mistakes and successes, firebombs and lockdowns, marches and rallies, can be learned from to make whatever the next mobilization effort is stronger. And time and time again, one of the most useful, if not the most useful things,

is just to have more people willing to do the thing. Minor and infrequent isolated acts, whether they be ecological sabotage, monkey wrenching, or lockdowns and marches, have been shown to be inadequate against the international oil giants. When happening only every once in a while, marches can have been shown to be inadequate against the international oil giants. When happening only every once in a while, marches can be ignored, damaged pipelines can be repaired. But if the system gets overwhelmed all at the same time, then that might be a different story. Congruent mass mobilization has to shock the cogs in the machine enough

to make instituting major change the only possible outcome. That may seem far-fetched or fanciful, but if you look to history and even modern history in places outside the states, you can see echoes and specters of this very thing. And if you look to indigenous women and two-spirit, both in history and now in the modern day, you can learn some really insightful ways to resist the fascist behemoth and capitalist-slash-colonial Leviathan. Because they've been forced to resist these systems and structures for a very long time. Listen to them, hear what they have to say. Welcome. I'm Danny Thrill.

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