#camp migizi

[jacobwren]

Indigenous groups leading the movement against Line 3 include the Giniw Collective, founded by Tara Houska; Winona LaDuke’s Honor the Earth; the Rise Coalition and environmental organization MN350, both founded by Nancy Beaulieu; and Camp Migizi. To “deal with” the protesters, Enbridge opened an escrow account to reimburse Minnesota state and local agencies for the cost of policing their private interests. After Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources, which issued the permits for Line 3, law enforcement agencies received the largest payout from the escrow fund. Conflicts between protesters and the specially formed Northern Lights Task Force escalated to the police using LRADs (long range acoustic devices, also known as sound cannons), helicopters, rubber bullets, tear gas, and techniques they referred to as “pain compliance.” All this was paid for by Enbridge, and planned for in collaboration with Minnesota law enforcement based on case studies from Standing Rock. Out of approximately nine hundred Line 3–related arrests since 2020, at least ninety-one protesters were charged with felonies. As of March 2022, sixty-six felony charges remained open. These numbers do not include the charges against Indigenous activists transferred to tribal courts. Felony charges, which vary from state to state but typically apply to violent crime and carry heavy penalties, are largely unprecedented for ecological protest. Direct actions along Line 3 were uniformly passive, involving no violence or property damage. Under most circumstances, such actions would result in the relatively minor misdemeanor charge of trespassing. But prosecutors wanted to create deterrents, and found creative ways to charge protesters with more serious crimes. Water protectors were charged with “assisted suicide” for climbing into and occupying sections of unused pipe, and “felony theft” for costing Enbridge money in the form of work stoppages by locking themselves to equipment or fences. Both carry penalties of up to ten years in prison. Meanwhile, a number of Line 3 activists subjected to “pain compliance” have sustained permanent facial paralysis in the form of Bell’s palsy. As of January 2022, Enbridge had paid out $4.8 million to fund anti-protest policing. Imagine if all these resources — the state’s, the corporation’s, law enforcement’s, the lawyers’ — went toward averting the mass extinction coming for us all, instead.

Bela Shayevich, Migizi Will Fly

#bela shayevich #camp migizi #line 3 #enbridge

[thearchivebaby]

"The Sabbath is not “for” anything; the Sabbath is only for itself—a testament to the fact that our value isn’t defined by work, but is inherent in us. We are not aiming to rejuvenate ourselves for the work week, but only to be. We do not earn the Sabbath; it simply arrives. It does not care if we have finished our work, if we are ready for it. It intrudes; it supersedes.

This vision of rest might appear to take us away from the work of political struggle—but other readings help us to refuse this zero sum approach. Crucially, our rest periods force us to turn toward one another, knitting us together as a collective. In many cases, the community is the very condition of rest, what makes it possible. Prayer requires a minyan, a group of ten, and even for those prayers recited alone, according to the 16th-century Kabbalist the Arizal, we should begin by saying, “I accept upon myself the obligation to love my fellow as myself,” making communal what is otherwise solitary.

How could the grand suspension of Shmita proceed—the harvest foregone, the workbench left empty—without the pooling of resources? If you return to the congregation every Shabbat, then the congregation is there the rest of the week. They are there in new life, and in sudden death. They are there to watch the children, to rebuild when the house catches fire, to tend to the sick, to defend the weak.

The scholar Bonnie Honig has pointed out that the Sabbath is determined not by the seasons or the moon or the tides, but simply by a communal practice of counting the days—a reminder that we collectively make the world we live in.

In the Jewish tradition, the communal structure of rest is also the basis for redistribution: During Shmita, debts are forgiven and the poor can glean from the farmers’ crops—a process intensified during the Jubilee, when accumulated property is reallocated.

The conception of private ownership itself is threatened by this arrangement, in which we are continually reminded that what we think of as our property really belongs to God. These cycles of relief have a spiritual component as well: Those who typically lack the means for prolonged study are given the opportunity to pursue it. Shabbat has been said to serve a similar function. The sages noted that, while it might be intuitive to expect a scholar to read Torah on Shabbat and a worker to welcome the chance to sleep, these roles might actually be reversed: The openness of the Sabbath allows the worker to delight in study, and the scholar to rest his mind.

The philosopher Giorgio Agamben has linked Shabbat’s refusal of “use” and creation of “new use”—the idea that we go about our everyday lives not to support production but to enable festivity—to the possibilities of the general strike. We also heard echoes of Shabbat in political occupations like Occupy Wall Street or the water protectors’ Camp Migizi—places where struggle and living are fused."

– "Days of Rest: On anti-work politics and the meaning of Shabbat" from Jewish Currents, by the Jewish Currents editorial team

#Jewish Currents is simply the best #rest #sabbath #jubilee :)

[myanhedonia]

The Vietnamese American photojournalist and multimedia reporter Trinh documents resistance around the world, touching on migration, belonging, intersectional identities – and how the climate crisis and colonialism impact communities of the global majority.A protester from the Camp Migizi in the US looks over a fence encircling Enbridge’s Gowan pump station in Floodwood township, Minnesota. Camp Migizi and other resistance camps held regular protests against Line 3 at this location. Photography by Chris Thao Trinh

[decolonize-the-left]

ICYMI:

Members of the Red Lake Nation sent out to perform a ceremony on their treaty lands, but were assaulted & arrested. They chose treaty lands at the mouth of a pipeline Enbridge is has been trying to lay (With pushback and even sabotage from water protectors). Treaty rights surpass all federal and state laws, but Enbridge and their badge wearing guard dogs don't care.

This is Alex Golden Wolf explaining (they've since been arrested, their venmo & the bailout account are below).

Update from Red Lake Treaty Camp now:

Alex Golden Wolf, Two spirit Indigenous leader of the white Earth Nation was violently arrested out of ceremony before the completion of the ceremony. Alex is a staff carrier, and a care taker of Indigenous Children, she helps with language and art skills at Camp Migizi.

Today at Red Lake Treaty Camp indigenous leaders gathered at sunrise to do ceremony in front of the gates of the construction site where Enbridge is drilling under the Red Lake River in order to lay an oil pipeline on land protected by treaty rights. This sacred ceremony was interrupted by police with no regard for indigenous traditions. Along with Alex Golden Wolf, around 20 indigenous leaders and allies who formed a peaceful blockade around those in ceremony where arrested.

Red Lake Treaty Camp is currently under blockade by the police, with no one allowed in or out. A water protector who locked down to the drill this morning was extracted and work has begun again.

Water protectors are being threatened. Treaty rights are being trampled on. Indigenous two spirit folks are being assaulted. Stop Line 3.

Venmo: @Alex-golden-wolf

Red Lake Treaty Camp Bail Fund: @Stars_On_Stone

Photo: Chris Trinh [ig @christhaotrinh]

They need you!!! We all need you!! The best way you could help right now is to SHOW UP. I can't stress that enough! PLEASE GO IF YOU CAN. Short of that PLEASE spread awareness, share this post, follow The Lakota People's Law Project, Red Lake Treaty Camp, donate to the bail funds and call, email the people below!

Demand Biden Stop Line 3

This is out of date: Dec 30, 2021. Still use the link above for updates

#Indigenous #climate change #water protectors #global warming #save the earth #stop line 3 #Enbridge #biden #pipeline #pollution #black snake #oil pipeline #acab #abolish the police #defund the police

[radicalurbanista]

more on the murder (likely assassination) of Winston Smith Jr.

highlights:

Winston Smith was killed by federally deputized sheriffs at 2pm on June 3rd, 2021, on a rooftop parking garage after a date (first picture). His date was with him in the car and was treated for shrapnel wounds after the murder.

Law enforcement initially claimed Smith produced a gun, leading them to fire. They then said they found his gun in the glove compartment.

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is choosing not to release the names of officers involved.

No officers were wearing body cameras.

Police have been escalating violence at protests for Smith, including the arrest of 2 water protectors from Camp Migizi, a site of resistance against the Line 3 pipeline.

Police used a “spit bag” (plastic mesh bag) over the head of one of the water protectors arrested.

Star Tribune initially reported that Smith was a murder suspect according to sources they won’t name. 5 days later, they rebuked their post and reported that Smith was wanted for illegal possession of firearm.

Community members claim Smith was a revolutionary and that this was an assassination. His social media posts align with this, as he’s quoted saying: “All this protesting shit, Y’all still coming with y’all ‘hands up’ saying y’all surrender. Beggin for y’all freedom. Asking for justice. Is y’all serious? Y’all serious? That’s the plan? … Something wrong with y’all … When Martin Luther King was here, we had a million motherfuckers marching saying ‘let’s be peaceful’ but now y’all still begging for your freedom and they still shooting y’all down.”

more

GoFundMe for Smith’s funeral expenses and family support

GoFundMe specifically for Smith’s 7th grade daughter

#winston smith #minneapolis #blm #murder tw #death tw #black death tw #police violence #news #unicorn riot #tweet #6.11.21 #donation links #gofundme

[mushki-art]

So oil is flowing since the beginning of this month. But people are still fighting. Here are some places you can help and donate:

Support camp migizi which is just an hour north of me st

#stop line 3 #indigenous issues #people over profit #native lives matter #stop the money pipeline

[gawki]

Camp Migizi needs HELP!

Venmo @ Taysha-Martineau

Water Protectors need funds and the support of able-bodied folks to join them to build a parking area for their camp, so that the KKKops wont tow, fine or ticket them as the county passed a parking ordinance. Please join at any time at 3124 Magney drive Cloquet MN to use manpower to clear an area for parking, so they can continue to #StopLine3. If you can't help build, there's a donation list with drop off locations, but you can take items directly to the same address above.

I am also still giving away these goodies to folks who donate directly and show proof to me! More info in that link as well.

#artists on tumblr #sketch #doodle #stopline3 #mutual aid #free stuff

[avatar-news]

Reservation Dogs writer and producer Migizi Pensoneau has joined Avatar Studios as Consultant on Native Representation

This new info comes to us from a recent episode of Avatar: Braving the Elements, the official Avatar podcast hosted by Janet Varney (Korra) and Dante Basco (Zuko, Iroh II), where they were joined by special guest Migizi Pensoneau to discuss ATLA Book One: Water, Chapter Fifteen: Bato of the Water Tribe. Migizi was introduced and credited as “Avatar Studios’ Consultant on Native Representation”!

Migizi Pensoneau is Ponca and Ojibwe.

They go into his role at Avatar Studios a tiny bit, but the main piece of news is the fact that he’s there at all! Definitely excited to have him, because if you check out the podcast episode, he has some really great thoughts on Bato of the Water Tribe.

Migizi Pensoneau is best known for producing and writing on Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu), created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi.

In the podcast, Janet offhand mentions him “writing and contributing” to the world of Avatar. I’m not sure if this is also potentially a hint that he’s a writer at Avatar Studios as well, but right now all we know for sure is that he’s the Consultant on Native Representation. We might find out soon though, because the 2022 Paramount+ investor day has just been set for February 15th! At the 2021 investor day, Avatar Studios itself was announced, so let’s see if we get any big updates this year.

Here he is on the set of Reservation Dogs with Casey Camp-Horinek, recently cast as Kanna (Gran Gran) in the upcoming live-action ATLA series!

(Photo by Shane Brown)

#news #cast and crew #migizi pensoneau #movie #paramount plus #viacomcbs investor day 2022

[deermouth]

From the Camp Migizi Facebook page: “For immediate release: At approximately 7am [Monday 8/24/21] Water Protectors locked to one another entering the wound dug by precision pipeline for the construction of Enbridges Line 3, they held space inside a trench upon the Line 3 pipe disrupting work for approximately 4 hours before they were extracted.”

Come stand with water protectors tomorrow at the Minnesota state capitol in St. Paul! More info here.

#stop line 3 #stopline3 #water is life #water protectors #enbridge #land back #honor the treaties #ecological justice #reblog this please!

[sataniccapitalist]

Joy is Resistance - The Water Protectors of Camp Migizi

Camp Migizi is an indigenous two-spirit led collective of mostly queer anarchists who stand against the construction of the Line 3 pipeline, built by multi-national corporation Enbridge, and stand for indigenous rights and BIPOC solidarity. Directed by Milo Woodward Music A Portrait of Time (Instrumental) by Luke Brannen

[shitstain18666]

[accidental-ambience]

The Line 3 tar sands pipeline endangers the clean water and food systems of Native people — and it exacerbates the MMIW epidemic. America’s ongoing genocide of Turtle Island’s Indigenous population is not acceptable. Support our activist partners in Minnesota at Camp Migizi (Eagle), and stand with the Anishinaabe People. Tell President Biden to stop Line 3!

#line 3 #petition