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Indigenous Women and Girls Deserve Justice
Shannon Andreson Shannon Andreson

Indigenous Women and Girls Deserve Justice

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Taskforce bill (HF70), will be voted on as a standalone bill in the House today (May 9).

Attend this hearing and floor vote to show your support. For real-time updates, visit the FB event page. Afterwards, go to the Senate and urge them to do the same: send the bill (SF515) to the Senate floor and vote yes.

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Shannon Andreson Shannon Andreson

Violence against Indigenous women bill needs your support

Please contact Senator Limmer, Chair of the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee, and urge him to let SF515 go through as a stand-alone bill. After all, it addresses a long standing historical injustice that needs to be acknowledged and stopped. It is not a bargaining chip for future negotiations.

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Line 3 Pipeline - Pack the Room! - Study Needed
Act Now! Heidi Ripplinger Act Now! Heidi Ripplinger

Line 3 Pipeline - Pack the Room! - Study Needed

Thursday; Feb 22, 8:30a-11:30 - State of Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. 

PACK THE ROOM!

On February 22, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will consider whether to require a full tribal resources survey before deciding to approve or deny the Line 3 pipeline. Line 3 is a project by the Canadian pipeline company Enbridge to build a huge tar sands pipeline across northern Minnesota, the Mississippi River, and tribal treaty land. A project of this scale absolutely needs a full survey of tribal impacts.

Let's fill up the hearing room, support the tribes and environmental groups and others opposing the pipeline, and show the PUC that we're here and we care and we're not going anywhere.

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