The Fight to Stop Oil Pipelines: "For Water. For Treaties. For Climate."

How to Save a Planet

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, we’re talking about oil pipelines. From the fight against Keystone XL to Standing Rock, pipeline protests have been central to the climate movement in the U.S. But they’ve always been about more than just the climate -- they’ve also been a battle for Indigenous rights, demanding that Native American people and Tribes should have a say over what happens in their historic territories. This week, we look back at how pipeline protests have transformed climate activism in the U.S., and we go to the front lines of the latest protests, where organizers are fighting, in their words, “For water. For treaties. For climate.” (This episode originally aired on April 15, 2021). Guests: Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Joye Braun, Jenni Monet, Jamie Henn and Tara Houska. Learn More • For more about Tara and her work, you can: • Check out the Giniw Collective on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram • Watch Tara’s TED Talk: The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for Indigenous rights • You can find more information, including ways to get involved from home, here: https://linktr.ee/stopline3 • You can find the link to a petition asking the Biden administration to step in and do what they can to stop this project here: https://www.stopline3.org/biden • You can find out about the divestment campaign aimed at companies that fund fossil fuel infrastructure here: https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/ Further Reading • You can read or listen to Tara’s essay in the anthology co-edited by Ayana, All We Can Save • Check out the ongoing reporting on Line 3 from Minnesota Public Radio and Indian Country Today. There’s also great reporting from The Guardian, and Emily Atkin at Heated. • Read Louise Erdrich’s essay about Line 3 in The New York Times Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we’ve recommended on the show. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. This episode of How to Save a Planet was produced by Rachel Waldholz. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis and Anna Ladd. Our intern is Ayo Oti. Our senior producer is Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard with original music from Emma Munger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet, I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the show where we talk
0:06.6	about what we need to do to address climate change and how to make those things happen.
0:23.9	So a core belief around here at How to Save a Planet is that everyone can be part of
0:28.7	a climate solution and the way we all take action can be individual to each of us.
0:34.0	We don't have to be doing the same things and in fact we should not be doing the same things.
0:38.4	And we believe that because we see that when one person takes an individual action,
0:44.4	that action can have ripples. Other people can start to join in and then more people take the
0:49.8	action and the action grows and it evolves and it leads to actual real change. And today we are
0:57.3	bringing you a story like that. It's an episode we originally aired back in April. It's one I
1:02.7	got to record with my former co-host Dr. Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson. It's about how protests
1:08.4	against oil pipelines, protests that started out small and local, many of which are still going
1:13.8	on today, helped create today's climate movement. I should also add that the second half of this
1:20.6	episode tells the story of protests against the construction of the line three pipeline in Minnesota
1:25.8	and that pipeline was actually completed this fall, but tribes and environmental groups are
1:31.3	still fighting it in court and pushing the Biden administration to intervene. We think that
1:35.6	the story remains as powerful today as it was eight months ago. So with that, I give you one of our
1:41.6	favorite episodes, the fight to stop oil pipelines for water, for treaties, for climate.
1:47.6	For water, for life, we stand. In early April, demonstrators took to the streets of Washington DC
1:57.5	carrying this giant homemade puppet of a black snake. It was hundreds of feet long and represented
2:04.0	an oil pipeline. They streamed this protest live on Facebook. Keep it in the soil! Keep it in the soil!
2:14.3	The protesters were in DC to demand that President Biden shut down a couple of oil pipelines,
2:19.1	the Dakota Access Pipeline, which runs from the Dakota's to Illinois, and a pipeline called the
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