A drilled listeners, while we're on a brief hiatus, working to finish up production on

some new seasons for you, I would love it if you check out our new podcast, Damages.

Damages digs into the stories behind the hundreds of climate lawsuits currently making

their way through the courts all over the world.

The first season is focused on rights of nature cases, and I'm bringing you the first episode

in that season today, a fascinating case filed in White Earth Tribal Court on behalf of

Wild Rice against the State of Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources.

This suit was originally filed as an attempt to stop construction on the line 3 pipeline

in Minnesota.

Pipelines have been built, but the case is still ongoing, and it has some really interesting

potential implications for lots of different pipeline fights.

Check it out, and if you like what you hear, go and subscribe to Damages.

Thanks, and I'll see you again here in a few weeks.

Dozens of people have been arrested for protesting the project.

That includes Winona LaDuke, a Indigenous Climate Justice Organization, Honor the Earth,

and a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota.

You might have heard over the past couple of years about the fight against the line 3 pipeline

in Minnesota.

Folks were calling it the next standing rock.

And even in the midst of a global pandemic, it drew water protectors from all over the

country.

Winona LaDuke is a long time Indigenous rights activist and was one of the leaders

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