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The Red Nation Podcast

Line 3 ain't over w/ Tara Houska

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

History, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Anishnaabe lawyer Tara Houska (@zhaabowekwe) joins us from the frontlines to discuss how the Indigenous-led fight against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline is far from over.

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0:00.0

And I'm going to Don't come on a hand.

0:25.0

Don't call on me.

0:37.0

Don't count on me.

0:39.0

Don't down on me. You introduce yourself?

0:47.0

Yeah, sure.

0:48.0

I'm sure. I'm sure.

0:51.0

I'm Bear Clan from Kiching First Nation, founder of Gagnu Collective.

0:58.0

Cool.

1:01.0

Talk a little bit about Gagnu Collective, how it formed in, you know, just kind of current

1:06.2

state of the struggle?

1:08.8

Of the revolution?

1:09.6

The Revolution.

1:10.6

Yeah.

1:11.6

Gennew Collective. Ganeu collective was formed back in June of 2018 when the Line 3 project was approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Minnesota.

1:25.0

I had spent six months out in North Dakota, fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline,

1:31.0

and I understood, I felt like at that point a pretty full spectrum of what

1:38.4

fighting one of those projects looks like from DC and doing the pieces of petitioning, lobbying, political pressure, media pressure,

1:47.1

and education to then being introduced a land defense work and view that as a really undervalued under resource, under supported form of

1:58.3

resistance that is critical to a successful campaign against the fossil fuel industry.

2:07.0

And so when they approve that project,

2:11.0

I knew that there was lots of lawsuits and pushback and like the

2:15.8

regulatory process have been ongoing for years that I'd also been engaged in

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