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US Corporations Pump Aquifers Dry as Police Kill Water Defenders in Rural Mexico
Farmers are risking their lives to fight back against the US-owned factory farms that are destroying Mexico’s water.
Minnesota Judge Dismisses Line 3 Charges Against Indigenous Water Protectors
“To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,” the judge said of the charges against three Anishinaabe activists.
Judge Tosses Charges Against 3 Indigenous Water Protectors for Pipeline Action
“I’m glad to not be in jail,” says environmental activist Winona LaDuke. “I’m not a criminal, and Enbridge is.”
Line 3 Pipeline Water Protectors Head to Trial on Trumped-Up Felony Charges
Protesters who faced police torture to fight the pipeline are targets in a corporate crackdown on environmentalists.
Water Is a Human Right. Let’s Create a Society That Affirms This.
We have come to know water as the latest casualty of late capitalism’s doctrine of scarcity.
Water Protector Defense Attorneys Warn of “Breakdown in Separation of Powers”
Prosecutions of Water Protectors in Aitkin County are seven times more likely to remain unresolved than other cases.
Sheriff Retaliates Against Lawyers Scrutinizing Arrests of Water Protectors
A Minnesota sheriff is using his office to avoid subpoena in an investigation into Enbridge funding police repression.
Line 3 Protesters Win Protective Ruling Against Government Repression
Indigenous Water Protectors celebrated a court ruling against police harassment of their protest camp.
O’ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Against US Militarism
We shut down this massive facility in four months, says activist Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua.
Mexican Forces Evict Indigenous Activists Who Took Over Water Bottling Plant
A coalition of Indigenous activists prevented the extraction of water by transforming the plant into a community space.