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Enbridge's privately funded pro-pipeline police force in Minnesota


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Minnesota is often called the most Canadian state in the U.S. and given the fact a pipeline corporation is working closely with the police to arrest and harass their political opponents we're inclined to agree. Alleen Brown of the Intercept joins us to discuss how Alberta-based pipeline corporation Enbridge is funding and supplying police in Minnesota in order to quash Indigenous-led resistance to the Line 3 pipeline.  

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Links: 

  • Local Cops Said Pipeline Company Had Influence Over Government Appointment
  • Enbridge shells out $750K to law enforcement for Line 3 protest costs
  • How Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline is dividing Indigenous lands and people
  • Bonnie Raitt and Indigo Girls join Minnesota activists in new Line 3 protest song
  • No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong)
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