We demand that Bank of America refuse to provide any more financing for Enbridge as it builds a tar sands pipeline through Anishinaabe land in Minnesota without the Free, Prior and Informed consent of the Indigenous peoples who have lived there. This violates the treaty rights of the Anishinaabeg people, but Indigenous women are leading bold direct action resistance at construction sites.

Enbridge is currently building the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. If built, Line 3 would destroy the sacred wild rice beds that the Anishinaabe people depend on for their food, culture and way of life.

Line 3 would contribute as much damage to our climate as 50 new coal-fired power plants, and it would endanger more than 800 wetlands and 200 waterways.

More than 200,000 people have signed a petition demanding that President Biden take Executive Action to stop Line 3. On Feb 2nd, Rep. Ilhan Omar wrote to President Biden demanding the same. Four days earlier, more than 600 people took to the streets of St. Paul, demanding an end to the pipeline.

As of today, more than 130 people have been arrested for taking direct action to stop the pipeline construction: chaining themselves to pieces of pipe, sitting in trees in the path of construction, locking themselves by their necks to excavators and placing pianos in the way of construction. Each of these actions brings more of the world’s attention to what is happening in northern Minnesota.

In recent years, the climate movement has dramatically grown in power, with millions of young people taking to the streets around the world to demand rapid climate action. With Keystone XL canceled, stopping Line 3 is now the number one priority for climate activists across this nation.

We are calling on you, Bank of America, to walk away from Line 3.