Can you hear us now rally

Monday, while others were blasted with sonic weaponry as tribal leaders and members from across the continent they call Turtle Island gathered on Indigenous Peoples' Day to protest Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline and other oil and gas ventures backed by President Joe Biden, and to call on his administration to halt all fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency.

Thousands of Indigenous-led demonstrators rallied and marched, with hundreds engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience outside the White House as a week of PeopleVsFossilFuels climate action kicked off.

Ahead of Monday's march, protesters painted "Expect Us" on the pedestal of a statue of Andrew Jackson, the genocidal seventh U. Some observers contrasted the deployment of so-called "sound cannons" against nonviolent Indigenous protesters both on Monday and during past StopLine3 protests with the absence of such heavy-handed tactics during the deadly January 6 attack on the U.

Capitol by a mostly white mob. Some critics decried Biden—the first president to officially commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day, and the first to appoint a Native American to his Cabinet—for allowing the arrest of Indigenous protesters at Monday's demonstration. Others took aim at the chasm between the president's climate promises and his administration's fossil fuel-friendly actions.

Sapa Win had a message for Biden: "If you're claiming to be a leader for our climate crisis, to come up with solutions to our issues here, then you need to start living up to your word. She also said that people around her village are developing rare cancers and asthma, and need medication to help them breathe.

But when it really comes to when it matters, our lives are still being sacrificed for oil and gas. The president and his administration have faced backlash from Indigenous and environmental activists for backing the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, a Trump-era Alaska driling project , and other fossil fuel industry expansion , with critics calling Biden's actions a "horrible and unconscionable betrayal" of his campaign promises. Jake Johnson. Joye Braun, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux and anti-pipeline organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said that "Biden has turned a fork-tongue, and he needs to be held accountable to the promises he made to Indigenous nations when we helped elect him.

This is Indigenous land. Indigenous peoples will be here for thousands of years. Biden, can you hear us now? Download Protest Flyer. Sandy Beaumont Napier….. Ben Simmons Nelson….. Bruce Gordon Ngatea….. Scott Aldridge Ngatea….. Richard Fint Ngatea…..

Colin Caldwell New Plymouth….. Murray Chong Ohakune….. Bruce Rollinson Otorohanga….. Lee Smith Palmerston North….. Natalie Campbell Palmerston Otago….. Bronwyn McGovern Pukekohe to Auckland….. Grant McMaster 03 Rangiora….. Mark Ireland Rangiora….. David McLaughlin Rangiora….. Shelly Drummond Rodney….. Noyac residents gathered Sunday to protest a proposal to build a cell tower at the Southampton Town Highway Department property at 30 Club Lane.

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