How YOU Can Stop A Pipeline (ft. Winona LaDuke)

• This video from Our Changing Climate features climate activist, Winona LaDuke, and her efforts to stop Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota and its destruction to the native land and waterways. 
• Students will learn how they can get involved and take action in this fight. 

Positives

• It features an indigenous climate activist and has a clear call to action.
• The description links to several options to take action and further inform oneself about the Line 3 pipeline.

Additional Prerequisites

• The video mentions sex trafficking and missing or murdered indigenous women at the beginning of the video.
• Students should understand how cracked and leaking pipelines can impact entire ecosystems.
• There may be an ad before the video.
  

Differentiation

• Civics courses can utilize power mapping exercises to better understand the stakeholders, incentive structures, and action steps for engaged citizens.
• ELA courses can use the Stop Line 3 letter linked below the video as an example of persuasive writing.
• Other climate activist testimonies on this topic include Sheila Lamb Cloquet, Minnesota, Danny Grassrope Kul Wicasa Oyate, and Jami Gaither Alida, Minnesota.
• A resource that discusses a successful pipeline protest is Do Climate Protests Actually Work? Three Examples When They Did.
  

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