Following Abandonment of Keystone XL Pipeline, Indigenous, Environmental, and Allied Activists Urge Biden to Stop Other Trump Pipelines
Washington, D.C.– On Friday, June 11th, the Stop Trump Pipelines campaign will be hosting a press call with Indigenous, environmental, and allied activists including Winona LaDuke, Joye Braun, Jane Kleeb, and Bill McKibben, to call on the Biden administration to cancel the remaining pipelines authorized by the Trump administration.
Following the mass mobilization in northern Minnesota to protest the Line 3 pipeline, and the campaign’s back-to-back television ads in Michigan and Minnesota, speakers will urge the administration to live up to its climate and racial justice commitments and apply the ‘Biden Standard’ set with Keystone XL to cancel Line 3, Line 5, and other Trump pipelines.
What: Press call with Indigenous, environmental, and allied activists to urge the Biden administration to Stop Trump Pipelines.
Who:
- Winona La Duke, Executive Director, Honor the Earth
- Bill McKibben, Founder and Senior Adviser emeritus of 350.org
- Jane Kleeb, President & Founder, Bold Alliance, Bold Nebraska
- Joye Braun, National Pipelines Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network
- Mike Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club
When: Friday, June 11 at 11:30AM ET
Dial-in: 877-229-8493 PIN: 120779
Established in 1990, The Indigenous Environmental Network is an international environmental justice nonprofit that works with tribal grassroots organizations to build the capacity of Indigenous communities. I EN’s activities include empowering Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, the health of both our people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities.
Learn more here: ienearth.org
Press Contact: Cassidy DiPaola, cassidy@stgresults.com, 401-441-7196
jennifer@ienearth.org, 218-760- 9958