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The Society of Fearless Grandmothers-Santa Barbara marches in solidarity with Indigenous Water Protectors, fighting to stop the Enbridge Line 3 Project, a pipeline that violates treaty rights and threatens Indigenous lands in northern Minnesota.
The Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is being built through indigenous territory without consent, violating treaty rights. Prominent native activists have described the pipeline as “cultural genocide.” It would carry 760,000 barrels a day of sludgy tar sands oil 300 miles across northern Minnesota, crossing 200 water bodies including the Mississippi River.
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, has called Line 3 “a fuse to a carbon bomb,” adding as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as 50 new coal-fired power plants. Line 3, he said, would accelerate the climate crisis and the extreme fires, deadly heatwaves, catastrophic drought, food insecurity, migration, severe economic impacts and suffering now being
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The first Earth Day was established on April 22, 1970 in response to a major oil spill off the Santa Barbara Coast. The public support that followed inspired millions to demand climate action from their politicians and the oil companies responsible for the spill.
The spill prompted mass outrage and the passing of legislation, which helped shape today’s environmental movement. This year, Sunrise Movement is demanding the government enact a Green New Deal that guarantees a good job to anyone who wants one, and works to address racial, economic, environmental and social injustice.
Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. The group is building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and well-being of all.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A group of protesters gathered outside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in downtown Santa Barbara on Sunday afternoon to condemn the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and to urge the U.S. Senate to convict President Trump of inciting an insurrection.
Trump was impeached last week and faces an upcoming trial in the Senate, set to begin after he leaves office on Inauguration Day, which is Wednesday.
The groups are also calling for all members of Congress who voted to overturn the results of the presidential election to be expelled. That proposal was introduced in a resolution by Missouri Rep. Cori Bush last week.