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      Water Protectors Challenge Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's Silence on Line 3 Pipeline

      "What is your plan?" one demonstrator asked while interrupting a speech by Ellison. "Are you going to take a stand?"

      Brett Wilkins
      Sep 24, 2021

      Water protectors fighting to stop Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline expansion interrupted a Thursday evening speech by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge the Democrat's silence on the multi-billion-dollar project, which violates Anishinaabe treaty rights while endangering local ecosystems, Indigenous communities, and the global climate.

      "What will you do about the frivolous charges brought against over 800 people drawing attention to Line 3's climate impacts and civil rights violations?"
      --Water protector

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      With Election Days Away, Bernie Sanders Headlines Get-Out-the-Vote Rally for Nina Turner

      In his keynote speech, Sanders said corporate interests are pulling out all the stops to defeat Turner because "they know that when she is elected, she is going to stand up and take them on in the fight for justice."

      Jake Johnson
      Jul 31, 2021

      Just days out from the closely watched August 3 Democratic primary contest in Ohio's 11th congressional district, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont headlined a get-out-the-vote rally in Cleveland on Saturday for progressive candidate Nina Turner, whose grassroots campaign is facing an establishment opponent backed by high-profile party leaders and corporate cash.

      In his keynote speech at the event, Sanders spotlighted Turner's ambitious policy platform and argued that--if she prevails in the special election against Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chair Shontel Brown--the Ohio progressive would play a significant role ushering much-needed legislation through the narrowly divided Congress.

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      Chauvin Gets 22.5 Years for Murder of George Floyd

      "While this may help heal our grieving community, this rare moment of consequence for killings by police does not represent justice."

      Brett Wilkins
      Jun 25, 2021

      Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in April of murdering George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, outside a convenience store in May 2020 was sentenced Friday afternoon to 22.5 years in prison.

      "Justice is about more than a single sentence or a single verdict: Justice would mean George Floyd was still alive today."
      --Ben Feist, ACLU of Minnesota

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