TAKE ACTION: Protect the Right to Resist Fossil Fuels in Minnesota!
Legislation introduced in the Minnesota State Legislature attacks First Amendment rights, including the right to protest fossil fuel infrastructure – can you take five minutes to urge Minnesota state officials to stop this bill? With water protectors on the ground right now fighting the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, protecting the right to resist is crucial to democracy!
SF386/HF254—the Felony Free Speech bill—is fundamentally anti-democratic and impedes constitutional rights. Water protectors already face state-sanctioned violence and persecution – and if passed, this bill would cause longterm detriment to the climate justice movement. This legislation would criminalize trespass on “critical infrastructure,” including crude oil pipelines, airports, and utilities, making it a gross misdemeanor punishable by one year in jail and a $3,000 fine. Trespass with the intent to disrupt the pipeline’s operation would become a felony, with the added sanction that guilty parties could be ordered to pay for “the costs and expenses resulting from the crime.
Whether or not you live in Minnesota, UUs are called to act in solidarity with frontline water protectors!
TAKE ACTION
- Look up your MN state representative
- If you do not live in MN, contact any state representative on this list
- Use these talking points to call, email or write a letter
