I recently had a great interview with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network, but I couldn’t fit our whole conversation into our last full episode.
Brenna came on to talk about IEN’s ongoing fight to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, and how you can take action by submitting comments to the army corps of engineers by December 13th. But we also covered a lot more ground, and I really appreciated what Brenna had to say on the broader context of an indigenous just transition, the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine, and more!
I think anyone who likes this show will too, so I’m putting out an extended version of our conversation.
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Research Links/Show Notes:

• Indigenous Environmental Network: https://www.ienearth.org/
• IEN’s DAPL action alert: https://www.ienearth.org/dapl-deis-public-comment-period-extended/
• Register for Dec 7th virtual comment writing party: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcuusqjIiHNSQqFH0ID1davrVIBxBkAs1#/registration
• Further reading on DAPL:
• https://truthout.org/articles/5-years-after-standing-rock-native-tribes-still-fight-dakota-access-pipeline/
• https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198492185/dakota-access-pipeline-river-crossing-environmental-review

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