On World Water Day, March 22nd, people met up in Lincoln Park to celebrate and to call out Chase Bank for funding tar sands oil which through Line 3 threatens the water source of Anishanaabe peoples in so called Minnesota and pollutes Lake Michigan, the drinking water for Chicagoans. Attendees met in the park to…

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Rising Tide Chicago and friends led a tour of banks in Chicago to call them out for funding the controversial line 3. Banks on the tour included Citibank, Bank of America, and Chase Bank. Line 3 threatens the water and traditional food sources of the Anishanabe peoples. Line 3 also connects to other pipelines to…

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Rising Tide Chicago hosted two online direct action trainings to prepare people to take action to Stop Line 3. If built, Line 3 will go through treaty territory of Anishinaabe peoples and the Mississippi River headwaters to Lake Superior. These trainings were held in January and February of 2021. https://www.stopline3.org/

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Members of Rising Tide Chicago and friends visited Illinois Commerce Commissioner and Chairperson Carrie Zalewski’s home on November 1st. Zalewski and the other four ICC commisioners voted to approve the building of pump stations along the current Dakota Access Pipeline route which will allow Energy Transfer Partners to double the amount of oil flowing through…

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