Journalist Arrested While Documenting Legally Contested Enbridge Line 5 Construction
Police arrested video journalist and Unicorn Riot contributor River Akemann while he was documenting Enbridge Line 5 construction on August 24.
Tag: Wisconsin
🦄 Corporations, Eco
Enbridge Line 5 Spills Natural Gas Liquids in Northern Wisconsin
Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin. The rupture occurred just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior.
🦄 Eco
Line 5 Pipeline Reroute Endangers Maple Trees and Native Lifeways
Ashland, Wisconsin – Northern Wisconsin residents gathered to boil maple sap along the banks of the Bad River, on Canadian oil giant Enbridge’s pipeline easement for its 41-mile Line 5 reroute on March 29, 2026. Enbridge started construction activities in late February, despite numerous ongoing…
🦄 Corporations, Eco, Land & Housing
Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute Blasts Through Bedrock Without Permits, Threatening the Great Lakes
Washburn, WI — Copper Falls State Park sits on some of Wisconsin’s most ancient bedrock. Enbridge wants to blast through it — and admits it isn’t sure exactly where to. The Line 5 reroute is blasting into the unknown through the Penokee-Gogebic Range, one of…
🦄 Eco, Protest & Direct Action
Indigenous Leaders Demand Halt to Enbridge Line 5 Reroute Construction in WisconsinÂ
Indigenous leaders and water protectors rallied on April 21 at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district headquarters in St. Paul to call for an immediate stay on Enbridge Line 5 construction in northern Wisconsin.
Milwaukee RNC Opens with Protest March
Milwaukee, WI — The 2024 Republican National Convention opens Monday morning with downtown sealed behind fences and barricades, forming a large security perimeter. On opening day, the Coalition to March on the RNC is set to take the streets near the inner security zone downtown…
🦄 Police, Prison, Protest & Direct Action
‘Jane’s Revenge’ Activist Pleads Guilty in Firebombing of Anti-Abortion Group ‘Wisconsin Family Action’
Madison, WI — Hrindindu Sankar Roychowdhury pleaded guilty on November 20, 2023 to federal arson charges resulting from a 2022 attack claimed under the moniker ‘Jane’s Revenge’ against Wisconsin Family Action, an anti-abortion Christian fundamentalist group.
The attack on Wisconsin Family Action’s office occurred on…
🦄 Eco
Protests Against Line 5 Continue in Wisconsin and the Courtrooms
“We need to avert an oil disaster in Lake Superior. We need to save our water and our future.” That was water protector Gina Peltier’s message this summer. Peltier is one of many water protectors in the Midwest organizing against Line 5 tar sands oil…
🦄 Eco, Protest & Direct Action
Enbridge Ordered to Shutdown Line 5 and Pay Bad River Band $5.1M
Ashland, WI — Canadian oil corporation Enbridge has been ordered to shut down its Line 5 tar sands oil pipeline and pay the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians $5.1 million. Chief Judge William M. Conley of the U.S. District…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns
The detailed inner workings and operations of neo-Nazi organization Patriot Front have come to light after a massive leak from their chat servers. The exposed communications show coordination with their leader Thomas Rousseau to deface murals and monuments to Black lives across the United States,…
🦄 Eco, Protest & Direct Action
Resistance to Line 3: Direct Actions Aim to Stop Construction
Aitkin County, MN – Direct actions aiming to stop the construction of a new replacement Line 3 oil pipeline have escalated as winter settles in. Since the approval of the contentious Line 3 tar sands pipeline on November 30, 2020, there have been numerous actions,…
🦄 Social Control
Coronavirus Concerns End St. Paul Educators Strike, Close Many Public Schools
St. Paul, MN – After a 19+ hour negotiating session beginning at 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning, a tentative agreement was reached between Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) and the St. Paul educators’ union around 3:30 a.m. on Friday, March 13 — the same day Minnesota…