Dianne Morales’ Implosion & Resistance to Line 3 Pipeline Construction

Last week, Dianne Morales’ campaign resoundingly imploded as multiple staffers were fired or resigned, citing a culture of harassment and toxic workplace culture. Despite providing lip service to progressive and leftist organizations, Morales lacked demonstrated commitment to any kind of progressive values. Researcher and writer Matt Thomas joins the show to discuss how and why the left chose to rally behind a weak political candidate like Morales and the New York City mayoral race as a whole.

Meanwhile in Minnesota, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge is proposing the expansion of the Line 3 pipeline to bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day to Superior, Wisconsin. The Anshinaabe people are mobilizing against this expansion, which violates the treaty rights of the Anshinaabe people and other nations in its path. Shanai Matteson, a cultural organizer working in solidarity with the Anishinaabe-led movement to Stop Line 3, walks us through the story of Line 3, the fabric of collective resistance and opposition to the pipeline, and to discuss the major action planned for this weekend to protest its unjust expansion.