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“If we're not all in this fight, then this fight won't end.”- @israhirsi #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“Donations help. Donating to the front line, whether it's monetary or physical donations. I really like both, but I feel like it's best if we get like ten sleeping bags, sleeping pads, water bottles, camping gear needs.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“Talking about how Line 3 directly impacts the water/ecosystem of Minnesota and of the country is a great way to get people to actually understand and be willing to donate and put in the work.” - @israhirsi #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“When you actually sit down with a physical person and you have a conversation about it, they tend to listen to you more and hear you out more.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“We all need to come together and we all have to realize that the earth is going to be here forever, but we're not going to be here forever as a species if we keep living like this.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“So a couple of different ways you can help is physically coming to the front line, which is probably the best way, I think, to support. But if you can't/are not able to, another way is to tell your friends, to tell your family.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“There's only so much you can do from sitting at home living in a colonialistic lifestyle.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“I found how much happier I was, living at Camp Migizi and living with the earth. I feel so much better knowing that I'm not wasting fossil fuel, electricity & everything like that.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“It's powerful being Indigenous because, like Indigenous people from all around the world, we all experience the same brutality that colonization has put against us.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“It means a lot to me because it's just like fixing that intergenerational trauma that my parents went through, my grandparents went through.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“It's hard because like you're taken away from our culture, but to refine that and to reconnect that through like Line 3 actually has helped me a lot because it makes me realize that my voice does matter and that I do matter.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“Environmental advocacy to me- it means decolonization and living with the earth and not against her, but with her.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“We built a really good community over at Camp Migizi and it's great because everyone is willing to help throw down and keep each other so safe.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“That community that you build, while being at the front line, it means a lot because you're in the same fight together. So you have the common grounds and that brings us closer together.”- Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“Not only that but going to jail for just a trespass? That's like – that's wrong. Nobody should go to jail for trespass and I was held in jail for over four days.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“My identity has been really tough like connecting, reconnecting, with my indigenous culture because I was taken away from it at a very young age, which nobody should have to go through.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“That's just how bad the jails are. They don't want to help us, they were keeping us away from basic human needs and rights.”- Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“And then they dragged us into the bus like we're just sacks of potatoes and it was really scary because I felt dehumanized. I didn't feel human at all.”- Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“They didn't care if you were in ceremony, but like I kept saying, we're in ceremony, you know, everyone did. And the scariest part was they didn't care. They didn't care about a Religious Freedom Act.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture

“That was very terrifying, it brought up a lot of trauma from my past from my adoptive mom. So, I had to deal with that within that moment & they just made it like – it amplified the moment much more.” - Alex Golden-Wolf #RaceANDOurPresentOurFuture