![]() Goodrich is a part of Wisconsin’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force and she said by hanging red dresses organizers are building education on the violence and trafficking linked to the extraction industry. ![]() Red dresses will be hung out during the final statewide rally on Earth Day to provide public awareness on the missing and murdered women epidemic. ![]() More: Indigenous-led activists protest Wisconsin oil pipeline in Green Bay, around Wisconsin More: Why a state task force worries a northern Wisconsin oil pipeline project could bring sex trafficking crimes Organizers of the project are also recognizing missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two Spirit people and their connection to the resource extraction industry. “We are asking the Enbridge remove its pipelines in Wisconsin and the treaty lands of the Great Lakes region,” Goodrich said. March Forth to Earth Day is specifically calling for the stop to Line 5 and ending the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. ![]() “We are in support of our indigenous frontline leaders working to protect the land and the earth and our water for future generations,” Goodrich told the Post-Crescent. The individual rallies around the state are calling on a variety of climate action during the March Forth to Earth Day initiative, but together they are standing in solidarity with Indigenous-led movements and issues they're addressing. ![]() “We are bringing attention and demanding justice for our climate emergency.”īy hosting simultaneous rallies across the state, the unified organizers hope to get the attention of state legislators to create climate resilience plans and sustainability initiatives. “We’re celebrating Earth Day and sounding the alarm,” said Rene Ann Goodrich, statewide organizer and Native Lives Matter Coalition member. The project has rallied environmental activists across the state to join in eight weeks of striking leading up to Earth Day. Over 60 environmental and racial equity groups across the state, including local organizations ESTHER and Sunrise Fox Valley, have cosponsored the Climate Justice Unity Uprising. ![]()
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