Fond Du Lac, MN
Garrick Rawls is an abolitionist and civil rights activist from Alabama who came up to Minnesota fight Enbridge. In this interview Garrick discusses his friend who inspired him to come, another activist who couldn't come due to her cancer. Garrick identifies the cause of her cancer as the chemicals police sprayed from planes at Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Garrick participated in a 14 day hunger strike to call upon peers to divest from banks that fund oil companies and raise awareness among his peers at home about to the importance of the fight for clean water. While on hunger strike Garrick participated in a direct action, protecting another Black protestor who were locked down on the worksite from an angry landowner with firearms. Finally, Garrick speaks to the solidarity between Black and Indigenous people in the fight for our plant's future, how it feels to be supported by white accomplices, and the importance of holding people accountable when conflict between people from different backgrounds does happen.
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