(Art by Jackie Fawn) As a Catholic Worker, we dedicate ourselves to practicing the Corporal Works of Mercy, one of which is to give water to the thirsty. We can also interpret this as to protect the water people drink. The Mississippi river is one of 200 bodies of water that will be effected by this disastrous pipeline. Enbridge proposes to drill under 22 rivers in Minnesota alone, trampling on longstanding treaty rights. As I travel to Line 3 to take action against Enbridge, a Canadian oil company determined to help commit genocide against the Anishinaabe people, I think of my children. Why am I separating myself from my children to fight what feels like an unwinnable war against big oil, government, and industry? What can I do as a poor, brown woman and mother do to stop the continued colonization and destruction of the Indigenous peoples of this country? Isn’t this what this filthy, rotten system wants- black and brown people locked up, separated from th...