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Migizi Will Fly–A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

Migizi Will Fly

A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

  By Barbara Rhine

It was my first flight out into the wider world since Covid geared up, so I was a hot mess on May 22, 2021, when I began a five-day trip to Minnesota with an uphill task: Stop “Line Three”—the pipeline Enbridge Inc. has planned to transport Canadian tar sands, the dirtiest of oils, to Lake Superior for

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I found this book at exactly right time, soon after a total knee replacement that has left me in a long recovery, to this day. And the beginning was totally helpful, as an exhortation about the importance of cutting back, on just about everything. Am ...more
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For those of us who participated in the Movement for Civil Rights and Social Change, and in the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, this is a fascinating book. And anyone interested in all that will like it as well. Detailed yet so well-written it never gets ...more
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Many would like this book better than I did, but I caught it while still in recovery for surgery and found it a bit too erudite for my taste. The name is that of a known wind, in Scotland. The episodes keep alternating between various phases of the w ...more
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I read this book right before knee-replacement surgery almost 7 weeks ago now, so I've got to admit my memory of the details is spotty. Polyamory, sweet kids, nice guy as the hero, mean ol' environmental despoiler as the villain--well-written, good v ...more
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Well, I wanted to like this book better than I did. I appreciated "Lincoln in the Bardos," but this one started with an even unlikelier premise, which is the stalking of a dying oil executive by various spirits--half-here, half-gone--who have pre-dec ...more
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