URGENT MN ACTION ITEM: STOP HF 3693 / SF 3463


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Urgent call to action:

Anti-protest + Trespass bill (HF 3693 / SF 3463)

This nefarious bill is sailing under many a civic activist's radar. It’s already passed committees in both houses and will soon be voted on or slipped into an omnibus. This bill increases the penalties for trespass on “critical infrastructure.” It also, incredibly, expands liability to the groups that those convicted of trespass or damages belong to. (The bills extend “civil and criminal liability to a group or organization that recruits, trains, aids, hires, or conspires with an individual to commit criminal trespass or damage to property,” according to a House Research summary.) 

The environmental groups point out that this is a GOP, pro-fossil fuel maneuver aimed at pipeline protesters and the organizations that support their work. According to the ACLU, “this bill is unconstitutional, undemocratic, and unnecessary.” It's unnecessary; there are already laws against trespass, etc.

See this write up: https://healingmnstories.wordpress.com/…/mn-bill-would-all…/

Here is a link to the ACLU’s position and call to action on this bill, and credit and thank you @KayRandall for getting to this first: https://action.aclu.org/send-me…/mn-guilty-association-bill…
 
Alert your MN State House and Senate reps to your opposition to HF 3693/SF 3463. https://www.gis.leg.mn/iMaps/districts/

And alert Governor Dayton, too. This is the sort of bill that he can be a bit wishy-washy about. https://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/form/

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