Stop Line 3, a protest march against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is set for noon Friday, June 4, hosted by several local groups. The event, which begins at Wells Fargo Bank, 3804 State St., will then head to nearby Bank of America and Chase Bank Santa Barbara.

Sponsoring the event, which is part of a global movement to #Stop the Money Pipeline, are the Society of Fearless Grandmothers-Santa Barbara, Sunrise Movement-Santa Barbara, 350-Santa Barbara, Women’s March-Santa Barbara, Standing Rock Coalition-Santa Barbara, Democratic Socialists of America-Santa Barbara, Extinction Rebellion-Santa Barbara, and Standing Rock Coalition-Santa Barbara.

The demonstration, admonishing banks to stop funding fossil fuel projects contributing to climate change, focuses on banks funding the Enbridge Line 3 project, a pipeline that violates treaty rights and threatens Indigenous lands in northern Minnesota.

The Fearless Grandmothers-Santa Barbara will deliver letters to CEOs of the three local banks to inform them of the damage being done by their funding and to demand that they stop contributing to the climate crisis.

The Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is being built through Indigenous territory without consent, a violation of treaty rights, the Fearless Grandmothers reports. The Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe are all suing to stop the pipeline.

Prominent native activists have described the pipeline as “cultural genocide.” It would carry 760,000 barrels a day of sludgy tar sands oil 300 miles across northern Minnesota, crossing 200 water bodies including the Mississippi River.

The oil from Line 3 will add more carbon to the atmosphere every year than the entire state of Minnesota emits. From 1999 to 2013. there were at least 1,068 spills from Enbridge oil pipelines in the U.S. that dumped 7.4 million gallons of oil into the environment.