Several dozen people gathered at Lake Como in St. Paul, Minnesota, Sunday, hoping to have their voices heard as they protested the lifting of the mining ban near one of the state’s last true wilderness escapes.
Despite hours of pleas from Minnesota lawmakers, the U.S. Senate recently voted to open up 225,000 acres of land to copper sulfide mining near the Boundary Waters.
Sunday’s event was put on by The Singing Resistance, a grassroots organization that uses song as a form of nonviolent protest. Organizers said well over 100 people showed up…