The pipeline giant Energy Transfer paid a mercenary security firm to use Facebook to fuel divisions between an Indigenous-led movement and its mostly white, rural neighbors. Personnel working for the private security contractor TigerSwan described their divisive propaganda plans in WhatsApp chats and emails that Drilled and High Country News published at the end of […]
Alleen Brown
Alleen Brown is an independent investigative journalist. Her reporting on state and corporate repression of Indigenous-led Dakota Access Pipeline opponents at Standing Rock has been cited in civil rights cases, reports submitted to international human rights bodies, and more than a dozen books. Her investigation mapping over 6,500 prisons against heat, wildfire, and flood risk has provided foundational information for organizers and policymakers defining what climate change will mean for mass incarceration. She has reported extensively on the intersections between environmental crises and racism, poverty, immigration, violence against women, and criminalization. She was previously a staff reporter at The Intercept and has written for Grist, The Guardian, Inside Climate News, The Appeal and other publications. Alleen is from St. Paul, Minnesota, and lives in New York.
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