For seven years Energy Transfer has pursued a $300 million conspiracy lawsuit against Greenpeace, alleging that one of the world’s largest environmental nonprofits was pulling the strings behind the most significant Indigenous uprising in half a century. The original lawsuit, filed as a RICO case in federal court, argued that it was Greenpeace — not […]
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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SLAPP’d Episode 4 | Back to the Water
A return to the heart of the matter: the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s water.
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SLAPP’d: An Indigenous Nation Fights for Its Water
As Greenpeace’s anti-SLAPP hearing gets underway in Europe, a look at what Energy Transfer wanted to keep out of its North Dakota suit.
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SLAPP’d Episode 3 | The Charge
By this point, Energy Transfer has quietly dropped both Cody Hall and
the other Indigenous activist initially named in the suit, Krystal Two
Bulls, from the case and is focused solely on Greenpeace. So what
exactly is Energy Transfer accusing them of? And what evidence do they
have?””
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SLAPP’d Episode 2 | The Trial Begins
Deep biases emerge during jury selection in the Energy Transfer v Greenpeace trial in North Dakota.
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Welcome to SLAPP’d | Episode 1: How did we get here?
A look back at the Standing Rock protests as we try to understand a $666 million verdict, the erasure of Indigenous activists in it, the First Amendment concerns it raises, and how it obscures ongoing leaks and spills from the Dakota Access pipeline.
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How the U.S. Got the World to View Environmentalists as “Terrorists”
The finale of our Real Free Speech Threat season.
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In Canada, Another Call for Criminalizing Climate Protest
In a new report, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy calls on Canada to follow in the U.K.’s footsteps, falsely connecting climate protest to traffic-related deaths.
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In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest
The use of militarized police and “antiterrorism” laws against activists is not new in the U.S.
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Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured “EcoTerrorist” Panic, and Cop City
The U.S. government’s ever-expanding definition of what constitutes an “ecoterrorist” continues to drive repression of protest