The finale of our Real Free Speech Threat season.
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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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
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Civil Liberties Groups Demand Congress Investigate Homeland Security Agency’s Eco-terrorism Label
Civil liberties groups are concerned that DHS is whipping police into a frenzy about imagined terror threats, resulting in overreactions to protest, quashing of First Amendment rights and political dissent, and police violence.
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Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline
The public comment period on the Army Corps of Engineers draft EIS for the Dakota Access Pipeline closes Dec 13, 2023. The pipeline was built in 2017, but the Standing Rock Sioux tribe are still fighting it to protect their water.
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How Federal Reports about an Eco-terrorist Threat Fueled the Crackdown on Cop City Opponents
The U.S. government’s definition of “eco-terrorists” continues to broaden.
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S10, Ep13: Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline
Public comment period closes Dec 13 in what may be the last Standing Rock battle
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Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine
Fighting for survival on every level.
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S10, Ep9: The Tomato Soup “Controversy”
Climate protests are getting more disruptive—is it working?