While protests against the northern leg of the Dakota Access Pipeline, on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, garnered international press attention, protestors in Louisiana, where the southern leg was being built, faced aggressive fossil fuel-funded and state-backed repression, but saw little to no media attention. Their story is a cautionary tale for the climate movement, and anyone concerned about democracy.
Karen Savage
Karen is an investigative journalist focused on climate litigation and corporate accountability. Her work has also appeared in The Appeal, Undark Magazine, DeSmog, and In These Times.
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S10, Ep1 | The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
The more successful climate protestors are, the more effort industry is putting in to criminalize them.
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La Lucha en la Jungla
An audio and digital series focused on “La Lucha en la Jungla—the Rumble in the Jungle” between Chevron/Texaco and various indigenous groups in Ecuador. Over the course of ten episodes and several articles we trace the early days of oil colonialism in Latin America to a case that brought the largest environmental settlement in history, […]
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S5, Ep10 | The Kill Step
Chevron makes good on its promise to fight the Ecuadorian judgement until hell freezes over.
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S5, Ep7 | The Linchpin
Chevron’s attorneys go after the documentary filmmaker chronicling the case.
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S5, Ep4 | The Secret Tribunal
An explainer on investor-state disputes, and Chevron’s claim against Ecuador
