At the end of March, the pipeline company, energy Transfer, when a lawsuit against green Peace for six hundred and sixty six million dollars. Energy Transfer claimed that the Standing Rock Movement, the big Indigenous led effort to stop the Decoda Access pipeline in twenty sixteen, was actually an anti corporate conspiracy orchestrated by green Peace, and the jury agreed. I was there when the verdict dropped. Can I ask
what you thought about all of this? One of the worst first of the men decisions I've ever seen.
I've been practicing all over for sixty five years. I've then seen anything like this. It's horrible.
This is absolutely bullshit, one hundred percent. They're treating us a Native people like we're not competent enough to organize and strategize something to protect our airlines and water.
It's sick.
If you read some of the news coverage of the case, you might think there's two sides to this story. Transferred, the company that built the Dakota Access pipeline, certainly has its version.
Greenpeace maliciously misrepresented events within this community in an unrelenting attempt to stop the construction of a pipeline that had already obtained all of the necessary legal approvals. These are the facts, not the fake news of the green Peace propaganda machine, and Greenpeace has its version. This is an attempt to scare anybody involved with protests from showing up.
But there's a bigger story here of an indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protesters. To tell this story, I had to dive into secretive private security documents, into the network of people and organizations behind this lawsuit, and into the courtroom at a trial closed to cameras and audio reporters. What I found changed the way I think about our justice system. Forever you see a.
Jury, you see a judge, it seems like a nice man, but it's all been pre cooked. They create an angle and then everybody has to follow. If it goes against the angle they created, you are the radical.
You know green Peace was behind it.
They had no business here.
They're trying to point the finger at green Peace because God forbid. Some Indians think for themselves.
This is a life and death issue to our indigenous people. This is a life and death issue too, to life itself.
To water to the river. I'm a lean Brown and this season a drilled. We present SLAT, an investigative series about how far the fossil fuel industry will go to be sure their story wins.
We do this to stop the desecration of Ujima comes.
We do this for the next seven generations. We do this for the unborn children that are coming through this world.
They are not allowed to make.
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