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DrALJONES

Interview "Criminalizing Dissent"

In a defamation suit, Greenpeace has been ordered to pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm

Steven Donziger said most of the jurors in the case were connected to the pipeline industry and were predisposed to rule in favor of the firm.

democracynow.org/2025/3/20/gre

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Democracy Now! · Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over ProtestsBy Democracy Now!

@DrALJONES For the record, this is how you turn peaceful protesters into eco-terrorists. If it's criminalized anyway, why not hit them so it really hurts?

@jwcph

I think i get your point, though i wouldn't use that term....

@DrALJONES Neither would I, to express my own view - but it's within the same terminology by which peaceful protesting is defined as a crime; on Their™️ terms they're creating what they will undoubtedly call eco-terrorism.

@jwcph

Yes, i know 🙂 That's why I'd add something like "so-called" or put quote marks around it - to clarify you don't accept it as legitimate.