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DoomsdaysCWStatement of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndependentTrialMonitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndependentTrialMonitors</a> On Verdict in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenpeaceUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenpeaceUSA</a> Trial:"It is our collective assessment that the jury verdict against Greenpeace in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> reflects a deeply flawed trial with multiple due process violations that denied Greenpeace the ability to present anything close to a full defense. Attorneys on our team monitored every minute of the proceedings and found multiple violations of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DueProcess</a> that denied Greenpeace its right to a fair trial. The problems included a jury that was patently biased in favor of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnergyTransfer</a>, with many members working in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuel</a> industry; a judge who lacked the requisite experience and legal knowledge to rule properly on the complex <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstAmendment</a> and other evidentiary issues at the center of the case; and incendiary and prejudicial statements by lawyers for Energy Transfer that tried to criminalize Greenpeace and by extension the entire <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateMovement</a> by attacking constitutionally-protected advocacy. "Our fear that this was an illegitimate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corporate</a>-funded <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SLAPP</a> harassment case was confirmed by our observations. "We will be issuing a full report documenting these violations and larger flaws in the case in the coming weeks. "While the trial court verdict is in, the case is far from over. Greenpeace has a right to appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court and ultimately to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USSupremeCourt</a>. Our committee will continue its work monitoring this critically important case that raises troubling concerns for all advocates in the country."— <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MartyGarbus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MartyGarbus</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NataliSegovia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NataliSegovia</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeanneMirer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeanneMirer</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TerryCollingsworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TerryCollingsworth</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StevenDonziger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StevenDonziger</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NadiaAhmad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NadiaAhmad</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ScottWilsonBadenochJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScottWilsonBadenochJr</a>. | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaulPazYMi%C3%B1o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaulPazYMiño</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AyishaSiddiqa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AyishaSiddiqa</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WadeMcMullen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WadeMcMullen</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KipHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KipHale</a> | <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SimonTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SimonTaylor</a> Read individual statements: <a href="https://www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of-independent-trial-monitors-on-verdict-in-greenpeace-trial" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of-independent-trial-monitors-on-verdict-in-greenpeace-trial</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnergyTransferPartners</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SLAPPs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ViewerSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ViewerSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenpeaceUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenpeaceUSA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPsLawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SLAPPsLawsuits</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSiouxTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRockSiouxTribe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockReservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRockReservation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KelcyWarren</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArrestKelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArrestKelcyWarren</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a>: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greenpeace</a> Ordered to Pay $667M to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DakotaAccessPipeline</a> Firm over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protests</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DemocracyNow</a>, March 20, 2025"A jury in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> has ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages for defaming <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnergyTransferPartners</a>, the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Texas-based pipeline company accused Greenpeace of orchestrating criminal behavior by training and providing funds to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a>-led protests at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRock</a>. Greenpeace and its supporters, including other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonprofits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonprofits</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/advocacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#advocacy</a> groups, argued that the lawsuit is part of a conspicuous attempt by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corporations</a> to destroy the right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a>. Longtime <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environmental</a> lawyer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StevenDonziger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StevenDonziger</a>, who was part of the independent trial monitoring team observing the trial, says it was purposely held in a region of the country with deep ties to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuel</a> industry. Donziger said most of the jurors in the case were connected to the industry and were 'predisposed' to rule in favor of Energy Transfer despite the 'false narratives' presented at the trial. Greenpeace plans to appeal the ruling."Watch / listen / read transcript: <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/20/greenpeace_lawsuit_north_dakota_pipeline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/20/greenpeace_lawsuit_north_dakota_pipeline</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SLAPPs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ViewerSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ViewerSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenpeaceUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenpeaceUSA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPsLawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SLAPPsLawsuits</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSiouxTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRockSiouxTribe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockReservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRockReservation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KelcyWarren</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArrestKelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArrestKelcyWarren</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACAB</a>

DoomsdaysCWFooting the $15 Million Bill for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DakotaAccessPipeline</a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a>Sen. John Hoeven added monies to the Department of Justice’s budget for FY 2017 to reimburse <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> for incurred costs.By Ruth Hopkins , IndianCountryTodayMediaNetworkPublished: May 23, 2017 “Last fall, the eyes of the world were fixated on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRock</a>.“Among the images burned into the brains of so many abroad were those of Morton County sheriff’s department, joined by law enforcement officers from across the country, bedecked in military gear and armed to the teeth, brutalizing defenseless water protectors for expressing their first amendment rights and freedom of religion. Eyes were opened when mercs sicced vicious attack dogs on women and children guarding sacred burial grounds with their lives. Folks thousands of miles away watched in horror as they witnessed concussion grenades being thrown into crowds and elders being maced in the midst of sweat lodge raids. People will never forget live stream video picked up by mainstream media, showing hundreds of civilians being shot with water cannons in subzero temperatures by a corporate police state army. Some photos of injuries were judged too graphic to post by social media, as they revealed a young woman with a near severed limb and another who’d been blinded in one eye.“This was not Iraq or Afghanistan. There was no foreign enemy invading our shores. These events occurred in the middle of the United States, on Lakota treaty lands; and the only thing these innocent people had done was dare to stand in the way of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the same one Bismarck, North Dakota residents rejected due to fears it would contaminate their water supply. This war zone created by Dakota Access and Morton County was meant to subdue Standing Rock residents and water protectors and force them to accept an unwarranted risk to their fresh water and the desecration of ancestral graves, under the barrel of a gun.“Here in the states, hundreds of Native Nations and the American public sided with Standing Rock. Scores came to camp along the shores of the Mni Sosa (Missouri River). Others rallied in the local cities, signed petitions, and called the White House. Millions were outraged by the injustice.“Yet who is paying for the corporate police state brutality I just mentioned? You are.“Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), who accepted money from Energy Transfer Partners (the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline) and has been vocal in his support of both the Dakota Access Pipeline as well as the Keystone XL pipeline, has announced that North Dakota will receive $15 million in federal funds to reimburse the state for costs incurred as a result of militarizing Barney Fife and company while they pushed the pipeline through for ETP and engaged in the violent, forced removal of water protectors. Hoeven slid said monies into the Department of Justice’s budget as part of Fiscal 2017 funding legislation.“By the way, Hoeven sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee and is now the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Welcome to Custer’s wet dream.“The distinguished Senator from North Dakota would have us believe his state was alone in its mission to extinguish <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a>. Nothing could be further from the truth.“When Morton County requested backup, law enforcement officials from across the nation came to North Dakota via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). The Sheriff’s Association also showed up in full force.“New York Daily News writer Shaun King obtained audio where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnergyTransferPartners</a> freely admitted that they worked closely with the Sheriff’s Association, and wow, did they ever. They became one and the same.“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterProtectors</a> who lived at camp can attest to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ETP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ETP</a> and law enforcement’s collusion and fraternization, but the record speaks for itself.“The Sheriffs’ Association has a $3.46 million budget, according to tax forms. Some of this funding comes from corporate sources, like TigerSwan. TigerSwan maintains offices in Iraq and Afghanistan. TigerSwan’s CEO is a former adviser to the multinational private security firm, Blackwater. Blackwater was founded by Erik Prince, a Trump campaign donor and the brother of Betsy DeVos, the US Secretary of Education. Besides funding the Sheriff’s Association, TigerSwan is in charge of Dakota Access intelligence and supervising overall security for the company. Tigerswan works for Dakota Access, while funding and partnering with the Sheriffs’ Association.“The Sheriff’s Association purchased military gear from the US Department’s Defense Logistics Agency thanks to the Defense Department’s 1033 program. Think corporate welfare for the defense industry.“Wait, there’s more. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnergyTransferPartners</a> CEO <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KelcyWarren</a> offered to reimburse North Dakota and Morton County for costs due to defending the Dakota Access Pipeline.“So why are US taxpayers forking over $15 million to North Dakota?“Despite the fossil fuel industry’s wishes, America is not an oil company with an army. We should not be bankrolling our own oppression.”<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRockSioux</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a>

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