In 2016, Indigenous communities in North Dakota were worried that an oil pipeline project could contaminate their land and water. Thousands of people united to support the Indigenous-led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (or DAPL, for short), including environmental groups like Greenpeace USA.
In an attempt to erase Indigenous leadership and rewrite the actual history of the DAPL protests, Energy Transfer, the Big Oil company behind DAPL, filed a massive lawsuit against Greenpeace entities claiming they organized the entire protest.
It’s a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) across the face of free speech. SLAPPs are a tool used by corporations to bury nonprofits and activists in legal fees, push them into bankruptcy, and ultimately silence dissent.
That’s why this battle is about more than just this single case. It’s about our constitutional right to protest. As we’ve seen across the country and across social justice movements, billionaire elites are using their money and power to influence our judicial system and stifle our First Amendment rights.
Greenpeace USA is fighting back.
And they need our help. Sign the pledge today to fight back against Energy Transfer’s attacks on our rights and freedoms!
Happy World Chocolate Day, chocolate lovers! We know how much good chocolate does for you when it’s in your ice cream bowl, but did you know that it also does a choco-lotta good for the farmers who grow it?
We caught up with Flavor Guru Sarah Fidler to ask her what it’s like to have the best job in the world: developing new Ben & Jerry’s flavors. Here’s what she had to say.
