Climate Protest
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![Collage of hand holding magnifying glass with image of DAPL protest in center]()
![Collage of hand holding magnifying glass with image of DAPL protest in center]()
After infiltrating Standing Rock, TigerSwan pitched its ‘counterinsurgency’ playbook to other oil companies
More than 50,000 pages of newly released documents detail how the security firm targeted pipeline opponents and tried to profit off its surveillance tactics.
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Inside climate activists’ uneasy relationship with ‘net-zero’
How the logic of carbon neutrality got “lit on fire” by big polluters.
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Radical eco-activists have made it into mainstream fiction. Is reality next?
History suggests novels about monkeywrenching could inspire real-world copycats.
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![Atlanta Cop City protest on March 4, 2023]()
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How the FBI used ‘Cop City’ protests to snoop on activists in Chicago
Internal FBI documents indicate a larger federal law enforcement assessment related to “Anarchist extremism” and domestic terrorism.
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Welcome to Utah, where pipeline protests could now get you at least five years in prison
Since the Standing Rock protests in 2017, 19 states have passed so-called critical infrastructure laws.
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![People on a beach and swimming in Lake Michigan at Calumet Park with facility in background]()
![People on a beach and swimming in Lake Michigan at Calumet Park with facility in background]()
Chicago neighborhood groups sue US Army Corps of Engineers over expansion of a polluted dump
“Our community is fighting back and saying ‘no more.’”
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![Police in riot gear arrest environmental activists at the Line 3 pipeline pumping station near the Itasca State Park, Minnesota on June 7, 2021.]()
![Police in riot gear arrest environmental activists at the Line 3 pipeline pumping station near the Itasca State Park, Minnesota on June 7, 2021.]()
Documents show how a pipeline company paid Minnesota millions to police protests
From riot gear to PR to Dairy Queen, records detail every expense Enbridge reimbursed after the Line 3 protests.
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![Demonstrators protest the death of environmental activist Tortuguita on January 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.]()
![Demonstrators protest the death of environmental activist Tortuguita on January 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.]()
Documents show how 19 ‘Cop City’ activists got charged with terrorism
Georgia police are invoking a 2017 terrorism law against activists accused of little more than trespassing.
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Climate activists’ new, confrontational tactics aren’t popular. That’s kind of the point.
You're not supposed to like it when protesters throw soup on a van Gogh.
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The surprising player in the rail strike fight: Fossil fuel companies
The collaboration between coal, oil, and railroads goes back decades.
