Big Oil's Counterinsurgency after Standing Rock / Alleen Brown

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Returning to This is Hell! is the Intercept's Alleen Brown. Her work focuses on environmental justice issues. Her most recent article, co-written with Naveen Sadasivan is titled, "Oil and Water: After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest 'Counterinsurgency' to Other Oil Companies." The investigation is based on more than 50,000 pages of documents that were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret. You can find the article, "Oil and Water," here: https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/

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0:00.0	I'm going to go to raise the bus.
0:09.0	I'm going to raise the bus, I'm going to raise a horse, I'm going to raise a hollow. Chuck. This is a little foreshadow in. Oh, dyes, son, you gotta work late.
0:25.0	Sometimes I wonder,
0:29.0	but I'm gonna do, but there ain't no cure for the summertime. Well, my mom and papa told me, son, you gotta make some money.
0:45.0	If you wanna use the car to go, we're riding next Sunday.
0:51.0	Well, I didn't go to work for the boss I was sick.
0:57.0	Well, you can't use a car because you didn't work or live.
1:00.0	Sometimes I wonder, but I'm not going to gonna do but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues. I'm going to take two weeks, don't I have a fun vacation.
1:17.0	I'm going to take my problem to the two-time fish.
1:24.0	What do I want to do?
1:27.0	Take it now. You're welcome to be able to. This is hell.
1:47.0	hell. Another end of the world is possible. This is hell and the threat of carbon-emitting
2:01.2	fossil fuel corporations and their contributions to ending the world
2:04.4	through climate change is now a collaboration between those corporations, local
2:10.5	governments, private militarized security companies, and law enforcement.
2:15.6	That's right, in the fight against climate change, the cops, specifically a National Trade Association
2:20.4	of Sheriffs, are siding with the fossil fuel companies that are causing climate
2:25.3	change and against activists who are trying to save us all from global warming.
2:30.9	Police who are supposed to be protecting and serving the public are now, instead, protecting and serving the interests of fossil fuel concerns that are actually endangering the public safety.
2:44.0	You may remember us discussing this issue with the intercepts will perish way back in 2017
2:51.0	when previously secret documents reveal the security contractor
2:54.0	Tiger Swan's War on Terror tactics that they used against Dakota
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