(Preview) Profiting from corporate counterinsurgency against Water Protectors w/ Alleen Brown

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🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Investigative journalist Alleen Brown (@AlleenBrown) reports on 50,000 pages of recently released TigerSwan documents, showing how the private security company tried to market its policing and surveillance of the Indigenous-led protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline to other fossil fuel companies.

Alleen Brown co-write this investigative report with Naveena Sadasivam (@NaveenaSivam).

Read the article, "After infiltrating Standing Rock, TigerSwan pitched its ‘counterinsurgency’ playbook to other oil companies"

In the second half of the conversation, Nick and Alleen review the "first narrative film about "On Sacred Ground" (2023), "the first narrative film on Standing Rock."

Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel.

*WARNING: This interview explores content and themes that may trigger PTSD or cause emotional distress. If you are experiencing any traumatic stress, panic, anxiety, depression, or hopelessness, you are not alone, and help is available!

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0:00.0	Greetings podcast
0:01.0	podcast listeners and viewers.
0:03.0	You are tuning in to a 35 minute clip of an interview I conducted with investigative journalist
0:09.8	Aline Brown about her recent revelations on a 50,000 page document release on the private
0:18.8	security company, Tiger Swan, which was surveilling, infiltrating, and generally harassing water protectors at Standing Rock.
0:27.0	If you want to get more of our interview, please subscribe to our Patreon for $2 a month.
0:34.6	The link will be in the show notes,
0:36.8	as well as check out the amazing investigative work
0:41.8	done by Alene and Navena Sadavasum on the Grist, which is an environmental
0:49.7	news site to read more about the documents that they uncovered and they reviewed in
0:55.2	writing this report so please you know subscribe and you can hear Eileen and I
1:02.0	go beyond just the news headlines that were uncovered in this story,
1:08.0	but also how we dissect a movie called On Sacred Ground,
1:12.0	which is actually a narrative film about Standing Rock, as well as other sort of popular culture.
1:17.0	Artifacts have come out in the wake of the Standing Rock Movement.
1:21.0	So if you can, subscribe to to our Patreon it's Patreon.com
1:25.2	backslash red media PR or you can access this entire interview on our YouTube channel for free. Just like and
1:35.5	subscribe. We have a growing audience building on YouTube as well as on our
1:39.8	podcast channels but again thank you so much and I hope you enjoy this conversation.
1:45.0	Today we're joined by Eileen Brown who is a freelance journalist currently
1:51.0	just came out with a bombshell article which we'll talk about but
1:56.7	Alene can you just introduce yourself? Yeah my name is Eileen Brown I'm an independent
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