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Daily beans, daily beans this week. Hello, and welcome to the Daily Beans. We have it's holiday week. Thank you for hanging in with me. We have some really great content this week. And today I'm very, very excited, but like also justice angry with the with the person we're going to talk to today because of this very long ongoing lawsuit against Greenpeace USA that is basically designed to bankrupt the organization and nothing more. There's nothing like nothing else beyond that. And we're going to talk about

that lawsuit, what it stems from, you know, how it's absolutely meritless and how it's,

you know, it seems like it's just simply designed to bankrupt the organization. So today

we're going to talk to a senior legal advisor at Greenpeace USA. Deepa Padmanaba. Welcome.

Thank you. It's so great to be here. I am so thankful that you are able to come on and talk to us because we need to really start shedding light on these kinds of lawsuits that are basically just designed to quiet, you know, our First Amendment rights and our protections and our, you know, ability to protest things.

Talk a little bit about where this all started because it's been going on for quite a while.

Yeah, it's been going on a while. And I appreciate, you know, particularly this moment,

the opportunity to talk about the lawsuit because I think before I get into the details,

one of the things that's

really important to keep in mind is that this is definitely an attack on Greenpeace, but it is an

attack on the movement. It is an attack on our ability to speak truth to power, to exercise our

First Amendment rights. And so this lawsuit obviously has incredible impacts on

Greenpeace, but it impacts every one of us who cares about any issue. So I think that's something

really important to understand about the lawsuit. So yes, this lawsuit goes back to 2017.

It was the second in a series of slapapsuits that were filed against Greenpeace.

And one of the important things, you know, we could spend this whole time talking about just the history.

But the important thing about this lawsuit was that it originally came in the form of a RICO lawsuit.

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