Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier. I'm working on the idea of surrounding the White House,

listening to the messages from listeners who've called in with suggestions and also filling out the forums for a permit for a

protest on the sidewalk that runs around the White House. But today I want to play an

interview with a journalist who was arrested and thrown in jail two weeks ago

February 1st while covering the ongoing protest at Standing Rock.

Jenny Monet is an independent journalist who's been covering the protests at Standing Rock for the past six months,

producing print, video, and radio stories for the Center for Investigative Reporting,

the PBS News Hour, Indian Country Today,

High Country News, PRIs the World,

Yes magazine, and she has her own podcast called Still Here, which I highly recommend.

On February 1st, Monet was covering the arrest of 75 protesters or water protectors who were building a new camp, a

ring of teepees up on top of a hill above the Cannonball River, a safer, healthier spot for when the spring floods start happening.

Law enforcement officers came up the hill to arrest the protesters and Monet met them, showed

them her press credentials, and they told her to leave the area.

She complied, walking back down the hill, but when she got to the bottom, she was arrested

and charged with criminal trespass and rioting, which is a felony.

She spent 30 hours under detention, most of it in the Morton County jail stripped down to her

long underwear.

Last week on February 8th, just after the Army Corps of Engineers announced they'd

approved the permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline to go under the Missouri River,

I called Jenny at the house she's been renting in Cannonball

close to the protest camps.

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