Our Eco-Logic format is a bit different today as we have important timely information to share. We won't have time on this show for our usual opening news section. We've reported before on the start of the trial of the SLAPP lawsuit against Greenpeace, but now the verdict is in, and it is devastating. It will be appealed!

This trial is about protecting free speech and democracy — for all movements.

We share a recent interview with trial monitors, environmental lawyers Steven Donziger, Natali Segovia of Water Protector Legal Collective, and Greenpeace political strategist Charlie Cray about the SLAPP lawsuit. Harvey Wasserman was the interviewer. SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. Wikipedia defines them as “lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition”.

Steven Donziger is an environmental and human rights attorney and advocate who has been the target of an oil company revenge campaign for over 30 years. In 2013, Steven helped Amazon communities in Ecuador win the largest environmental judgment in history when a court ordered Chevron to pay $9.5 billion to restore ancestral lands despoiled by the dumping of billions of gallons of cancer-causing oil waste. In retaliation, Chevron used its political and financial capital to countersue Steven for contempt of court, strip him of his law license, and detain him at home and prison for close to three years. While Steven continues the battle against Chevron, he also advocates for other victims of corporate malfeasance and offers legal interpretations of human rights issues.

Natali Segovia is a Quechua international human rights attorney who currently serves as Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective. She also serves on the Scientific Committee of the Monique and Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law and on the Board of Directors for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International. For more than 15 years, her international work has focused on addressing human rights violations as a result of extractive industry and mass development projects in rural, “unseen” areas.

Charlie Cray, Senior Political Strategist with Greenpeace USA has been a member of their research department since 2010. He was a member of the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign, helped edit Multinational Monitor magazine, and is coauthor of The People’s Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy. He has written numerous environmental and corporate accountability articles, reports, and blogs. Between 2004 and 2010, Charlie directed the Center for Corporate Policy

Harvey Wasserman is a Pacifica radio producer, journalist, author, democracy activist, and advocate for renewable energy. He has been a strategist and organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States for over 30 years. He is a senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, an investigative reporter, and senior editor of The Columbus Free Press.

Energy Transfer, the Big Oil company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims that Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International organized the 2016-2017 Standing Rock resistance. This is a false and racist attempt to erase Indigenous leadership from this historic protest. Energy Transfer’s lawsuit threatens our fundamental rights to organize and protest. A win for them sets a dangerous precedent – allowing more attacks on unions, activists, and journalists – and silencing our speech through intimidation.

Protect the Protests is a taskforce of nonprofit organizations that understand the threat of SLAPP, many of which have been targets themselves. They have combined their expertise and collective power to fight back against SLAPPs and protect the free speech of public interest.

More than 400 organizations including 350.org, Amnesty International, Indigenous Environmental Network, Public Citizen, and UFCW International Union along with such public figures as Jane Fonda, Adam McKay, and Susan Sarandon plus more than 350,000 individuals have already signed Greenpeace's open letter to Energy Transfer. Together, we can stop this lawsuit, defend free speech, and Save Greenpeace!

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