Will Potter, author of *Green is the New Red* and one of the best-known observers and analysts of the way the state uses contrived charges of “terrorism” to attack environmental activists, joined Bob for a great discussion about the recent North Dakota court case where Energy Transfer Partners sued Greenpeace and won a huge settlement. They talked at length about the ways in which the oil companies and the state have criminalized free speech and allowed the oligarchs to intimidate and destroy activist groups.
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They also discussed the current repression–the attacks on migrants, students, anti-Tesla activists, etc–and the new level of risks we’re facing.
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Will Potter is a thought leader and award-winning investigative journalist and author whose work has focused on social justice movements and attacks on civil rights post-9/11. He has been invited to speak about human rights and political repression before governmental bodies including the U.S. Congress, the Australian Parliament, and the Council of Europe.
He was the first investigative journalist to be named a TED Senior Fellow, and his TED talks on anti-protest laws and secret prisons have been viewed nearly 10 million times.
His book, Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, exposed the targeting of nonviolent protest groups by the FBI and was awarded a Kirkus Star for “remarkable merit.” Will was awarded the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship in Law Reporting, and is the inaugural civil rights fellow and distinguished journalist-in-residence at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
His new book, “Little Red Barns: Hiding the truth from farm to fable”, is now available for pre-order.
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