Speaker 1: At the end of March, the pipeline company, energy Transfer,
Speaker 1: when a lawsuit against green Peace for six hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty six million dollars. Energy Transfer claimed that the Standing
Speaker 1: Rock Movement, the big Indigenous led effort to stop the
Speaker 1: Decoda Access pipeline in twenty sixteen, was actually an anti
Speaker 1: corporate conspiracy orchestrated by green Peace, and the jury agreed.
Speaker 1: I was there when the verdict dropped. Can I ask
Speaker 1: what you thought about all of this? One of the
Speaker 1: worst first of the men decisions I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I've been practicing all over for sixty five years. I've
Speaker 2: then seen anything like this. It's horrible.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely bullshit, one hundred percent. They're treating us
Speaker 1: a Native people like we're not competent enough to organize
Speaker 1: and strategize something to protect our airlines and water.
Speaker 2: It's sick.
Speaker 1: If you read some of the news coverage of the case,
Speaker 1: you might think there's two sides to this story. Transferred,
Speaker 1: the company that built the Dakota Access pipeline, certainly has
Speaker 1: its version.
Speaker 2: Greenpeace maliciously misrepresented events within this community in an unrelenting
Speaker 2: attempt to stop the construction of a pipeline that had
Speaker 2: already obtained all of the necessary legal approvals. These are
Speaker 2: the facts, not the fake news of the green Peace
Speaker 2: propaganda machine, and Greenpeace has its version. This is an
Speaker 2: attempt to scare anybody involved with protests from showing up.
Speaker 1: But there's a bigger story here of an indigenous nation
Speaker 1: fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and
Speaker 1: an energy giant using the courts to punish protesters. To
Speaker 1: tell this story, I had to dive into secretive private
Speaker 1: security documents, into the network of people and organizations behind
Speaker 1: this lawsuit, and into the courtroom at a trial closed
Speaker 1: to cameras and audio reporters. What I found changed the
Speaker 1: way I think about our justice system. Forever you see a.
Speaker 2: Jury, you see a judge, it seems like a nice man,
Speaker 2: but it's all been pre cooked. They create an angle
Speaker 2: and then everybody has to follow. If it goes against
Speaker 2: the angle they created, you are the radical.
Speaker 1: You know green Peace was behind it.
Speaker 2: They had no business here.
Speaker 1: They're trying to point the finger at green Peace because
Speaker 1: God forbid. Some Indians think for themselves.
Speaker 2: This is a life and death issue to our indigenous people.
Speaker 2: This is a life and death issue too, to life itself.
Speaker 1: To water to the river. I'm a lean Brown and
Speaker 1: this season a drilled. We present SLAT, an investigative series
Speaker 1: about how far the fossil fuel industry will go to
Speaker 1: be sure their story wins.
Speaker 2: We do this to stop the desecration of Ujima comes.
Speaker 1: We do this for the next seven generations. We do
Speaker 1: this for the unborn children that are coming through this world.
Speaker 2: They are not allowed to make.
Speaker 1: No pipelines on this flow. Slapped premiere soon on a
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