Greenpeace ordered to pay more than $660m for defaming oil firm in protests

Anti-environmentalist state actions are an extension of red scare actions. The bridge between them was policies against "terrorists", i.e. people who use the weapons of poor people and not jets and aircraft carriers. Environmentalist organizations, from the state perspective, are now "environmental terrorists" when they obstruct or destroy property in addition to civil lawsuits intended to bankrupt them that have an absurdly easy path moving forward. The case of Steven Donzinger is an example of this, where Chevron lost a large civil case and decided to openly punish the lawyer who represented poor Ecuadorians that had been impacted. The court system was nakedly abused (usually they give themselves more cover and false pretenses) to harass and punish Donzinger by a series or judges beholden to industry and capital.

"Domestic terrorism" is also applied to protesters for black lives and Palestine and will increasingly be used to do so. The intent is to crush left organizing and to conflate private property and humsn life. You may already recognize this latter tendency when a protest that breaks windows is deemed violent, as if the windows have families and needed to visit a hospital to feel better. Meanwhile, police or jailer or proud boy violence against the protestors is described in neutral cop speak, seemingly without agency or human impact.

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"Greenpeace has warned it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case brought by Energy Transfer." That's the point, I would guess.
- I guess they can't do what mining companies do after dumping toxic chemicals eh? Fold take the money and re open as Green Peace instead of Greenpeace?
They've shown Us full well whether or not they will respond to peaceful protest and above ground action, take the information and do with it what you will
Anti-environmentalist state actions are an extension of red scare actions. The bridge between them was policies against "terrorists", i.e. people who use the weapons of poor people and not jets and aircraft carriers. Environmentalist organizations, from the state perspective, are now "environmental terrorists" when they obstruct or destroy property in addition to civil lawsuits intended to bankrupt them that have an absurdly easy path moving forward. The case of Steven Donzinger is an example of this, where Chevron lost a large civil case and decided to openly punish the lawyer who represented poor Ecuadorians that had been impacted. The court system was nakedly abused (usually they give themselves more cover and false pretenses) to harass and punish Donzinger by a series or judges beholden to industry and capital.
"Domestic terrorism" is also applied to protesters for black lives and Palestine and will increasingly be used to do so. The intent is to crush left organizing and to conflate private property and humsn life. You may already recognize this latter tendency when a protest that breaks windows is deemed violent, as if the windows have families and needed to visit a hospital to feel better. Meanwhile, police or jailer or proud boy violence against the protestors is described in neutral cop speak, seemingly without agency or human impact.
What the fuck