How Canada Uses ‘Redwashing’ To Crack Down On Indigenous Pipeline Protesters

Australia’s State-by-State Approach to Criminalizing Climate Protest

How UK courts became the new climate protest battleground

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Judge Grants Restraining Order Against Minnesota County Sheriff in Line 3 Fight

Indigenous Water Protectors, Allies Protesting Line 3 First Ever To Be Cited under Obscure County Ordinance in Minnesota

The Tomato Soup “Controversy”

Records Show U.S. Steel Giant Nucor Retained Ties to a Honduran Mine as Assassinations of Opponents Mounted

How Think Tanks Laid the Groundwork to Criminalize Protest

Meet the First UN Special Rapporteur for Environmental Defenders

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Documents related to Drilled’s 2023-2024 investigation into the global crackdown on climate protest.

2013 MacDonald Laurier Institute whitepaper “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People” In 2012, four First Nations women

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2013 MacDonald Laurier Institute whitepaper “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People”

2019 Explanatory Note for Queensland protest criminalization bill The Queensland government’s proposal for Australia’s first anti-protest law, often referred to as Queensland’s “Dangerous Devices” law.

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2019 Explanatory Note for Queensland protest criminalization bill

Greenpeace Report “Global Warning: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia” Greenpeace report on mounting threats to activism—particularly climate activists—in Australia.

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Greenpeace Report “Global Warning: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia”

2019 Human Rights Commission Comment on Queensland anti-protest bill Human Rights Commission response to the proposed Queensland Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019. They note that there is “a real risk that the provisions may be unconstitutional as an impermissible burden on the implied freedom of political communication.”

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2019 Human Rights Commission Comment on Queensland anti-protest bill

Parliamentary Committee Report “Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019” A summary of the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee’s examination of the Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019. The committee’s task was to consider the policy to be achieved by the legislation and the application of fundamental legislative principles – that is, to consider whether the Bill has sufficient regard to the rights and liberties of individuals, and to the institution of Parliament.

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Parliamentary Committee Report “Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019” 

Agenda for 2019 Public Hearing on Queensland anti-protest law Agenda for Queensland Parliament Legal Affairs and Public Safety Committee public hearing on the 2019 Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill.

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Agenda for 2019 Public Hearing on Queensland anti-protest law

Contention article “The Criminalization of Climate Change Protest” Journal article on the the strategies used by a democratic state to suppress dissent by criminalizing social protest activities, focused on Australia from 2019-2021. Written by Robyn E. Gulliver, Robin Banks, Kelly S. Fielding, and Winnifred R. Louis.

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Contention article “The Criminalization of Climate Change Protest”

Transparency International Report “Limiting the right to protest: Comparing restrictions in the G7, Russia and China” A research note from Transparency International in response to the query: Earlier this year, the UK Government introduced the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. How do the following provisions compare to other G7 countries, Russia, and China: a) conditions for limiting protests, b) definition of and sentencing for “public nuisance”, c) criminalising damage to memorials?

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Transparency International Report “Limiting the right to protest: Comparing restrictions in the G7, Russia and China”

1946 Standard Oil report on Venezuela A report from Standard’s PR firm, Earl Newsom & Associates, which had been sent to Venezuela to try to help with worker protests against the company’s subsidiary (Creole).

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1946 Standard Oil report on Venezuela

Letter from fossil fuel industry groups to members of the American Legislative Exchange Council proposing critical infrastructure law Letter from American Chemistry Council, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Gas Association, Edison Electric Institute, Energy Policy Network, Marathon Petroleum Corporation to state legislator members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) asking for their support of industry-drafted sample legislation aiming to protect “critical infrastructure.”

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Letter from fossil fuel industry groups to members of the American Legislative Exchange Council proposing critical infrastructure law

Zimbabwe Critical Infrastructure law proposal Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2019, call for public comment.

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Zimbabwe Critical Infrastructure law proposal

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Field Analysis Report: Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project Prepared by the Arkansas State Fusion Center (ASFC), Oklahoma Information Fusion Center (OIFC), Tennessee Fusion Center (TFC), and the DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A), this Field Analysis Report (FAR) addresses potential threats to the construction of the Diamond Pipeline across Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee in 2017. It highlights violent incidents and threats against similar projects; considers potential domestic terrorist targeting, tactics, and weapons; and provides a list of indicators of possible planned violence against the pipeline.

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Field Analysis Report: Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project 

Letter from Republican congress members to Department of Justice on “protecting energy infrastructure” post-Standing Rock Signed by 84 Republican members of Congress, this letter to attorney general Jeff Sessions urges the DOJ to explore the possibility of federal critical infrastructure protections

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Letter from Republican congress members to Department of Justice on “protecting energy infrastructure” post-Standing Rock

Whitehat v Landry Motion for Summary Judgement Bayou Bridge protestors’ request for summary judgement in their appeal against the state for falsely arresting them.

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Whitehat v Landry Motion for Summary Judgement

Queensland Resources Council submission on law restricting protest In 2010, Indian conglomerate Adani purchased tenements over a giant and untapped coal basin in the west of

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Queensland Resources Council submission on law restricting protest

Sainte-Soline, the Government Effort to Disband a Movement in France, and the Radical Solidarity of the Earth Uprisings

Meet the First UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

S10, Ep4: In Vietnam, Tax Evasion Charges Help Lock Up Climate Activists

S10, Ep15: How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground

S10, Ep1 | The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech

Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine

In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists

S10, Ep6: Joanna Smith on “Conspiring Against the United States Government” with…Fingerpaint

S10, Ep3: In Australia, a State-by-State Approach to Criminalizing Protest

S10, Ep12: Modern-Day Bead Trading: “Redwashing” and Repression in Canada

S10, Ep9: The Tomato Soup “Controversy”

S10, Ep5: How Think Tanks Laid the Groundwork to Criminalize Climate Protest

S10, Ep8: In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization: Why Indigenous Land Defenders Are Particularly Targeted by Extractive Industries

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S10 Real Free Speech Threat Documents

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