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Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All
The charges against Goodman are a clear attack on journalism and freedom of the press.By Lizzy Ratner
This Monday afternoon, as the sun hits its peak over Mandan, North Dakota, the award-winning journalist, and host of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman will walk into the Morton CountyMandan Combined Law Enforcement and Corrections Center and turn herself in to the local authorities. Her crime: good, unflinching journalism.
Goodman had the audacity to commit this journalism on September 3, when she was in North Dakota covering what she calls the standoff at Standing Rock: the months-long protests by thousands of Native Americans against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The $3.8 billion oil pipeline is slated to carry barrel after barrel of Bakken crude through sacred sites and burial grounds of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and tribe members fear it could pollute the Missouri River, the source not only of their water but of millions of others, should the pipe ever rupture. Their protests, which began in April and ballooned through the summer months, represent the largest mobilization of Native American activists in more than 40 yearsand one of the most vital campaigns for environmental justice in perhaps as long.
Goodmans arrival at the main protest site, the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp, was significant. At the time, not a single one of the major broadcast networks had sent a reporter to cover the Standing Rock mobilization; none had even bothered to mention it on the air. But there was Goodman, standing at the edge of a grassy plain that was in the process of being churned into gullies of dirt, reporting on one of the most significant stories of the day. Clutching a large microphone, she captured the scene as hundreds of protesters tried desperately to stop a crew of bulldozers from tearing up the earththe earth, they said, that belongs to nobodyonly to be confronted by a force of private security contractors wielding attack dogs and pepper spray.
Goodman captured the scene as protesters were confronted by private security contractors wielding attack dogs and pepper spray. People have gone through the fence, men, women, and children, Goodman reported, her voice taut, then rising, louder and more intense. The bulldozers are still going, and theyre yelling at the men in hard hats. One man in a hard hat threw one of the protesters down !
https://www.thenation.com/article/amy-goodman-is-facing-prison-for-reporting-on-the-dakota-access-pipeline-that-should-scare-us-all/
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Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All (Original Post)
milestogo
Oct 2016
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chillfactor
(7,576 posts)1. Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC..
has given a great deal of coverage to Standing Rock.
TonyPDX
(962 posts)2. Unless they really want the chow-chow to hit the fan, they should back off.
Dem_in_Nebr.
(301 posts)3. No and hell NO!
This is so Wrong!!