Introducing Lawless Planet: "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline"
1/20/202646 min
When activists Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya take drastic measures to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, they have no idea that a shadowy private security contractor called TigerSwan has them in its sights.
Special thanks to:
Alleen Brown and The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/2018/12/30/tigerswan-infiltrator-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock/)
You Strike A Match by Julia Shipley (https://grist.org/protest/dakota-access-pipeline-activists-property-destruction/)
Democracy Now (https://www.democracynow.org/)
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First 90 secondsZach Goldbaum· Host0:00
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[upbeat music] I'm Aline Brown. On Drilled season 12, we brought you Slapped, a series about the pipeline giant Energy Transfer's massive lawsuit against Greenpeace. It's the story of an indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protesters, and at the heart of it all was the indigenous-led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. But back in 2018, I covered a different story about DAPL for The Intercept, about Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, two women who attempted to stop the pipeline through acts of sabotage and vandalism, and paid a heavy price for their actions. Today, we're gonna play you an episode of another podcast that tells Ruby and Jessica's story. It's called Lawless Planet, and like Drilled, it's a show about crime and the environment. On each episode of Lawless Planet, host Zach Goldbaum reveals the scams,