Journalist Will Potter on Big Oil's Attempt to Bankrupt Greenpeace (G&R 372)

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Mar 25, 2025 · 43m

Will Potter, author of *Green is the New Red* and one of the best-known observers and analysts of the way the state uses contrived charges of "terrorism" to attack environmental activists, joined me for a great discussion about the recent North Dakota court case where Energy Transfer Partners sued Greenpeace and won a huge settlement. We talked at length about the ways in which the oil companies and the state have criminalized free speech and allowed the oligarchs to intimidate and destroy activist groups.

We also discussed the current repression--the attacks on migrants, students, anti-Tesla…