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BREAKING: A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$ 345 million.
This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. A thread ⤵️🧵
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US$ 345 million.
That’s what Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US have been ordered to pay.
It’s the biggest damage award ever imposed on Greenpeace organisations. It’s meant to shut the movement up.
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Let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
Across the world, those who speak out are facing corporate intimidation – all so billionaires and corporations can keep getting richer while the planet burns.
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This is not over!
All Greenpeace entities involved will appeal this ruling in the US.
And Greenpeace International is already taking Energy Transfer to court in the Netherlands under the EU’s anti-SLAPP directive.
7/7 We will keep resisting billionaires, corporate bullies and polluters.
It’s #TimeToResist
Add your name >> https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/time-to-resist/
Billionaires and corporations are tightening their grip on our democracies — and silencing dissent. They weaken protections for people and the planet, bankroll politicians who serve their interests, control media narratives, and use corporate intimidation to shut down free speech. It’s time to fight back!
Greenpeace International
Leony Löwenzahn