Posted on 03/25/2025 2:43:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Greenpeace backed radical protesters who tried to block a North Dakota pipeline. Now the pipeline company has won huge damages in a lawsuit against the iconic NGO. Other nonprofits should take notice.
Last week, a jury in Mandan, ND, returned a stunning verdict against Greenpeace for its role in the violent protests and misleading public-relations campaign that disrupted construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016.
The jury hearing the civil lawsuit found Greenpeace USA and two other Greenpeace entities liable for civil conspiracy, defamation, trespass and other misdeeds.
If the verdict stands, the storied environmental nonprofit will have to pay $667 million in damages to plaintiff Energy Transfer, the pipeline company that built and owns the DAPL.
The decision wasn’t entirely unexpected. In fact, Greenpeace had tried (and failed) to get the trial location changed, asserting that a jury in that oil-producing region would be biased in favor of the plaintiff.
Nonetheless, the sheer size of the damages awarded will send shock waves through the loose networks of nonprofit groups that support disruptive protests around the nation.
Agitator pipeline
There are similarities between the anti-pipeline protests near North Dakota’s Standing Rock Indian Reservation and other mass actions, including Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and the anti-Israel demonstrations that erupted around the United States after the Oct. 7 attacks.
These are “hybrid protests,” in which masses of peaceful demonstrators are joined by smaller groups of trained agitators who tip the events toward violence.
As Park MacDougald has reported at Tablet Magazine, these loose networks of troublemakers are often financially supported “by a vast web of progressive nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and dark-money groups.”
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“These are “hybrid protests,” in which masses of peaceful demonstrators are joined by smaller groups of trained agitators who tip the events - - - .”
With that sentence J6 comes to mind. J6 was a complete setup.
It is time to call these so called peaceful protest that stop traffic or access or work or business or agitate what they really are. VIOLENCE.
and have them be dealt with for what they are....quell and remove and arrest.
Mostly peaceful . . .
Code Pink still lives
WILL THIS JUDGEMENT BANKRUPT GREENPEACE???
They can have the debt discharged in bankruptcy court where they can settle for pennies on the dollar. This wasn’t a malicious or criminal act so it would qualify.
It was malicious and fully planned to cause damage to the company and the USA and our citizens.
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