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How Think Tanks Paved the Way to Criminalize Climate Protest
Season 10 Episode 5
Climate activists warn about the future—but for many communities, climate loss is already routine. Mo Isu from Inherited looks at the cycle of loss a…
2 years, 6 months ago
Vietnam's Tax Evasion Charges Are Used to Jail Climate Activists
Season 10 Episode 4
President Biden made his first trip to Vietnam as President this week, with the intention of "upgrading" diplomatic relations between the United Stat…
2 years, 7 months ago
Australia’s State-by-State Crackdown on Climate Protest
Season 10 Episode 3
Since Queensland passed the "Dangerous Attachment Devices" law in 2019 in response to anti-coal protests, Australian states have rapidly adopted simi…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
Season 10 Episode 1
There's a lot of discourse happening about free speech in the context of "cancel culture", but precious little coverage of the global push to crimina…
2 years, 7 months ago
Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India
Season 10 Episode 2
At just 22 years old, climate activist Disha Ravi—co-founder of Fridays for Future India—was arrested, flown across the country, and jailed for her a…
2 years, 7 months ago
How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest with Evlondo Cooper
Season 9
Media Matters senior researcher Evlondo Cooper breaks down how the media has covered climate activism, shaping mainstream perception and helping the …
2 years, 7 months ago
Coming Soon: The Real Free Speech Threat
Season 10
Around the world, environmental protesters are facing escalating repression—from harsh laws with life-altering prison sentences to fines to protester…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case
Season 9 Episode 3
In more than 30 climate cases making their way through United States courts today, oil companies are using an argument they've been laying the legal …
2 years, 8 months ago
A Legal Strategy: How Mobil Oil Fought for Corporate Free Speech
Season 9 Episode 2
Mobil Oil worried that its advertorial campaigns positioning Mobil as a personality in and of itself might be labeled "propaganda" by TV networks and…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Panic: How Mobil Oil Changed Advertising Forever
Season 9 Episode 1
In the 1970s, Mobil Oil invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person it…
2 years, 8 months ago