In a story for The Intercept, Alleen Brown and I reported on the latest in a wave of state bills aimed at criminalizing resistance to fossil fuel installations in the US. We focused, in particular, on a Louisiana bill to
A TigerSwan Employee Quietly Registered a New Business in Louisiana After the State Denied the Security Firm a License to Operate (March 30, 2018)
TigerSwan, the private security company notorious for its work surveilling pipeline opponents at Standing Rock on behalf of Energy Transfer Partners, hit a roadblock last July in its effort to provide intelligence and security services in Louisiana. The Louisiana State
Police Targeted Anti-Racists In Charlottesville Ahead of ‘Unite The Right’ Rally, Documents Show (March 7, 2018)
Last year, I got ahold of several hundred pages of police documents on anti-fascists, “black identity extremists,” and white supremacists via records request and built a story around them, along with other reporting, for Shadowproof. Police agencies downplayed the threat
Oil and Water — an 11-Part Series
Since last May, I’ve contributed to a series for The Intercept utilizing leaked documents and public records to reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline and
The Federal Government is Trying to Imprison These Six Water Protectors
In February, a federal grand jury issued indictments of four Standing Rock water protectors on charges of Federal Civil Disorder and Use of Fire to Commit a Federal Crime. The federal investigators accused the four men—James White, Brennan Nastacio, Dion