We start this monumental legal exposition with the great hero-attorney STEVE DONZIGER & the high-profile corporate attack on Greenpeace & the Indigenous community.

Greenpeace has been sued by Energy Transfer in a North Dakota court with a jury dominated by fossil-fuel workers and a pro-corporate judge.

Hawaii-based attorney NATALI SEGOVIA gives us detail on the particulars of this rigged indictment in a case meant to “target the environmental movement as a whole.”

Natali emphasizes that the land devastated by the contested pipeline is, by treaty rights, still Indigenous land.

Much-revered long-time campaigner CHARLIE CRAY explains that Greenpeace’s role in the Standing Rock demonstrations was to train people in non-violence, and that the corporate attack on the Greenpeace organizational structure has been misguided.

Steve Donziger then explains where the next legal battles will go amidst the long-standing campaign to weaponize the law against the human attempt to preserve our ability to live on this planet.

More than 150,000 people have signed a petition begun by a Black church to boycott Target department and multi-purpose stores, because of their abandonment of their diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI program. I haven’t been in a Target for years, and I’m definitely not going in there now.

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. No Other Land is an unflinching account of a community's mass expulsion and acts as a creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

About the filmmaker:

Basel Adraisa Palestinian lawyer, journalist, and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta. He has been an activist and documentarian since 2015, fighting against Israel’s mass expulsion of his community.

Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor, and director from Jerusalem. 

Hamdan Ballalisa Palestinian photographer, filmmaker, and farmer from Susya, and has worked as a researcher for several anti-occupation human rights groups.

Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist from Jerusalem.

U.S. Farmers Sue Trump Administration

Several U.S. farmers and some nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration last Thursday, claiming that it is illegally withholding funding from the Department of Agriculture.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5193656-farmers-sue-trump-administration-over-halted-ira-grants/

The USDA has withheld REAP grant funding https://www.epa.gov/grants as it conducts an agency-wide spending review. 

Five farmers involved in the suit say that they were awarded grants through the USDA's  Rural Energy for America, REAP program, to install solar panels on their farms. 

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/energy-programs/rural-energy-america-program-renewable-energy-systems-energy-efficiency-improvement-guaranteed-loans

What will happen if disabled veterans lose everything? What happens when they can no longer access mental health care? I have lived this fear every day since the inauguration.

For longer than two decades, between 2008 and 2022, twenty-two veterans a day committed suicide. The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) annual report on the suicide epidemic in veteran population has shown a decrease in these numbers since 2022, the number dropping from 22 to 18. Even so, veteran suicides remain heartbreaking and will again spike for years to come if DOGE has its way by planning to cut 70,000 VA staffers.

Veterans have had major upheaval and chaos since draft-dodging Trump announced the “Department of Government Efficiency” – which is run and staffed by those who would never have the courage to pick up a weapon and fight for their lavish way of life. As a young adult, I had the courage to fight, and then fellow soldiers raped me while I served in Iraq in 2004 as an intelligence specialist. I dodged bullets and improvised explosives, but my life was forever altered by Americans.