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Our right to protest is under attack—and we’re fighting back. Greenpeace USA is facing a $300 million SLAPP lawsuit from the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline – an attack to silence us and potentially destroy the organization. But this isn’t just about us. This is part of a much bigger effort by billionaires and corporations to crush dissent and rewrite the rules to serve their own greed. We’re not backing down—we’re getting louder.

That’s why we’re launching Protest on Trial: A Series for Democracy – a weekly webinar series every Thursday from February 20 to March 27 as this trial unfolds. These sessions will bring you inside updates from the courtroom and conversations with frontline activists, legal experts, and movement leaders on the broader threats and strategies to fight back—for protest, for free speech, and for democracy itself.

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Feb 20 – Protest on Trial

“. . . I write today from a position rare for a former prosecutor: to beseech you to commute the sentence of a man I helped put behind bars.”

Thus begins one of the most stunning letters I have ever read, written almost four years ago by former U.S. Attorney James H. Reynolds to President Joe Biden, pleading with him to exonerate former American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier, who had been convicted of murdering two FBI agents at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975.

Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Gaza resistance was the main reason behind Israel’s forced decision to accept a ceasefire and begin its gradual withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The oddity is that Palestinians—dying, resisting, but remaining steadfast in Gaza—usually stand at the polar opposite of everything the Israeli government and military represent.

The same is true for the Israeli government. Yet, from the very start of the Israeli genocide, both sides entered into an undeclared agreement: the Israelis wanted to destroy the Palestinian resistance and take full control of Gaza, while the Palestinians wanted to thwart the Israeli objectives.

We launch GREEP Zoom #212 with a lovely poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, who tells us about the feminist community of Rohava in northern Syria.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces Prof. ERIC KINGSON takes us on a long journey for saving Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, which he says have deep popular support.

MARGARET VILLANI expresses her concern about the lethal swoop now trashing Medicare & Medicaid.

ELLEN GOTTLIEB from Save Social Security & Medicare Now.com tells us of upcoming Florida events.

Longtime organizer DANIELA GIOSEFFI warns that the dispersal of personal from Social Security & Medicare comprise an urgent threat.

We hear from ROBERT COPLIN on California’s SSI shortcomings.

KEVIN EISENSTADT seeks guidance on the best time to take SSI benefits.

DONALD SMITH and MICKI LEADER warn about the need to sustain public support for these public institutions.

Grassroots organizing questions come from BRYAN BLAKELY.

Environmental broadcaster KEN GALE checks in from WBAI with vital green info about ECO-RADIO.