Saturday, September 10, 2016

Press Crack Down

An arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman. Goodman was charged with criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor offense. A team from Democracy Now! was in North Dakota last week to cover the Native American-led protests against the Dakota Access pipeline.

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“This is an unacceptable violation of freedom of the press," said Amy Goodman in a statement. "I was doing my job by covering pipeline guards unleashing dogs and pepper spray on Native American protesters.”

  Democracy Now!
Precisely the problem: you filmed it.

Unfuckingbelievable.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

In case you missed Amy's report:

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