Australia’s State-by-State Crackdown on Climate Protest
Since Queensland passed the "Dangerous Attachment Devices" law in 2019 in response to anti-coal protests, Australian states have rapidly adopted similar measures targeting climate activism. See omnys...
5 Sep 202328min
The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
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 criminalize protest, particularly environmental and climat...
29 Aug 202332min
Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India
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 activism. She joins us to explain the night the poli...
29 Aug 202331min
How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest with Evlondo Cooper
Media Matters senior researcher Evlondo Cooper breaks down how the media has covered climate activism, shaping mainstream perception and helping the fossil fuel industry in its quest to criminalize cl...
22 Aug 202322min
Coming Soon: The Real Free Speech Threat
Around the world, environmental protesters are facing escalating repression—from harsh laws with life-altering prison sentences to fines to protesters arreseted near "critical infrastructure" to viole...
15 Aug 20233min
The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case
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 groundwork for since the 1970s: that since everythi...
1 Aug 202325min
A Legal Strategy: How Mobil Oil Fought for Corporate Free Speech
Mobil Oil worried that its advertorial campaigns positioning Mobil as a personality in and of itself might be labeled "propaganda" by TV networks and deemed unfit to run. In response, Herb Schmertz, V...
25 Juli 202329min
The Panic: How Mobil Oil Changed Advertising Forever
In the 1970s, Mobil Oil invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person itself with a unique personality and opinions that de...
18 Juli 202333min
