Black Gold / White Lies: Security, Corruption, and Pipelines in Modern America with Alleen Brown - Episode 35

Ready, set, jump! As your hosts bravely hop across the pond in a single superhuman jump, they receive a call from Alleen Brown, reporter for the Intercept. Managing an olympian landing right in the middle of the Twin Cities, Jamie and Skander follow Alleen as she takes them to the region's oil pipelines causing havoc on the local community and environment.

While her reporting for the series "Policing the Pipeline" is more focused around stories of corruption and security around Enbridge's Line 3, Alleen has worked many years on parallel topics, covering land defense and injustice in the US. We jump back to Europe having learned much about the types of secretive behaviour state and corporate actors engage in to tackle resistance to such large projects, knowing that struggles everywhere benefit from a better undestanding of reactions from above and the impacts felt by local people and communities. 

 

You can find Alleen on Twitter - @AlleenBrown

Alleen's articles for the Intercept can be found here

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Song for the episode: "Winter Mornings, Coffee & Cedar Smoke" by Annie Humphrey-Jimenez