BBC: North Dakota pipeline: US journalist Amy Goodman faces riot charge
Journalist Amy Goodman, the host of the radio and television program Democracy Now!, will appear in court today to face charges of trespassing and participating in a riotleveled against her by the state of North Dakota. Goodman was filming a protest by Native American groups and activists against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Her reporting, which showed security guards attacking protestors with pepper spray and dogs that bit them, drawing blood, went viral and drew attention to the protests.
Meanwhile, a documentary producer who was filming a protest against a different pipeline, the Keystone XL, also in North Dakota, was arrested last Tuesday and charged with three felony conspiracy charges. Deia Schlosberg, who was working on the film How to Let Go of the World and Love All Things Climate Can’t Change, directed by Josh Fox of Gasland fame, could face decades in prison if convicted.