Today, we filed a motion to dismiss one of these SLAPPs that should have already gone away for good.<\/p>\n
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Participants and activists appear outside a United States District Court – October, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Nearly two years ago, Resolute Forest Products \u2014 the largest logging company in Canada \u2014 filed a CAD$300 million Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act\u00a0(RICO) lawsuit\u00a0<\/a>against a number of Greenpeace defendants. In case you haven\u2019t heard of RICO, it\u2019s a law designed to prosecute the mafia and stop\u00a0organised\u00a0crime (read: nothing to do with preventing peaceful activists from protecting forests).<\/p>\n In response to this baseless lawsuit,\u00a0thousands of you raised your voices<\/a>\u00a0to make it clear that forest defenders everywhere will not be intimidated by corporate bullies that aim to silence us to protect their profits. And we\u2019ve seen important progress.<\/p>\n Three months ago, a US judge threw out Resolute\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> in its entirety. Furthermore, the judge ordered<\/a> Resolute to reimburse Greenpeace for our attorney fees under California\u2019s anti-SLAPP law.<\/p>\n But for Resolute, this case has never been about winning; it\u2019s about stopping us from fighting for forests by sucking up precious time and money. The company showed this in November when it filed a repackaged version of its meritless lawsuit<\/a>. Because of this, we are all back in this fight.<\/p>\n Today, we filed a 40-page brief outlining why this \u201cnew\u201d version of Resolute\u2019s lawsuit is the same old story as the case that\u2019s already been dismissed \u2014 and why it deserves the same fate.<\/p>\n There is no reason to think this new version of this lawsuit will not die the same death it did originally, but it does mean that forest lovers can\u2019t stop fighting now. Attacks on our right to speak up threaten so much more than just Greenpeace, they threaten countless groups fighting to make the world a better place \u2014 including your right to fight for the planet you love. That\u2019s why there are more than 30 organisations gathering in Washington, DC today to fight back against SLAPPs together.<\/p>\n Because each and every SLAPP threatens us all, we must fight each and every one together. Already, your voices have shown Resolute and companies everywhere that the movement for a green and peaceful future is stronger than corporate intimidation. Now it\u2019s time to speak up again and bury this case once and for all \u2014 join the fight and stand up to SLAPPs today<\/a>.<\/p>\n Greenpeace activists in a forest near Werbellinsee in Brandenburg – April, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n Amy Moas, PhD is a senior forest campaigner for Greenpeace USA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Attacks on our right to speak up threaten so much more than just Greenpeace, they threaten countless groups fighting to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":14176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[84],"p4-page-type":[59],"class_list":["post-14156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-forests","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14156"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51346,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions\/51346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=14156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Our](\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2018\/01\/1eb7e3f7-gp0stqrkt_medium_res.jpg\")