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Herb, Ep 2: A Legal Strategy

Worried that all their work creating Mobil's personality and a multi-pronged issue advertising campaign to go with it would go to waste if the TV networks deemed it all "propaganda" Herb and his boss looked to the courts for protection. In this episode we follow the "corporate free speech" movement through the courts, where it got a big assist from tobacco lobbyist-turned-Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech

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  Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India

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  In Australia, A State-By-State Approach to Criminalizing Climate Protest

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  In Vietnam, Tax Evasion Charges Help Lock Up Climate Activists

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  Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protestors

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  Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria

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  Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with Fingerpaint

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  The Same Australian Think Tanks That Have Pushed Against Climate Policy fo…

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  In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization: Why Indigenous Land Defenders Ar…

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  The Tomato Soup "Controversy"

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  Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, i…

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  Modern-Day Bead Trading: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest…

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  Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access…

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  What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

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  How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground

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  Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders