Sign the open letter
If enough of us speak out, we can stop this abusive lawsuit, protect Greenpeace, and defend free speech.
Add your nameWe, the undersigned individuals and organizations, formally express our solidarity with Greenpeace against Energy Transfer’s meritless $300 million lawsuit.
Peaceful protest and free speech are fundamental human rights that underpin social progress. The Energy Transfer $300 million lawsuit against Greenpeace is an abuse of the legal system and a blatant attempt to silence legitimate work to protect people and our planet.
This lawsuit makes allegations that affect people far beyond Greenpeace. It attempts to rewrite the history of the Indigenous-led opposition movement at Standing Rock – by absurdly alleging that Greenpeace orchestrated the entire resistance. It seeks to hold the Greenpeace organizations in the US and Greenpeace International accountable for actions taken by unaffiliated and unknown individuals. This could have a chilling effect on anyone engaged in peaceful protest and assembly. It also attempts to sue over justified and protected speech, claiming it is “defamation.” This is corporate overreach that is part of a disturbing trend of attacks on advocacy and speech around the world.
We will not allow lawsuits like this one to stop us from advocating for a just, green and peaceful future. On the contrary, we will ensure they have the opposite effect, increasing the support for organizations like Greenpeace and strengthening the broader movement for justice.
This legal attack on Greenpeace is an attack on us all. We will not stand idly by. We will not be bullied. We will not be divided and we will not be silenced.
This letter has been signed by more than 400 organizations representing millions of people around the world, along with hundreds of thousands of individuals and a growing list of public figures.
- 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
- 350 Bay Area Action
- 198 methods
- 350 Chicago
- 350 Hawaii
- 350 Silicon Valley
- 350 Taiwan
- 350.org
- 7th Generation Advisors
- A Citizens Petition
- A Community Voice ACORN
- ACLU of North Dakota
- Action Justice Climat
- Adam McKay
- AFT (American Federation of Teachers)
- Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Alec Baldwin
- Alliance for Justice
- Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
- Alofa Tuvalu
- Amazon Watch
- Amber Valletta
- American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO
- Amnesty International USA
- Amplify Eco
- Anishinaabek Caucus
- Anthropocene Alliance
- ANTIGONE – Information and Documentation Centre on Racism, Ecology, Peace and Non Violence
- Argos Animal Rescue
- ARION -Cetacean Rescue and Rehabilitation Research Centre
- Arnika
- As You Sow
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Aspiration
- Association For Promotion Sustainable Development
- Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria)
- Attac France
- AutoMat
- AZ AANHPI For Equity
- Backbone Campaign
- BALKANI Wildlife Society
- Ballona Institute
- Ballot New Mexico
- BankTrack
- Bay Rising
- Better Future Project
- Beyond Nuclear
- Beyond Toxics
- Billie Eilish
- Biodiversity Conservation Center
- Biodiversity First!
- Biofuelwatch
- Black Voters Matter Fund
- BLOOM
- Blue Dalian
- Blue Future
- Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
- BlueLink Foundation
- Blueprint for Free Speech
- Bold Alliance
- Bonnie Wright
- Boroume
- Breach Collective
- Brie Garcia
- Bruno Manser Fund
- Bulgarian Association for Alternative Tourism
- Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation
- California Communities Against Toxics
- California Safe Schools
- Californians for Pesticide Reform
- Calla – Sdružení pro záchranu prostředí, z.s. (Association for the Environment Protection Czech)
- CALLISTO Wildlife and Nature Conservation Society
- Camila Cabello
- Campaigns and Activism for Animals in the Industry (CAAI)
- Carbon Market Watch
- Center for a Sustainable Coast
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Center for Coalfield Justice
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Center for Grassroots Organizing
- Center for International Environmental Law
- Center for Protest Law and Litigation, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
- Center for Spatial Justice (Mekanda Adalet Derneği)
- Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability
- Central California Environmental Justice Network
- Central Coast Environmental Voters
- Centro de derechos humanos de los pueblos del Sur de Veracruz Bety Cariño A.C.
- Changing Markets Foundation
- Chesapeake Climate Action Network
- Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective
- Circle of Curators and Critics (C2C)
- Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping
- Citizens’ Committee for Flood Relief
- Citizens’ Resstance at Fermi 2 (CRAFT)
- Civil Liberties Defense Center
- Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls (NY)
- Clean Air Council
- Clean Energy Action
- Clean Power Lake County
- Clean Water Action
- Clean Water Expected in East Tennessee
- Climate Conversation Brazoria County
- Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG)
- Climate Hawks Vote
- Climate Incubator
- Climateka
- Coal River Mountain Watch
- Coming Clean
- Common Ground Greece
- Community Movement Builders
- Concerned Health Professionals of Pennsylvania
- Conexiones Climáticasº (Climate Connections)
- Connecticut Citizen Action Group
- Consorcio Oaxaa
- Cornell University ILR Buffalo Co-Lab
- Corporate Accountability Lab
- Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo
- Courage California
- ČSOP Veronica (Veronica Ecological Institute)
- Czech Climate Coalition
- Czech Climate Litigation (Klimatická žaloba ČR, z.s. )
- Czech Women´s Lobby
- Defend Ballona Wetlands
- Defend Our Future
- Defending Rights & Dissent
- Děti Země (Children of the Earth)
- Direct Action Everywhere
- Direct Dialogue Initiatives .com
- Don’t Waste Arizona
- Don’t Waste Michigan
- Downwinders at Risk
- Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps
- Dryade
- Earth Family Protectors
- Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power and Light
- EarthRights International
- Earthworks
- ECOELEUSIS
- ECOLOGICAL MOVEMENT OF PATRAS
- Ecological Options Network
- Ecological Recycling Society
- Ecology Center
- Ecology-Solidarity
- Ecumenical Academy (Ekumenická akademie, z.s.)
- Ed Begley, Jr
- EFMR Monitoring Group at Three Mile Island
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Endangered Species Coalition
- Energy Transition Coalition
- Environment and Social Development Organization
- Environment East Gippsland Inc.
- Environmental Defence Canada
- Environmental Health Project
- Environmental Jurists Association
- Environmental Justice Foundation
- Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform
- Environmental Rights Foundation
- European Federation of Journalists
- Extinction Rebellion Belgium
- Extinction Rebellion Czech Republic
- Farther Together LLC
- Fashion Revolution Greece
- Feedback Global
- Fenceline Watch
- Fight for the Future
- Fight Inequality Alliance
- Fight Toxic Prisons
- FINNEAS
- Food & Water Watch
- Food Culture Collective
- Food for Maine’s Future
- For a Better Bayou
- Forum Ökologie & Papier
- Fossil Free California
- Foundation Atelier for Community Transformation – ACT
- Foundation Earth
- Fox Valley Ctizens for Peace & Justice
- Frack Free New Mexico
- FracTracker Alliance
- Free Press Unlimited
- Frente Cívica “Civic Front”
- FreshWater Accountability Project
- Friends of the Earth – US
- Friends of the Earth Bulgaria (Environmental Association Za Zemiata)
- Friends of the Earth France
- Friends of the Earth Malta
- Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network
- Furthur Foundation
- GAIA – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
- Gainesville-Area Action for Environmental Justice
- Gallifrey Foundation
- Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality & Diversity
- Giniw Collective
- Global Citizen
- Global Forest Coalition
- Global Justice Ecology Project
- Global Justice Ecology Project
- Global Labor Justice
- Global Legal Action Network
- Good Jobs First
- Grandparents for Climate
- Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP)
- Greek Forum of Migrants
- Green America
- Green Laws
- Green Longjiang
- Green New Deal Rising
- Green Sphere Inc.
- Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
- Greeners Action
- GreenFaith
- Habitat Recovery Project
- Hanai Kaiaulu
- Hawaii Institute for Human Rights
- Hellenic Ornithological Society
- Higher Incubator Giving Growth & Sustainability – HIGGS
- Hill Heat
- Hip Hop Caucus
- Hnutí Brontosaurus
- Hnutí DUHA – Friends of the Earth Czech Republic
- Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society
- Honor the Earth
- How To Citizen
- Index on Censorship
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- Indigenous Peoples Power Project
- Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
- International Corporate Accountability Roundtable
- International Rivers
- Invisible Animals (Nevidimi zhivotni)
- Irving Impact
- James Cromwell
- Jane Fonda
- John Muir Project
- Just Associates Inc
- Just Futures Law
- Justice, Unity, & Social Transformation
- Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
- Kansas Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign
- LA Waterkeeper
- Labor Network for Sustainability
- Lakota People’s Law Project
- Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO)
- Legal Centre Lesvos
- Limity jsme my “We Are The Limits”
- Lipensko pro zivot, z.s. (Lipenskia for Life)
- Liveable Arlington
- LobbyControl
- Long Island Progressive Coalition
- Los Jardines Institute
- Louisville Climate Action Network
- Lush Cosmetics
- Maggie Rogers
- Mamagea Environmental Organisation
- Many Worlds in Jilemnice (MNOHO SVĚTŮ v Jilemnici)
- Marcos Girón Hernández
- Marin City Climate Resilience
- Mariupol Zero Waste
- Matt McGorry
- Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (MedINA)
- Methane Action
- Micah Six Eight Mission
- Mossville Environmental Action Now MEAN
- Mothers Rise Up
- Mountain Watershed Association
- Movement for Black Lives
- MoveOn Civic Action
- MSF GREECE
- Mujeres por la Sostenibilidad Ambiental y Alimentaria A.C.
- Nadace na ochranu zvířat “Animal Protection Foundation”
- National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)
- National Nuclear Workers for Justice
- National Volunteer Assotiation
- Native Community Action Council
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- NATUREFRIENDS GREECE
- NaZemi
- NESEHNUTÍ “Failure to Reach”
- Network for Children’s Rights
- New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
- New York Communities for Change (NYCC)
- Next Generation Action Network
- NGO “Environment-People-Law”
- NGO Plato
- NGO SaveDnipro
- Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment
- Nonviolence International
- North American Marine Alliance (NAMA)
- Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN)
- Notre Affaire à Tous
- NPO ME ALLA MATIA
- Nuclear Energy Information Service
- Nuclear Hotseat Podcast/Broadcast
- Nuclear Watch South
- Ohio Nuclear Free Network
- Ohio Valley Allies
- Oil and Gas Action Network
- Oil Change International
- Oilfield Witness
- Organic Advocacy
- Organization Earth
- Our Revolution
- Palestine Legal
- Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition
- People in Need
- People Power United
- Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP)
- Pesticide Action Network International
- Pesticide Action Network North America
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Physicians for Social Responsibility – Kansas City
- Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles
- Physicians for Social Responsibility Iowa
- Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania
- Piper Perabo
- Pivot Point
- Planet Over Profit
- Plastic Free Future
- Plastic Pollution Coalition
- Plastic Solutions Fund
- Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security
- Poslední generace z.s. (The Last Generation)
- Pro Publico
- Progress Lawyers Network
- Progressive Workers Union
- Property Rights and Pipeline Center
- Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights
- Public Citizen
- Quantum Leap
- Rainforest Action Network
- Rainforest Action Network
- Razom We Stand
- Re-set: platform for socio-ecological transformation
- Reclaim Finance
- Recycle Hawaii
- Red Mexicana de Accio’n frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC)
- Réseau étudiant pour une société écologique et solidaire (RESES)
- Rettet den Regenwald
- Rinascimento Green
- RISE for Environmental Justice
- Rock Forest Farm
- Rockaway Women for Progress
- Rosanna Arquette
- Sabal Trail Resistance
- Sacred Defense Fund
- Sacred Earth Solar
- Sacred Places Institute For Indigenous Peoples
- Safe Energy Rights Group (SEnRG)
- Sahabat Alam Malaysia (Friends of the Earth)
- San Antonio bay estuarine waterkeeper
- San Antonio Bay Waterkeeper
- San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility
- SanDiego350
- Savannah River Site Watch
- Save Ohio Parks
- Save Our Illinois Land (SOIL)
- Save This Place for Me
- Science and Environmental Health Network
- Scientist Rebellion France (Scientifiques en Rébellion)
- Seas At Risk
- Serve the People Association
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Shailene Woodley
- Shared Spaces Foundation
- Sherpa
- Silver Valley Community Resource Center
- Simeio – Researching and Confronting the Far Right
- Slušná Firma (Decent Company)
- Snake River Alliance
- SNJ-CGT (National Union of Journalists-CGT)
- Society for All
- Socio-ecological union international
- SOFFA – Fashion Revolution
- Solartopia.org
- Solidaire Action
- South Bronx Unite
- South Durban Community Environmental Alliance
- Southern Sector Rising
- Speak for Wolves
- Stand.earth
- Standing Rock Grassroots
- Starr Bar
- Strong Economy For All Coalition
- Students for a Free Tibet
- STUŽ – Society for Sustainable Living
- Susan Sarandon
- Svoboda zvířat (Animal Freedom)
- SWC
- Taiwan Watch Institute
- Taiwan Youth Climate Coalition
- Tegengas Dégaze
- Texas Campaign for the Environment
- Texas Organizing Project
- The Action Lab
- The Bulgarian Environmental Partnership Foundation
- The Čelákovicky Beautification Association
- The Chaloupky Ecological Education Centre
- The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation
- The Descendants Project
- The Green Earth
- The Green Tank
- The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society
- The Natural History Museum
- The Oakland Institute
- The People United
- The Story of Stuff Project
- Theoutreachteam
- Third Act
- Third Act Virginia
- Tibet Action Institute
- Trade Union of Croatian journalists
- Transnational Institute
- Tri-Valley (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) CAREs
- Turtle Island Restoration Network
- U.S. Right to Know
- UCIZONI
- UFCW International Union
- UltraViolet
- Umweltinstitut München e.V.
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Union syndicale Solidaires
- United Domestic Workers/AFSCME
- United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
- United Fort Worth
- University of Arizona
- UnKoch My Campus
- Until Justice Data Partners
- Uplift UK
- Upstream
- US Climate Action Network
- Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
- Verité
- Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance
- Vouliwatch
- Walking Through The City (Pěšky městem)
- Water Justice and Gender
- West Texas Defense Fund
- Western New York Environmental Alliance
- Wiconi Un Tipi
- Wild Heritage
- WildEarth Guardians
- Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN)
- Women’s Voices for the Earth
- Working Families Party
- World Friends for Africa Burkina Faso
- Zachran Jidlo (Save the Food)
- Zelený kruh/Green Circle
Sign the open letter
If enough of us speak out, we can stop this abusive lawsuit, protect Greenpeace, and defend free speech.
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