Dear all,
Hope you're all doing well. I wanted to invite you to a webinar which I
will be hosting this Saturday for my former organisation Climate Tracker
Inc. The webinar is titled "*Green Blackout: How Corporations Use Lawsuits
to Intimidate Environmental Journalists*."
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation or ‘SLAPPs' are lawsuits
filed against civil society or the press, but without any legal merit. They
are usually filed against journalists or members of civil society in order
to intimidate them with legal costs so that they give up their criticism or
revelations. Environmental journalism has globally witnessed significant
incidence of SLAPPs and this can have tremendous consequences on
environmental protection.
I will be interviewing *Mr. Subir Ghosh*, one of India's leading
environmental journalists, and author of "Sue the Messenger" which
documented the phenomenon of SLAPPs in India. He has also worked for the
Wildlife Trust of India and the Centre for Science and Environment, and has
a wealth of experience reporting on the forests, the mining industry and
crony capitalism. He has authored and co-authored several other books
including *Frontier travails: Northeast, the politics of a mess* (2001), *Gas
wars: crony capitalism and the Ambanis* (2014), *On the Face of it:
Chronicle of a Self-Imposed Exile* (2017) and *Grand Illusion: The GSPC
Disaster and the Gujarat Model*.
I hope that it will be an engaging discussion and I would appreciate if you
would tune in, as I will be asking live questions from the audience to our
guest. If you miss it, the video will always be available for viewing on
Youtube. You can tune in live at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEYftcer7MQ
Date: 24.02.2018
Time: 1600 hrs to 1700 hrs (UTC+5.30)
Please feel free to circulate this among your networks.
Thanks,
Best wishes,
Mrinalini
