{"id":30648,"date":"2017-12-10T12:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30648"},"modified":"2017-12-10T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:45:43","slug":"stop-slapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/10\/stop-slapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop SLAPP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">SLAPP?&#160; Until today I had no idea what that meant. Now that I do know, I&#8217;m very concerned about the way the Republican Reich&#8217;s corporate masters use SLAPP lawsuits to stifle dissent.&#160; Fortunately, we have the Reich on the left, Robert Reich to explain it to us.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1210slapp\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1210slapp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1210slapp.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of SLAPP lawsuits? You soon will.<\/p>\n<p>SLAPP stands for \u201cStrategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.\u201d It is a lawsuit brought by big corporations intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the overwhelming costs of a legal defense until they\u2019re forced to abandon their criticism or opposition. And it may be the biggest threat to the resistance you\u2019ve never heard of.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example: Resolute Forest Products, one of Canada\u2019s largest logging and paper companies, has sued, in a U.S. court, environmental groups that have been campaigning to save Canada\u2019s boreal forest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/168376712955\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PlhVHiWM4yk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For more information about SLAPP lawsuits, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmlp.org\/legal-guide\/responding-strategic-lawsuits-against-public-participation-slapps\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you hear about a SLAPP, raise hell!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLAPP?&#160; Until today I had no idea what that meant. Now that I do know, I&#8217;m very concerned about the way the Republican Reich&#8217;s corporate masters use SLAPP lawsuits to stifle dissent.&#160; Fortunately, we have the Reich on the left, Robert Reich to explain it to us. Have you heard of SLAPP lawsuits? You soon <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/10\/stop-slapp\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}