Again and again, after failing to persuade communities that these projects are in their genuine best… — Naomi Klein
Again and again, after failing to persuade communities that these projects are in their genuine best interest, governments are teaming up with corporate players to roll over the opposition, using a combination of physical violence and draconian legal tools reclassifying peaceful activists as terrorists. p.362
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