title: live soirée présidentielle us   le gorafi
text: meet the journalist facing  years in jail for filming the tar sands pipeline protest in north dakota 
  thursday october   by natural news editors tags first amendment  dakota pipeline  criminal journalism naturalnews are north dakota authorities waging a war against the publics right to know about the ongoing standing rock pipeline protests we are joined by documentary filmmaker deia schlosberg who was charged earlier this month with three felonies for filming an act of civil disobedience in which climate activists manually turned off the safety valves to stop the flow of tar sands oil through pipelines spanning the us and canadathe actions took place in minnesota montana north dakota and washington state schlosberg is an awardwinning filmmaker and was the producer of josh foxs recent documentary how to let go of the world and love all the things climate cant change she was filming the action at a valve station owned by transcanada in walhalla north dakota she was arrested along with the activists and her footage was confiscated then she was charged with a class a felony and two class c felonieswhich combined carry a year maximum sentencearticle republished from democracynoworg  transcript amy goodman but were joined right now in los angeles by democracy now video stream by deia schlosberg the awardwinning documentary filmmaker producer who was arrested on october th in a different area of north dakota while reporting on a climate change protest in walhalla north dakota charged with three felonies facing  years in prison if convicted also with us josh fox his article in the nation the arrest of journalists and filmmakers covering the dakota pipeline is a threat to democracyand the planet his previous documentaries include gasland which first exposed the harms of the fracking industry nominated for an academy award also made gasland  which aired on hbowe welcome you both to democracy now deia describe what happened to you deia schlosberg well on october th i was working as a climate reporter as ive done for years and years and years as josh and i were doing and the rest of the how to let go of the world team when we made the film and i was documenting people taking a stand people on the frontlines of the fight to lessen the impacts of climate change so there werethere were five activists across four states that had planned to turn the emergency shutoff valves on the five pipelines that bring all canadian oil sands into the us and i was documenting this occurrence at the north dakota site outside of walhalla as you said i wasi was filming the action i was on public land i was on a public road and at no point trespassed at no point you know broke in or destroyed any property i had nothing to do with the planning of the event i was there to document it i think its essential for journalists tojournalists and filmmakers to go where the mainstream media is not and theres a major hole in the coverage of climate change and people that are already dealing with the consequences of climate change and people that are fighting climate change so i take that responsibility very seriously amy goodman so when did the police come deia schlosberg the police came afterwell the activist that was doing the action michael had called the company ahead of time to say that he washe was going to shut off the valve so they couldto give them ample time to take any emergency precautions and then he turned the valve and meanwhile the company notified the local police so after the valve was closed they came in probably about  minutes i had my camera set up on a tripod on the public road and they told me i was arrested for being an accessory to a crime at which point i was brought to the local jail  i figured it wouldthings would just have to clear up once they realized what was amy goodman so they charged you with three felonies deia schlosberg that i was just you know exercising my first amendment amy goodman what were the felonies deia schlosberg conspiracythey were all conspiracy charges conspiracy to theft of publictheft of property conspiracy to theft of service and conspiracy of interfering with a publica critical public infrastructure amy goodman and you face  years in jail what is your comment on this deia schlosberg what is my what sorry the connection is amy goodman what do say about this deia schlosberg its absolutely outrageous yeah i mean this is what ithis is what i do for my living this is what ive done for years and years theres absolutely no grounds for these chargesread more at democracynoworg