Alleen Brown

Alleen Brown is a New York-based reporter, focused on environmental justice issues. Her work has been published by The Intercept, The Nation, In These Times, YES! Magazine, and various Twin Cities publications.

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CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA - DECEMBER 2: North Dakota national guardsmen stand guard on Turtle Island watching activists and native americans at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 3, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. on December 1, 2016 in Cannon Ball North Dakota, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam

- May. 22

TigerSwan worked with law enforcement to fight an information war against the Indigenous-led water protectors.

NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/22: Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Many protesters and independent journalist, who were all threatened with multiple felony charges if they didn't leave were met with militarized police on the road abutting the camp. At least six were arrested, including a journalist who reportedly had sustained a broken hip. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest "Counterinsurgency" to Other Oil Companies

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam

- Apr. 13

More than 50,000 pages of documents were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret.

Some 300 Hondurans leave in a caravan to the United States, fleeing the violence and crisis caused by hurricanes Eta and Iota, from the Great Metropolitan Central of San Pedro Sula, 180 km north of Tegucigalpa, on January 14, 2021. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP)

Hazards and Holding Cells

Migrants Fleeing Hurricanes and Drought Face New Climate Disasters in ICE Detention

Alleen Brown

- Mar. 31

Angel Argueta Anariba fled a 1998 hurricane in Honduras, only to get lashed by one while detained by ICE two decades later.

Hazards and Holding Cells

Burning Tires Left Louisiana Prisoners With Migraines, Breathing Problems, and Minimal Medical Care

Alleen Brown

- Mar. 13

As black smoke poured out of a burning tire dump in Louisiana, people inside the prison next door struggled to keep the fumes out.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison surrounded by floodwaters near Lochridge, Texas, on June 4, 2016.

Climate and Punishment

With Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces

Alleen Brown

- Feb. 12

As the climate crisis fuels bigger storms, deteriorating prisons are making flood risks worse.

People incarcerated at the California Correctional Center were left in smoky cells as the Dixie wildfire approached.

Climate and Punishment

As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives

Alleen Brown

- Feb. 12

With larger and more intense fires wreaking havoc, incarcerated people and their loved ones are kept in the dark on evacuation plans.

Video: Climate and Punishment

Alleen Brown, Stuart Harmon, Travis Mannon

- Feb. 12

Meet two families struggling with the impact of heat and wildfires on the facilities where their loved ones are incarcerated.

TENNESSEE COLONY, TEXAS - JUNE: A prisoner on the administrative wing is handcuffed before he is escorted to the showers in June, 2000 at the Coffield Unit, a Texas state prison built in rural Anderson County, Texas. Prisoners in administrative segregation are locked in their individual cells for at least 23 hours a day and forbidden to mix with the general population. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)

Climate and Punishment

In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter

Alleen Brown

- Feb. 12

The climate crisis is raising temperatures in detention facilities across the country. Nobody is ready for it.

Climate and Punishment: Methodology and Data

Alleen Brown, Akil Harris

- Feb. 12

Environmentalist Winona LaDuke speaks to the media in front of the section of Enbridge Pipeline 3 outside Park Rapids, Minnesota, on June 6, 2021. - Line 3 is an oil sands pipeline which runs from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin in the United States. In 2014, a new route for the Line 3 pipeline was proposed to allow an increased volume of oil to be transported daily. While that project has been approved in Canada, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, it has sparked continued resistance from climate justice groups and Native American communities in Minnesota. While many people are concerned about potential oil spills along Line 3, some Native American communities in Minnesota have opposed the project on the basis of treaty rights and calling President Biden to revoke the permits and halt construction. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Policing the Pipeline

Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition

Alleen Brown

- Jan. 23

On a color-coded map, land belonging to Native tribes that opposed the Line 3 pipeline were marked in red — areas of "threat" to the bottom line.

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Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest "Counterinsurgency" to Other Oil Companies

Migrants Fleeing Hurricanes and Drought Face New Climate Disasters in ICE Detention

Burning Tires Left Louisiana Prisoners With Migraines, Breathing Problems, and Minimal Medical Care

With Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces

As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives

Video: Climate and Punishment

In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter

Climate and Punishment: Methodology and Data

Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition