Will Potter

Veg News: “If you read one book in 2011, make it this one.”

VegNews, one of the most popular vegetarian/vegan magazines, has a great review in the current (Sept-Oct) issue. Green Is the New Red is the editors’ pick: “Journalist and blogger Will Potter’s Green Is the New Red reads like a spy-thriller novel and would be much more enjoyable if it were. Green is an expertly detailed, […]

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Tim DeChristopher’s Prison Address

Tim DeChristopher has been transferred to the prison where he is expected to do his time. How about writing him a letter of support? Tim DeChristopher #16156-081 FCI Herlong Federal Correctional Institution PO Box 800 Herlong, CA 96113 USA Here’s some information from Peaceful Uprising about writing him. Sometimes folks tell me they’re nervous writing […]

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International Message to the Spanish 12 from Hundreds of Animal Rights Activists (Video)

This was filmed at the national animal rights conference in Los Angeles this summer, for the international day of solidarity with the Spanish 12. (Here’s some background on the Spanish activists arrested as “terrorists.”) Hundreds of American activists sent the very clear message that activism is not terrorism. Free the Spanish 12! Be sure to watch […]

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Baltimore Book Festival: Panel Discussion on Government Repression of Activism

I’ll be speaking at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday, September 25th on a panel looking at state repression across social movements. It should be a great discussion, with Susan Rosenberg (author of An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country) and Dominique Stevenson (co-author of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a […]

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From Tim DeChristopher to Tar Sands Protests, the Environmental Movement Steps Up Civil Disobedience

One month ago, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in prison for non-violent disobedience. The sentence was harsher than those handed down to people who burned churches and threatened black leaders. It was a sentence intended — like so many disproportionate sentences against activists — to send a message. But what message? […]

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Utne Reader Reviews Green Is the New Red

Utne Reader featured Green Is the New Red in the latest issue, calling it “a thoughtfully alarming examination of the U.S. government’s post-9/11 domestic terror probes.” You can read the full review over at Utne. And you can also order a copy here!

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KPFK’s Sonali Kolhatkar Interviews Author Will Potter (Video)

When I was in Los Angeles on book tour, I had the pleasure of visiting the KPFK studio and speaking with Sonali Kolhatkar. It was an interesting discussion about the power of language, and how corporations are re-writing the law. Thanks to Sonali, Martina and everyone at KPFK for the opportunity! Video below…

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Grist Interview with Will Potter: Environmentalists Under Attack

Grist.org is featuring a discussion I had with Robert Jensen, who is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Citizens of the Empire (among many books). I think the interview turned out really well, and is particularly relevant in the wake of Tim DeChristopher’s sentencing. I hope you’ll check […]

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Tim DeChristopher Received Longer Sentence Than People Who Burned Churches and Threatened Black Leaders

Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher has received a longer prison sentence for non-violent civil disobedience than people who have burned churches, threatened African-American leaders, and plotted to kill people. DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in prison today for disrupting an illegal oil and gas lease auction. Meanwhile: Yesterday (and also in Utah), a man who set […]

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Tim DeChristopher Sentenced — What’s Next for the Environmental Movement?

Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in prison for using non-violent civil disobedience to disrupt a sham oil and gas auction. He had been found guilty on two felony counts for making fake bids in the auction, costing corporations hundreds of thousands of dollars, and faced up to ten years. He increased the […]

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