Will Potter

Vermont Law Review Article on “Eco-Terrorism” and the Green Scare

I’ve been receiving quite a few inquiries from law students and grad students who are writing about the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, the SHAC 7 and the Green Scare. What’s really inspiring to me is that there have also been many students as young as high school. […]

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William Viehl Pleads Guilty to ALF Fur Farm Raid

William Viehl has changed his plea to guilty and admitted releasing hundreds of mink from a Utah fur farm as part of an Animal Liberation Front raid. Viehl and his codefendant, Alex Hall, were charged under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. He now faces up to 5 years in prison. Alex Hall is still taking […]

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Canadian Police Ask Sea Shepherd Officer if He is Planning “a 9/11 or something”

Sea Shepherd’s Peter Hammarstedt demonstrates how to handle law enforcement questioning. Video.

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“ALF to vegan death threats”?

Scare-mongering against radical animal rights and environmental activists has become so easy that it is hard for some folks to resist joining the attacks. POM Wonderful, the juice company, tried to label lawful protesters as part of the Animal Liberation Front. Groups like the Center for Consumer Freedom have warned of “violence” when PETA moved […]

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Great New Book on Rod Coronado and the Animal Liberation Front–Review it!

Operation Bite Back is a great new book by Dean Kuipers on the life of Rod Coronado, one of the most influential figures in the modern animal rights and environmental movements. Coronado is perhaps best known for a string of Animal Liberation Front actions, the namesake of the book, targeting the fur industry. He also […]

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Legal Handbook for Animal Rights and Environmental Activists

The National Lawyers Guild has created a great new resource, “Operation Backfire: a Survival Guide for Environmental and Animal Rights Activists.” It’s a booklet on how environmental and animal rights activists have been targeted by the government and branded as the top domestic terrorism threat. It also has a great “know your rights” section that […]

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How to Build Stronger Communities in Response to Government Repression

The Let Live conference in Portland was fantastic, even better than last year. I was invited to open the conference (which was quite a daunting task, because my talk was followed by vegan soft serve ice cream and karaoke) and talk about building strong communities within the environmental and animal rights movements. I fully expected […]

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Green Scare Benefit CD Featuring Peregrine and Auryn

Peregrine and Auryn have put out a Green Scare benefit CD, and were kind enough to offer a box of them for sale on GreenIsTheNewRed.com. “Shackles, interrogation, their prisons, their profits, their jails detain, but they can’t kill this rage.” Only $8, postage paid, and every dollar goes to raising awareness of the Green Scare […]

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Monkey Wrench Gang Movie With Matthew McConaughey as Hayduke

Ed Abbey’s classic The Monkey Wrench Gang is being made into a big-budget Hollywood movie starring–wait for it– Matthew McConaughey and John Goodman. And the director of “Twilight” is set to direct. I feel ill. The Monkey Wrench Gang is Abbey’s classic tale of George Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret, leading a band of outlaws in […]

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Animal Rights Activist Jailed at Secretive Prison Gives First Account of Life Inside “CMU”

This morning Andy Stepanian and I were on Democracy Now talking about secretive political prisons called Communications Management Units. Stepanian is believed to be the first inmate ever released from one of the secretive facilities; he is one of the SHAC 7, a group of animal rights activists convicted of “animal enterprise terrorism” for running […]

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