Will Potter

Death Threats to Biologists “Not Necessarily a Crime”

Apparently making a series of death threats against researchers is “not necessarily a crime”… if you’re a born-again right wing Christian. From Paula Pant at The Colorado Daily, “CU biologists get death threats”: Last weekend more than a dozen envelopes bearing the image of skull and crossbones and containing letters threatening the lives of CU-Boulder […]

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Update From Daniel McGowan

This is an update on Daniel McGowan, one of the Operation Backfire defendants who recently reported to prison after being sentenced as a “terrorist.” It’s from Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan: July 26, 2007 I’m pretty convinced at this point, nearly 20 months after my arrest, that I am incredibly lucky to have the […]

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Green Scare in Encyclopædia Britannica

An interesting entry in Encyclopædia Britannica’s blog on terrorism enhancement penalties for environmentalists, the SHAC 7, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. I’m also partial to the title of the article, of course.

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“Eco-terrorism” a Response to “Eco-Anxiety,” Say “Eco-Therapists”

Have you noticed how people are using “eco” to modify everything and anything now, but nobody seems to want to actually take a hard, critical look at “eco” issues? Take this story from MSNBC. A hummer was vandalized in D.C. The owner doesn’t understand why (“We recycle at the house,” he said.) But the reporter, […]

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“Feud, not protesters, fueled fall of Schumacher Furs”

The headline speaks for itself. This article, by Bryan Denson of The Oregonian, came out a few weeks ago, and I thought you all would enjoy it. The owner of Schumacher Furs, remember, had called for new “eco-terrorism” legislation to be used against those protesting his business. He later brought a lawsuit against animal groups […]

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New Website Lists Addresses for Animal Industries

Someone has published Final Nail.com (named after the infamous zine “The Final Nail,” which detailed locations of fur farms and encouraged activists to take illegal action against them). It lists addresses for not just fur farms but slaughterhouses, lab animal suppliers and trappers. The Fur Commission had this to say about the original zine: The […]

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Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in Project Censored’s Top 25

Got an email recently that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act will be in Project Censored’s list of Tops 25 under-reported news stories, in the 2008 edition. The article they picked is “House Passes Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act With Little Discussion or Dissent: Notes from the House Floor ‘Debate.’” This could raise a lot of awareness […]

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Americans for Medical Progress Report on Animal Rights Conference

Well, it comes out every year: American for Medical Progress, a group dedicated to fighting “animal rights extremists,” publishes a wrap-up of the national animal rights conference. (I was pleasantly surprised to see that the worst they had to say about me, for the second year, was to label me “activist and self-proclaimed ‘independent journalist.’” […]

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“Cooperator,” “Snitch,” or Something Else?

Darren Thurston’s support committee has posted an open letter responding to what seems to be widespread condemnation by other activists that Thurston and others “snitched,” or cooperated with the government (as opposed to the non-cooperating defendants), in hopes of receiving reduced sentences in the Operation Backfire cases. Here’s an excerpt, or also take a look […]

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Destroying 7 SUVs Gets 12 Years Sentence

From Rocky Mountain News: A man who set firebombs in seven large SUVs last March pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday. Grant Barnes, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of using an incendiary device and one count of second-degree arson. Barnes, suspected of using the methods of the eco-terrorist group […]

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