Monthly Review: “Environmental Justice and the Criminalizing of Dissent”

by Will Potter on September 29, 2011

in News

Monthly Review, a socialist magazine, has a posted a thoughtful review/discussion of my book by Paul J. Comeau. It’s wonderful to see these issues being discussed in increasingly diverse circles. Here’s an excerpt:

It is a chilling thought that these laws, which criminalize the protest of the animal industry as “terrorism,” are only a breath away from being reconstituted into laws criminalizing protests of any and all corporations, no matter how grossly irresponsible or harmful their actions may be in their endless drive to increase profit. It is hubris like this that destroys not only acres of forests and kills innocent animals, but also disrupts whole economies and drives thousands out of work and out of their homes, while simultaneously criminalizing any challenges to these practices.

You can read the full review here.

 

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