Music Video by “Against Me!” About Eric McDavid and Anna the FBI Informant

This is Tom Gabel of Against Me! playing at the Nimbus Dam, the site Eric McDavid was allegedly plotting to blow up with Zachary Jenson and Lauren Weiner. An FBI informant named “Anna” provided the group with bomb-making recipes; at times financed their transportation, food and housing; strung along McDavid, who had the hopes of […]

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Video of Will Potter at Green Scare Benefit: “When They Knock Down Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come”

Thanks to Matt for posting this video clip of me speaking at a benefit for Green Scare prisoners in New York City. (Sorry for the audio quality but it was just really loud in there.) In this clip I touch very briefly on Communications Management Units, which are high-security facilities that severely restrict inmate communications […]

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Green Scare Benefit Show January 2nd in New York City

Sorry for the short notice on this one, but I hope ya’ll can pass the word on to folks in NYC about this event. It’s a benefit for Green Scare political prisoners Daniel McGowan, Jeff Free Luers, and Eric McDavid. I’ll be speaking (I’m not sure what time) and tabling (with “eco-terrorist” booty shorts, of […]

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Upcoming Green Scare Presentation at Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia

If you’re in Philly, I hope you can make it! I’ll be presenting my Green Scare audio/visual extravaganza. Well, not so much an extravaganza as a PowerPoint show of Green Scare images with some new videos as well. Wooden Shoe is an incredible book store and community space. I’m really looking forward to this… Thursday […]

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Lobbying Documents Show How Corporations Snuck “Eco-Terrorism” Law Through Congress (Part 2)

This is the second post in a series investigating the passage of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Internal lobbying documents produced by an industry front group, revealed here for the first time, show how and why corporations snuck the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act through Congress, with little discussion or debate. On the surface, it might […]

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Are You on Twitter?

I’ve been badmouthing the “micro-blogging” at Twitter for a while now, but I’m starting to come around. Part of that was talking to my old boss/mentor at the American Civil Liberties Union (a former New York Times reporter and all around media genius, in my opinion). We both agreed that newspapers and magazines are tanking, […]

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Internal Industry Documents Show Plans for Labeling Activists as “Eco-Terrorists” (Part 1)

It has been two years since the passage of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a sweeping new law that wraps up non-violent civil disobedience and hurting corporate profits as “terrorism.” The law marked a radical expansion of the “War on Terrorism,” and the most ambitious campaign yet by industry groups, corporations, and the politicians that […]

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“Eco-terrorist” Bootie Shorts!

Corporations and the politicians that represent them have been exploiting public fears of terrorism to push a political agenda, branding animal rights and environmental activists as “eco-terrorists.” Well, if you’ve been following this Green Scare, you know there’s really only one place that term belongs. And that’s on your… um… uh… shorts! American Apparel running […]

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Center for Consumer Freedom Helps Terrorist Groups Raise Money

Last week the Center for Consumer Freedom, an industry front group, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times accusing the Humane Society of the United States of supporting “terrorism.” Their crime? A speech at a “holiday gala” for a group called the Humane League. If you’re not following, well, you’re not the […]

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“Terrorists” in New York Times Ad Wield Bullhorns Decorated with Cartoon Piggies

As you all are playing “Six Degrees of Consumer Freedom” and investigating CCF’s ties to terrorist organizations (keep posting your entries!), I wanted to follow up on that New York Times ad. A few things stuck out as being really odd. Of all the images that could have been used for the ad, they chose […]

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