Environmental Activists

21 Holiday Gift Ideas Activists

As you’re out prowling for holiday gifts, consider supporting some of these incredible artists, journalists, activists, and entrepreneurs. It’s hard to pay the bills doing what you love, and I know these folks would be thankful for your support (and so would those receiving what they’ve made!). So, here are 21 gift ideas for your […]

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PA Homeland Security Firm Compares Rainforest Action Network to Al-Qaeda (Video)

I was on the Alyona Show last night talking emails between the PA Department of Homeland Security and a private counter-terrorism firm comparing environmental groups to Al-Qaeda.

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FBI Raids [Insert Social Movement Here] Activists

If activist communities are going to survive this repression and move forward, and if we are going to welcome others to join us, we must lay claim to a space between the extremes of patriotic naiveté and hopelessness.

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FBI Raids in Midwest: New Tactics in Response to “Domestic Terrorism” Scrutiny

The government is blurring the lines between its domestic and international War(s) on Terrorism, conflating peace activists with foreign “terrorist organizations.”

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Monsanto hired Blackwater Subsidiary to Spy on Animal Rights and Environmental Activists

Jeremy Scahill reports in the latest issue of The Nation that subsidiaries of the mercenary firm Blackwater were hired by biotech giant Monsanto spy on animal rights and environmental activists.

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PA Director of Homeland Security: Environmentalists are Terrorists, But Timothy McVeigh is Not

James Powers chose to focus homeland security resources on non-violent environmental groups. But do you know who he thinks is NOT a “terrorist”?

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Pennsylvania “Eco-Terror” Bulletin is Not an Isolated Case: It’s a National Problem

Pennsylvania’s Department of Homeland Security has been spying on non-violent environmental groups and labeling them “environmental extremists.” But this was no fluke, no error, no isolated instance. The same policies that have come to light in Pennsylvania have been exposed across the country, and up to top levels of the federal government.

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“Eco-Terrorist: the New Boogeyman,” Interview on the Alyona Show (Video)

“These days, when you hear the word domestic terrorist, environmental activists probably don’t come to mind. But documents recently leaked show the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has been tracking anti-gas drilling groups and their meetings, including a public screening of the film, GASLAND, a documentary about the environmental hazards of natural gas drilling. Why is the government so scared of these people they call, eco-terrorists, over cases of vandalism?”

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James Lee, the Unabomber, and Mental Illness vs. Terrorism

Absent from the media frenzy about James Lee is any rational look at the difference between a “radical environmentalist” who uses extreme tactics, and someone struggling with serious mental illnesses who latches on to environmental issues.

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Calling the Discovery Channel Hostager Taker a “Radical Environmentalist” is Irresponsible and Inaccurate

Is “radical environmentalist” a more acceptable rush judgment than saying someone was insane? Because that’s the first, and only, thing that has come to mind in the case of James Lee and the Discovery Channel building.

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