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Interview on Alternet About the Green Scare

I had a great discussion with Brittany Shoot of Alternet about the book. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: BS: In light of the ways the post-9/11 climate of fear fuelled debates about domestic terrorism, how do you think Osama bin Laden’s death could alter the public discussion about eco-terrorism? WP: What has stood out […]

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Mother Jones on Green Is the New Red

Mother Jones has a new article by Jim Ridgeway about my book, and the corporate and government campaigns to label animal rights and environmental activists as eco-terrorists. It’s a great big-picture look at the FBI’s targeting of political activists, and the chilling implications for free speech. Ridgeway also discusses secretive political prisons called Communications Management […]

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Coming this April from City Lights Books…

This project has consumed so much of my life, for so long, that writing this “official announcement” is ridiculously hard. So I’ll leave it at this: Next month, City Lights Books will release Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege… Special thanks to Casey, Denis, Hal, and Matthew […]

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Why Is the Counter-Terrorism Unit Briefing Police About My Lectures and Website?

The Counter-Terrorism Unit monitors terrorist prisoners. Why is it concerned about a PR campaign by environmentalists, and this website?

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In the Wake of the Giffords Shooting, FBI Agents Investigate… Spraypaint on Fishing Boats

In the aftermath of the Arizona shooting, FBI agents are investigating what they say may be another act of domestic terrorism: the ELF spraypainting fishing boats.

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Justice Department Warned the FBI that Focusing on Environmentalists Ignores More Violent Threats

The Justice Department warned as early as 2003 that the FBI’s obsessive focus on animal rights and environmental activists, the “number one domestic terrorism threat,” would leave more dangerous threats unchecked.

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Richmond Cops Mistakenly Hand Over Anti-Protest Guides to Anarchist

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests.

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FBI File Reveals Discussion of Discrediting Animal Rights Activists by Planting Rumors

An FBI file reveals conversations between the FBI and an informant about how to disrupt political activism. The topics discussed echo COINTELPRO-era tactics of the 1960s.

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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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PA Homeland Security Bulletin Warned of Extremist “Recruitment” at Carriage Horse Protest

Intelligence bulletins warned that an animal rights protest against the use of carriage horses could be “a fertile recruiting or meeting ground” for extremists.

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