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Informants, Green Scare Snitches, and Surveillance: Interview with Lauren Regan, CLDC

  • Posted on: 4 August 2016
  • By: thecollective

From Earth First! Journal (Black and Green Review #3 originally)

As an attorney and long-term activist Lauren Regan has a vantage on state and corporate surveillance that few other activists are exposed to. Regan is the founder and Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center based in Eugene, OR. She has an extensive history of defending activists after inevitable run ins with the law. She represented a number of Green Scare defendants and has arguably spent more time sorting through Green Scare, AETA, and other similar cases to know about the extent of government and corporate surveillance, disruption, provocation, and how failures of Security Culture opened the door for them.

Which Side Podcast – Episode 138 – Kevin Van Meter

  • Posted on: 29 June 2015
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

Episode 138: We talk with Kevin Van Meter of the Team Colors Collective & contributing author of the book Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency available from AK Press. We discuss Marxism, Anarchism, Counter Insurgency, The Green Scare, The Earth Liberation Front (ELF), Anit-Globalization, The Animal Defense League (ADL), The Modern Times Collective, a pre-Green Scare case on Long Island and the Support work surrounding it & much more. #fsd

How an FBI Informant Sent a Radical Environmentalist to Prison, and How He Got Out Again

  • Posted on: 1 March 2015
  • By: rocinante

From Vice by CJ Ciaramella, February 27, 2015

An extraordinary thing happened last month: US prosecutors admitted the government messed up.

Well, technically they admitted that a judge could conceivably decide that the government might have possibly messed up enough to warrant a new trial. But still.

As part of a unusual deal brokered between his defense team and chagrined US attorneys, Eric McDavid, who in 2007 was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison on domestic terrorism charges, walked free on January 8 after the government told a judge it had "inadvertently" failed to hand over thousands of pages of FBI documents to his defense counsel in his original trial.

McDavid, 37, served three days short of nine years in custody before US District Judge Morrison England agreed to reduce his sentence to a lone count of conspiracy and released him on time served.

The Ex-Worker Podcast Episode #34: Staying Safe To Be Dangerous Together

  • Posted on: 15 February 2015
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

#34: Staying Safe So We Can Be Dangerous Together – In our 34th episode, we follow themes of repression, security, and resistance through several different short features. In celebration of former Green Scare prisoner Eric McDavid‘s release after nine years inside, we reflect on the lessons of his case for our efforts to resist today. We share part of a recent CrimethInc.