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Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

by Will Potter (Goodreads Author)

4.36 · Rating Details · 623 Ratings · 88 Reviews

At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes "terrorism" and to hit nonviolent activists with disproportionate sentences. Some have faced terrorism charges for simply chalkin ...more

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Dec 08, 2010 City Lights Booksellers & Publishers rated it it was amazing

"At times, the reader might mistake this work of nonfiction for a gripping crime novel, only to remember that everything in here is shockingly true. It is in this way that Potter effectively drives his points home and proves his overarching thesis, that the Justice Department’s targeting of environmentalists is near identical to 1950s McCarthyism." --Indie Street

"While the link between separating recyclables and hijacking planes is far from obvious, the labeling of 'eco-terrorism' has been appli "At times, the reader might mistake this work of nonfiction for a gripping crime novel, only to remember that everything in here is shockingly true. It is in this way that Potter effectively drives his points home and proves his overarching thesis, that the Justice Department’s targeting of environmentalists is near identical to 1950s McCarthyism." --Indie Street

"While the link between separating recyclables and hijacking planes is far from obvious, the labeling of 'eco-terrorism' has been applied to many aspects of this social movement. Named the 'No. 1 domestic terrorism threat' by FBI deputy assistant director John Lewis six years ago, Potter argues that the fear tactics involved in applying such an evocative term to radical activism is an attempt to intimidate that mirrors the Red Scare of the mid-20th century (which was in fact the second wave of the government's anti-Communist focus)." --Austin Examiner

"An up-to-date crash-course overview of the history of radical environmentalism as well as a study on the scare tactics that the government, the CIA, and several multi-million dollar corporations use against environmental activists, which share certain similarities with tactics used during McCarthyism and the Red Scare. This book is about the Green Scare – this book is at times scary, at times hopeful, and at all times important." --Urchins Movement

"In this hard-hitting debut, journalist Potter likens the Justice Department targeting of environmentalists today to McCarthyism in the 1950s . . . A shocking exposé of judicial overreach." --Kirkus Review

"Part history, part action thriller and courtroom drama, part memoir, 'Green is the New Red' plunges us into the wild, unruly, and entirely inspirational world of extreme environmental activism. Will Potter, participant-observer and partisan-reporter, is the perfect guide, unpacking with wit and skill the most elusive concepts--his discussion of 'terrorism' as myth and symbol is the finest I’ve ever read. He takes us inside the first moments of a movement in the making--idealistic, hopeful, deeply human in its aspirations and its oh-so-human failings--and he reports brilliantly on a ruling power willing to hollow out any sense of authentic democracy in its futile attempt to maintain dominance, privilege, and their arid version of reality. Green is the New Red is an indispensable book that will change the way we think about commitment, the limits of protest, and the possibility of radical change." --Bill Ayers

"If we are to survive capitalism's death grip on our discourse and on our lives, it will be in great measure due to the work of people like Will Potter. His courage and integrity, which set him apart from most journalists, are evident throughout this important book, and throughout all of his other crucial work. Thank you, Will Potter." --Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame and many other books ...more

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Mar 30, 2011 Sarahjane rated it it was amazing

This book makes me wish I had finished my history PhD. Then at least I could make it required reading for a few college students. It should be required for them all. It gives context to our murky times, where taking moral stands is getting confused with terroristic activity, without oversimplifying what are deeply contested understandings of the path to a better tomorrow. Green is the New Red is an essential text for anyone who believes in free speech, or is interested in the future of American ...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Scott Rhee rated it it was amazing

Shelves: politics, environment, animal-rights

Will Potter's "Green is the New Red" is an excellent reportage of how our government continues to tread on our individual liberties, especially if you happen to have pro-environmentalist leanings, and even more specifically if you are an activist for animal rights.

Potter admits early on that while he attempts to be objective, this is difficult for him as someone who considers himself an environmentalist and for an incident in which he was involved that was the impetus for the research for this Will Potter's "Green is the New Red" is an excellent reportage of how our government continues to tread on our individual liberties, especially if you happen to have pro-environmentalist leanings, and even more specifically if you are an activist for animal rights.

Potter admits early on that while he attempts to be objective, this is difficult for him as someone who considers himself an environmentalist and for an incident in which he was involved that was the impetus for the research for this book.

In 1998, as a new reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Potter offered to disperse leaflets that criticized a company for its many egregious animal rights violations. FBI agents immediately rounded up and arrested Potter and several others passing out literature. During the course of the interrogation (in which Potter was still kept out of the dark as to why he was being arrested), the FBI agents said that he would be placed on the domestic terrorist list if he didn't cooperate in naming names. All this, for passing out leaflets.

Frightened and confused, Potter felt that he needed to dig deeper into what he saw as an insidious trend, since 9/11, of labeling groups of people as "terrorists" for crimes that did not fit into a general concensus and definition of terrorism.

He soon found out that therein lied the problem: an adequate and specific definition of "terrorism" had never actually been stipulated by the government. What Potter discovered was multiple definitions across multiple governmental agencies, and this was just the federal government. Most if not all states had their own definitions of "terrorism".

He also soon discovered that many of these "eco-terrorists", as they were labelled by government agencies and the media, were often receiving twice or more than twice the sentencing that white supremacists, neo-Nazis, or Muslim terrorists were receiving. Keep in mind, too, that, according to the statistics of various governmental agencies, including Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, and others, the number of human and animal casualties resulting from "eco-terrorist" activities has been, to date, zero.

So, Muslim terrorists, whose actions continuously result in human casualties here and overseas, are given lesser sentences than activists who have released animals from laboratories and burned down buildings resulting in no loss of life.

Clearly, the value of property is more important than the value of human life to the government. No surprise, since our government is practically run by corporations, many of whom do not like animal rights activists.

This book will make you mad. It should make you mad, especially if you value things like First Amendment rights and the basic freedoms upon which our country was founded.

Potter has done an excellent job revealing an issue that has perhaps been kept hidden from the eyes and ears of the general public by a ridiculously super-wealthy group of corporations (some of which, not surprisingly, own media outlets such as FOX News and CNN) who believe that they can do anything they want, including the needless mass slaughter of animals and the destruction of the environment, not just to make a profit but simply because they can. ...more

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Dec 25, 2011 pattrice rated it it was amazing

Essential information within an always gripping, sometimes humorous, and at times heart-breaking narrative.

Will Potter begins this book by sharing his own experiences with the blood-chilling fear induced by a visit by FBI agents wielding the word "terrorist" after he had been arrested for leafleting in a wealthy neighborhood. He then recounts the investigative journey into "terrorism" that fear prompted him to undertake. Along the way we meet smug judges, altruistic anarchists, power-crazed pro ...more

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Jun 15, 2011 Tinea rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: activists.

Shelves: enviro-justice, anarchism-and-activism

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First off, hoorah for this book and Will Potter's reporting. This is a critical living history, a first attempt to pull the last decade of eco and animal rights action and repression into one cohesive analysis. Read it for the narrative. Read it for the names and the individual stories, the Green Scare and particularly the Operation Backfire and SHAC7 defendants; for the explanation of US policy and lobbying record; for the breakdown of legal jargon; for the synth ...more

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Mar 03, 2011 Dylan rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: All Americans

I hope that this book will be very widely read. Like the revelations of the government's illegal spying, harassment, and bogus convictions that hearings on COINTELPRO brought to light (see Agents of Repression), Potter's research into efforts by industry and government to repress radical environmentalism brings together some poorly understood political issues. Most important of them all, is the fact that activists using traditionally legal tactics have now been convicted on terrorism charges.

I w I hope that this book will be very widely read. Like the revelations of the government's illegal spying, harassment, and bogus convictions that hearings on COINTELPRO brought to light (see Agents of Repression), Potter's research into efforts by industry and government to repress radical environmentalism brings together some poorly understood political issues. Most important of them all, is the fact that activists using traditionally legal tactics have now been convicted on terrorism charges.

I was only faintly aware that animal liberation-type activity has been going on since well before the 1990s--the first instance, Potter claims, occurred in 1977. Even more significant is the fact that by the late 1980s, as the environmental movement became increasingly popular, cool-headed discussions of direct action tactics were appearing in the mainstream media. Until the end of the 90s "eco-terrorism" was explicitly "not on the radar" of law enforcement (55-6). Potter argues that all this changed when politicians got involved. In 1998, the first hearing on "eco-terrorism" was held. And after 9/11/2001, environmental and animal rights direct action came under increasing persecution, soon being elevated to the "top domestic terrorism threat." However, this sudden concern was not explained by any increase in the incidence of the sorts of crimes being targeted.

Recent efforts to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movements associated with the ELF and ALF use the new legal framework of terrorism instead of existing criminal law. Potter's shows that no valid argument has been made for this change. Counterproductively, this trend marginalizes environmental and animal rights activists in general, convincing more of the moderates among them of the need to radicalize in order to make any real progress because the system seems irredeemably opposed to their values. Just think if all the effort involved in this anti "eco-terrorism" campaign were directed instead toward supporting legal activism and creating new legislation. (Remember the adage, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em"?) The extreme wing of the movement would probably not be so desperate that they'd feel the need to resort to property destruction, intimidation, etc. Marginalization leads to radicalization. School shootings, always by unpopular or alienated kids. Germany after WWI. Duh.

While reversing this marginalization would be a far more effective strategy toward preventing the illegal acts in question, the reason that will probably not happen is that proponents of "eco-terrorism" legislation and prosecutions aren't the least bit interested in environmental protection or animal rights--because they are (or are funded or influenced by) capitalist interests who profit from unsound environmental practices or animal exploitation. The movement against "eco-terrorism" is driven by corporate profit and is, therefore, opposed to any obstacles--legal protest or illegal--to doing business. (If you're unaware of the extent of this corporate influence, Potter documents it quite well.) Narrow private interest is not--nor is anything else--a basis for criminalizing a political movement, but the disregard for free speech exhibited by those behind this "eco-terrorism" meme is quite evident.

Potter argues, beyond this political critique, that this conflict of interests is essentially cultural (242-7). Like the Red Scares and COINTELPRO last century, this "green scare" is another manifestation of manipulated fears of a segment of the population who are told the "American way of life" is threatened, as alternative lifestyles and values associated with these movements (vegetarianism, etc.) become more widely accepted. The late Michael Crichton even made (absurdly nihilistic) "eco-terrorists" the subject of a novel. Their fear is ultimately not of "eco-terrorism" but of the shifting of values it represents within modern society. I would add, these shifts are not always perceived to be in the interests of capital, in which cases the new movements become political targets. As this tragic conflict unfolds, let's remember who it's between: people who value capital first and people who value the life of the planet first. ...more

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Mar 09, 2011 Joseph rated it it was amazing

Shelves: activism, politics-and-economics

just about to finish reading for the second time.

this book is an excellent expose on the use of fear tactics by the federal government in the wake of 9/11. not just in the area of political dissent, but economic, as well.

moving from history to current events to psychological thriler, Will Potter weaves an engaging story of the dissolution of legitimate freedom of expression by the powers that be, all to prop up a decaying economic/political system. the lesson here is that no one who believes thi ...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Sharlyn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: anarchism, law-things

It's a little embarrassing to admit it took me this long to finally read Green is the New Red, but it didn't disappoint! I can't really recommend this book enough, even if you think you're pretty familiar with the arguments it is going to make. It's just a really thorough, brilliant, and enjoyable read. (PS: Please double the fervor of this if you're a law student who does civil liberties stuff but isn't familiar with the repression directed at environmental or animal rights movements.)

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Jul 26, 2011 Jason rated it liked it

A good book. I think the value of this book was its humanization and personalization of a step-by-step account (almost like a journal) of the arrest, repression, trial, and imprisonment of some of the higher profile animal rights and environment activists in recent years in the United States. The reader will get to know the people, as people, who could not just sit and watch as enormous injustices and devastation was constantly happening by corporations and the government. They were compelled to ...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Josh rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to Josh by: A friend

"Although there have been times when activists themselves have made this Green Scare easier, they have not created it: it exists not because of the nature of their words or their actions, but because these movements have grown increasingly effective and accepted. The only way to explain the conflation of mainstream and radical groups as terrorists is to assume that all of it - from ballot initiatives to sabotage - poses a threat."

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Jun 11, 2011 Meghan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonfiction

Traces the history of environmental activism and the ways in which activists have been targeted by the FBI in ways similar to COINTELPRO in the 1960s. Potter details the amount of resources devoted to fighting animal activists and the Earth Liberation Front as the number-one domestic terrorism threat - pure insanity. And don't we all love it when undercover FBI agents infiltrate vegan potlucks and try to incite some violence? This book makes me so upset.

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Jan 22, 2013 Nadia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

A highly insightful and interesting account of the Animal Rights/Environmental Activists Movement under siege in America by a journalist who was part of it. Highly recommended read. You will not be disappointed by the story. For those who know philosophy, Plato's allegory of the cave is mentioned in the book.

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Mar 03, 2017 Smiley McGrouchpants rated it it was amazing

The "terrorism enchancement" is what it's called, post-9/11: the weighing of crimes with additional consequence, to increase sentencing.

In a manner that should surprise no-one, Christian fundamentalists, murderers of abortion doctors, and other racist-and-other-sorts who've shouted at every available opportunity of their intent to harm others have somehow miraculously eluded this classification, while so-designated "eco-terrorists" have fallen under this rubric, since their intent to damage prop ...more

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Mar 30, 2011 Erin rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to Erin by: City Lights

Shelves: essential-reading, nature-and-environmentalism, politics

I've been remiss. I finished this book just before I left for Peru and despite managing to write a review I never posted it. In the interest of full disclosure I received this book from the Good Reads' giveaway program. Regardless, it has landed on my essential reading shelf for a number of reasons.

Maybe you were in a neighborhood where Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) put up posters. Even now, I remember them vividly - charges that they killed puppies. As a jaded teenager, I never paid muc I've been remiss. I finished this book just before I left for Peru and despite managing to write a review I never posted it. In the interest of full disclosure I received this book from the Good Reads' giveaway program. Regardless, it has landed on my essential reading shelf for a number of reasons.

Maybe you were in a neighborhood where Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) put up posters. Even now, I remember them vividly - charges that they killed puppies. As a jaded teenager, I never paid much attention to them - I figured if they had to use such a sensationalist charge to tug at my emotions the whole deal was probably absurd. Perhaps I was also somewhat offended that they thought they needed such an extreme charge to get me involved.

I like to think that maybe ten years later I'm a little wiser and a little less jaded, but regardless, enter Green is the New Red. I was surprised to find SHAC's story in here, along with a number of other animal rights and environmental activists, specifically those who were a part of ALF and ELF. I also like to think I have a decent awareness of the government's tactics when it comes to social movements - I know they killed Fred Hampton, I know they infiltrate vegan pot lucks with FBI agents, I know they run secret prisons and I know that big money has its tentacles everywhere in politics.

And yet Green is the New Red routinely had me all sorts of shocked, appalled and infuriated. Potter lays out the history of the red scare (I had to stop at this point and let the new information sink in, it just blew my mind.) Another example is something that seems to have currently come on the radar of liberal groups - my inbox is lighting up with emails about ALEC, the group in which corporations pay to be members and then draft legislation that is then presented as legitimate by lawmakers - Potter goes into depth about how ALEC works in the book and I was left feeling infuriated.

There are many, many different threads in this book. Court cases against animal rights activists, a history of the red scare, details about the government infiltration of liberal and leftist groups, corporate influence in government... Despite that, Potter more than manages to make a very convincing argument that Green is indeed the new Red, illustrating that activists that try to change corporate behavior are the new brand of terrorist. Admittedly I probably wouldn't have picked this book up if I felt that it concentrated too heavily on animal rights activists. And despite that being the book's focus, there's a lot to learn here - Potter portrays the larger picture just as successfully as his focus on animal rights and environmental activism. And because of that, EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS BOOK!!!! ...more

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Feb 04, 2012 Meghan Fidler rated it really liked it

This is terrifying. Will Potter does an excellent job tracing historical protests, new laws, and legal precedent to explain how environmental activism has become labeled under 'terrorist' activities. Interviewing key activists who were prosecuted as 'eco-terrorists,' the story is meant to incite people into action--as it should.
I do find the description of the activities that were prosecuted a bit skewed: Potter appears to be trying to attempt an almost neutral presentation. Sometimes no added ...more

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Dec 31, 2014 Lisa rated it it was amazing

I highly recommend this book to everyone, whether you're an environmental and animal activist or not. Will Potter's exhaustive but very readable account of the ethically-challenged to downright illegal actions the US government and agencies like the FBI have taken to cast these activists as the #1 domestic terrorist threat in the country should open eyes to corporate and industry power to enact ridiculous anti-terrorism legislation and redefine the First Amendment to suit their agenda.

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Aug 27, 2015 H 2Jones rated it it was amazing

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In Green Is The New Red Daniel McGowan is a strong willed activist, but is also cognisant of his personal well being. While he was on trial for terrorism for the arson of a logging company, and an SUV dealership he says “I hope that you will see that my actions were not those of a terrorist but those of a concerned young person who was deeply troubled by the destruction of Oregon’s forests” (Potter 79). He too ...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Errica rated it it was amazing

Will Potter has explained the attacks on animal/environmental rights activists in a thorough, thought provoking, enraging and inspiring way. His explanations and accounts of the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act and its subsequent use in the American judicial system is amazing. To know that there is no official definition of the term "terrorism" in the government is frightening as it is now so freely applied to anyone who leaflets or joins in a protest for the rights of animals or the environment. ...more

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Jun 08, 2015 Dayton rated it it was amazing

Green is the new red, terrorism is the new communism (when it comes to civil liberties), and somehow ecoterrorists and animal rights "extremists" are te FBI's number one domestic terror threat. This is a gripping account of surveillance, the perversion of the word "terrorism," and a totally overreaching government crackdown. Regardless of whether you're a bike-riding vegan or not, this is a scary and readable portrait of how little the First Amendment can mean when powerful interests oppose your ...more

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May 04, 2012 Marissa rated it it was amazing

I'm not normally tempted to review books, but I couldn't resist. Potter's analysis of US domestic terrorism laws is fascinating and frightening at the same time. As someone who enjoys exercising her First Amendment rights, I find it horrifying that the government is fabricating more and more excuses to prosecute (harshly) acts once considered legal displays of activism. Not only are activists for the environment and animal-rights being targeted at an alarmingly high rate, they are being labeled ...more

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Jun 29, 2014 Kathryn rated it did not like it

Shelves: abandoned

Honestly, I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. It seems like it's arguing against itself! "No deaths have been caused by so-called ecoterrorists"... "self proclaimed ecoterrorists sell high profile woman's worn underwear on eBay and promise her every bidder gets her home address"... I wanted to be on the side of the misunderstood environmental freedom fighter, but the book honestly makes me more apprehensive about signing up or joining any rallies or walks or talks. Seriously. I'm supposed ...more

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Dec 23, 2013 xDEAD ENDx rated it really liked it

It's funny writing a review on a book about surveillance without becoming paranoid when wanting to discuss allegiances.

I liked this book. The writing was good and the story was exciting (and, of course, sad and depressing), but I'm not so sure about framing it within the sphere of constitutional rights. So many of the characters are uninterested in laws and rights, so what's the point? It seems a little dishonest to pose things in this way, especially after the trials are over and many of the se ...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Howard rated it it was amazing

if you would like to read about the inner workings of the people who go after environmentalists to further their own greed, this is the book. it is quite shocking at the lengths big ag, big pharma, the lumber and medical companies and others with vested interests will go in terms of trying to pass legislation and lobbying politicos in order to continue to torture helpless animals and rape and poison the landscape for their own financial gains.
this is at the heart of OWS in all it's meanings and ...more

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Sep 11, 2013 Jonagain Offagain rated it it was amazing

Shelves: animal-earth-liberation

Everyone ought to dig into the plot of this story. I cannot express enough appreciation for Will Potter and those who helped him publish it, moreover for those whose political activism has meant not only the loss of their liberty, but their designation as "domestic terrorists," increasing the severity of their punishment due to the political motivation for their alleged crimes. Most of those who were given the federal terrorism enhancement, stiffening the penalties, were convicted of civil disob ...more

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Jul 15, 2014 Laura McLean rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book is on an undeniably fascinating and important topic (the equating of animal rights and environmental activism with terrorism by the US government). It's too bad it's written in such a jumbled, confusing style. I found the thread of the narrative difficult to follow. Sections seemed to come in random order. The author goes off on tangents, then returns to follow a particular activist, the details about whom I'd already forgotten. All of this unfortunately lessens the impact of the conte ...more

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Jan 07, 2014 C M rated it it was amazing

Shelves: politics, ecoterrorism

"Green Is the New Red" is far and away the best account of the way members of the radical environmental and animal rights movements in the US are confronted with increasing state repression. While Potter is an open sympathizer and active participant in the movement, and his writing is engaged and supportive, his analysis is well-substantiated and his conclusions sound. Consequently, I have no problem using this book for my academic work. At the same time, it is written for a non-academic audienc ...more

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Jan 02, 2016 Ben Striz rated it it was amazing

Outstanding. Maddening. Revealing and upsetting. Green is the New Red blends scholastic research and stats with real life stories of how the US Government manipulates legislation to aid corporate greed. Will Potter, who has felt the effects of the government's efforts to criminalize activism, is the perfect person to outline the steps taken to control the minds of the American people and protect the profits of the corporations who control the minds of our elected leaders in Washington. Please re ...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Easter rated it it was amazing

Shelves: non-fiction, political, history, animal-rights

Excellent look at the corporate interests that have conspired to define environmental and animal rights activists as terrorists.
It is sobering to realize that the FBI's focus on animal/environment activists has taken away resources from investigations of white supremacists, anti-abortionists and even the white collar fraud that caused the mortgage collapse.

The beginning of the book struggles to establish itself. However, once it finds its groove, the book flows and sucks you in.
This is a must ...more

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May 15, 2016 Taryn rated it it was amazing

Very well written and easy to follow. Will Potter clearly explains what is happening to activists through first-hand experience as well as through the experiences of others as they are being targeted by corporations. I would highly recommend this book. I read it for a University class and we had the opportunity to Skype with Will Potter who was more than willing to answer our questions and tell us about his experiences.

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Oct 10, 2015 Claire rated it really liked it

This was a well written, thought provoking and unusual book: about the ALF and ELF, and definitions of terrorism - by someone trained in journalism. Like 'The Weather Underground' documentary about the 1970s group, this book also touches on age-old questions about means and ends, and of in-group cohesions and divisions, etc. Add it to the collection if those themes interest you.

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