eco-terrorism
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Why does environmentalism have a dark side?
So-called eco-fascists aren’t trying to challenge the power structures that created climate change in any meaningful way.
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The term ‘eco-terrorist’ is back and it’s killing climate activists
It's not just Brazil that's treating climate activists like terrorists. It's happening in the U.S too.
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Zinke blames ‘environmental terrorists’ for wildfires. What the hell does that mean?
The tenuous link between ecoterrorism, logging, and wildfires is 20 years old.
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Earth Liberation Front documentary gets Oscar nomination
The list of Oscar nominees was released this morning, and among the five films up for best documentary feature is If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. The doc follows the story of so-called “eco-terrorists” who torched timber operations, meat packing plants, and other environmental horror shows in the 1990s. The […]
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Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers
Rod Coronado.“Rod Coronado is not a terrorist,” says Dean Kuipers, author of Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness and a longtime writer about the world of eco-activism. Back in the 1980s and ’90s, during Rodney Coronado’s radical sabotage campaigns on behalf of animals and the environment, terrorism was generally considered to […]
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Police spy on climate activist while global warming goes unarrested
Terrorist Activist Mike Tidwell (at podium) exhibiting clearly threatening behavior. Photo: chesapeakeclimate I’m not sure what’s more shocking: the news that the Maryland State Police wrongfully spied on me for months as a “suspected terrorist,” or that, despite surveillance of me, officers apparently wouldn’t recognize me if I walked into their police headquarters […]
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‘Eco-terrorism’: Are they really terrorists?
A federal judge will hear arguments tomorrow, and her ruling will have enormous implications. It’s one of those forks in the road: do we continue down the path toward a police state, or unclench our post-9/11 butts a little and remember that sometimes a misguided a**hole with a dogma and a book of matches is […]
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The hype goes on
I used to follow the "eco-terrorism" hype fairly closely, before my gnat-like attention span wandered on to other things. Those of you still interested should check out this long and exemplary article on the subject by Matt Rasmussen in the current issue of Orion. It will catch you up on all the latest haps.
