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Search Infoshop If anyone requires proof that dark green ethics and radical earth defense are becoming more and more widespread, consider how the all-purpose smear of “terrorist” is being increasingly used by governments and private groups to criminalize eco-dissent.

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Poll Mickey Z. February 16, 2012 Facebook Censorship If more anarchist pages “We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them—exploiting animals in the like Anarchist Memes got name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, banned by Facebook, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.” would you stop using Facebook? - César Chávez Yes If anyone requires proof that dark green ethics and radical earth defense are becoming more and No more widespread, consider how the all-purpose smear of “terrorist” is being increasingly used by Move to Google+ governments and private groups to criminalize eco-dissent. Move to Diaspora Mic Check: So, what exactly is a terrorist? I'd ban Facebook What is a meme? By current standards, you can pack a calf into veal crate or pump food down a goose’s gullet or grind up live male chicks to fertilize your fields—and you’d run no risk of being called a terrorist.

Results You could also clear-cut forests to make way for doomed livestock or blow off mountain tops in search of coal or pump toxin-filled smoke into the atmosphere and you’d garner virtually no attention Other polls | 265 votes | 0 comments at all—let alone be labeled a terrorist.

But if you choose a lifestyle based on compassion and logic or speak out against vivisection or Submit Articles and protest use of fur? Well, thanks to the Green Scare, you deserve an orange jumpsuit and a one-way Events ticket to Gitmo. Submit News Green Scare refers to “the federal government’s expanding prosecution efforts against animal Submit Event liberation and ecological activists, drawing parallels to the ‘Red Scares’ of the 1910′s and 1950s.” Infoshop News Style Guide I-News FAQ This term was first known to have appeared in 2002 in the wake of congressional hearings titled “The Threat of Eco-Terrorism” which discussed groups including the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). Follow Infoshop on ... As GreenIsTheNewRed sez:

10,031 fans “The animal rights and environmental movements, like every other social movement throughout history, have both legal and illegal elements. There are people who leaflet, write letters, and lobby. There are people who protest and engage in non-violent civil disobedience. And there are people, like the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front, who go out at night with black masks

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2,789 followers and break windows, burn SUVs, and release animals from fur farms. Animal rights and environmental advocates have not flown planes into buildings, taken hostages, or sent Anthrax through the mail. Yet the FBI ranks them as the top domestic terrorism threat.” Newsletter The US government’s extreme prejudice against animal rights and environmental activists is, of Sign up for our course, no freak accident. Like most everything in a profit-driven society, it comes down to who is Email Newsletter paying who.

“By donating money to politicians and paying high-priced lobbyists to advocate for their interests,” writes Doris Lin, “corporations that profit from animal exploitation not only make sure that their legal right to use animals and treat them as property is codified in federal, state and local laws, but also For Email Marketing you can trust make sure that government policies favor their rights and interests over those of the animals and the public.”

User Functions Which leads us directly to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act—passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 27, 2006. Username: The law, explains the Center for Constitutional Rights, “was pushed through Congress by wealthy Password: biomedical & agri-business industry groups such as the Animal Enterprise Protection Coalition (AEPC), the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), with bipartisan support from legislators like Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative James Sensenbrenner. The new law replaced its predecessor, the Animal Enterprise Protection Act (AEPA), which had become law in 1992.”

Lost your password? The AETA specifically targets anyone who “intentionally damages or causes the loss of any real or personal property (including animals or records) used by animal enterprise, or any real or personal property of a person or entity having a connection to, relationship with, or transactions with an Recent I-News Features animal enterprise.”

Haiti: What You Can Do Mic Check: If you don’t think the AETA casts a treacherously wide net, re-read that last paragraph to Help and juxtapose it with this biblical excerpt (John 2:13-16): “In the Temple courts (Jesus) found men Feature on Kirsten Brydum selling cattle, sheep and doves and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip Emergency Exit Collective: out of cords and drove all from the Temple, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the "The 2008 G8 on money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said: ‘Get out of here.’” Hokkaido, a Strategic Assessment" The next time someone asks you: “What would Jesus do?” We Are All Survivors, We Are All Perpetrators Accurate answer: About 12 to 18 months (insert rimshot here) Korean Massage Parlors Please allow me to repeat: It’s not nearly enough to rise above the latest man-made conflicts and/or Thrive on Women differences and proudly declare oneself a “humanist.” In the name of holistic justice and planetary rebellion, we must go deeper to identify as earthlings and stand—fists raised—in solidarity with all of Infoshop Hot Links our fellow earthlings.

Infoshop Forums Good place to start: Work to abolish the AETA.

Blogs ‘Regardless of how one feels about animal rights or animal rights activists, the targeting of political activists as ‘terrorists’ because they cause a loss of corporate profits sets a dangerous precedent,” writes Will Potter. “Occupy Wall Street (OWS), for example, clearly is focused on challenging Events corporate power and has utilized a diversity of tactics currently classified as ‘animal enterprise terrorism,’ including non-violent civil disobedience and home demonstrations. If this legislation is not There are no upcoming overturned, it will be the blueprint for targeting all protesters that pose a threat to business as events usual.”

The system being challenged OWS is built, in a major way, on the exploitation of non-human Independent Media animals and the eco-system. A-Infos Mic Check: Dark green is an OWS issue. Animal liberation is an OWS issue. Alternative Press Review Veganism is an OWS issue. Alternet Anarchist News It’s all connected within a culture constructed on the premise of unlimited growth and it must all Anarchist Writers remain connected within a movement aiming for holistic justice. Anarchists Against the Wall Anarcho-Syndicalist Review If you’re working to dismantle corporate power, expand freedoms, and create a safer, more sane Magazine culture, you already have plenty in common with animal rights activists. Why not take things even

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