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“Green Scare” Defendants

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The term “Green Scare,” alluding to the Red Scare of the 1940s and ’50s, refers to legal and extralegal actions taken by the U.S. government against environmental and animal rights activists. Like the Red Scare, the Green Scare uses new laws and new arms of the state to harshly punish a few individuals in order to repress an entire movement.

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Uniting Our Struggles: Where Animal Liberation and Anti-Oppression Meet

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Days ago, a supporter of the Animal Liberation Front issued a communique calling for movement support and action in dismantling the fur industry. At first glance, that this call was delivered to the Earth First! Journal Collective may seem peculiar. The North American Animal Liberation Press Office would be the predictable recipient. Or perhaps Bite Back Magazine. The caricature of animal liberation as a single-issue cause would dictate that the intended audience need only be the choir. So why aim this message of sabotage at an aboveground, mainstream “environmental” movement, currently embroiled in various head-on confrontations with the titans of extractive industry? Because our struggle is one!
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Grand Jury Resistance

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Using grand juries to repress movements including radical ecological movements is not new.  In fact, prosecutors have been using this tactic against animal rights activists since the early 1990s.  Nearly two decades after he was incarcerated for grand jury resistance, animal rights activist and former animal liberation prisoner Jonathan Paul comments on the grand jury process as a tool of state repression.  Below is a statement on grand jury resistance that the Earth First! Prisoner Support Project is a signatory of, and which is also available as a brochure.

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