Green Scare Flickr Group, and an “Eco-terrorist” Teen Love Story
Sep 17th, 2008 by Will Potter
There’s now a GreenIsTheNewRed Flickr account, as well as a Green Scare Flickr group! I’m hoping ya’ll will enjoy them, for a few reasons:
- You can easily post these photos to your blogs and websites through Flickr.
- You can submit your own images to the group: benefit fliers, photos of Green Scare defendants, protest photos, scare-mongering ads, and of course photos of you at work in your “domestic terrorist” aprons. Post them to the group, and we’ll run some here on GreenIsTheNewRed.
- You might find some articles you haven’t seen. The photo descriptions are full of links to content that, by the nature of the blog, gets burried as time goes on.
To start things off, here’s an image I just uploaded. It’s from Burnout, the graphic novel by Rebecca Donner and Inaki Miranda (which I noted here a while back). It’s a love story about two teenagers who become “eco-terrorists.” I was skeptical, to say the least, of anything that uses the buzzword of “eco-terrorism,” even if it’s just as an idea for a plot. I think the more folks use the word to describe everything from comic books to Law & Order episodes, the more people accept that non-violent activists really are “terrorists.” So I was pleasantly surprised that the book is not only beautiful, but it felt critical of the “terrorist” rhetoric, and cleverly gives some historical background of radical activism that puts the mainstream media to shame.
What do you think? (About the Flickr accounts, and also about Burnout?)
What do you think? (About the Flickr accounts
um, AWESOME!
Glad you like them Kelly!
I work at a comic and game shop at when I’m at university, and I saw Burnout on the stands one day and read it during down time. I as well am critically of how widely the term terrorist is used, and like you, was pleasantly surprised at how the book took on the topic. The morals, the ethics, a bit of history, and all that good stuff.
Remember, only spike high.