Posted in Legal Issues on May 25th, 2010
Seven members of Greenpeace have been arrested for painting anti-drilling slogans, in crude oil, on a drilling support ship in the Gulf. The New Orleans Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI “is looking into the matter” of whether the non-violent activists will face terrorism-related charges.
Posted in Legal Issues on May 12th, 2010
The Obama administration said this week it would support a law to allow interrogating terrorism suspects, including U.S. citizens, without informing them of their rights to remain silent and speak with an attorney.
Posted in Legislation, Surveillance on May 11th, 2010
Why activists of all social movements should oppose two dangerous new laws in Arizona.
Posted in Federal Terrorism Laws on May 7th, 2010
Americans accused of being involved with terrorist organizations, even if they have never been convicted of a crime, could have their citizenship revoked and could be deported under the Terrorist Expatriation Act.
Posted in GNR on Apr 30th, 2010
The new issue of Resistance magazine is out, taking a look at the environmental movement on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
Posted in Legislation, Opposition, Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2010
Michele Basso, who campaigned to label animal rights activists as “terrorists,” is suspended for animal cruelty.
Posted in Legal Issues, Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2010
The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law targeting “depictions of animal cruelty,” including dog-fighting and “crush” videos. And that’s a very good thing for animal rights activists.
Posted in Legal Issues, Prisoner Support on Apr 14th, 2010
Secretive political prisons for “domestic terrorists” called Communications Management Units have been operating for more than three years on U.S. soil. Last week the federal Bureau of Prisons quietly submitted a proposal to make the experimental units permanent: a process that, by law, should have occurred before they were ever opened.
As a quick introduction, there [...]
Posted in Activists Arrested, Legal Issues on Apr 9th, 2010
An FBI affidavit has just been released in the investigation of the 2004 Animal Liberation Front break-in at the University of Iowa. It shows the stream-of-consciousness approach the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force took to the investigation, including surfing MySpace and Facebook and using an informant to identify activists on YouTube.
The affidavit from October, [...]
Posted in Terrorism Definitions on Apr 7th, 2010
Tea Party poster.Tea Party groups and right-wing militias have been plotting attacks on Muslims, throwing bricks through lawmakers’ windows, and issuing death threats, yet the mainstream press and the federal government have not labeled these acts “terrorism.”
By contrast, the “number one domestic terrorism threat,” according to the FBI, is the animal rights and environmental [...]
The War on Terrorism has come home. Corporations and politicians are labeling activists "eco-terrorists" and national security threats. Think red-baiting, with a green twist. Here you'll find original reporting and analysis of the Green Scare, and history repeating itself.