Will Potter

Coping With Repression: The Chilling Effect of “Eco-terrorism” Rhetoric

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “Coping With Repression” Delivered by Will Potter at the national animal rights conference August 11, 2006 11 a.m. Good morning. My name is Will Potter. I’m a reporter and I focus on how the War on Terrorism has affected civil liberties, and specifically I focus on the Green […]

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Notorious “Eco-terrorist” Convicted of… More Non-violent Crimes

Mention the name Rod Coronado in the presence of fur farmers, animal research supporters, or law enforcement agents and blood will boil. He’s a “terrorist.” A “violent criminal.” A “national security threat.” Coronado was just convicted yet again for illegal actions defending the environment. So what was this “eco-terrorist” up to this time? Conspiracy to […]

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New Backgrounder on Animal Enterprise Protection Act

I’ve finally posted a background document on the Animal Enterprise Protection Act I’ve been drafting (that’s the law that was used to go after the SHAC 7 on “terrorism” charges). It outlines how industry groups have been pushing this Green Scare since before 9/11, and now they’re taking their “eco-terrorism” rhetoric to the next level. […]

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I’m Speaking About the “Eco-terrorism” Crackdown at the National Animal Rights Conference

I’ll be speaking at the national animal rights conference this August, on the SHAC trial and how the broader Green Scare has impacted animal rights activists.

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FBI Says Internet Providers Should Make Tapping Easier

Federal agents must have it pretty rough these days. It seems they don’t have time for pesky warrants, so the Bush administration has approved the illegal spying program of the National Security Agency. Now over-burdened FBI agents want to force Internet service providers to create backdoors for easier government surveillance.

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CIA Closes bin Laden Unit, But “Eco-terrorism” Still a Top Priority

Remember Osama bin Laden? You know, September 11, planes into buildings, thousands of people murdered? The one President Bush called the architect of 9/11, the symbol of international terrorism, who will be brought to justice “dead or alive”? Well, the CIA has shut down the unit tracking him.

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Short Film on SHAC, “Eco-terrorism” and the Green Scare

Check out this short film by Tim Hitchens and Tim Gorski on the conviction of animal activists on “terrorism” charges for campaigning to shut down the notorious animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences. One of the more interesting segments of the film is Josh Harper, one of the SHAC defendants, noting that animal activists have […]

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Supreme Court Ruling Could Encourage Even More Aggressive Police Raids

In yet another expansion of police powers since 9/11, the Supreme Court ruled this week that evidence obtained through illegal “no knock” police searches is still admissible in court. So cops don’t have to worry about following the letter of the law too closely in home raids, because even their illegal actions can still be […]

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The Politics of the T-Word

I just ran across this backgrounder on “American Militant Extremists” by the Council on Foreign Relations. I wanted to flag this excerpt for everyone: Not all politically motivated violence qualifies as terrorism (for instance, the FBI and some terrorism experts did not regard the Unabomber, who says his antimodern beliefs were behind a seventeen-year mail-bombing […]

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More Green Scare Protest Bans in the UK

There’s a heated campaign going on in England to block the construction of a controversial animal testing facility at Oxford University. I’ve written a bit about the heavy-handed protest bans at the building site, to silence dissent. Now, in the name of protecting against “animal rights extremists” and “eco-terrorists,” animal rights activists have been banned […]

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