Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2008
Al Gore’s “Live Earth” is sending out emails with the tagline “Is green the new red?” (about sustainable Valentine’s Day gifts). [Thanks Drew!] And this month’s issue of Outside has an article, “Red is the New Green” about environmental issues in Cuba. This, on top of the Red Scare/Green Scare confusion I noted a while [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2008
GreenIsTheNewRed.com is no Perez Hilton or Pink is the New Blog (which I always thought was a good thing, but good grief do those sites get a ton of hits for such, um, enlightening content). Nevertheless, there are some (fairly) new geektastic features that I hope you all will find useful. Not as useful as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2008
The Republican National Committee meeting will be in Minneapolis this year. I guess RNC organizers learned their lesson after the debacle in NYC last time: the city has already had to pay for arresting and beating protestors, and it was revealed that Bloomberg cracked down on protests for political reasons (um, duh). Clearly, organizers think [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2007
Good grief what a ridiculously stressful 24 hours. I upgraded the software that runs this site, and whaddayouknow, it caused all kinds of nastiness with the my server. I couldn’t even get a homepage up, and my backups (plural) weren’t cooperating with the server either. I’m breathing now–finally–because I have the site somewhat back together. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2007
I was a “domestic terrorist” (what else?) last Halloween, complete with black apron and balaclava. Nobody seemed to get the joke. “Are you a ninja?”
So I LOVE the label on Isa Moskowitz’s apron. She is one of the vegan culinary minds behind Post Punk Kitchen. The “domestic terrorist” joke plays off of the FBI labeling [...]
Posted in Opposition, Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2007
Great example of how many people may not be sympathetic to people who commit crimes in the name of the environment or animals, but they do see the danger of this ever-expanding “War on Terrorism.” From James Jay Carafano at the Heritage Foundation (click through for his ridiculously-long Heritage style title):
Domestic radicalization is a [...]
Posted in GNR Media/ Events, Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2007
I’ll be in Portland next week for a speaking event with Peter Young, one of the first people ever charged with “animal enterprise terrorism.” The press release for the event is below. Rumor has it that there might also be a movie screening, to take advantage of the wonderful venue. Thanks to all the sponsors [...]
Posted in Legal, Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2007
UPDATE: Tony Wong and Brandon Elder won’t have to appear before the grand jury in Minneapolis at this time. (Background on the grand jury is here). The district attorney dropped the order to appear after Wong and Elder sent in a declaration of their intent to plead the fifth and not cooperate.
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric, Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2007
Have you noticed how people are using “eco” to modify everything and anything now, but nobody seems to want to actually take a hard, critical look at “eco” issues?
Take this story from MSNBC. A hummer was vandalized in D.C. The owner doesn’t understand why (”We recycle at the house,” he said.) But the reporter, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2007
Well, it comes out every year: American for Medical Progress, a group dedicated to fighting “animal rights extremists,” publishes a wrap-up of the national animal rights conference. (I was pleasantly surprised to see that the worst they had to say about me, for the second year, was to label me “activist and self-proclaimed ‘independent [...]
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.