Homeland Security

FBI Warns that Journalism About Animal Cruelty Could “Incite Criminal Activity”

New documents released by Anonymous reveal the FBI sent out a terrorism warning about a news broadcast that featured video footage of a lab cited for animal welfare violations.

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7 Groups the FBI and Corporations Have Classified as “Terrorists”

7 examples of the types of people the government and corporations now routinely label as “terrorists.”

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Interview with The Rumpus, Including the Only Surefire Way to Spot a Fed

The Rumpus is one of my favorite websites on all of the Internetz. It’s a smart, sharp, literary site, and it was a treat to speak with Caroline Paul about my new book. Here’s an intro from Caroline: In 2007, I was put on Homeland Security’s Watch List. True, my brother had just been arrested. […]

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Coming this April from City Lights Books…

This project has consumed so much of my life, for so long, that writing this “official announcement” is ridiculously hard. So I’ll leave it at this: Next month, City Lights Books will release Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege… Special thanks to Casey, Denis, Hal, and Matthew […]

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Richmond Cops Mistakenly Hand Over Anti-Protest Guides to Anarchist

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests.

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PA Director of Homeland Security: Environmentalists are Terrorists, But Timothy McVeigh is Not

James Powers chose to focus homeland security resources on non-violent environmental groups. But do you know who he thinks is NOT a “terrorist”?

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Pennsylvania “Eco-Terror” Bulletin is Not an Isolated Case: It’s a National Problem

Pennsylvania’s Department of Homeland Security has been spying on non-violent environmental groups and labeling them “environmental extremists.” But this was no fluke, no error, no isolated instance. The same policies that have come to light in Pennsylvania have been exposed across the country, and up to top levels of the federal government.

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“Eco-Terrorist: the New Boogeyman,” Interview on the Alyona Show (Video)

“These days, when you hear the word domestic terrorist, environmental activists probably don’t come to mind. But documents recently leaked show the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has been tracking anti-gas drilling groups and their meetings, including a public screening of the film, GASLAND, a documentary about the environmental hazards of natural gas drilling. Why is the government so scared of these people they call, eco-terrorists, over cases of vandalism?”

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“Jihad, Crips, extreme animal-rights activists, it’s all the same,” Says Homeland Security Official

An appellate court has refused to revisit the SHAC 7 case, and the lead prosecutor has compared animal rights activists to the Crips and Islamic “jihad.”

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