Tag Archive | "direct action"
Muzzling a Movement
It seems that the petty antagonisms that for so long characterized relations between competing animal activist and advocacy movements are dissipating. More and more frequently, the struggle for legitimacy between welfare, rights-based, and grassroots movements is being subsumed into a superstructural antagonism
Continue reading...The Cove
Thursday, June 17, 2010
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Underwater cameras capture the peaceful sway of sea plants beneath the surface in Taiji, Japan. As the scene progresses, the plants become obscured by creeping wafts of dolphin blood. Rapidly, the entire screen turns crimson, the ocean water thick with the grisly evidence of slaughtered dolphins. The Cove, a 2009 Oceanic Preservation Society film, follows a team of activists
Continue reading...Tree Spiker – From Earth First to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Friday, May 7, 2010
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Greenpeace. Earth First!. Rainforest Action Network. These organizations are synonymous with the struggle to defend the environment through non-violent direct action.
Continue reading...Colectivo Solidario, El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imagenes
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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Marking the centenary of Solidaridad Obrera, this extensive graphic history of the Spanish libertarian tradition is one of the most recent books published by the Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera.
Continue reading...The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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This richly illustrated and designed volume, featuring indigenous art and photographs on nearly every page and unprecedented interviews with members of the early villages, is a result of the seven years Mexican journalist Gloria Muñoz Ramírez’ spent with the Zapatistas in Southern Chiapas.
Continue reading...Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-globalization Movement
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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With this book anarchist sociologist, Luis Fernandez, writes on his studies of policing protests (broadly speaking). At first glance, the references and style of the book might make one think it is written for other academics--dispassionately studying the behaviors of our political masters and their domestic army, the police.
Continue reading...Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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This is a novelized true story by Ann Hansen describing vividly the rise and eventual downfall of the Canadian urban guerrilla group Direct Action. The book is engaging from the start, opening with a dramatic police ambush.
Continue reading...Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Craig Rosebraugh was spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and eventually and predominantly, for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) from 1997-2001. In Burning Rage of a Dying Planet, Rosebraugh weaves his personal history with activism in Animal rights & Animal liberation with the history of the ALF and ELF.
Continue reading...Terrorists of Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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This critical anthology, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, investigates the clandestine faction known as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). In a holistic collection of essays from academics, writers, political prisoners and activists it uncovers the true nature of the group who, along with other "eco-terrorists," are deemed the number one domestic terrorist threat by the FBI.
Continue reading...Behind the Mask
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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Behind the Mask, a production of Uncaged Films and ARME directed and produced by Shannon Keith, is an outstanding and thought provoking documentary about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). Winner of numerous awards, the seventy-two minute investigative film weaves together interviews with some of the leading figures in the animal liberation movement with undercover footage of animals in laboratories, as well as being liberated and in loving sanctuaries.
Continue reading...Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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Igniting a Revolution is a contemporary anthology that argues for a new wave in the history of environmentalism that its editors Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella, II claim as revolutionary environmentalism: a collective movement that seeks total liberation by building expansive alliance networks and understanding between all radical social struggles. The book is both a reflection of the new multi-issue alliance based politics that emerged during the 1990’s and a call and catalyst for their intensification.
Continue reading...Become A Friend
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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