Political Media Review

With the publication of Mad Bomber Melville, Leslie James Pickering has done a great service for those who—as he puts it—“can take inspiration from someone who was far from perfect but never gave up the struggle” (133). Pickering’s biography of Sam Melville does not seek to idolize its subject but is an honest effort to preserve an important history which holds challenging lessons for present day readers.

Bold Native is a full-length fiction feature film depicting the billion-dollar animal exploitation industry and the people who seek to liberate the animals. The film follows the character of Charlie Cranehill (played by Joaquin Pastor), a well-to-do bohemian-esque individual mildly concerned with animal welfare.

In the early 1990s, animal rights activist Rodney Coronado organized and carried out a series of Animal Liberation Front attacks against the fur industry in a campaign called Operation Bite Back

Using art as a medium, or platform, for ideological proselytizing has always been a difficult process for the artist. Will the political content outweigh and compromise the aesthetics, or will the artist’s style dilute and deflate the message? Derrick Jensen walks a fine line in his fiction; as a radical political thinker and primitivist evangelist, he is peerless.

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

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

Greenpeace. Earth First!. Rainforest Action Network. These organizations are synonymous with the struggle to defend the environment through non-violent direct action.