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Mad Bomber Melville

politicalmediareview — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:32:58 +0000

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

politicalmediareview — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:19:40 +0000

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.

Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness

politicalmediareview — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:42:22 +0000

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

Lives Less Valuable

politicalmediareview — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:40:30 +0000

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.

Muzzling a Movement

politicalmediareview — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:57:46 +0000

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

The Cove

politicalmediareview — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:14:09 +0000

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

Tree Spiker – From Earth First to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action

politicalmediareview — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:25:44 +0000

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