Political Media Review

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

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

This edited collection draws together works from scholars involved in ‘green criminology’. Green criminology studies how governments, corporations, military complexes and human consumption harm the environment and non-human animals. Damage to air and water quality, animal testing, uranium proliferation and slaughterhouses are examples of the kinds of issues green criminologists examine.

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.

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.