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The Green Fuse: Inside the Radical Environmental Movement

Jeffrey St. Clair

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"The corporate-led attacks on the environmental movement?and the movement's response?are a teachable moment for all social movements. The Green Fuse is an important contribution to this dialogue of repression of resistance."?Will Potter, Green is the New Red

On October 19, 1998, five buildings and four chairlifts in Vail, Colorado, burned. In a communiqué from the Earth Liberation Front, activists claimed the fires were aimed at protecting the alpine habitat of endangered lynx from a planned expansion of a ski resort into the Two Elks Roadless Area. This dramatic act of political arson was rapidly followed by a wave of arson and sabotage, targeting research labs, logging companies, and industrial corporations by a shadowy network of environmental militants. These actions made for sensational headlines, prompted a covert FBI operation, and were used to justify repressive new laws at the state and federal level. The Green Fuse profiles the leading figures of this new movement: Tre Arrow, Mike Roselle, Rod Coronado, Marie Mason, Tim DeChristopher, and Jonathan Paul. The Green Fuse shows how activists were threatened, spied upon, infiltrated and ultimately arrested, tried under draconian new laws, and sentenced to harsh prison terms in a riveting, up-close narrative.

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch, author of Born Under a Bad Sky, and co-editor, with Joshua Frank, of Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion.

Joshua Frank is co-editor, with Jeffrey St. Clair, of Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. His investigative reports and columns appear in CounterPunch, CommonDreams.org, and AlterNet.

Language: English

Pages: 275

Format: Paperback

Publisher: AK Press

Release: April 16, 2013

ISBN: 1849351244

ISBN 13: 9781849351249

The Green Fuse: Inside the Radical Environmental Movement

Jeffrey St. Clair

0/5 ( ratings)

"The corporate-led attacks on the environmental movement?and the movement's response?are a teachable moment for all social movements. The Green Fuse is an important contribution to this dialogue of repression of resistance."?Will Potter, Green is the New Red

On October 19, 1998, five buildings and four chairlifts in Vail, Colorado, burned. In a communiqué from the Earth Liberation Front, activists claimed the fires were aimed at protecting the alpine habitat of endangered lynx from a planned expansion of a ski resort into the Two Elks Roadless Area. This dramatic act of political arson was rapidly followed by a wave of arson and sabotage, targeting research labs, logging companies, and industrial corporations by a shadowy network of environmental militants. These actions made for sensational headlines, prompted a covert FBI operation, and were used to justify repressive new laws at the state and federal level. The Green Fuse profiles the leading figures of this new movement: Tre Arrow, Mike Roselle, Rod Coronado, Marie Mason, Tim DeChristopher, and Jonathan Paul. The Green Fuse shows how activists were threatened, spied upon, infiltrated and ultimately arrested, tried under draconian new laws, and sentenced to harsh prison terms in a riveting, up-close narrative.

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch, author of Born Under a Bad Sky, and co-editor, with Joshua Frank, of Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion.

Joshua Frank is co-editor, with Jeffrey St. Clair, of Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. His investigative reports and columns appear in CounterPunch, CommonDreams.org, and AlterNet.

Language: English

Pages: 275

Format: Paperback

Publisher: AK Press

Release: April 16, 2013

ISBN: 1849351244

ISBN 13: 9781849351249

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