Total liberation : the power and promise of animal rights and the radical earth movement

369 Pages·2014·1.55 MB·English

by  David Naguib Pellow

TOTAL
L I B E R
AT I O N
The Power
and Promise
of Animal Rights
and the
Radical Earth
Movement
David Naguib Pellow
Total Liberation
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Total Liberation
The Power and Promise of Animal Rights
and the Radical Earth Movement
David Naguib Pellow
university of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis • london
Portions of the book will appear in David N. Pellow and Hollie Nyseth
Brehm, “From the New Ecological Paradigm to Total Liberation:
The Emergence of a Social Movement Frame,” The Sociological Quarterly
(forthcoming).
Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the
prior written permission of the publisher.
Published by the University of Minnesota Press
111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290
Minneapolis, MN 55401– 2520
http://www.upress.umn.edu
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data
Pellow, David Naguib.
Total liberation : the power and promise of animal rights and the radical
earth movement / David Naguib Pellow.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8166-8776-3 (hc : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-8166-8777-0 (pb : alk paper)
1. Animal rights. 2. Animal rights movement. 3. Environmentalism.
4. Radicalism. I. Title.
Hv4708.P45 2014
179´.3—dc23
2013048789
Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper
The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and
employer.
20 19 18 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For
Allan and Hazel
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: All Oppression Is Linked 1
1 Never Apologize for Your Rage: Radical Origins
and Organizing 23
2 Justice for the Earth and All Its Animals 61
3 Anarchism and Anticapitalism: Liberation from
Government and Market 93
4 Direct Action: Confrontation, Sabotage, and
Property Destruction 127
5 The Green Scare: State Repression of Liberation
Movements 163
6 Resisting the Green Scare 211
Conclusion: Piecing It Together 245
Notes 259
Bibliography 295
Index 315
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Abbreviations
AEDPA Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
AEPA Animal Enterprise Protection Act
AETA Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
AETA4 four activists charged under the AETA
AIM American Indian Movement
ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council
ALF Animal Liberation Front
AMA American Medical Association
ANC African National Congress
APOC Anarchist People of Color
AR Animal Rights
ARC Animal Rights Conference
ASPCA A merican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
BLA Black Liberation Army
BLM Bureau of Land Management
BPP Black Panther Party
BWM Because We Must
CALPIRG California Public Interest Research Group
CFA Cascadia Forest Alliance
CFD Cascadia Forest Defenders
CLDC Civil Liberties Defense Center
CMU Communications Management Unit
COINTELPRO Counter Intelligence Program
COW Challenging Oppression Within
CSLC Cold Snap Legal Collective
DGR Deep Green Resistance
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