Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pellow, David Naguib.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal rights movement.

Animal rights.

Environmentalism.

Radicalism.

Local Subjects:

Animal rights movement.

Animal rights.

Environmentalism.

Radicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF's communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group's customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, "all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked," and decried the "patri

Contents:

Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Never Apologize for Your Rage; 2. Justice for the Earth and ; 3. Anarchism and Anticapitalism; 4. Direct Action; 5. The Green Scare; 6. Resisting the Green Scare; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4303-6