Today in Labor History October 7, 1977: Environmentalist activist Eric McDavid was born. He is green anarchist, convicted of conspiring to use fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property, as a member of the Earth Liberation Front. The FBI had used Zoe Elizabeth Voss, a paid FBI informant, to infiltrate the group and act as an agent provocateur. She provided the activists with bomb-making plans, the money to buy the materials, transportation and a cabin to work in. She exploited McDavid’s attraction to her to build trust and provoke increasingly radical and provocative actions. She taught the group how to make the bombs. After spending nearly 9 years in prison, McDavid was released in 2015, after the prosecution admitted that the FBI had withheld thousands of pages of potentially exculpatory evidence, including love letters between McDavid and Voss and proof that she had been exempted from an FBI polygraph test.

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Réédition revue et augmentée (en anglais) chez Microcosm Publishing de l'histoire du Earth Liberation Front par son porte parole de l'époque Craig Rosebraugh. (Initialement paru en 2004).

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Réédition revue et augmentée (en anglais) chez Microcosm Publishing de l'histoire du Earth Liberation Front par son porte parole de l'époque. (Initialement paru en 2004).

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Today in Labor History October 7, 1977: Environmentalist activist Eric McDavid was born. He is green anarchist, convicted of conspiring to use fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property, as a member of the Earth Liberation Front. The FBI had used Zoe Elizabeth Voss, a paid FBI informant, to infiltrate the group and act as an agent provocateur. She provided the activists with bomb-making plans, the money to buy the materials, transportation and a cabin to work in. She exploited McDavid’s attraction to her to build trust and provoke increasingly radical and provocative actions. She taught the group how to make the bombs. After spending nearly 9 years in prison, McDavid was released in 2015, after the prosecution admitted that the FBI had withheld thousands of pages of potentially exculpatory evidence, including love letters between McDavid and Voss and proof that she had been exempted from an FBI polygraph test.

These same tactics have been used by the FBI and police in the U.S. since at least as far back as the 1870s, when the Pinkertons used them to disrupt and destroy the Workingmen’s Benevolent Association and the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania, a history that I write about in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.”

You can read my article about the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/

You can read my article about the Molly Maguires here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/

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Burning Rage of a Dying Planet by Craig Rosebraugh, 2024

A harrowing, captivating firsthand history of the rise of the radical environmental movement the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Since 1997, the ELF has inflicted over $100 million in damages on entities they believe to be causing environmental destruction, mostly through brazen arson attacks on timber companies, ski resorts, and car dealerships.

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have libraries always been this rad?!

fuck yes, library. can you also publish some edward abbey?

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Green Scared?

Some Lessons from the #FBI Crackdown on #EcoActivists

2023, via @CrimethInc

"For years, the FBI targeted ecological #activists as their #1 priority. This is one of the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked.

"At the end of 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements—known as the #GreenScare—with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This offensive, which they dubbed Operation Backfire, was intended to obtain convictions for many of the unsolved #EarthLiberationFront arsons of the preceding ten years—but more so, to have a chilling effect on all ecological #DirectAction.

"In this analysis, originally published in Rolling Thunder in 2008, we review everything we can learn from the Operation Backfire cases, with the intention of passing on the lessons for the next generation of #environmental activists.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/green-scared

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In a surprise to no one paying attention, American law enforcement views left-wing politics as terrorism and sometimes overlooks far-right movements: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/fbi-labels-anti-fascists-and-anti-racists-as-violent-extremists/

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