Green Scare
The term green scare is used by environmental and animal rights activists based on the term red scare , the phases of fear of communist infiltration in US history. It primarily refers to the action of the US government against the radical environmental and animal liberation movements .
Presumably the term first came up in the spring of 2002 in the context of a newsletter with information on prisoners who are assigned to the ELF (Earth Liberation Front). In relation to the USA , the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is often mentioned in connection with the Green Scare , a federal law that aims to prevent terrorism against animal-using companies. It is not the activists who have already made themselves punishable by their illegal actions, but those who have previously acted within the scope of legal protest possibilities, the targets of such amendments, is criticized by the protest movement.
Specifically, the imprisonment of activists of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign is described as a green scare. In the context of the term, reference is also made to the so-called animal protection cause, in the context of which some Austrian animal rights activists are accused of being members of a criminal organization.
See also
literature
- Will Potter : Green is the new red: an insiders account of a social movement under siege , City Lights Books - San Francisco. ISBN 978-0-87286-538-9
- Dara Lovitz : Muzzling a Movement: The Effects of Anti-Terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism. Lantern Books (US). ISBN 978-1590561768
Web links
- Text of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act9 (English)
- Green Scare website
- Article on Green Scare in the Counterpunch Newsletter
Footnotes
- Individual evidence
- ^ Table of contents of the newsletter on an Indymedia page
- ↑ Will Potter: The Green Scare ( June 10, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) Vermont Law Review Vol. 33, Summer 2009. pp. 671-687. P. 680.
- ↑ Will Potter: The Green Scare ( June 10, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) Vermont Law Review Vol. 33, Summer 2009. pp. 671-687. P. 686.
- ↑ Will Potter: The Green Scare ( June 10, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) Vermont Law Review Vol. 33, Summer 2009. pp. 671-687. P. 676.
- ↑ Melanie Bujok: Totalitarian Economy, New Security Architecture and Green Scare. How to explain the stately attacks on the animal liberation movement. In: Animal Liberation. Issue 63 / June 2009.