Will Potter

Will Potter, 2013

Will Potter (* 1980 ) is an American independent journalist who publishes texts on civil liberties with regard to the War on Terrorism , especially so - called eco - terrorism . He was a witness before the United States Congress at the hearing on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) 2006. He has published in the Washington Post , the Chicago Tribune , Legal Affairs , Le Monde and Rolling Stone and is a speaker in the Public, for example at Harvard Law School or the University of Innsbruck .

Life

Potter closed the Johns Hopkins University with a Master of Arts in "Writing" (German: letter ), and then earned a degree cum laude in journalism . During the Chicago Tribune worked concluded he Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) and was for "Trespassing" (about: trespassing ) arrested. As a result, was FBI tried -Agenten him as informants to recruit about SHAC - with the threat , him in case of rejected cooperation to the list Watch for "Domestic terrorism" (German: domestic terrorism ) to write. In response, Potter is concerned with the question of why the environmental movement has been exposed to methods similar to the Red Scare in recent history . Potter uses the term green scare for this .

Awards

• 2000: "Mark of Excellence Award" from the Society of Professional Journalists
• 2007: "Outstanding Investigative Journalism" (German: Outstanding investigative journalism ) by Project Censored

Publications

• Will Potter: Green is the new red: an insiders account of a social movement under siege . (PDF) City Lights Books, San Francisco, ISBN 978-0-87286-538-9

Web links

Commons : Will Potter  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• willpotter.com - official website
• Karen Eng: Green is the new red: Will Potter on the problem of treating environmentalists like terrorists . TED January 31, 2014; accessed on July 15, 2014.
• Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest . on YouTube TED post, June 11, 2014 (English).
• Will Potter: The secret US prisons you've never heard of before . TED contribution August 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ Congressional Testimony on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) by Will Potter , greenisthenewred.com, May 23, 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
2. ^ SPJ announces Mark of Excellence Award winners , spf.org, August 21, 2000; accessed on July 15, 2014.
3. ↑ # 20 Terror Act Against Animal Activists . Project Censored ; accessed on July 15, 2014.