This collapse will be the result of civilization’s unsustainable quest for resources and its resulting environmental damage. In this section, the authors—using the pseudonym’s Waldorf and Stalter (the old cynics from the Muppet show)—heckle and joke about the ineffectiveness of traditional anarchist organizations and the labor union movement. Because of this, green anarchists reject unionism, antiracism, and traditional class-based political action as reifying civilization and therefore being counterrevolutionary. The practical goal of rewilding “involves both accessing our present situation and looking back to what has been done before by people” in an attempt to survive in modern civilization and prepare for a postcivilizational world (Anarchy & Collective, 2004, p. 31). Times Directors Couldn’t Stop Referencing Their Favorite Movies The move toward more aggressive pursuit of all types of “terrorism” made it much easier to facilitate and further a punitive agenda.Professor John Richard Schrock of the Biological Sciences department at Emporia State University “defends appropriate animal use in education” (Sourcewatch, 2011b).We must ask why they never made this public.The performative element of any given act is an attempt to seize the public’s attention in regard to an issue deemed too important to overlook (Parson, 2008; Vanderheiden, 2005).In an ancient system whereby the fates bind humanity to law, the human spirit wills its independence.For example, when a Wal-Mart or Nike shop was attacked and criticized for its global policies, it was recorded as an attack targeting a “multinational corporation”, whereas the office of a regional energy company was recorded as a “business property”.For instance, CGMs help users detect glucose fluctuations related to stress, meals, hydration, and physical activity, enabling immediate corrective actions.The quote “as bosses jeopardize worker’s lives every day we realized that we needed to make this public” bears more of a resemblance to the thoughts of Judi Bari or Murray Bookchin than it does to John Zerzan or Arne Naess.Poor sitting posture may lead to poor spine health by creating compression in the discs in the spine. In such ceremonies the reflexive association with oneself as ego is often surmounted by a more authentic prayerful voice. Precisely the same is true for human beings, and ceremonies like a sweat lodge or a bear dance enable a spiritual identity with specific relations or with Being. The focus of liberation was wild horses on BLM lands—classified as invasive and non-native—that are rounded up and auctioned off for slaughter. Spiritual identity with animal “nations” is a recurrent theme in ELF communiqués. Bron Taylor’s (2001) work has been instrumental in documenting the diversity and pervasive influence of Native American religious themes in revolutionary environmentalism. The pervasiveness of the terrorism discourse means that label itself brings forward the image of irrational, pathological violence. Rather, the terrorism discourse has been used by political and economic elites with ties to agri-business and biomedical research to delegitimize activists and silence them. And that’s referring to human lives, and IEDs, which is the talk that we listen to, we hear of when referring to actions that are taking place 6,000 miles away in Iraq, and what people are undergoing at that point in time. To answer this question, it’s important to analyze the terrorism discourse that has grown around the environmental movement; often accepted uncritically, it is taken for granted that the ALF/ELF are “terrorists” writ large. With the FBI insisting that the greatest domestic terrorist threat facing the nation comes from radical animal rights and environmental activists, it comes as no surprise that these tactics have been employed against these activists as well. Making a public statement that environmental activists constitute the number one domestic terror threat, while at the same time a steady rise of harm to life is perpetrated by another, sets a dangerous precedent. Environmental activists find themselves labeled as “terrorists” by the federal government in press releases, congressional testimony, and other public discourse. He implicates three ideologies that help to encompass the reasoning and motivation behind these actions including deep ecology, social ecology, and green anarchism (Parson, 2008, pp. 54–58). Parson discusses the radical ecological traditions behind environmental activist groups such as Earth First! As Parson argues, “…ELF ecotage is also meant to question and confront the social, economic, and political realities of the world and to undermine them through their active problematization” (2008, p. 53). The data gathered represents a collection of the most prominent prosecutions of environmental activism, specifically described as “ecotage.” Ecotage represents acts conducted to eliminate the profit motive of environmentally harmful actions. Engaging in stress-reducing activities such as meditation, yoga, or spending time in nature can help alleviate stress and support fertility. Consultant - Urology, Apollo Hospitals Jayanagar to shed some light on the lifestyle habits that negatively affect sperm health and fertility in men. However, many lifestyle habits can detrimentally impact sperm quality and fertility. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In case you’ve been attempting to conceive for six–12 months with out success, now’s the time to take motion. For the survival of both, it’s time to leave the night work to the elves in the woods. Civil disobedience and sabotage are both powerful tactics in our movement. We have above ground publications, public events, and a yearly national Rendezvous with open attendance. If we are serious about our movement in the U.S., we will do the same. The afterlife of fascism. Congressional testimony “the threat of eco-terrorism”. ELF press office calls activist’s 22 year sentence cruel and unusual. Counterterrorism Threat Assessment and Warning Unit, National Security Division (1–29). International Patients Two of the activists in the list of above (Jeffrey “Free” Luers and Craig “Critter” Marshall) are now in prison for ELF-type actions. This action is an example of the respect these underground environmental extremists have for the aboveground activists. We take inspiration from Luddites, Levellers, Diggers, the Autonome squatter movement, the A.L.F., the Zapatistas, and the little people—those mischievous elves of lore. Abbey, an anarchist, writes about a group of pissed off environmentalists who all come to their radical convictions through diverse experiences and beliefs. Deep ecologists are dedicated to the ideal of all living beings (plants, animals, even ecosystems as a whole) living together without being commodified as “resources” or used, oppressed, or destroyed for economic reasons. There's self-doubt and idea doubt. Now, on the surface, a lot of original people look confident, but behind the scenes, they feel the same fear and doubt that the rest of us do. Look at Facebook, waiting to build a social network until after Myspace and Friendster. By delaying the task of finalizing the speech until the very last minute, he left himself open to the widest range of possible ideas. The paper starts from the premise that it is vitally important to recognize that the rapid rate of planetary urbanization is the main driver of environmental change. The fact that international and national institutions are too large to take effective action points to the need to empower the local public realm. At the same time, as reflected in regulations, planning practices, and attitudes of conservation practitioners, it is conceptualised as out of place in urban landscapes and an activity to be discouraged. Integrated political ecology approaches demonstrate how political-economic processes at a variety of scales produce diverse local sustainability responses. While UPE approaches tend to privilege macroscale dynamics, ExPE emphasizes the role of landowners, managers, and other actors in struggles over the production of exurban space, including through decision-making institutions and within the context of broader political economic forces. The striking parallels between the Red Scare and the mass hysteria surrounding the 1692–1693 Salem witch trials were most notably exposed by Arthur Miller, himself a target of Senator McCarthy’s campaign, in his 1953 play The Crucible. Being labeled as a communist or a sympathizer was a de facto conviction in the public arena. By structural exploitation, I am referring to the exploitation embedded in the very fabric of a society, where systems, institutions, policies or cultural beliefs can and do meet the needs and rights of some at the expense of others (Schirch, 2004). The potential for discussions of overt and more structurally exploitative State actions was sidelined. Animal rights and environmental extremists use intimidation and violence to achieve their ends. For some closing insight on “animal rights terrorism,” we may refer to the Statement of then-Senator, now-President Barack Obama at the 2005 Senate Committee Hearings on Ecoterrorism. For example, writing for Stratfor Global Intelligence, Fred Burton says direct actions should be “categorized as terrorism because of their political motive” (2007). Security organizations have a vested interest in portraying illegal actions against animal exploitation industries as terrorism rather than ordinary crimes. Promoting the menace of animal rights terrorism provides income for “experts” who advise business on ecoterrorism and sell security technology. A Therapist Shares Her Proven Technique for Building Lasting Healthy Habits 1, I presented a general overview of Tirana as a case study to observe and analyze notions of self-organization. Keywords Tirana • Organic city • Ottoman • Europeanization • Dictatorship • Self-organized In Chap. Three main urban patterns are distilled in this chapter as generations and emergences formed under specific historic and social conditions. While Kwinter clearly expressed the need to confront the fact that architecture is part of the information industry, he emphasized, that the architecture is more than a simple act of building, a partner of the intellectual production . In the DB5 dataset, the second most commonly attacked target type is “business property”, comprising only 7%. Because their sample incorporates the ELF as well as the ALF, and their timeframe predates the ELF’s founding by 15 years, an exact comparison is not possible. The Helios study focuses on a conflated history of the ELF and the ALF over a longer timeline, from 1981 to 2005 (Helios Global, 2008). In an attempt to remove the judgment of the researcher from the acquisition of a data sample, only the NAELFPO “diary of actions” was used despite the understanding that such a source may contain inherent bias. Through the prism of the postmodernist tenets such as power relationship and arbitrariness, identity and history, and tolerance this article comprehensively analyses the positions and actions of the included parties.The rage that is mounting in people all over the world at having their lives stolen from them is beginning to escalate—witness how governments all over the world are more frequently criminalizing dissent.Although Louis Beam, a Klansman with strong connections to the Aryan Nations, developed and popularized the concept of leaderless resistance in the hopes of mobilizing many acts of violence from the far right (Beam, 1983, 1992), such acts have been relatively rare.In an introductory video to the ELF, publicist Craig Rosebraugh advises, “There’s no realistic chance of becoming active in an already existing cell….By being interpretable, the ELF moniker appeals to both ends of the sacred–secular spectrum, reducing the likelihood that someone will abandon his or her adherence to the movement because of disagreements about the role of religion and myth in environmental protest.When an environment of terror complements these actions, we can expect a steep rise in the level of punitiveness for participants.This was done when both tactics fell outside of the “sabotage/vandalism/graffiti” category, such as in the case of an “animal liberation” that also involved the arson of the building. Little Exposure to Natural Sunlight Perhaps the elves helped townspeople watch over their communities while also keeping the forested wilderness the domain of outlaws and refugees. Abiding by a kind of playful and dangerous individualism, they played tricks on wayward travelers and kept townspeople in their place. Such elves, spirits, and fairies of the medieval times indicate complex subcultures of vagabonds, forest dwellers, and adventure seekers engaged in unrest against both lord and domestic peasant alike. Before Christmas, the farmer appears in his father’s dreams, instructing him to come to their elf-home on Christmas Eve with a well-trained priest. Rather, the change is the result of increased political attention toward the War on Terror and the new priorities of the DOJ and the FBI. The section provides an initial foundation and discussion about how concentrated federal efforts provide sentencing cues and priorities to courts. While the new legislation was publicly linked with the immediate tragedy, its existence and push for implementation preceded the events justifying its passage into law (Van Bergen, 2002). Such a lack of specificity enabled federal overreach on the part of prosecutors utilizing outward looking congressional acts toward internal dissent. Illuminating the agenda-setting power of federal law enforcement’s response to radical environmental action demonstrates a realignment of federal priorities in the wake of 9/11 to reclassify destructive dissent as terrorism.House judiciary chairman blocks bill against animal fighting.In June 1998, a Congressional subcommittee was convened under the title of Acts of Ecoterrorism by Radical Environmental Organizations, in which Ron Arnold testified (see Smith, 2008).These developments led to increased tensions between men and women, the rich and the poor, and also created a disconnect between humankind and the natural world.However, the most important questions revolve around the theoretical implications concerning a state, which, in certain cases, punishes the destruction of property at levels comparable to the destruction of sentient life.Marx on humans and animals.Hegemonic discourses (re)produce social knowledge, embedded within them are ideological perspectives which maintain the status quo. Instead of deluding ourselves as supposed masters of the Earth, we can easily move from using technics—itself never allowed to undermine the essence of a thing—into a more exalted and higher participation in the realm of our belonging with Being. Control gives way to the awareness of Being or “life” as primary. The audacious phrase “saving the earth” might come to mean simply allowing the creatures of the Earth to live as nature and millions of years of DNA development intended them to live. Newsletter Sign-up The FBI’s campaign is successfully infiltrating and discrediting the fringes of the environmental movement. The federal government’s concern with quelling dissent is especially pertinent when such actions are accomplished through anti-capitalist means. The specific causes include shifts in governmental discourse, concentrated law enforcement activity, and large-scale changes in the political climate. A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front is sure to inspire more scholarly work around social change, eco-terrorism, environmental studies, and environmental justice. This book also explores the social movement and tactical impact of the ELF as well as governmental response to its activism, in order to strengthen analytic understanding of effectiveness, resistance, and community resilience. ” A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front provides an analysis and overview of an under-discussed but important part of the radical environmental movement, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which actively tried to stop ecocide. Another new study, published in Nature Medicine, based on surveys of people in 16 countries, finds that people 65 and older who have hobbies report higher life satisfaction and less depression. This understanding, however, is simply the recognition that we cannot understand the actions or individuals because they are irrational, evil, nihilistic, abnormal, and strictly not like us (Crenshaw, 2014; Miller & Mills, 2009; Silke, 1998, 2009). In turn, conventional definitions of terrorism go to great lengths to exclude the state, most often read Western states, from being included within the definition of terrorism. This is because much of the discussion about terrorism has become tied to moral judgments (Stampnitzky, 2013, p. 8). This is the result of a field of investigation that “rather than looking like a discipline or a closed ‘cultural field,’ terrorism expertise is constructed and negotiated in an interstitial space between academia, the state, and the media. This means that discourse is constructive of reality. They present advocacy as intimidation and brand this terrorism, claiming that mainstream groups such as PETA are funding violent attacks. Similarly, the claim that one’s personal choice justifies the murder of animals overlooks the personal choice those animals would make to remain alive. “Personal choice” is the final resort of those who cannot respond to logical arguments about why they should not eat animals. Although it was not as prominent a feature as with the early green movement of Germany and EF! Though Zerzan’s influence actuated environmental direct action, particularly among the green anarchists of the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s, he also inspired reactionary traditionalists like Russian fascist Alexander Dugin and Southgate. Another central influence for the ELF, green anarchist John Zerzan found inspiration in the writings of Heidegger and the Frankfurt School, viewing not simply industrial civilization but agriculture as the manifestation of human alienation from nature (2008, p. 17). The ELF of the United States was thus born through a combination of movements, influences, and ideals. The ALEC report broadened the threat to include ELF, which emerged in the early 1990s and is modeled on the decentralized and leaderless ALF, as another source of domestic terrorism. The roots of changing perceptions away from a Descartian notion of animals as machines were identified as founded in Darwin’s (1871) The Descent of Man (incorrectly cited in the ALEC report as published in 1859). Of specific note was the absence of the terminology of terrorism, in a pre-9/11 context. On the other hand, the statement, “we have to show the enemy that we are serious about defending what is sacred” goes against social ecology’s rejection of the rhetoric and rituals of spiritualism and sacredness more typical of deep ecology. The statement, “the ELF works to scare the rich, and to undermine the foundations of the state” resonates with the political philosophy of Murray Bookchin. This communiqué introduces the ELF as a unique group that bridges the gap between social and deep ecology. Is there a need for a new, an environmental ethic? Social defense, social change. Oversight on eco-terrorism specifically examining the Earth Liberation Front (“ELF”) and the Animal Liberation Front (“ALF”). In an ancient system whereby the fates bind humanity to law, the human spirit wills its independence. Benjamin linked such illumination to the codex of law and reason, on the one hand, and a response of “mythical violence” to it, on the other. Though they identified Protestantism with the movement of the bourgeoisie vis-à-vis the Industrial Revolution, the Frankfurt School offered new philosophical approaches to archaic myths and legends. Joining Freudian psychoanalysis with Marxism and Idealism, the Frankfurt School addressed sexual repression and industrial efficiency as crucial to the mechanisms of capitalism. For some, the movement toward ecology against urban conditions manifested a nationalist return to blood and soil (Biehl & Staudenmaier, 1996). She teaches courses in human, animal, and earth liberation movements; community organizing; liberation psychology, radical mental health, historical trauma, and healing; and has coordinated student-led research of regional ranches, farms, animal sanctuaries, and shelters. In important ways, some more explicit and pronounced than others, the approach and success of the ELF (in common with other radical environmental and animal liberation activists) can be understood as an expression of, and a testament to, anarchy in action (Ward, 1973). Barely out of the starting gates, on the hells of the bloody and genocidal century that preceded it, the 21st century already is a time of war, violence, environmental disasters, and terrorism against human populations, animals and the Earth as a whole. The popularization of the term “ecoterrorism” in the media was a direct outgrowth of American federal law enforcement deciding that radical environmental and animal activists were the country’s biggest domestic threat (Best & Nocella, 2004; Del Gandio & Nocella, 2014). In a larger respect, I hope that such an analysis will help to destabilize the ecoterrorist discourse which is currently used to delegitimize radical environmental and animal rights organizations and activists by painting them as irrational and violent existential threats to Western society. This means that when analyzing any particular discursive event or practice, the researcher must be aware that discourses are relevant only with respect to context.Judge England reproduces the idea that 9/11, a “new” kind of unprecedented violence, has ushered in a new world.Some special interest extremists—most notably within the animal rights and environmental movements—have turned increasingly toward vandalism and terrorist activity in attempts to further their causes.The State sought to portray these crimes motivated by a right-wing ideology and specifically designed to kill civilians to those of Eric, who conspired to destroy property in support of the environmental movement.Greatly influenced by anarchist praxis and critical animal studies, White is particularly interested in (1) deconstructing the ways in which the exploitation of human and nonhuman animals intersects in society and (2) developing a new geographic imaginary based on peace and nonviolence.ITS does not differentiate in their hatred of the political right and left, launching attacks against both (Individualists Tending toward the Wild, p. 72).But we must not overlook the radical rupture that occurs when introducing the indigenous aspect.In the second section, a longitudinal data set documents the length of sentences in cases involving property destruction by environmental activists. Propagandists use the language of “terrorism” to compare those who act on behalf of animals to those who commit mass murder and thus to automatically delegitimize them. In an even smaller number of cases, activists have damaged equipment used to harm or kill animals. Most people agree that animals should not be subjected to unnecessary suffering and consider it praiseworthy to rescue them from such situations, no matter who it is that inflicts such suffering. The development of the name dispute, from its beginning till its current state of affairs, is analysed under the guidance of the previous studies conducted on the subject and with references to the discourses of the leading political actors. This study aims to identify important historical factors in the relations between Greece and the Republic of Northern Macedonia, which have facilitated, inter alia, the settlement of the name dispute and the reasons for finding such solutions in a time of power gap separating the two countries. Food justice has emerged as a powerful social movement across the USA as well as an increasingly studied academic concept. Urban social movements all around the globe are using this mobilizing concept in their campaigns. The task force was originally conceived to target a specific cell of activists responsible for some of the most highly publicized attacks on private property. In 2008, Eric McDavid was arrested in an atmosphere of heightened political and legal awareness of the threat posed by “ecoterrorism.” Courts react to the discursive shifts of the federal government. In 1997, Douglas Ellerman was considered part of a fringe group of activists who destroyed property in an attempt to make a political point. These differences are attributable to the discursive shift since September 11, 2001, which puts direct action environmentalism and property damage in the same category as terrorism. The term itself originates from the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in an attempt to set the agenda in the face of the growing environmental protest movement of the 1980s and early 1990s (Potter, 2011, p. 55). The database utilized throughout this analysis was created from the “diary of actions” hosted on the NAELFPO’s website. Throughout the discussion contained herein, the findings have been compared to studies presented in academic journals, as well as government reports, in an attempt to evaluate the ELF’s attack history in the light of assertions made about the movement’s behaviours. These findings are drawn from an analysis of the movement’s attack history as presented via their above-ground support structure, the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office (NAELFPO) (BBM, n.d.; NAALPO, n.d.). In exploring these networks of clandestine eco-saboteurs and arsonists, one is often tempted to construct a definition of terrorism and, following that, present one’s case comparatively to that set of parameters. They are not a unified movement in the traditional sense, nor are they a membership-based organization. Simson L. Garfinkel later underscored this requirement by maintaining that “hub and spoke” organizations, in which partially independent cells receive commands from above, do not qualify as true leaderless resistance (2003). Thus, according to Beam’s original conception, leaderless resistance is only truly in effect when there is a complete absence of “top-down” authority structures. Anti-state, political organizations utilizing this method of command and control are easy prey for government infiltration, entrapment, and destruction of the personnel involved…. The paper calls on individuals to rethink human-nature disconnectedness by digging deeper into the problem's cultural roots to consider how urban foraging begins to undermine a binary human/nature philosophical imaginary.The Helios study focuses on a conflated history of the ELF and the ALF over a longer timeline, from 1981 to 2005 (Helios Global, 2008).With revolutionary environmentalism, both in its refiguring of the language of globalization and the radical challenges to it—especially in indigenous philosophy and its anarchic, consensus-based democracy—the uniformity of conventional language/social order is exploded.Nor am I, nor are most people.The second definition, however, dealt with describing the current social order as being “so destructive and irredeemable that it needs to be taken down to its core, and to have its core removed—fits me like a glove” (Jensen, 2006b, p. 363).Individuals convicted of ELF-style actions have been given severe sentences and those people who publicly advocate for and defend the group have been harassed and have had their homes raided. This is not a stunning or remarkable outcome in general terms concerning how political climate affects enforcement priorities; however, it is important in terms of the impact on the suppression of dissent more generally. Publicity surrounding federal law enforcement campaigns directs political attention to a specific issue increasing awareness and salience for the courts. This chapter hypothesizes that the increase in rates of sentencing is attributed to the increased political attention from the federal government. Since the focus of this chapter is on federal law enforcement’s change in approach and veracity in sentencing, the cases promoted by the FBI (touted in press releases and press conferences) are most helpful. The words “time is running out—change must come, or eventually all will be lost” express an end of the world crisis (Hasbrouck, 2005, p. 2).I divide this chapter into three sections examining the threat of cultural nihilism as it presents itself to environmental activists engaged in defense of place (specific political, legal, and other actions taken to protect a place that is threatened).Heidegger’s refigured humanism, like deep ecology and Native American ceremonial practice, comprises an ontological anarchism.This chapter also explores the strategic rhetorical use of “terror” attached to activists as one of several tools deployed by the federal government to realign destructive dissent with terror.This government characterization of activists as threatening terrorists has more recently been buttressed by news programs such as a 60-minute broadcast entitled “Burning Rage” (Bradley, 2005).Similarly, Rod Coronado (2000) relates an experience on the Great Plains while on the run from federal authorities.N am ely, the Greek problem w ith the nam e of the Republic of Maced onia has not only d eep historical roots but also creates possibility for contem porary and even fu tu re d estabilization in the entire region of South -east Eu rope.In Seattle, and in the post-9/11 period, police preparedness and responses were positioned as justified, and provided a foundation for future events and actions, based on the constructed image of the threat posed (Churchill, 2001).Joining Freudian psychoanalysis with Marxism and Idealism, the Frankfurt School addressed sexual repression and industrial efficiency as crucial to the mechanisms of capitalism. Indeed, I suggest that “animal rights terrorism” is the creation of industries that profit from the exploitation of animals. However, if we turn from these serious cases to the topic at hand, concerning “animal rights terrorism,” we find nothing comparable. Rather, attempts to pit individuals, groupings and organizations against each other, to link radical and revolutionary direct action with terrorism, should be seen as a fundamental tool utilized to reduce the effectiveness of dissent and facilitate suppression. Healthy Living: Dr. Angela Haskins Embraces Peloton Workouts for Fitness We must ask why they never made this public. We stand in solidarity with all resistance to this system, especially those who are in prison, disappeared, raped, tortured…we are all survivors and we will not stop! Activists argued that overpopulation is depleting natural resources and is the primary cause of environmental destruction. First, it states the environmental dangers of overpopulation. Like students in the dominant system of public education, ELF members are also misrepresented in the media and severely punished for relatively minor crimes. In essence, schools are modelled after the punitive justice systems of a wider social realm, and the expectation of students is to accept these measures. Schools have also adopted “zero tolerance policies” that have resulted in exaggerated responses to minor student infractions. Although structural matters such as decreased funding, crowded classrooms, and high-stakes tests are inarguably contributors to the school-to-prison pipeline, the increasingly alarmist attitudes of the public and school administrators are largely instrumental in maintaining this pipeline. Standard Western models of public schooling depend upon punitive systems of control in order to uphold larger capitalist structures. The most important city of the province, Samarkand, developed from the 700s onwards as a centre of Islamic culture, and at the same time it was an important station on the Silk Road. Sometimes the differences in the costume were caused by different subject plots. First, we deal with the people well known and significant enough for the customers. The Arzhan-1 mound in Tuva is an elite burial complex of nomadic people of the initial Scythian period and dating to the end of the 9th or beginning of the 8th century BC. Through the prism of the postmodernist tenets such as power relationship and arbitrariness, identity and history, and tolerance this article comprehensively analyses the positions and actions of the included parties. FDA eases rules on fitness wearables: great news for seniors staying active! In such contexts, there is also potential for radical and revolutionary change. We have already witnessed a litany of distortions utilized to justify the “war on terror,” the crackdown on civil liberties and the asymmetrical targeting of radical ideas that challenge State and corporate interests. In reflecting on the manifestations of contemporary suppression of dissent, we can draw from historical examples such as the Red Scare and COINTELPRO eras, and note that current approaches are not as far-reaching. This is governance in the sense that the actions of HSUS (and others, as sought) were “reshaped…in a space of regulated freedom” (Rose, 1999, p. 22). They will, quite rightly, as those will before them engaging in forms of terrorism. A radical reassessment will see the definition extended in a different way. With the plethora of current threats to national security in the US, it is essential to devote our limited investigative and law enforcement resources towards addressing the most pressing threats. The figure of Votan–Zapata decisively transforms the nationalist issue by grounding Mexican tradition in the spiritual traditions of the people who have lived in the land for millennia. But we must not overlook the radical rupture that occurs when introducing the indigenous aspect. Votan–Zapata links a great hero of the Mexican revolution with the spiritual traditions of the Mayan people of Canada. The sacred Votan–Zapata said that “sometimes there would be light and sometimes there would be darkness, but that they were all the same, Votan–Zapata, Ik’al Zapata, white Zapata and black Zapata, and that the two were the same road for all real men and women” (Stephen, 2002, pp. 158–161). Animal activists freed over filthy breeding centre. Statement of Senator Barack Obama oversight on eco-terrorism specifically examining the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). Animal rights extremism. NAF violence and disruption statistics. Capitalism is understood as the foundation of Western civilization and the battle against terrorism is often represented as a “clash of civilizations,” to borrow Huntington’s famous phrase. This pronouncement was seen in George W. Bush’s proclamations after 9/11 that the best way to fight against terrorism is to go out shopping, to continue consuming. It is because these causes would and do directly challenge the foundations of the modern liberal–democratic state that they are understood as terrorism. Today, it is even claimed that a dangerous “terrorist ideology” has come to influence public education in the United States. To do this, deep ecologists want society to give moral weight to the natural world in making political and social decisions. At the same time, many green anarchists lambaste both social ecology and deep ecology as being reformist and reactionary because of their support for civilizational progress and enlightenment sensibilities. They also lament the loss of natural diversity in the face of civilization, promote either the radical decentralization of power or the abolition of corporate and state power altogether, and want to restore humankind’s intimate connection with the natural world. Likewise, the complacency and compromise found in the environmentalism of the 1970s was itself the necessary spawn for the original EF!. In this section I want to briefly set out and summarize the main tenets of CDA as a theoretical and methodological tool designed to investigate the social effects of discourse. The terrorism discourse has important effects for who we as a society consider a terrorist and who is authorized to speak about terrorism. This chapter sets out to explore the effects of the terrorism discourse in the investigation of and prosecution of Eric McDavid through a critical discourse analysis (CDA). She is a curious gardener, accidental chef, and passionate about the work of total liberation. Both through her studies and in her time teaching critical theory, Bette continues to explore the dynamics of power, art, and activism and the ways that community and emergent strategies offer alternatives to marginalized communities. She is also a co-director of Students for Critical Animal Studies (SCAS), a student-run component of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies that works to unify and provide spaces for student scholar-activists. When not writing, grading, or teaching he spends most of his time taking his best friend, Diego, out on hikes. In addition to academia, Sean has been involved in Food Not Bombs, the Northwest Forest Defense movement, climate justice activism, and is currently working with the Repeal Coalition. Here are some effective strategies to help people cut back on screen time, including scheduling a one-day break each week and turning off notifications, bells and chimes, so we feel less tethered to our devices. Humans are meant to move, and though binge-watching your favorite streaming shows may be fun in the moment, if this behavior sets in as a daily habit, you're probably spending too much time on the sofa and not enough time interacting with people or moving. There are lots of strategies to help people drink less, and increasingly, as the sober-curious movement grows, there are people taking a break from drinking. Undercover Research—Corporate and police spying on activists. Earth liberation front. Acknowledging this truth would be a monumental step forward towards achieving post-capitalist, post-crisis worlds built on mutual relationships animated by compassion, love, and beauty and, of course, justice and non-violence. In this awareness, this study intends to trace the changings of urban policies and perceptions focusing in the closure and destruction of, the main stage of the State Theatres, "Atatürk Cultural Centre" (AKM) in Istanbul with the current political discourse. This transformation often finds itself, in changing of the architectural approach to the city and in updating urban discourse. In this context, all systems of thought, social and cultural environments and processes, becomes a co-production field, including the architecture itself. Apparently, colorful strips of woolen tapestry depicting animals, birds, humans, fantastic beings, mountains, and fl owers were in big demand. The clock teaches us that large tracts of our life belong to others, starting with school and ending with work. Until the last vestiges of the wildness and freedom that are her birthright—as they are the birthright of every animal, plant, river, piece of ground, breath of wind—have been worn or torn away. In order for civilization to thrive and continue to do relentless damage to all life and land, Jensen argues that the individual must pay a heavy psychological, sociological, and spiritual toll with respect to truncated experiences and individual agency. Jensen defers to Stanley Diamond’s definition that “civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home” (2006a, p. 15). Activists write that animals are being turned into machines for human consumption. Moreover, ELF and AZLN discourse clearly is suffused with the sense that, as it unfolds through globalization, this historical process has lost all fundamental sense of human meaning, moral clarity, or ultimate purpose. But these actions and the entrapment of the beagles in the first place occur within a technological context in which nature, in whatever particular form, disappears and is able to show itself only as standing reserve. The awareness that technology has reduced entities to the level of standing reserve, on call for instantaneous use, is widely revealed in revolutionary environmental communiqués, especially from ALF activists.