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(2016) (35 pages)
Three interviews with eco-activists who observed and experienced government repression during the Green Scare in the mid-00s. The stories they tell are as much about harrowing encounters with courts, law enforcement, and imprisonment as they are about relationships torn apart by snitching, human frailty at odds with security culture, and persistence in the face of persecution.
Includes interviews with now-former political prisoner Daniel McGowan shortly before his conviction and imprisonment, an interview with attorney and activist Lauren Regan with the Civil Liberties Defense Center, and an interview with journalist Will Potter from Green is the New Red.
Anarchists will always be at risk from the state, but the Green Scare was a step beyond what we knew to expect, an increase in punishment that continues today. It also marked a break in the activity around environmental actions and fracturing of relationships, one that has not yet been recovered from. Interestingly, when the state is so punitive towards even minor actions, there is less reason not to do more dramatic ones (“might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb” is the phrase that comes to mind). At any rate, here are interviews with three of the people who lived through the wide-ranging repression that was named the Green Scare, looking back at the experience and the consequences, pondering what we might all learn and where to go from here.
‘And the rest is history…’ Interview with Daniel McGowan
https://web.archive.org/web/20160805200856/http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2016/08/04/informants-green-scare-snitches-and-surveillance-interview-with-lauren-regan-cldc/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160131211810/https://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/spanish-interview-international-activist-repression/