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Will Potter

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Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist and author, and a leading international voice challenging attacks on civil liberties in the name of fighting "terrorism." His work has been featured by the world’s top media outlets, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Rolling Stone, and his investigations have overturned criminal prosecutions and helped strike down censorship laws. Will was the first investigative journalist to be named a TED Senior Fellow, and has addressed governmental bodies including the U.S. Congress, Australian Parliament, and Council of Europe. He is the author of Green Is the New Red, which exposed the FBI’s targeting of protest groups. His new book, Little Red Barns: Hiding the truth from farm ...more

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Trump Supporter Promises Legislation to Label Protest as “Economic Terrorism”

trump-protestThe deputy director of the Trump campaign in Washington state has promised to introduce new legislation that would punish protest as a felony if it causes “economic disruption” and hurts corporate profits.


The proposed “Preventing Economic Terrorism Act” marks a radical expansion of legislation that was once used to criminalize environmentalists as “eco-terrorists,” and could be used against a wide

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“Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture.”
Will Potter, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

“The coalition's internal talking points are written with startling candor. They reveal the groups' description of what they see as the true threat of the animal rights movement. Activists are dangerous not because of violence, or the potential for violence. 'These tactics have been very successful,' the talking points say, in 'damaging the financial footing of corporations involved in animal enterprise.”
Will Potter, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

“The campaign drew heavily from the American anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s, which led to the dismantling of racial segregation programs in South Africa by targeting the one thing which—unlike protests or letters or phone calls—no government can ignore: money ... SHAC set out to make Huntington the South Africa of the corporate world. They identified banks, suppliers, customers and employees—anyone with any financial ties to the lab, from Fortune 500 companies to toilet paper suppliers. They focused on businesses with no vested interest in animal experimentation, either philosophically or economically; Huntington needed them, but they did not need Huntington.”
Will Potter, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

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