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Title

Terrorists or freedom fighters? : reflections on the liberation of animals / edited by Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Lantern Books, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Best, Steven.
• Nocella, Anthony J.

Description

xiii, 402 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front. Terrorists Or Freedom Fighters? features both academic and activist perspectives and offers powerful insights into this international organisation and its position within the animal right movement. Calling on sources as venerable as Thomas Aquinas and as current as the patriot act - and, in some cases, personal experience - the contributors explore the history of civil disobedience and sabotage, and examine the philosophical and cultural meanings of words like 'terrorism', 'democracy' and 'freedom', in a book that ultimately challenges the values and assumptions that pervade our culture. Contributors include Robin Webb, Rod Coronado, Ingrid Newkirk, Paul Watson, Karen Davies, Bruce Friedrich and others"--Back cover.

Subject

• Animal Liberation Front
• Animal experimentation > United States
• Animal rights movement > United States
• Terrorism

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• Essays

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : Illuminating the philogsophy and methods of animal liberation / Ward Churchill-- Introduction : Behind the mask : uncovering the animal liberation front / Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella -- Thirty years of direct action / Noel Molland -- Animal liberation-by "Whatever means necessary" / Robin Webb -- A personal overview of direct action in the United Kingdom and the United States / Kim Stallwood -- Legitimizing liberation / Mark Bernstein -- At the gates of hell : the ALF and the legacy of holocaust resistance / Maxwell Schnurer -- Abolition, liberation, freedom: coming to a fur farm near you / Gary Yourofsky -- Mothers with monkeywrenches: feminist imperatives and the ALF / pattrice jones -- Aquinas's account of anger applied to the ALF / Judy Barad -- Direct actions speak louder than words / Rod Coronado -- Touch the Earth / Lawrence Sampson -- Take no prisoners / Western Wildlife Unit -- Understanding animal liberation : from critical analysis to critical pedagogy / Anthony J. Nocella -- Open rescues : putting a face on the rescuers and on the rescued / Karen Davis -- From the front line to the front pages: an analysis of ALF media coverage / Karen Dawn -- How to justify violence / Tom Regan -- Direct action: progress, peril, or both? / Freeman Wicklund -- Defending agitation and the ALF / Bruce G. Friedrich -- Bricks and bullhorns / Kevin Jonas -- Revolutionary process and the ALF / Nicole Atwood -- ALF and ELF: terrorism is as terrorism does/ Paul Watson -- The rhetorical "terrorist" : implications of the USA Patriot Act on animal liberation / Jason Black and Jennifer Black -- It's war! the battle between animal activists and the corporate-state complex / Steven Best -- Afterword : the ALF : who, why, and what? / Ingrid Newkirk -- My experience with government harassment / Rod Coronado -- Letters from the underground Parts I and II/ Anonymous -- Defining terrorism / Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella.

ISBN

159056054X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003016251

OCLC

52727478

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library