Will Potter Describes Being the First Journalist to Visit Federal Communication Management Unit
In a new TED Talk released today, investigative journalist and TED Senior Fellow Will Potter describes his experience as the first and only journalist to visit secretive prisons on U.S. soil that are referred to by prisoners and guards as “Little Guantanamo.” Communications Management Units, or CMUs, are experimental prison units in the United States for so-called […]
The FBI Claims MIT PhD Candidate, Ryan Shapiro’s FOIA Research will “Irreparably Damage National Security”
[CAMBRIDGE, MA] The Federal Bureau of Investigation is claiming the dissertation research of Ryan Shapiro, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will “irreparably damage national security.” Radical and unprecedented in nature, the FBI’s efforts in this case stand to change the landscape of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as we know it. […]
Repealing the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: Event at Suffolk University
6pm-9pm Tuesday, March 27th 2012 Suffolk University Law School 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108-4977 View Map · Get Directions · RSVP on Facebook Suffolk Law School, Harvard Law School, and New England School of Law present a panel discussion of how the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is undermining our rights. Featuring: Odette Wilkens, Esq. (Executive Director of the […]
Activist Repression & Secretive Prisons Make International Headlines
In the past few weeks the prosecution and incarceration of activists, direct-actionists and philanthropists as terrorists has seen a resurgence in media attention. It’s never too little or too late… Last week The Wall Street Journal took a critical look at the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) citing that the law was both irresponsible and […]
Democracy Now! Invites Will Potter, Marshall Curry & Andy Stepanian to Discuss ‘If a Tree Falls’
Today Andy Stepanian of the Sparrow Project, Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red, and Marshal Curry were invited on Democracy Now to discuss ‘If a Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front‘ Curry’s new documentary about the life of Daniel McGowan and the Earth Liberation Front. ‘If a Tree Falls’ […]
Will Potter at Bluestockings Books, 7pm Sunday, May 29th
Please join Will Potter at Bluestockings Books for a reading and discussion of his new book Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, which was just released by City Lights Books. “Part history, part action thriller and courtroom drama, part memoir, Green Is the New Red plunges us […]
Terrorizing Dissent Event at Georgetown University
Will Potter & Andy Stepanian will be speaking at Georgetown University Law Center on Friday 4/7/2011 – http://on.fb.me/elwzNO Will Potter is an award winning journalist focusing on government repression of animal rights and environmental activists. He will be speaking about his new book, Green is the New Red Andy Stepanian is a social justice activist from Long Island. In 2006, he was […]
Green Is the New Red
Brilliantly written, meticulously accurate, and deeply emotional, Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of A Social Movement Under Siege is a collection of intimately personal stories of activists that every-day Americans need to hear, without these accounts the draconian chapters in U.S. history filled with senate hearings and blacklists are doomed to repeat themselves …repetitions like these, we as a nation cannot afford.