“There are terrorists living among us.” So says a coalition of interest groups including loggers, miners, farmers and developers who regularly confront environmental activists. But are they? Are they terrorists? According to new legislation, the brazen confrontations of the suffragists and the principled disobedience of the civil rights movement could all be termed terrorism. This week in California, the definition will be tested in court. The Star Wars 17, Greenpeace activists facing felony charges for interfering with missile tests, are going to trial in a nation where the old rules of “what was acceptable” are out, amidst a new atmosphere of “what won’t be tolerated.”
Guests:
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney and co-founder of Partnership for Civil Justice in Washington, DC
Teresa Platt, executive director for Fur Commission USA
Andrea Durbin, National Campaign Director for Greenpeace
and Dave Barbarash, spokesperson for Animal Liberation Front. Environmental Protest, the Patriot Act and what, if anything, is civil, in disobedience.