Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement
David Naguib Pellow, "Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement"
English | ISBN: 0816687773 | 2014 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 552 KB
English | ISBN: 0816687773 | 2014 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 552 KB
When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, “all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked,” and decried the “patriarchal nightmare” in the form of “techno-industrial global capitalism.”
In Total Liberation, David Naguib Pellow takes up this claim and makes sense of the often tense and violent relationships among humans, ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species, expanding our understanding of inequality and activists’ uncompromising efforts to oppose it. Grounded in interviews with more than one hundred activists, on-the-spot fieldwork, and analyses of thousands of pages of documents, websites, journals, and zines,
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