Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement

Name: Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement
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ISBN: 9780816687770

ISBN-10: 0816687773

ISBN-13: 9780816687770

Edition: 2014

Authors: David Naguib Pellow

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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…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 9/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

David Naguib Pellow is Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Among his books are the award-winning Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press, 2002) and Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (coedited with Robert Brulle; MIT Press, 2005.)