{"id":22363,"date":"2011-07-21T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=22363"},"modified":"2011-09-19T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T05:47:55","slug":"green-is-the-new-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/07\/21\/green-is-the-new-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Green is the New Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/will_potter.JPG\" alt=\"Will Potter\" \/>The term \u201ceco-terrorist\u201d was pioneered by a conservative anti-environmentalist named Ron Arnold, who helped convince government officials that members of groups like Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, and Animal Liberation Front, were on par with Al Qaeda. Explaining the rise of the so-called \u201cGreen Scare,\u201d journalist Will Potter writes in his book Green is the New Red, that it was the result of \u201cslowly merging the rhetoric of industry groups with that of politicians and law enforcement.\u201d Potter, himself a environmental activist, was once arrested for leaf letting and approached by the FBI to be an informant. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday July 21st, 2011, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with author Will Potter about his book, Green is the New Red. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sOgZ4k4vswQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read more by Will at his website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.GreenIsTheNewRed.com\">www.GreenIsTheNewRed.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=22363\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/will_potter.JPG\" alt=\"Will Potter\" \/><\/a>The term \u201ceco-terrorist\u201d was pioneered by a conservative anti-environmentalist named Ron Arnold, who helped convince government officials that members of groups like Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, and Animal Liberation Front, were on par with Al Qaeda. Explaining the rise of the so-called \u201cGreen Scare,\u201d journalist Will Potter writes in his book Green is the New Red, that it was the result of \u201cslowly merging the rhetoric of industry groups with that of politicians and law enforcement.\u201d Potter, himself a environmental activist, was once arrested for leaf letting and approached by the FBI to be an informant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}