On Friday, September 7th, Deep Green Resistance member Max Wilbert was contacted by the FBI in regards to his political organizing. The agent, who identified himself as “Special Agent Michael” from the Seattle Field Office of the FBI, said he was calling “about something [Wilbert] wrote online” in response to “tips submitted to a public […]
THE SITUATION Our world is in crisis. Species extinction, topsoil loss, deforestation, rising seas, ocean acidification, global warming. It’s no exaggeration to say that the dominant culture is killing the planet. At the same time, societies around the world are staggeringly unjust. Neocolonialism builds up empires on the backs of indigenous peoples, sweatshop workers, unpaid […]
Deep Green Resistance has been the target of an ongoing campaign of political repression and intimidation led by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The latest incident took place on January 22nd, when DGR member Max Wilbert was called by an FBI agent. On January 26th, Wilbert was interviewed on the radio about […]
On Friday, January 22, 2016 around 10:30am, an FBI agent from the Seattle field office called activist and community organizer Max Wilbert as part of an ongoing campaign of FBI intimidation and harassment directed at environmentalists. This harassment is believed to be part of an ongoing COINTELPRO-style investigation and harassment campaign against one of the […]
Counterpunch — Police Intimidation from Dalton Trumbo to Deep Green Resistance January 12th, 2015 Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security agents have contacted more than a dozen members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), a radical environmental group, including one of its leaders, Lierre Keith, who said she has been the subject […]