Shows featuring Will Potter

Freelance reporter who has been covering the so-called "ag-gag" bills and ALEC for years. He runs the blog, GreenIsTheNewRed.com and is author of the book, Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege.

Debate: After Activists Covertly Expose Animal Cruelty, Should They Be Targeted With "Ag-Gag" Laws?
So-called "ag-gag" bills that criminalize undercover filming on farms and at slaughterhouses to document criminal animal abuse are sweeping the country. Five states, including Missouri, Utah and Iowa, already have such laws in place. North Carolina has just become the latest state to consider such a law, joining a list...
April 09, 2013 | Story
“If a Tree Falls”: New Documentary on Daniel McGowan, Earth Liberation Front and Green Scare
A new documentary, "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," tells the story of environmental activist Daniel McGowan. Four years ago this month, McGowan was sentenced to a seven-year term for his role in two acts of politically motivated arson in 2001 to protest extensive logging in the Pacific Northwest—starting...
June 21, 2011 | Story
EXCLUSIVE : Animal Rights Activist Jailed at Secretive Prison Gives First Account of Life Inside a " CMU "
In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. Stepanian is believed to be the first prisoner released from a CMU and will talk about his experience there for the first time. He was sentenced to three years along with six other activists for violating a controversial...
June 25, 2009 | Story
"Little Guantanamo"–Secretive " CMU " Prisons Designed to Restrict Communication of Jailed Muslims and Activists with Outside World
With little public scrutiny, the Bush administration opened two secretive prisons in Indiana and Illinois known as Communication Management Units, or CMUs, that are designed to severely restrict prisoner communication with family members, the media and the outside world. Dozens of Muslim men are still being held at the CMUs, as well as other prisoners, including environmental and animal rights...
April 17, 2009 | Story

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Gun Control: It's Time for the Majority to Move

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

New federal gun-control legislation has been declared all but dead on arrival this week. Gridlock in the U.S. Senate, where a supermajority of 60 votes is needed to move most legislation these days, is proving to be an insuperable barrier to any meaningful change in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre.

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