[news] Reflections on the Green Scare: Lauren Regan from the Civil Liberties Defense Center

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On December 7, 2005, one of the largest roundups of environmental and animal liberation activists in American history began. Using the code name **Operation Backfire**, the FBI arrested seven people in four different states, for allegedly taking part in a wide variety of actions the government attributes to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). Since then, many other people have been caught up in what has been called _The Green Scare_, and just recently, most of the defendants were sentenced to prison.

  


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