Green Is the New Red, Will Potter
Green Is the New Red, Will Potter
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Green Is the New Red
An insider's account of a social movement under siege

Author: Will Potter

Narrator: Will Potter

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2026

Synopsis

At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes “terrorism” and to hit nonviolent activists with disproportionate sentences. Some have faced terrorism charges for simply chalking slogans on the sidewalk.Like the Red Scare, this “Green Scare” is about fear and intimidation, using a word–“eco-terrorist”–to push a political agenda, instill fear and silence dissent. The animal rights and environmental movements directly threaten corporate profits every time activists encourage people to go vegan, to stop driving, to consume fewer resources and live simply. Their boycotts are damaging, and corporations and the politicians who represent them know it. In many ways, the Green Scare, like the Red Scare, can be seen as a culture war, a war of values.Will Potter outlines the political, legal, extra-legal and public relations strategies that are being used to threaten even acts of nonviolent civil disobedience with the label of “terrorism.” Here is a guided tour into the world of radical activism that introduces the real people behind the headlines and tells the story of how everyday people are being prevented from speaking up for what they believe in.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hákon on September 06, 2023

This book landed accidentally in my lap. I was searching for something about nature, climate change, or animals, and this came up. From the blurb it sounded interesting enough so I gave it a change, and I’m glad I did. It’s about how the environment movement became a target of the US government afte......more

Goodreads review by City Lights on July 02, 2012

"At times, the reader might mistake this work of nonfiction for a gripping crime novel, only to remember that everything in here is shockingly true. It is in this way that Potter effectively drives his points home and proves his overarching thesis, that the Justice Department’s targeting of environm......more

Goodreads review by Scott on March 09, 2014

Will Potter's "Green is the New Red" is an excellent reportage of how our government continues to tread on our individual liberties, especially if you happen to have pro-environmentalist leanings, and even more specifically if you are an activist for animal rights. Potter admits early on that while......more

Goodreads review by pattrice on December 09, 2017

Essential information within an always gripping, sometimes humorous, and at times heart-breaking narrative. Will Potter begins this book by sharing his own experiences with the blood-chilling fear induced by a visit by FBI agents wielding the word "terrorist" after he had been arrested for leafletin......more

Goodreads review by Sharlyn on April 18, 2013

It's a little embarrassing to admit it took me this long to finally read Green is the New Red, but it didn't disappoint! I can't really recommend this book enough, even if you think you're pretty familiar with the arguments it is going to make. It's just a really thorough, brilliant, and enjoyable r......more

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