Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement

by David Naguib Pellow

Book Overview

When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF's communiqu on the action went beyond the radical group's customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816687765
• ISBN13: 9780816687763
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"