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Animal Rights/Ecoterrorism - CONUS

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Radicals in the Woodwork:
Rolling Stone Looks at Tree-Huggers Who Didn't Just Play With Fire

By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 1, 2006; Page C02

His daddy was doing time for armed robbery, and Jacob Ferguson grew up on the streets of New York, sleeping on sidewalks, squatting in abandoned buildings, stealing cars, selling heroin and ripping off suburban kids who came into the big city to score dope.

At 19, Ferguson hit the road, hopping trains to New Orleans,
Minneapolis, the West Coast. In 1996 he jumped off a train in Eugene, Ore., and bummed a meal at a place called Food Not Bombs, where he fell in with a crowd of self-styled anarchists and radical environmentalists. Soon he was leading an eco-arson group that torched forest ranger stations, car dealerships and corporate offices around the Pacific Northwest.

Ferguson is the main character in Vanessa Grigoriadis's excellent article
"The Rise and Fall of the Eco-Radical Underground"
in the Aug. 10 issue of Rolling Stone. It's a fascinating update of the old American story of idealists who turn violent, set in a subculture of anarchist coffeehouses, heavy-metal bands, radical vegans, neo-pagans and women who are herbalists by day and arsonists by night.
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