Former Earth Liberation Front spokesman starts up 'radical' environmental magazine

The Oregonian ^ | October 19, 2009 | Scott Learn

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Craig Rosebraugh, a longtime activist, former Earth Liberation Front spokesman and former Portland restaurateur, has started up a new quarterly magazine: "Resistance, Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement."

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Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian Craig Rosebraugh in 2000.

The Arizona-based magazine isn't striving for mainstream balance; it describes itself as "radical" and names Shell oil company as its "Ecoterrorist of the Season."

Today's release is the second edition, but Rosebraugh is describing it as a "national launch," saying the magazine is now available at Borders and hundreds of other stores in the United States and Canada after signing on with Disticor Distribution.

Rosebraugh drew controversy for speaking for ELF, which used arson and other sabotage tactics that prosecutors consider eco-terrorism. His organic vegan restaurant, Calendula, ran into labor problems before closing.

Rosebraugh, 37, is attending law school at Arizona State University and editing the magazine.

The fall edition focuses on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has blocked whalers worldwide. It also includes an article on unknown activists sabotaging EnCana oil pipelines in British Columbia.

In an interview this morning, he said he wants readers to understand that the environment "is being destroyed because government and industry are making a lot of money off that destruction."

Tactics going forward should include boycotts, sit-ins and "economic sabotage," which Rosebraugh described as "nonviolent property destruction" that targets profits made by environmental exploitation.

Rosebraugh said he was galvanized by United Nations predictions of the dire consequences of global warming, and 50 years of conventional -- and ineffective -- environmental movement tactics. He said he "definitely" supports environmental activists breaking the law.

"Historically, in order for any major social or political movement to make progress people in each case had to step outside social law," he said.

In 2006, the federal government cracked down on ELF and other eco-saboteurs who had caused an estimated $23 million in damage between 1996 and 2001 in Oregon, California, Washington, Wyoming and Colorado.

Prosecutors said the activists firebombed two U.S. Forest Service ranger stations in the Willamette National Forest; burned down a horse meat plant in Redmond; burned a BLM horse stable in Burns; firebombed lumber companies in Medford, Monmouth and Glendale; freed wild horses from a BLM corral in Wyoming; toppled a high-voltage transmission tower near Bend; and burned a police substation, an SUV dealership and a meat-cutting plant in Eugene.

Since that crackdown and the long sentences that resulted from it, Rosebraugh said, "the more radical end of the environmental movement has really kind of dropped off."

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Rosebraugh said, "the more radical end of the environmental movement has really kind of dropped off."

And it looks like this fruit loop Rosebraugh is doing his best to bring it back.

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ELF Ping!

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Please bump the Freepathon and donate if you haven’t done so!

[Frantzie]

LOL! Killing more trees for paper to print magazines filled with propaganda.

[Da Coyote]

If my house ever goes dark due to this radical, he’s gonna find out what radical is.

A good many of us can make it happen by remote control.

[Ben Mugged]

Earth Liberation Front spokesman

ELF is a domestic terrorist organization and has advocated and practiced violence against American Industry.

[La Lydia]

Wonder who is bankrolling this new publication.

[Dilbert San Diego]

So, he’s so far left that I bet he doesn’t even like Obama.

To people like him, the Cap and Trade/Cap and Tax bill we are concerned with doesn’t go nearly far enough.

What would the net improvement in our standard of living be if we shut down the industrialized world, but more of us get sick from lack of water purification and modern medical care, for example???? What would be the net improvement in our standard of living when millions more around the world lose jobs and the ability to earn a living in his eco-paradise????????

[Noumenon]

How’d that old West saying go? “Some people just need killin’...”

[jazusamo]

Yes it is a domestic terrorist org and this turkey was a mouthpiece for them in the past in Portland, OR.

Dr. Jerry Vlasak in So CA has been their mouthpiece of late and I’d bet the lousy doctor is up to his eyebrows in this venture.

[popdonnelly]

ELF - Green on the outside, red on the inside, terrorist all the way through.

[dfwgator]

ELF is a domestic terrorist organization and has advocated and practiced violence against American Industry.

But not nearly as bad as their hated rivals, The Liberation Front of Earth.....Splitters!

[popdonnelly]

Why do we allow terrorist criminals to mainstream themselves? Look at Bill Ayers. These people are violent criminals who should be shunned. It’s utterly ridiculous to accord these people the respect we would give to decent, non-violent people.

[jazusamo]

Good point. I guess it may be because there’s enough people in the enemedia that sympathize with their twisted thinking that they feel they have to get the word out to the rest of the crazies. Just a thought.

[Doc Savage]

It wouldn’t be a fair fight. This homo would be out cold in under 1.5 seconds. Of course I wouldn’t stop there realizing that he might just revive. SICU please answer the page!

[dljordan]

“Why do we allow terrorist criminals to mainstream themselves? Look at Bill Ayers. These people are violent criminals who should be shunned. It’s utterly ridiculous to accord these people the respect we would give to decent, non-violent people.”

Because our government and our Judicial system have been infiltrated by supporters of these types. It’s been going on since the 1800’s.

[machogirl]

“Rosebraugh, 37, is attending law school at Arizona State University”

being a grad of ASU, before the PC police, this explains it all.

[Clioman]

“Wonder who is bankrolling this new publication.”

I had the same thought...follow the grant applications. It’s more likely that Obama would release his birth certificate than such a product would make a profit, so I expect that there would need to be heavy donor involvement.

[girlangler]

“Wonder who is bankrolling this new publication.”

GOOD question. Wonder if PETA is involved, like they were paying lawyers fees for ALF terrorists?

[girlangler]

“Wonder who is bankrolling this new publication.”

GOOD question. Wonder if PETA is involved, like they were paying lawyers fees for ALF terrorists?