{"id":508,"date":"2006-12-11T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2006-12-11T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T15:33:52","slug":"flames-of-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Flames of Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How excitement! The Eugene Weekly<\/em> has published the fourth installment of Kera Abraham’s series on anarchists in Eugene…<\/p>\n

PART IV : THE BUST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The dog’s barking punctuated a steady bang bang bang<\/em> on the front door. It was 7 am, and Heather Coburn<\/em> was not in the mood for this. She swung open the door to encounter dark-suited federal agents, who stoically informed her that they wanted to talk to her about her housemate, Jake Ferguson<\/em>. When she refused, they flashed a search warrant and said they were going to tow her truck.<\/p>\n

It was spring 2001, a peak time in Eugene’s eco-radical scene. The vandalism at the fall 1999 WTO protests, summarily blamed on “Eugene anarchists,” and the rowdy anti-establishment protests that followed \u2014 confrontations between black-clad anarchists and cops, broadcast by a pulse of locally based radical green media \u2014 had catapulted this damp little city to international infamy. Some of the more extreme [radical?] activists were calling for revolution against “Earth-raping” [Would “Earth-loving” be more appropriate?] corporations and the government by any means necessary, and a surge of arsons claimed by the Earth<\/strong> and Animal Liberation Fronts<\/strong> told the world that they were serious…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Check back on December 21 for Part V : The Aftermath<\/strong>“. For previous installments, see<\/em> : Careful With that Axe, Eugene<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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