GREEN IS THE NEW RED
“Part history, part action thriller and courtroom drama, part memoir, Green Is the New Red plunges us into the wild, unruly, and entirely inspirational world of extreme environmental activism. Will Potter, participant-observer and partisan-reporter, is the perfect guide… Green Is the New Red is an indispensable book that will change the way we think about commitment, the limits of protest, and the possibility of radical change.”
— Bill Ayers
“Will Potter unveils this complex movement with its virtues and its flaws, the courage of a few and the false bravado of others. I see this book as the definitive overview of the genesis of what is emerging as the most important social movement in human history—the war to save ourselves from ourselves.”
— Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
“In this hard-hitting debut, journalist Potter likens the Justice Department targeting of environmentalists today to McCarthyism in the 1950s… A shocking exposé of judicial overreach.”
— Kirkus Book Reviews (starred review for “remarkable merit”)
“A thoughtfully alarming examination of the U.S. government’s post-9/11 domestic terror probes.”
— Utne Reader
“Compelling and well-written.”
-- Counter Terrorism Unit surveillance document
“Potter warns of the crumbling of the legal wall separating ‘terrorist’ from ‘dissident’ or ‘undesirable’. . . Alarming.”
— Publishers Weekly
"Potter deftly weaves together the political and legislative history of the Green Scare with a personal account... The story he tells is compelling in its narration, shocking and infuriating in its revelations, and ultimately inspiring..."
-- Encyclopedia Britannica
