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The Clearinghouse on Environmental Education, Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) has issued a special bulletin detailing efforts by anti-environmentalist to attack green activism. "There have been rhetorical attacks branding public interest groups as elitist and unpatriotic, further attacks on non-profit status of a handful of groups, and a renewed intensity in fighting 'eco-terrorism,' a term and concept environmental backlash leaders are trying desperately to get into circulation," the report states. Plans in the works include a renewed effort to enact vaguely defined federal "eco-terror" legislation that could limit rights to non-violent protests and would not deter violent crime, accompanied by "a nasty public relations ploy attempting to cast ALL environmentalism as 'eco-terrorism' to varying degrees."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/environment
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/rhetoric
[5] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2002%2F01%2F993%2Fexploiting-sept11-greens-bashed-eco-terrorists&linkname=Exploiting%20Sept.11%20-%20Greens%20Bashed%20as%20%22Eco-Terrorists%22
[6] http://www.prwatch.org/documents/clear_v9n1.html