The Green Scare Benefit Tour Comes to Rochester!

The Green Scare Benefit Tour comes to Rochester!

When: Sunday, March 25th, doors open at 5:15PM, music starts at 5:30PM, and the documentary "Behind the Mask" will screen at 7:30PM
Where: St. Joseph's House of Hospitality located at 402 South Ave.

Come out and support radical animal rights and environmental activists!

Bands: A Primitive and Savage Land, Straight, No Chaser, and Sam Weir.

$7 recomonded donation ($2 for St. Joe's and $5 for the benefit) No one turned way for lack of funds!

Rochester Food Not Bombs will provide a meal; a discussion will follow the film. St. Joe's is wheelchair accessible.

What is the Green Scare? The term Green Scare refers to the federal government's expanding prosecution efforts against animal liberation and ecological activists, drawing parallels to the "Red Scares" of the 1910's and 1950s.

A 2002 edition of a prisoner support zine, Spirit of Freedom, defined the Green Scare as, "the tactics that the US government and all their tentacles (FBI, IRS, BATF, Joint Terrorism Task Forces, local police, the court system) are using to attack the ELF/ALF (Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front) and specifically those who publicly support them."

The term has now been widely used to describe an early 2006 sweep of arrests, convictions and grand jury indictments of alleged ELF/ALF activists on charges relating to acts of property damage, conspiracy, arson and use of destructive devices dubbed "Operation Backfire," the cases of the SHAC7, Eric McDavid and Rod Coronado, as well as recent repressive legislation such as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which attempts to turn activists into "terrorists."

For more information, check out: greenscare.org.

What is Behind the Mask: The documentary about people who risk their lives and freedom to save animals? After spending nearly 11 years in prison for breaking into an animal experimentation laboratory to expose animal cruelty, a young man is finally released and risks it all again to save more animals.

Who is he? What kind of a person would risk so much to save the lives of animals?

The Animal Liberation Front, comprised of clandestine animal rights activists, is now labeled the #1 domestic terrorist threat by the FBI.

Who are these "animal liberationists" and why do they believe that breaking the law is the best way to help animals? What inspires them to challenge the status quo, fight against all odds, and endure public reproach?

Director Shannon Keith goes BEHIND THE MASK and captures the hearts and souls of men and women who unveil their individual struggles for Animal Liberation.

Presented by Rochester Indymedia, No Bombs No Bosses 315, and the Green Scare Tour. If you'd like to endorse this event, please post below.

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