After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the movement had largely gone silent. What happened? And given the threat from climate, why haven’t more radical tactics re-emerged?
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In our latest, we talk with Thomas Zeitzoff (zeitzoff.bsky.social) about his latest book “No Option But Sabotage”, the radical environmental movement, state repression and resistance to the climate crisis.
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Professor Thomas Zeitzoff is in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on political violence and political psychology. He’s the author of “Nasty Politics,” and “No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis.”


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