Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, a member of Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, was arrested in 2018 for his participation in setting fire to a slaughterhouse. Between 1995 and 2001, a group of Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front supporters caused more than $45 million in damages in a series of arsons. Dibee is imprisoned awaiting sentencing.
Marius Mason (formerly Marie Mason), a member of the Earth Liberation Front, was arrested in 2008 for an attack on a lab building at Michigan State University creating genetically modified organisms, funded by Monsanto, the producer of Agent Orange. Mason was also sentenced for damage to commercial logging equipment. No one was harmed by these actions. Mason's 22-year sentence is the longest yet for any of the Green Scare cases of those committing crimes against property of corporations.
Jessica Reznicek of the Catholic Workers Movement took action in 2016 to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline by dismantling construction equipment and pipeline valves, and setting fire to construction machinery. She would have been handed three years, but was sentenced to eight, with the added sentence for terrorism even though no person was physically harmed: her actions against private property were "calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government," meaning a person who takes direct action against an energy company can be treated as an enemy of the state. Reznicek explained, "What we did do was fight a private corporation that has run rampant across our country seizing land and polluting our nation's water supply."
This list belies the tale that the US has no political prisoners. Political prisoners have no shared ideology. Standing for social justice does not mean we defend their political views. It means we demand their freedom because they have been unjustly incarcerated, like many tens or hundreds of thousands of others, but specifically for their political beliefs and activism.
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