Former Earth Liberation Front spokesman starts up 'radical' environmental magazine

The Oregonian ^ | October 19, 2009 | Scott Learn

[jazusamo]

Craig Rosebraugh, a longtime activist, former Earth Liberation Front spokesman and former Portland restaurateur, has started up a new quarterly magazine: "Resistance, Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement."

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Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian Craig Rosebraugh in 2000.

The Arizona-based magazine isn't striving for mainstream balance; it describes itself as "radical" and names Shell oil company as its "Ecoterrorist of the Season."

Today's release is the second edition, but Rosebraugh is describing it as a "national launch," saying the magazine is now available at Borders and hundreds of other stores in the United States and Canada after signing on with Disticor Distribution.

Rosebraugh drew controversy for speaking for ELF, which used arson and other sabotage tactics that prosecutors consider eco-terrorism. His organic vegan restaurant, Calendula, ran into labor problems before closing.

Rosebraugh, 37, is attending law school at Arizona State University and editing the magazine.

The fall edition focuses on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has blocked whalers worldwide. It also includes an article on unknown activists sabotaging EnCana oil pipelines in British Columbia.

In an interview this morning, he said he wants readers to understand that the environment "is being destroyed because government and industry are making a lot of money off that destruction."

Tactics going forward should include boycotts, sit-ins and "economic sabotage," which Rosebraugh described as "nonviolent property destruction" that targets profits made by environmental exploitation.

Rosebraugh said he was galvanized by United Nations predictions of the dire consequences of global warming, and 50 years of conventional -- and ineffective -- environmental movement tactics. He said he "definitely" supports environmental activists breaking the law.

"Historically, in order for any major social or political movement to make progress people in each case had to step outside social law," he said.

In 2006, the federal government cracked down on ELF and other eco-saboteurs who had caused an estimated $23 million in damage between 1996 and 2001 in Oregon, California, Washington, Wyoming and Colorado.

Prosecutors said the activists firebombed two U.S. Forest Service ranger stations in the Willamette National Forest; burned down a horse meat plant in Redmond; burned a BLM horse stable in Burns; firebombed lumber companies in Medford, Monmouth and Glendale; freed wild horses from a BLM corral in Wyoming; toppled a high-voltage transmission tower near Bend; and burned a police substation, an SUV dealership and a meat-cutting plant in Eugene.

Since that crackdown and the long sentences that resulted from it, Rosebraugh said, "the more radical end of the environmental movement has really kind of dropped off."

[jazusamo]

From reading the comments after the OR article it seems this turkeys Dad was a hard worker and self made millionaire and may be living off his Dads toils, it’s a possibility I guess.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Craig Rosebraugh, a longtime activist, former Earth Liberation Front spokesman and former Portland restaurateur”

“Tactics going forward should include boycotts, sit-ins and “economic sabotage,” which Rosebraugh described as “nonviolent property destruction” that targets profits made by environmental exploitation”

Apparently “nonviolent property destruction” would have been welcomed on his restaurant.

[D-fendr]

I’d love to make this guy the Poster Boy for Global Warmists.

[george76]

Another poor little rich kid who never grew up.

Unfortunately, many will die from his actions.

[tubebender]

What was this thug’s handle when he was in Eugene Ore where he was the go between ELF and the rest of the world...

[Grampa Dave]

“What was this thug’s handle when he was in Eugene Ore where he was the go between ELF and the rest of the world...”

This A$$wipe has been all talk and no action. The active ELF’s and eco terrorists in Portland, labeled him Muff or Muffin man.

Go to this link for an interesting and funny look at this woosie, who pretends to be so tough. He is about as manly as Obamajindingaling.

http://www.eskimo.com/~rarnold/rosebraughs%20degree.htm

[jazusamo]

We had just moved to SW WA when he was all over the local news and as I remember he was all talk, like you say. Then he disappeared and when the members of The Family were caught, prosecuted and sentenced I don’t remember him speaking out at all but maybe I just missed it.