This is the official trailer from Oscilloscope Laboratories of If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front.On December 7th, 2005, U.S. federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of "radical environmentalists" involved with the Earth Liberation Front — an organization the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat."
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| How trees talk to each other (Suzanne Simard) |
Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison for his environmental activism with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the Earth Liberation Front or ELF.
FULL MOVIE: If a Tree Falls
Using never-before-seen archival footage and intimate interviews — with cell members and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them — If a Tree Falls asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way the FBI defines "terrorism" as against citizens but not the corporations who profit from the real terror. More: oscilloscope.net
(AccesstoInsight.org) A person shakes the branch of a wood-apple tree and all the fruit falls, ripe as well
as unripe. That person would collect only what is wanted and walk away leaving
the rest to rot. Such a wasteful attitude is deplored in Buddhism as not
only anti-social but criminal. The excessive exploitation of nature...
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