The two take off on an interstate journey that turns into a crime spree as Tucker transforms into an increasingly unhinged
ecoterrorist. Darlene, meanwhile, starts a tentative relationship with the policeman assigned to her brother's case as they track crimes throughout Oklahoma and Texas that could be Tucker's work: arson at a taxidermy shop, the shooting of the owner of a poultry processing company, and finally, a crime in California so catastrophic that it threatens Cora's--and Tucker's--very existence.
It is interesting that even through pipeline supporters often invoke images of crazed protestors using violent
ecoterrorist tactics, to this point it is the pro-pipeline people who keep calling for coercive force to be deployed (in the "national interest," of course).
Digit is at MIT and again facing danger, this time from hacking into the Department of Defense's database while her activities are being monitored by an
ecoterrorist. Both novels are humorous and realistic, quickly grabbing readers with nail-biting tension and action, and the smart, serious female protagonist is refreshing.
In "Troubles," a young Belfast woman recovering from a psychotic break sees and talks to faeries who make a convincing case for their reality, while in "The Weeds and the Wildness," an aging, lonely person becomes an
ecoterrorist in response to the "merciless" war waged by sinister lawn specialists bent on eradicating all that is wild and natural.
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN 'Portlandia' (IFC) Brownstein had some of her best moments yet, like when her
ecoterrorist sought to take down Seaworld, but she's more likely to earn a writing nom for her work on the show.
Kingsnorth uneasily discovers the writings of "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski, Harvard mathematician turned society dropout turned
ecoterrorist, to be eerily prescient.
TODAY'S MOVIES Transporter 3 (Sky Movies Action & Adventure, 10.50pm) FILM OF THE DAY Underworld courier Frank Martin's latest assignment involves transporting the kidnapped daughter of a crooked government minister across Europe on behalf of an
ecoterrorist faction.
In 1989, an
ecoterrorist group known as the "Breeders" threatened to release Medflies in California if the state did not stop its pesticide spraying program.
* Debate will inevitably occur in regard to the adoption of what are deemed to be suitable or appropriate tactics of dissent, given the labeling of certain actions as
ecoterrorist rather than civic engagement.
The 22nd Bond film, the movie picks up an hour after the end of Casino Royale, and sees 007 attempt to track down the killers of his Bond-girl lover Vesper Lynd (played by Eva Green) while fighting to stop an
ecoterrorist installing an evil dictator in Bolivia.
Sierra Club members, beware: Legislation has been introduced in many states--and passed in Oklahoma--that could define environmentalists and animal-rights activists as "
ecoterrorist" criminals.