[P2P-F] Right-wing demonization of gray wolves; complete political victory; Earth Island Journal article online today

Thu Jun 2 09:33:05 CEST 2011

excerpting from this fascinating essay on the 8th:

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:57 AM, jwilliamgibson <jwilliamgibson at ca.rr.com>wrote:

>  Hi Michel:
>
> My piece on the right-wing's successful demonization of wolves in the
> Rockies came out today in Earth Island Journal--the cover story.
>
> http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/cry_wolf/
>
> The reintroduction of wolves to the Rockies in the mid-1990s represented a
> political implementation of enchantment.
>
> But the Rockies were the homeland of America's paramilitary right-wing. And
> they bitterly resented wolf reintroduction, seeing the wolves both in
> archaic terms as demons and as icons of the federal government. My story is
> about how right-wing fantasies about wolves swept the region, leading to
> Congress's recent delisting of wolves from the Endangered Species Act.
>
> See if you think it would work for P2P.
>
> Take care,
>
> Bill
>

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