Little Red Barns

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Will Potter is a thought leader and award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on social justice and environmental movements, and attacks on civil liberties post-9/11. He was the first investigative journalist to be named a TED Senior Fellow and has been invited to address governmental bodies about his reporting, including the U.S. Congress, Australian Parliament, and Council of Europe. Will's first book, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, exposed the criminalization of nonviolent protest groups by the FBI, and was awarded a Kirkus Star for "remarkable merit."

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"Little Red Barns is a groundbreaking investigation of factory farms and the unprecedented measures being taken to hide their impact - on animals, public health, and the environment - from the public. Will Potter had planned to write a book about a troubling form of censorship, namely, a host of new "ag-gag" laws that criminalize photographers and journalists as terrorists for their efforts to expose abuses on factory farms. But his work soon expanded into a much larger investigation of a nexus of political corruption and corporate power that works to silence protest and to obscure reality with propaganda. What emerges is a chilling account of the secret campaigns of weaponized storytelling being used to prevent us from seeing the ecological, public health, and authoritarian threats that these farms represent. Potter's journalistic practice of bearing witness took him to places he had never expected, from factory farms to fascist groups, from whistleblowing to censorship laws, political corruption and propaganda campaigns, and the book is an immersive, engaging personal account of the ups and downs of his journey. A well-woven tale of investigative reporting, archival research, photography, and memoir, Little Red Barns is about how the biggest industries on the planet hide from the public and secretly campaign to silence protest. The little red barns are a case study, and a warning for anyone concerned about the right to protest and hold corporations accountable"--

Inhalt

Little Red Barns

Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One: Video

Chapter Two: Get Big or Get Out

Chapter Three: Bearing Witness 2.0

Chapter Four: 9/11 Event

Chapter Five: Ag-Gag

Chapter Six: Good Ol' Boys

Chapter Seven: Wild West

Chapter Eight: From Witness to Martyr

Chapter Nine: Pursuit

Chapter Ten: The Poop Tour

Chapter Eleven: Losing Sight

Chapter Twelve: All Hat and No Cattle

Chapter Thirteen: Upton's iPhone

Chapter Fourteen: Glass Walls

Chapter Fifteen: Farm to Fable

Chapter Sixteen: Hiding in Plain Sight

Chapter Seventeen: Animal People

Chapter Eighteen: Blood and Soil

Chapter Nineteen: The Anti-Story

Chapter Twenty: A New Story