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Leslie James Pickering is an American activist and former spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front Press Office advocating for political and social justice, human rights, and environmental protection. == Career == Inspired by an animal rights leaflet at a music concert〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Final Statement of Leslie James Pickering as Spokesperson for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office )〕 Pickering began to study radical and revolutionary movements of the past. His studies led to his eventual involvement in an organization known as the Liberation Collective in Portland, Oregon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Film Feature If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front )〕 When the organization received a communique from a closely aligned group, the Earth Liberation Front, co-founder Craig Rosebraugh and Pickering decided to establish the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office in 1999. The ELF was classified as the top "domestic terror" threat in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in March 2001, 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Domestic terror: Who's most dangerous? )〕〔(Congressional Testimony: "The Threat of Eco-Terrorism" ), ''FBI'', February 12, 2002.〕 As the Earth Liberation front garnered more mainstream media attention Pickering continued to articulate the ideology of the Earth Liberation front for television and print media including interviews for 60 Minutes, National Geographic: Inside Basecamp〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Extreme Environmentalist on Radical Change )〕 and The New York Times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fires Believed Set as Protest Against Genetic Engineering )〕 Pickering continued to speak to the press about the Earth Liberation Front even though he and Rosebraugh both resigned from the NAELFPO in 2002. After resigning from the Earth Liberation Front Press Office Pickering began writing books on radical figures and revolutionary movements and participated in speaking engagements in addition to his ongoing activism and environmental advocacy. In 2011 Pickering was featured in the ELF based documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eco-Terrorism Documentary Incites Debate )〕 and opened a bookstore specializing in radical history, literature, films, and lectures〔 〕〔 〕 in Buffalo, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leslie James Pickering」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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