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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Environmental Activist Craig Rosebraugh about His Book Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. The Earth Liberation Front

There are climate and environmental activists. And then there are people like Craig Rosebraugh. At the turn of the century, the Portland, Oregon, native was involved in an animal rights movement called the Animal Liberation Front which morphed into the Earth Liberation Front.

The ELF consisted of non hierarchical cells located around the country, cells involved in often destructive environmental activism. For a time Rosebraugh became the de facto media spokesman for the movement.

Rosebraugh participated in numerous protests and was arrested at minimum a dozen times. He was subpoenaed by grand juries and appeared against his will before Congress. He was also on the receiving end of police beatings. His home and office were raided by the FBI.

In 2004, Rosebraugh published his best-selling memoir Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front. The book has been re-issued with an updated prologue and epilogue.

Tandy Culpepper talks with Craig about the book and his journey as an activist in the early days of the effort to bring awareness to climate change.

Published by Tandy Culpepper

I am a veteran broadcast journalist. I was an Army brat before my father retired and moved us to the deep South. I'm talkin' Lower Alabama and Northwest Florida, I graduated from Tate High School and got botha Bachelor's degree and Master's in Teaching English from the University of West Florida, I taught English at Escambia County High School for two years before getting my m's in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Auburn University. Following graduation, I did a 180 degree turn and moved to Birmingham where I began ny broadcasting career at WBIQ, Channel 10. There I was host of a weekly primetime half-hour TV program called Alabama Lifestyles. A year later, I began a stint as a television weathercaster and public affairs host. A year later, I moved to West Palm Beach, Florida and became bureau chief at WPTV, the CBS affiliate. Two years later, I moved to Greensboro, North Carolina where I became co-host of a morng show called AM Carolina. The next year, I moved cross-country and became co-host and story producer at KTVN-TV in Reno, Nevada. I also became the medical reporter for the news department. Three years later, I moved to Louisville, Kentucky and became host and producer of a morning show called today in WAVE Country at WAVE-TV, Channel 3, the NBC affiliate. Following three years there, I moved to Los Angeles and became senior correspondent at the Turner Entertainment Reportn, an internationally-syndicated entertainment entertainment news service owned by CNN. I went back to school afterwards and got an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. Oh, yes. I won a hundred thousand dollars on the 100 Thousand Dollar Pyramid, then hosted by Dick Clark.

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