“Part history, part action thriller and courtroom drama, part memoir, `Green is the New Red’ plunges us into the wild, unruly, and entirely inspirational world of extreme environmental activism. Will Potter, participant-observer and partisan-reporter, is the perfect guide, unpacking with wit and skill the most elusive concepts–his discussion of ‘terrorism’ as myth and symbol is the finest I’ve ever read. He takes us inside the first moments of a movement in the making–idealistic, hopeful, deeply human in its aspirations and its oh-so-human failings–and he reports brilliantly on a ruling power willing to hollow out any sense of authentic democracy in its futile attempt to maintain dominance, privilege, and their arid version of reality. `Green is the New Red’ is an indispensable book that will change the way we think about commitment, the limits of protest, and the possibility of radical change.”