Template:Animal liberation movement Craig Rosebraugh is an environmental activist who has been associated with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and who has served as a press officer for both groups.
Rosebraugh owned and operated a vegan bakery in Portland, Oregon to which ELF and ALF members would anonymously send claims for direct action events. Upon receiving such a claim, Rosebraugh would judge its authenticity, then issue a press release on his website. Information was delivered via anonymous remailers encrypted with Rosebraugh's PGP key, and through paper letters hand delivered or mailed to the bakery's address. Rosebraugh denied any direct involvement in the organizations and claimed to have no knowledge of the identity of those who sent messages.
Since 1997, Rosebraugh has received more than seven subpoenas to appear before grand juries to discuss his sources, but he has said he has no knowledge of them. He was ordered to appear before a federal grand jury on April 18, 2001, which was investigating the fire bombing of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in Eugene, Oregon.
Rosebraugh later resigned his position as spokesman for the organizations as a result of FBI surveillance . Despite the seizure of his computer equipment; searches of his business, person, and home; grand jury investigations; and FBI questioning, he did not reveal the identities of members of the movements.
Although not advocating violence against people, Rosebraugh has supported the destruction of property activities, online sabotage, and the occupation of financial centers in the United States. He has also advocated urban rioting in the U.S. and shutting down the media, specifically:
- "Using any means necessary, shut down the national networks of NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc. Not just occupations but actually engage in strategies and tactics which knock the networks off the air."
He advocates guerilla tactics:
- "[S]trike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another ___location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity."
In 2003, his organization, Arissa, released a book entitled The Legitimacy of Political Violence. The book examines the role that political violence has played in social justice struggles in the twentieth century, and concludes that a revolution which employs a diversity of tactics (including political violence) is needed in the United States.
Arissa's website states that their primary goal is to create a political and social revolution in the United States of America.
Between 2003 and 2005, Rosebraugh owned and operated an upscale vegan restaurant on SE Hawthorne Boulevard called the Calendula Cafe, as well as a Calendula food cart in downtown Portland. The restaurant and food cart were frequently closed for months at a time. The food cart closed for good in March 2005 and the cafe closed for good in September 2005.
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References
- Interview with Craig Rosebraugh: E.L.F. Spokesperson targeted by Oregon Grand Jury
- Philly IMC interview
- FBI, B.A.T.F., & OSP Raid ELF Spokesperson's Home, Vehicles, And Business
- Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front; Craig Rosebraugh; ISBN 1590560647
- Craig Rosebraugh's War