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For more than a decade two mugshots of fugitive environmentalists have sat amongst airplane hijackers, bombers and murders on the FBI’s Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists list. One of the photos is of a tall, hipster looking engineer from Seattle. He’s wearing a red shirt, has a light shadowy beard. His name: Joseph Mahmoud Dibee. The other photo is of a young white woman with thick eyebrows, piercing brown eyes and long brown hair. Across her back is a large tattoo: a bird with its wings outst ...
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An update on Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, who on November 1st 2022 was sentenced. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattMusic and Sound Design: Phil ChannellMusic including theme music by Echo Collective, composed performed and produced by Neil Leiter & Margaret Hermant; recorded, mixed and produced b…
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The mother of Josephine Sunshine Overaker - the remaining fugitive environmentalist - tells her story. And a change of plea from Joseph Dibee means he’s able to talk in a way he hasn’t before, including about a night he said he'd never speak of. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checki…
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Jane Quimby was one of the FBI agents on Operation Backfire, the investigation that busted the Earth Liberation Front and so-called Family. One of those she put behind bars was Chelsea Gerlach – sentenced to nine years and now living with the weight of that word ‘terrorist’. Now, they’re ready to talk in a way they couldn’t before. CREDITSPresenter…
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As they visit the site of an ELF arson twenty-five years ago, Leah and Georgia meet inhabitants of a town that two years ago was lost to forest fire. The Earth Liberation Front had a clear line they wouldn’t cross: they would never cause any physical harm. And they never did. As climate change bears down they ask - where is the line now? A time whe…
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During a visit to Eugene, Oregon - a city that brought key people and ideas in this story together - Leah and Georgia find something unexpected. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checking: Rob ByrneMusic and Sound Design: Phil ChannellMusic including theme music by Echo Collective, com…
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In 2005 Joe Dibee fled America – leaving everything behind. Speaking in Summer 2021, as he awaits what he hopes will be a trial date, Joe tells Leah and Georgia about life out of reach of the FBI, and his eventual capture in Cuba. As they faced - or face - years behind bars, Leah Sottile explores what that word, terrorist, meant for the environment…
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More than fifteen years ago a woman, authorities call an eco-terrorist, slipped through the fingers of the FBI and vanished. Leah Sottile meets the agent she evaded, who’s made it his mission to see her caught before he retires. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checking: Rob ByrneMusi…
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For over a decade, Joseph Dibee’s mugshot stared out from the FBI’s Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists list. He’s charged with crimes in connection to an underground cell that was known as The Family, whose actions committed in the name of the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front would see them called terrorists. In 2005 the then Deputy …
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An underground group of radical environmentalists become a domestic terror priority. Then two go on the run. And this series goes in an unexpected direction. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checking: Rob ByrneMusic and Sound Design: Phil ChannellMusic including theme music by Echo Co…
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For over a decade, a pair of mugshots have lived side by side on the FBI’s website, on its list of America’s Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists. The government says these fugitives were part of an eco-terrorist movement that in 2005 the then Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI called the number one domestic terrorism threat in America. And now one of…
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