Rod Coronado Quotes

Rodney Adam Coronado is a Native American eco-anarchist and animal rights activist. He is an advocate and former activist for the Animal Liberation Front and a spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front. He was a crew member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and a member of the editorial collective of the Earth First! Journal. Coronado was jailed in 1995 in connection with an arson attack on research facilities at Michigan State University, which caused $125,000 worth of damage and destroyed 32 years of research data.

In 2006, while imprisoned for felony conspiracy and awaiting trial on further charges, Coronado expressed a change in his personal philosophy inspired by fatherhood. In an open letter, he wrote, "Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child," explaining that he wants to be remembered, not as a "man of destruction but [as] a human believer in peace and love for all." He was released on probation in December 2008, but was imprisoned again for four months in August 2010 for accepting a "friend request" on Facebook from an environmental activist, Mike Roselle, which was deemed a violation of his probation. Wikipedia

✵ 3. July 1966

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Famous Rod Coronado Quotes

“You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.”

Rod Coronado

Feds arrest environment radical over S.D. speech http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060223-9999-1m23rod.html

“What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time — and that is working within the system.”

Rod Coronado

Activists Uncaged http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=23918

“You know, those people - I think they should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.”

Rod Coronado

ALF 2003 http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Premise_History/2003_Chronicle_of_Direct_Actions.htm

“I’m a member of the Pascua Yaqui Nation and as an indigenous person, the fur trade represents so much more to me than just animal abuse. It represents cultural genocide. They were the foot soldiers of an invasion and conquest in the “new world.” They were the ones who introduced disease. They were the ones who introduced alcoholism. They were the ones who introduced gunpowder and many, many things that led to our decimation.”

Rod Coronado

A Voice for Liberation http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/video/msr/coronado.html

“Don't ask me how to burn down a building. As me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. that is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.”

Rod Coronado

Open letter to supporters http://www.supportrod.org/update.php?u=20060901

“In my years past I have argued that economic sabotage was an appropriate tactic for our time. Like all strategists I have also been forced to recognize that times have changed and it is now my belief that the movements to protect earth and animals have achieved enough with this strategy to now consider an approach that does not compromise objectives, but increases the likelihood of real social change. Let our opposition who believe in violence carry the burden for its justification, but let those who believe in peace and love practice a way of life that our society sorely needs now more than ever.”

Rod Coronado

^ Message from Rod Coronado in Prison

“I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm … I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.”

Rod Coronado

Activists Uncaged http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=23918

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