Experience it at Northwest Trek.

The clips used in this lesson are from the film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, which shows how a group of activists used arson as a form of protest against companies they believed were threatening the environment.

Discuss the role of protest in a democracy.

Note: This film contains profanity and images of whaling and of horses being processed in a meat-packing stumpclear.barted Reading Time: 9 mins. Marshall Curry's documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front begins by showing us some acts of"eco-terrorism", acts in which radical environmentalists whose peaceful protests have fallen on deaf ears and turned up the heat by setting fires to lumber mills, wild horse corrals, SUV dealerships and meat packing plants.

Jun 22, “If a Tree Falls” is a personal story that doesn’t strive to be a comprehensive history of the Earth Liberation Front. According to the film, the cell in which Mr. McGowan operated as a Author: Stephen Holden. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front explores two of America's most pressing issues - environmentalism and terrorism - by lifting the veil on a radical environmental group the FBI calls America's"number one domestic terrorism threat.".

"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" explores two pressing issues - environmentalism and terrorism - by lifting the veil on a radical environmental group the FBI calls America.