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Articles by Daniel McGowan

Court Documents Prove I was Sent to Communication Management Units (CMU) for my Political Speech

I currently reside at a halfway house in Brooklyn, serving out the last few months of a seven-year sentence for my role in arsons credited to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) at two lumber companies in Oregon in 2001. My case, and the federal government's rush to prosecute environmental activism ...

"Little Guantanamo": Exposing the CMU

by Daniel McGowan, Spring 2009

Daniel McGowan is an environmental and social justice activist from NYC charged in federal court on counts of arson and conspiracy and given the "terrorism enhancement" for his involvement in two environmentally motivated actions in Oregon in 2001. He is currently serving a 7-year sentence ...