Leslie James Pickering is an American activist and former spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front Press Office advocating for political and social justice, human rights, and environmental protection.
Inspired by an animal rights leaflet at a music concert[2] Pickering began to study radical and revolutionary movements of the past.
The ELF was classified as the top "domestic terror" threat in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in March 2001, [4][5] As the Earth Liberation front garnered more mainstream media attention Pickering continued to articulate the ideology of the Earth Liberation front for television and print media including interviews for 60 Minutes, National Geographic: Inside Basecamp[6] and The New York Times.
After resigning from the Earth Liberation Front Press Office Pickering began writing books on radical figures and revolutionary movements and participated in speaking engagements in addition to his ongoing activism and environmental advocacy.
In 2011 Pickering was featured in the ELF based documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front[8] and opened a bookstore specializing in radical history, literature, films, and lectures[9][10] in Buffalo, New York.