Biography
Rebecca Rubin is an environmentalist affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front. She received a 5-year sentence for arson and conspiracy charges stemming for actions that occurred between 1996 and 2001, including the arson of the Vail Ski Resort Expansion and US Forest Industries. She also participated in the liberation of horses and the arson of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse Facilities in Litchfield, California and Burns, Oregon. Rubin was among others prosecuted under Operation Blackfire.
After going underground in 2006, she turned herself in to the FBI at the Washington-Canada border. In late 2012, She accepted a non-cooperating plea agreement. She was released to a halfway house in Portland, OR in April of 2016 and was released from the halfway house in April 2017.
