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Article: Devil doing the angels' work? Irascible enviromentalist winning battles in his war to save the right whale
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 13, 1997
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Wild-haired and rumpled, Richard Max Strahan looks more like a
homeless person than an environmental champion. He has no permanent
address, a nine-page criminal rap sheet and a habit of calling his
enemies names like "vermin" and "mafiosi."
Strahan has been a fixture for years at Boston public places,
waving a photo of a dead whale and raising money for his shadowy
environmental group, GreenWorld. His combative tactics, including
threatening one non-contributor to "make you die," got him banned
from the New England Aquarium and severely restricted at the
Prudential Center.
But after years of ranting in obscurity, Max Strahan is using a
battery of federal lawsuits to become the most ...