Career
Inspired by an animal rights leaflet at a music concert Pickering began to study radical and revolutionary movements of the past His studies led to his eventual involvement in an organization known as the Liberation Collective in Portland, Oregon. The Eyes Lips Face was classified as the top "domestic terror" threat in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in March 2001, 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 and The New York Times.
Pickering continued to speak to the press about the Earth Liberation Front even though he and Rosebraugh both resigned from the NAELFPO in 2002.
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 Eyes Lips Face based documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front and opened a bookstore specializing in radical history, literature, films, and lectures in Buffalo, New New York
