Earth First! 31, no. 2

Abstract

Aguamala, Panagioti, Russ, and Sasha, eds., Earth First! 31, no. 2 (February 2011). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7262.

FEATURES

• Let us Praise Infamous Animals 
  Beasts of burden take matters into their own hands!
• Run Free with the Buffalo or Die
  The Buffalo Field Campaign continues to fight for the last wild giants of the prairie.
• It Takes a Village to Raise a Prairie
  As industrial agriculture expands, prairies and their inhabitants disappear.
• Fighting for the Forests
  Grassy Narrows First Nations Story.
• Eco Tea-Sippers’ International Conspiracy (Part II)
  The conclusion to the harrowing tale of the original Green Scare.
• Twenty-Five Ways to Make Love to the Earth 
  No compromise in Defense of Lover Earth!
• Verboten: Forbidden Interview with the SHAC7 
  A roundtable interview forbidden by the State.
• Staying Put and Telling Tales
  History and resistance to MTE in Appalachia.
• Moving Stuff for the Revolution
  A brief history of the Seeds of Piece Collective and the art of logistical support.
• Khimki Forest Defense
  Russian anarchists pick up the monkey wrench (and the molotov) in a standoff with the State and Nazi thugs to save the wild. 
• Rising Tide’s Tenth Anniversary
  Climate Justice from coast to coast and around the world.
• A Field Guide to False Solutions
  There are lots of elixirs to cure climate change. Which one are you swallowing?
• Thirty Things (Part II)
  Mick’s picks on the does and ya better don’ts during an action.

• Ape Crusaders
  Direct action for the Orangutans in Borneo. 
• The Birth of Grassroots Biodiversity Groups
  From direct action to legal victory.
• Action Stories
  30 years of hilarious mishaps, outlandish beavior and good, solid action.
• Who Defines Earth First!
  Surveillance, representation, and the radical environmental movement. 
• Revisiting Uncle Ted
  A closer look at “the Unabomber.”
• Borders & Bodies
  Notes on the impacts of borders on communities and biological diversity, from Arizona to Florida. 
• Where Are They Now?
  Tracking down the old guard.
• Fallen Warriors
  Honoring the dead so that out of loss comes regeneration.
• Wounmainkat
  Sacred ecology from a Wayuu perspective. 
• Notes on Liberation
  Former press officers of the Earth Liberation Front discuss the Green Scare.
• Three Days that Shook the New World Order
  The L.A. riots ‘92 demonized in the mainstream media, look different from a radical ecological perspective. 
• The Rewilding
  Getting back to nature.
• Leave Us Alone
  A critique of globalization and modern civilization by a West Papuan tribesperson. 
• Quebec City
  An anarcha-feminist pagan analysis of mass mobilizations and the debate over violence and non-violence.  

The world is a wild place. Even now, enshrouded in a crust of asphalt and concrete, forests leveled for a bestiary of condominiums and golf courses, grinning missiles of commerce and war looming over fallow rivers and silenced fields. 

— Jesse Wolf Hardin

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