From the EF! Musical crowdfunding campaign EF! is a new musical about the 40-year old Earth First! movement. It’s an immersive performance that imagines the audience as attendees of the movement’s annual summer gathering. What makes this project unique is that performances will […]
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Earth First! UK Summer Gathering 2022
from Earth First! UK Calling all defenders of the wild! You are warmly invited to 5 days of workshops, skill shares, plotting and planning, solidarity and socialising in a beautiful camp out. This year’s Earth First! Summer gathering will be from Wednesday […]
Continue readingThe Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground
by Matthew Wolfe / New York Times Magazine This year, one of the last fugitives of the Earth Liberation Front pleaded guilty to arson — at a moment when climate activists are again flirting with radical ideas. Late one summer evening in […]
Continue readingFive Hundred Researchers Ask Universities to Reject Fossil-Fuel Cash
by Fiona Harvey / Mother Jones Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said. Rowan Williams, the former […]
Continue readingSix machines sabotaged in defense of the Atlanta Forest
from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest To Reeves Young: You will have noticed by now that several of your machines have ceased to function, their arteries corroded from within. Last week, we sabotaged six Earth-destroying machines——including two large excavators and a bulldozer——at […]
Continue readingAn Inside Review of “Earth First! 40 Years of Direct Action” Anniversary Special Issue
by Jacob Barrett at Fight Toxic Prisons [Note: Help FTP get this special edition of the EF! Journal in to prisons across the country. Donate here and note that it is for funds to cover cost of EF!Js to prisoners.] The Earth First! […]
Continue readingCoastal Gaslink workers ‘shaken’ following violent attack at Morice River drill site
from CKPG Today BRITISH COLUMBIA— Mounties in Houston, B.C. are investigating a violent incident that left Coastal Gaslink (CGL) workers “shaken.” It happened shortly after midnight this morning (Feb.17) on the Marten Forest Service Road. “It was reported approximately 20 people, some […]
Continue readingHow an anti-trans group split the fight against a lithium mine
by Jael Holzman/E&E News OROVADA, Nev. — Max Wilbert, standing on a hill overlooking a wide plain of brush and farmland, walks over to a black banner that’s grabbed a lot of media attention. In blood-red letters, the banner reads, “Lithium Lies.” […]
Continue readingAnnouncing: the 2021 Earth First! Summer Gathering
You are invited! Lake Effect Earth First! is hosting the Summer Gathering in the Great Lakes region June 26th-July 1st, 2021. We are excited to see you in the woods, reconnect and grow the movement together! Find out more on the website. […]
Continue readingWe Need YOU To Help Us Get the EF! Journal Back on Track!
Dear Subscribers and Friends,
Wondering why you haven’t seen an Earth First! Journal since the Yule/Winter 2019-2020 issue? We’d like to explain.
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