[Earth First!] Editorial Collective: Aguamala, Panagioti, Russ and Jackie. [Environmentalism] [Biocentrism] [Deep Ecology] [Green Anarchism] [Direct Action]

Earth First! Journal. [Earth First! The Journal of Ecological Resistance.] Beltane Quarterly, May-July 2011, Volume 31, Issue 3

Lake Worth, FL: Daily Planet Publishing, 2011. Magazine. 64pp. Quarto [26.5 cm]; saddle-stapled illustrated wraps, with wraps featuring "Outclassed" by the Hungry Knife Artists Collective. Very subtle wear to the wraps. Address label of American anthropologist Eugene Ruyle on rear wrap. Eugene Ruyle (b. 1936) is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Cal State Long Beach. He is a prominent socialist, feminist, environmentalist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist. Ruyle helped to found the Peace Studies Program at CSULB, and he is associated with the Institute for the Critical Study of Society at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland. He is the brother of the late Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Near Fine. Item #70632

"No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!" - Earth First!

Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group, and the monkey wrench is their ever-present emblem and tool. "Earth First! is the beginning of the new, bold environmental movement. And 'Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal' is its voice" (Dave Foreman, 1980s). The late-1980s and early-1990s were a tumultuous time for Earth First! Law enforcement cracked down on its members, and various internal issues and factions began to form within the group. Earth First! embraced non-hierarchical structures and organic methods of organization and growth, while continuing to focus on direct action in defense of wilderness as its primary focus. Through the 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's, the journal continued to be published in various forms under the direction of a diverse and rotating collective of voices from within the broad Earth First! movement. Regular print publication of the Earth First! Journal under this title seems to have ceased sometime in the early 2020s, though the movement still survives and maintains a presence online and on social media.

Contents include "Could the Jaguar Be Poised for Recovery in the US"; "Ending the Silence: Ecocide and Renewal in Iraq's Mashlands [sic]"; "Into the Muskeg Swamps of Northern Alberta: A Brief Ideological History of the Tar Sands"; "Swamp Anarchists"; "Wild Foraging in Appalachia"; "Road Occupations and Free States"; "My Name is Emma Murphy-Ellis and I Support Sabotage"; "Minimum Security" comic strip; "Political Prisoners' Summer Birthday List."

Price: $40.00