Savage Mountain Earth First!: Who we are, why we are, what we want, and what we are going to do to get it.
Maryland [Bedford County, PA?, Garrett County, MD?]: Savage Mountain Earth First! no date printed [but, 2014 or after based on review content printed inside]. Zine. 36 [40] pp. Octavo [21.5cm / 8.5" x 5.5"]; ten sheets folded once vertically to create forty pages. Unbound/folded-only. Plain paper covers. Photomechanically printed (cut-and-paste-and-copy zine). Illustrations, photographs, maps, text. Pages numbered by hand (pre-printing process). Complete. Tiny stain on front cover and just a bit of general wear. Presumed rare. Very Good. Item #70677
"We are Savage Mountain Earth First! We declare ourselves as a contingent of the western counties of the State of Maryland who will not stand for the degradation of our home. We are citizens of Savage Mountain, of the Savage River, of the Youghiogheny River, of Green Ridge State Forest, of Savage Run and New Germany State Parks, and as such we recognize our collective duties to the defense of these and all communities throughout our bioregion. We oppose fracking. We oppose clear cutting. We oppose the destruction of our mountaintops and ridgelines. We oppose the poisoning of our waters and the fouling of our air. We oppose the wholesale slaughter of our non-human brothers and sisters, and it is with them that we stand. Put simply, we oppose the destruction of our home. Our position is simply this: .NO COMPROMISE. WHY NOT? Many of us are frack fighters... fractivists... whatever you wanna call it, that's how we met, that's why we came together, that's what gave us the idea for SMEF! NO FRACKING. ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FAUCET FIRES."
Rear cover reads: "Savage Mountain Earth First! CARPE NOCTEM. Check out our friends at: Chesapeake EF!, Marcellus Shale EF!, Endless Mountains EF!, RAMPS (Radical Action for Mountain Peoples Survival) Collective, really any of the other EF! groups are great, but those are some of our besties and we owe them HUGE!"
Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980. The group set themselves apart from other environmental groups of the time with their focus on non-hierarchical structures, organic methods of organization and growth, and especially with their utilization of direct action tactics and sabotage (or "monkey wrenching" – inspired by Edward Abbey's novel) in defense of wilderness.
Price: $50.00