Earth First! 10, no. 4

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Earth First! Fist, Volume Ten

Davis, John, et al., eds., Earth First! 10, no. 4 (20 March 1990). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6932.


This issue of Earth First! features the activities of the EF! movement throughout America. Dale S. Turner gives an update on this year’s Earth Day, Leslie Lyon discusses animal rights, and Captain Paul Watson vents his frustration regarding net-fishing in the North Pacific.

I’m mad. I’ve had It with those ocean raping bastard fishermen from Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. […] These nets are killing our oceans, buckaroos. I’m talking holocaust, the killing fields of the North Pacific. I’m talking about death dealing that makes Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin look like rank amateurs. Those fascist vermin only killed humans. These scum are slaughtering fish, marine mammals, sea turtles and birds, and transforming the North Pacific into a place devoid of life.  

— Captain Paul Watson       


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Further readings: 
  • Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. New York: Lippincott, 1975.
  • Foreman, Dave, and Howie Wolke. The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States. New York: Harmony Books, 1992.
  • Foreman, Dave. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Harmony Books, 1991.
  • Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
  • Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. London: Routledge, 1992.
  • Taylor, Bron. “Earth First!’s Religious Radicalism.” In Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives, edited by Christopher Key Chapple, 185-209. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
  • Wall, Derek. Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and Comparative Social Movements. Oxon: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999.