Earth First! 7, no. 7

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Earth First! Fist, Volume Seven

Foreman, Dave, et al., eds., Earth First! 7, no. 7 (1 August 1987). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6886.


In this issue of Earth First!, John Patterson and Jean Ravine bring good news from the protests against the Grand Canyon uranium mines, George Wuerthner contributes an essay entitled ”An Ecological View of the Indian,” editor Dave Foreman writes an open letter to the bioregional movement concerning criticism of the ecological cause, and Chim Blea discusses spirituality.

After realizing the utter absurdity of christianity, its appalling banality and evil, I flirted briefly with eastern religions before rejecting them for their anti-Earthly metaphysic. Through my twenties and early thirties, I was an atheist—until I sensed something out there. Out there in the wilderness. 

— Chim Blea


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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.
  • Lee, Martha. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
  • Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
  • 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.