Earth First! 4, no. 1

from Multimedia Library Collection:
Earth First! Movement Writings

Earth First! Fist, Volume Four

Foreman, Dave, et al., eds., Earth First! 4, no. 1 (1 November 1983). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6849.


This issue celebrates the publication’s third anniversary with a photo essay. 

I’m sure there are some who are surprised—and disappointed—that we made it this far. There are others who are certainly surprised—and possibly concerned—that we have accomplished anything. But we have.

— Dave Foreman

The road blockades in the Bald Mountain by the NO-GO ROAD movement are discussed, Mike Roselle problematizes fast food, and James Berry highlights an emerging type of human consciousness. 


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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.
  • Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. London: Routledge, 1992.
  • Wall, Derek. Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and Comparative Social Movements. Oxon: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999.