Earth First! Journal 17, no. 7

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Earth First! Fist, Volume 17

Berrey, Cathie, et al., eds., Earth First! Journal 17, no. 7 (1 August 1997). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7027.


In this issue of Earth First! Journal the editors express their thoughts and ideas on life and the journal, Gavin Edwards gives an update on the Nuxalk Nation’s protests against logging in British Columbia, and Mary Brook and Orin Langelle call for attention to the rain forests of Nicaragua.

You may be wondering what this deranged diatribe of disorder appearing in the editorial column is all about. […] Please understand, dear reader, that this lunacy is the invention of possibly the most chaotic Journal staff in history. With my cohorts being a nutty, mellow woman who chain-smokes cigarrettes [sic] so cheap they’re essentially rolls of newpaper shred and cage lining […].

— Ayelet Hines


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Further readings: 
  • Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. New York: Lippincott, 1975.
  • Bari, Judi. Revolutionary Ecology: Biocentrism & Deep Ecology. Melville: Trees Foundation, 1998.
  • Foreman, Dave. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Harmony Books, 1991.
  • Foreman, Dave. Ecodefence: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Tucson: A Ned Ludd Book, 1987.
  • 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.
  • 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.