This issue of Earth First! News chronicles direct action and events on fracking, anti-coal, -logging, and -mining, wildlife, pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and the Earth First! Prisoner Support Project, from March to July 2012.
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
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This film envisions a restructuring of global power relations and calls for individual action in order to create a 100 percent renewable energy economy.
This film criticizes America’s dependency on oil, explains how oil companies were able to establish their power, and provides information on viable and affordable alternatives to petroleum fuel.
Earth First! Journal 31, no. 3 presents thoughts on jaguar recovery in the United States, ecocide and renewal in Iraq’s marshlands, South Florida forest defense work, and native land rights at Glen Cove.
Earth First! Journal 32, no. 1 features issues concerning monkeywrenching, “Colonialism, Biofuels and Land Rights in Central America,” ecological warfare, and the merging of deep green resistance and the occupy movement.
Earth First! 30, no. 4 features a memorial on Judi Bari, and essays on militant feminism, multinationals in Chiapas rainforest, the Olympics in Vancouver, mining in Argentina, and green capitalism.
Earth First! 28, no. 2 features news from the Colorado resistance front against the oil and gas industry, from the No Borders Camp and its resistance against the US-Mexico border policy, and from the EF! circles and their endeavours to “evolve” the movement.
