Earth First! Journal, PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702
Phone 520-620-6900 | Fax 4132540057 | Email collective@earthfirstjournal.org
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“In some cases burning a target is the most effective way of decommissioning it.” — Earth First! founder Dave Foreman, in his 1985 book, Ecodefense
“A major accomplishment of Earth First! … has been to expand the environmental spectrum to where the Sierra Club and other groups are perceived as moderates.” — Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, in his book, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
“Earth First!ers say they maintain a strict code of nonviolence. But to an onlooker, it all appears to be incredibly dangerous. For everybody. Which is the point.” — The Washington Post, April 22, 2003
“[Earth First!] had become militant vegan feminist witches for wilderness. People wanted to talk about tree-spiking and bombing, not ecosystems.” — Earth First! co-founder Howie Wolke on why he quit the organization, in the March/April 2000 issue of Sierra, the Sierra Club’s magazine
“All the federal agents in the United States will not stop more actions of this sort.” — Convicted arsonist Rodney Coronado on property destruction in the 20th anniversary issue of the Earth First! Journal.
“They are outlaws; they are terrorists; and they have no right being considered environmentalists.” — National Wildlife Federation president Jay Hair, describing Earth First! in The Nation (May 2, 1987)
“For Earth First! there is no truce or cease-fire. No surrender.” — Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman in Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
“Trees are for hanging. Kill a developer.” — From a cartoon appearing in the 20th Anniversary issue of the Earth First! Journal
“Monkey-wrenching is more than just sabotage, and you’re g*ddamn right, it’s revolutionary! This is jihad, pal.” — Earth First! co-founder Mike Roselle, in the Earth First! Journal (December 1994/January 1995)
“The earth is not dying -- it is being killed. And the people killing it have names and addresses.” — An Earth First! rallying cry originally popularized by singer Utah Phillips
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