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The Earth First! Newswire has been launched as a project of the Earth First! Journal, and serves to provide news and information about direct action in defense of living systems and the natural world. If you would like to contribute, have comments or questions, please email us, with a clear subject line, like “FOR NEWSWIRE”: collective [at] earthfirstjournal [dot] org
About Earth First!
Earth First! formed in 1979, in response to an increasingly corporate, compromising and ineffective environmental community. It is not an organization, but a movement. There are no “members” of EF!, only Earth First!ers. We believe in using all of the tools in the toolbox, from grassroots and legal organizing to civil disobedience and monkeywrenching. When the law won’t fix the problem, we put our bodies on the line to stop the destruction. Earth First!’s direct-action approach draws attention to the crises facing the natural world, and it saves lives.
Guided by a philosophy of deep ecology, Earth First! does not accept a human-centered worldview of “nature for people’s sake.” Instead, we believe that life exists for its own sake, that industrial civilization and its philosophy are anti-Earth, anti-woman and anti-liberty. Our structure is non-hierarchical, and we reject highly paid “professional staff” and formal leadership.
The Earth First! Journal is a voice of the ecological resistance movement. Published four times a year, it contains reports on direct action, articles on the preservation of wilderness and biological diversity, news and announcements about EF! and other radical environmental groups, investigative articles, critiques of the entire environmental movement, book and music reviews, essays exploring ecological theory and a lively letters-to-the-editor section.
The Earth First! Journal and Newswire are essential forums for discussion within the Earth First! movement. They are meant to be bold, controversial, amusing and diverse in content and style. You won’t find hard-hitting news like this anywhere else.
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Hi David,
I am apart of the EF! Journal Collective, please e-mail me and let me know if you sent your subscription in the post or signed-up through our http://www.earthfirstjournal.org website. Thanks for contacting us and subscribing to the EF! Journal.
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Hi, my name is Annie Mond and I am a good friend of Leah’s. She gave my your website address to contact you. I want to submit some things to you about the ongoing genocide of wild horses in the United States, including an excellent news documentary by a hard hitting reporter named George Knapp. I am networking hard on Facebook and have some great passionate connections who are very knowledgeable and I want to share information with your news service. How do I do this? She asked me to write an article for the Journal, but the situation with wild horses is so dire that I want to inform more people about it sooner that any article could be published in the EFJ. I’m not going to reinvent the wheel, just forward some excellent things already written by other people. Our wild horses are at great risk of becoming extinct soon, because of the helicopter roundups being conducted by the Bureau of Land Management, which is overseen by the Department of the Interior, ala Ken Salazar. Many of these horses die as a result of the roundups, die in their captivity, or are sold to be slaughtered. All colts under four years of age are being gelded and the numbers of wild horses left in remaining herds may be dropping below levels of genetic viability, all because of greedy welfared cattle ranchers, and mineral rights.
It’s a dire situation. More people needs to know about this. If we don’t stop it, the wild horses will be gone.
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many trees have been vanished in my town n many trees would be vanished by a pvt company on the name of development
Hi, my name is Jay May and I’m interested in becoming an active member with Earth First. I’m disabled, but I can “fight” with the best! I have free time and I’d like to be a part of your organization in stopping corporate whores and politicians from ruining our ecosystem. I spent 21 years as a water treatment specialist and remain active in animal and environmental causes. I don’t care about pay, I just would like to be a part of your great movement! Thanks for your time! I look forward to your reply! Alternatively, Jay
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Earth First! is a movement, though it is not an organization with members. There is more information about what the movement and Earth First! groups that exist around the world on the home page of this website and on the: http://www.earthfirstjournal.org website. Find out if there is an active group near you, if not, consider starting one!
I would like to know more about your organization, I think it is very interesting. Also if you have meeting in Tampa Bay Area. Please let me know. I look foward hearing from you.