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No Compromise defense of Mother Earth
"Only
You can prevent the destruction of all that is wild."
(Because if you don't, who will?)
Today is
the most critical moment in the 3 and a half billion year history
of life on Earth. Never before - since the end of the Cretacous
period,
65 million years ago - has there been a period of extinction as
intense as we are now witnessing.
Over the
last several hundred years, industrial civilization has declared
war on nature, leading to a drastic reduction in the biological
diversity of this planet. Not only is the blitzkrieg against the
natural
world destroying ecosystems but our activities are now
upsetting the world's climate, poisoning the oceans, destroying
the ozone layer and spreading acid rain, radioactive fallout,
pestcides,
deforestation, and industrial contamination througout the
biosphere.
We -
this generation - are at humanity's most important juncture
since we came out of the trees six million years ago. It is our
decision, ours today, whether to hold renegade corporations and
lawless governments accountable for the destruction of the
natural world or turn our backs on Mother Earth, Gaia and
her defenseless life forms. Will we allow Earth to continue to be
a marvelously living, diverse oasis in the blackness of space, or
will the charismatic megafauna of the future consist of Norway
rats and cockroaches. HOW DEEP IS YOUR
ECOLOGY?
WHY EARTH FIRST!
Are you
tired of mamby pamby environmental groups?
Are you sick of overpaid environmentalists who suck up to
to burecrats and industry? Have you been dis-empowered by
the reductionist approach of environmental profesionals and
scientists?
If you
answered yes to any of these questions, then Earth First!
is for you.Our frontline, direct action approach to protecting
wildlands gets results. We have succeeded where other
environmental groups havegiven up... We beleive in using all
of the tools in the tool box, ranging fromgrassroots organizing
and involvment in the legal process to civil
disobedience, magick, Witchcraft, and monkeywrenching...
Earth First! is not an organization but a movement...There
There is are no Earth First! members, just Earth First! ers.
There is agreement on one thing - the need for action. A tip
for Wiccans and Pagans - Invoke the God Pan to
protect wild areas. Did you know that your average monkeywrenching
incident costs the industry $100,000 or $25 million per year.
Some monkeywrencing tips...
Here is
the correct way to spike a tree - Drive the spike above
the part where the chainsaw cuts. The tree goes to the mill and
and when the band saw hits the spike, it shatters, costing
anywhere
from $1,000 to $20,000 in damage to the equipment.
To sab a
'dozer, you can do a number of things. One is to
drain the oil from the crankcase. This will cause the engine to
sieze.
Another trick is to pour Karo syrup into the gas tank, gumming
things
up.
For more
info on monkeywrencing, read
Ecodefense
- A Field Guide to Monkeywrencing, edited by
Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood.
Have fun...
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