Eco-Terrorists Spiking Arizona's Backroads?Posted: 2014-08-04 8-3-14 EVNN Editor
Earth First is a terrorist organization which produces a manual and a newsletter dedicated to spreading eco-terrism through-out the world. Who would have thought such an international terrorist organization would operate openly and publically raise funds for their terrorist activites through major fund raising organizations like indiegogo.
On July 23, 2014 Earth First reported road spiking near Happy Jack Arizona
(http://southwestearthfirst.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/get-the-ef-direct-action-manual-into-the-hands-of-activists/) .
This is right out of their play book called "The Earth First Direct Action Manual".
In February 2014, they raised 126% of their goal of $8,000 to get this sabotage manual reprinted
( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/earth-first-direct-action-manual ):
Here is what the Tucson based Earth First says about the manual:
After being out of print for over a decade, the updated Earth First! Direct Action Manual is ready for press and distribution to front line activists.
The Time Is Now
Have you noticed things aren't really getting better? Have you started to think it's time for radical change? When you hear about activists intervening on business as usual, do you think about how much you'd like to be a part of the action?
The world is facing cataclysmic changes, staggering economic inequity and an empire bent on keeping the status quo with an omnipresent police state. The time is now.
We'll Show You How
A group of frontline activists has come together to update and revise the Earth First! Direct Action Manual. The manual was originally published nearly two decades ago. Tactics have changed and the landscape of bridges to rappel from, buildings to lockdown to and roads to rip has changed over time. This manual has over 300 pages filled with diagrams, planning and descriptions on how to implement effective and safe actions.
Spread the Know
There are a couple of things you ought to know about this campaign:
- The Earth First! Direct Action Manual will be printed on recycled paper at a community-minded, union print shop called The Gloo Factory.
- We are committed to getting this manual out to people who will use it. When you give more than the price of the book, you are directly supporting a campaign of your choice to receive a free copy.
- This edition of the manual shows the breadth and experience of the Earth First! community and over thirty years as a voice in defense of the Earth and all its inhabitants.
Get in on the action!
Give today and get our presses rolling on this critical book.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/earth-first-direct-action-manual
The Southwest Earth First website ( http://southwestearthfirst.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/get-the-ef-direct-action-manual-into-the-hands-of-activists/ ) has this to say:
We are proud to announce the release of the new EF! Direct Action Manual. The DAM presents time tested tactics as well as a plethora of innovative tools for resistance.
We’ve doubled the size of the DAM to a 300 page bound book packed with new tactics and the most up to date techniques for direct action campaigns including:
Action Research
Scouting Communications
Electronic Security
Prisoner Support
Soft Blockades
Lockdown devices
Tripods, Bipods, and Monopods
Skypods
Cantilevers
Tree Sits and Platform Rigging
Traverses Basic Single Rope Climbing
Anchoring and Rope Physics
Hunt Sabotage
Home Demos
Rail Blockades
Action Camps
And More…
New activists, life long rabble rousers, and those fighting for a better world will find pages full of useful tools in what will be a must have book for any direct action campaign. Please check out our Indiegogo site for more info.
We’re nearly half way to our fundraising goal and need your support to make printing this project a success. There are only 10 days left, so check sign up to get your copy today.
You can preorder your copy and get some extra thank you gifts for your early endorsement by donating today. More importantly, though, we have offered a chance for you to help us spread this knowledge. Every donation over $50 gives you the chance to send a free copy of the manual to a campaign of your choice. The more you give, the more manuals we can put in the mail.
The manual will be printed in the coming month with longtime Earth First! partner, The Gloo Factory. This community-minded, union print shop has supplied Earth First! and its affiliates with stickers and merchandise for decades and remains committed to using a high standard for recycled and reclaimed material, as well as supportive worker conditions.
The manual was first printed nearly two decades ago and has been out of print since its initial dissemination. Though many of the considerations for civil disobedience and intervention have remained tried and true, new elements have altered the ways we put these tactics into action. The Earth First! Direct Action Manual will continue the role of safe and effective actions in stopping the destruction of the planet.
The Southwest Earth First website ( http://southwestearthfirst.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/get-the-ef-direct-action-manual-into-the-hands-of-activists/ )
Here is a little background on the organization from wikipedia:
Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group[1] that emerged in the Southwestern United States in 1979. It was co-founded on April 4th, 1980[2] by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar.[3]
There are Earth First! groups in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Belgium, Philippines, Czech Republic, India, Mexico, France, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, Nigeria, Slovakia, Ireland, Italy, and Spain.[4]
Inspired by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Aldo Leopold's land ethic, and Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, a group of activists composed of environmental activist Dave Foreman, ex-Yippie (Youth International Party) Mike Roselle, Wyoming Wilderness Societyrepresentatives Bart Koehler and Howie Wolke and Bureau of Land Management employee Ron Kezar pledged, "No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!" while traveling in Foreman's VW bus from the El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve in northern Mexico toAlbuquerque, New Mexico.
Provoked by what they considered a sell-out by mainstream environmental advocates during the "RARE II" (the Forest Service's Roadless Area Review and Evaluation) planning process, the activists envisioned a revolutionary movement to set aside multi-million acre ecological preserves all across the United States. Their ideas drew on the main concepts of the new science of conservation biology, which scientists like E.O. Wilsonhad developed over the past twenty years, but which mainstream environmental groups had been slow to embrace. All of this came together after a grueling hike, as the men headed toward Albuquerque. "Suddenly Foreman called out 'Earth First!' The next thing you know," Wolke says, "Roselle drew a clenched fist logo, passed it up to the front of the van, and there was Earth First!"[3]
Some of their previous previous attacks:
Telluride Ski Resort[edit]
Vandals identifying themselves as members of Earth First forced the closing of the Telluride Ski Resort in Mountain Village, Colorado using a chemical to write messages on 11 greens, such as "Earth First!", "Hayduke lives" and "Ron you pig".[28] In relation to the incident, the Telluride Times Journal received a letter signed "Earth First" stating that the ski lift had been sabotaged with a welding gas applied to the lift cable that weakens the metal.[28]
Fairfield Snowbowl Ski Resort[edit]
Earth First! member Mark Davis pled guilty in Federal court to malicious destruction of property at the Fairfield Snowbowl Ski Resort near Flagstaff, Arizona.[29] Davis had been charged with, "using a torch to cut around the base of the top pylon of the main chair lift at Snowbowl on Oct. 25, 1988."[30]
Nuclear Power and Weapons Plants[edit]
Earth First! member Mark Davis was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiring to damage the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Generating Facility, and the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.[29]
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_First!)
More Monkey Wrenching business:
The FBI vs. the Monkeywrenchers : The Eco-Guerrillas of Earth First! Say They're Saving the Planet. : The Government Calls Them Criminal Saboteurs.
April 15, 1990|MICHAEL A. LERNER | Michael A. Lerner, a former Newsweek correspondent, is a free-lance journalist and screenwriter based in Los Angeles
MIKE TAIT grabbed his wire cutters from the back of his beat-up silver-blue pickup while Mark Davis scanned the block--99th and Cactus on the outskirts of Phoenix. It was around 8 p.m. The area--half industrial, half farmland--was pretty desolate that time of night, but you could never be too careful. They headed across the wide, dusty field before them to an isolated section of the fence that surrounded the sprawling Arizona Public Service storage yard. Tait clipped the fence, and they went through.
It was a simple operation, your basic breaking and entering, but it was enough to banish any lingering doubts Davis had about Tait. The two had known each other for almost a year and had become good friends, and Davis didn't have many of those. This battered, ex-alcoholic Vietnam vet, this "redneck for wilderness," as Tait described himself, was indeed a warrior like Davis. They snatched a couple of the 7x7-inch, 1/2-inch-thick pieces of angle iron they had come for and darted back out.
They needed the angle iron to test how long it would take Davis' blowtorch to fire through it. The angle iron was made of the same galvanized steel as the giant electrical towers they planned to sabotage in their upcoming operation. Davis, Tait and their friends Margaret (Peg) Millett and Marc Baker would burn through the legs of the towers, toppling them and snapping the power lines they supported in the process.
The four were what you would call serious monkeywrenchers, radical environmentalists willing to damage property to free wilderness from the blight of man's overexploitation. Their target was the Central Arizona Project, the state's massive canal system that sucks off the Colorado River to quench desert cities and farms. Their act would temporarily disable two of the CAP's pumping stations. Davis had the whole thing worked out, right down to the wooden boards he would tie to his shoes to ensure that no telltale footprints would be left. He even had the date set: May 30, 1989.
There was just one problem. Davis' good buddy Mike Tait, who'd be with them every step of the way, wasn't much of a radical at heart. In fact, he was an undercover agent for the FBI.
The irony of the situation was that at this point Tait and his superiors weren't really that concerned about building a case against Davis, Millett and Baker. Their massive 2 1/2-year investigation--which involved more than 50 agents and entailed planting an undercover agent--had already produced enough evidence, they believed, to nail the three for severing dozens of power lines leading to three uranium mines in Arizona, as well as downing a pylon supporting a ski lift near Flagstaff.
No, they were after a bigger prize. They were after the granddaddy of monkeywrenchers, the man whose speeches and writings had led to what seemed like an environmental guerrilla war throughout the country against logging companies, building contractors, toxic polluters and anyone else who tread callously on Mother Nature. They were after Dave Foreman, a founder of the radical environmental movement Earth First! and overt advocate of careful and deliberate monkeywrenching. Mark Davis, they hoped, would lead them to him.
NOT SO LONG ago, a "radical environmentalist" meant a longhaired Earth freak with a "Save the Whales" bumper sticker slapped on the back of a VW bus. There was something half-baked, almost peacenik-y about it. Times have changed. These days, three of four Americans consider themselves environmentalists, a recent Gallup poll indicates, and the radical fringe is anything but namby-pamby. Thanks in part to the Reagan Administration's anti-environmentalist policies, its ranks have swelled during the past few years. We live in perilous times, they tell us. The Cold War's threat of nuclear annihilation has given way to the threat of ecological annihilation. Ozone depletion, rain forest destruction--these are radical problems, they tell us, that demand radical solutions.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-15/magazine/tm-2077_1_dave-foreman
Anyway, back to the original story of road spiking:
Arizona Forest Service Roads Spiked
 from ABC15
Flagstaff authorities are seeking the public’s help to gather any information related to sharpened rebar that was placed in the Happy Jack area.
Forest Service law enforcement say that at least five pieces of the rebar was placed on forest roads that are frequented by off-highway vehicles.
The sharp pieces are responsible for slashing at least eight tires last weekend, according to authorities.
“The end of the rebar has been flattened and sharpened to a point and the exposed point has been painted to blend in with the road surface,” Linda Wadleigh, Mogollon Rim District Ranger, said. She added that the objects pose a threat to people hiking and walking and to wildlife in the area.
[EF! Journal editor's note: For more information on road spiking - Ecodefense: A Field Guide]
More Threats:
We Will Counterattack Three Corporations for their World Wide Terrorism in the Next Six Months
And this is just the beginning…
OK, up front lets just say this is a post about a fictional movie about a wild anarchist collective called The East starring that sexy blond viking vampire guy from True Blood, and sadly, not a new communique from the Earth Liberation Front. We are not suggesting that anyone seek to hold corporations accountable through acts of vigilante heroism and sheer awesomeness, unless you are really prepared for it, and in that case, well hell, we support you.
But damn, check out this trailer below.
[video has been deleted from youtube]
We don’t know much about this movie except that it presents a fictional movement of underground radicals (sexy ones, as they all are) bent on revenge against our corporate overlords for terrorizing communities around the world and befouling our planet’s life support systems. Give it a look see, maybe you’ll be inspired…or terrified, and in that case you probably work on Wall Street or for Raytheon, and in that case quit yer job dip shit or Alexander Skarsgård will be coming to get you!
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/02/07/we-will-counterattack-three-corporations-for-their-world-wide-terrorism-in-the-next-six-months/
Construction Vehicles Targeted
from Anarchist News.org
one of the M6 link sites
About a little over week ago we snuck into a condo development in Seattle and poured a gallon of bleach into the gas tank of an excavator. This was a small but easily reproducible attack against the expansion of gentrification in Seattle.
- Some Anarchists
from In the Belly of the Beast
Construction vehicles are being targeted at M6 link road sites near Lancaster, England causing thousands of pounds of damage.
In what appears to be an orchestrated campaign, hydraulic hoses were cut on excavators and dumper trucks.
Other incidents include:
*Sand being put into tanks to contaminate the fuel
*Tyres being let down
*Damage to a temporary jetty in the River Lune
Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused at a site at Crossgills Farm, Lancaster.
Police said: “Eight vehicles, including excavators and dumper trucks, were damaged to the tune of thousands of pounds at the weekend.
“Tyres have also been let down and sand put into fuel tanks.
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“We are keeping an open mind as to who is responsible, however the vandals have made a concerted effort to cause criminal damage by using bolt croppers to cut the rubber hoses.”
In their monthly newsletter, Earth First broadcasts the latest Eco-Terrist attacks... and the attacks continue.
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2014/05/15/construction-vehicles-targeted/
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