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Earth First! Again
by Lone Wolf Circles
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Fifth Estate note: The 12th annual Earth First! Round River Rendezvous (RRR) was held in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest, June 28-July 5, with a direct action against an Amoco Corp. facility immediately after it.
Earth First! Split Final
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
Earth First! is dead! Long live Earth First!
Split in Earth First!
by Kelpie Wilson
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Redwood Summer seems to have sent some Earth First!ers over the edge. Many of the old-line EF! activists stayed away from the summer actions, feeling that “outsiders” had invaded their movement and diluted EF!’s biocentric vision. Two EF! founders, Dave …
The New Earth First!
by David Watson, Snail Darter
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Dear Fifth Estate: As an Earth First! sympathizer and subscriber to many deep ecology principles, I read David Watson’s How Deep Is Deep Ecology? with great interest. I learned a tremendous amount from it. His criticisms were penetrating and well …
Fifth Estate/Earth First!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson), Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
It already seems like a long time ago, but this past June three of us from the Fifth Estate staff headed out by train to New Mexico for our first Earth First! (EF!) Round River Rendezvous (RRR). This was the …
Police Terrorize Earth First!er In Ohio
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
Just before midnight one night in early February Cincinnati Earth First! organizer (and longtime Fifth Estate friend) Marie Mason was terrorized by cops after her 16 year-old daughter discovered a cop fumbling with equipment underneath her automobile. Shortly thereafter, the …
National Coal takes Katuah Earth First! to Court
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The National Coal Company (NCC) has filed a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) against five Knoxville, Tennessee environmental activists associated with Katuah Earth First! (KEF!) NCC is demanding over $7,000 and a permanent injunction banning the five from ever …
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Gov’t Attacks Earth-First!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Signs are that the government has begun an assault on radical environmental groups with the arrest of four people associated with the Earth First! movement and the order that 12 others appear before a federal grand jury. As we go …
Mars First!
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
“The tighter that our humanity closes ranks to conquer nature on Mars, the tighter the elements close theirs to avenge the victory.” —from Aleksandr Malinovskii Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908)
Marius Mason Update
by Panagioti Tsolkas
Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025
Marius Mason, an anarchist, environmental/animal rights activist, vegan, and trans advocate was denied his scheduled Gender Affirming Surgery by the Trump administration and transferred to a women’s prison. The Republican candidate’s campaign spent $27 million on ads condemning gender surgery …
What is Real?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Portraits of Struggle: Photos from 1972-2023 by Orin Langelle. Global Justice Ecology Project 2024
Black & Green
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # The Rumble, Issue 1
Recently, the Earth First! Journal ran a four page insert featuring the Black and Green collective (a biocentric anarchist group based in Harmony, Maine) and their projects. Members of the Trumbull Plex collective found their perspective insightful and inspiring. Due …
Cook for Peace
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements in North America today and is gaining momentum all over the world. There are over 120 autonomous chapters sharing vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Friends who attended the second annual Anarchist Book Fair held March 29 in San Francisco say it was a tremendous success. It was sponsored by Bound Together Book Store, 1369 Haight, SF CA 94117 and hundreds showed up for the …