This is the first issue of Earth First! News, intended as a compendium of direct action, resistance, and environmental news. The EF! Journal collective compiled and edited this newsletter, intending to share this responsibility with other EF! collectives in the future.
Earth First! News 1. vol. 1. 2010. Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7886.
7/7: After days of workshops and celebration, EF! did what it does best—Direct Action. Closing out the Round River Rondezvous in Maine with style, Earth First!ers trecked up Sisk Mountain and blocked an access road leading up to forest land destined to be clear-cut to make way for TransCanada wind farms. Later that day, a truck carrying an industrial wind turbine blade was halted at the point of entry by three EF!ers. Four were arrested, one of whom locked herself to the undercarriage, risking her own life in order to stop business as usual.
—Earth First! News
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