Earth First! Journal 31, no. 3
Earth First! Journal 31, no. 3 presents thoughts on jaguar recovery in the United States, ecocide and renewal in Iraq’s marshlands, South Florida forest defense work, and native land rights at Glen Cove.
Earth First! Journal 31, no. 3 presents thoughts on jaguar recovery in the United States, ecocide and renewal in Iraq’s marshlands, South Florida forest defense work, and native land rights at Glen Cove.
Earth First! Journal 32, no. 1 features issues concerning monkeywrenching, “Colonialism, Biofuels and Land Rights in Central America,” ecological warfare, and the merging of deep green resistance and the occupy movement.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.
This issue of Earth First! News chronicles direct action and events on fracking, anti-coal, -logging, and -mining, wildlife, pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and the Earth First! Prisoner Support Project, from March to July 2012.
For the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Eben Kirksey reflects on the nature of hope and argues for the importance of grounding it in communities of actual living animals, plants, and microbes.
In this special “rant issue,” Rhubarb discusses the idea of industrial collapse, Phil Knight tells of a lone hiker killed by grizzlies, and Jeff Juel reports on planned drilling in the Hall Creek area of the Badger-Two Medicine, home to the grizzly bear, the grey wolf, bald eagle, and other endangered species.
The article focuses on the role of militants in compounding the problem of environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria.
Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. This issue focuses on the North Country National Scenic Trail, and the challenges of ending oil and gas drilling on the Allegheny.
In this issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Joe Volk discusses the U.S. bombing attacks against Iraq; Bob Whitney tells the story of wilderness and over-dependence on oil and gas in Alaska; and David Giesen urges readers to recycle.