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Full Citation: Rubenstein, Michael, Lacey Phillabaum, John Bowling, Josh Laughlin, and Tkintz, Eds., Earth First! Journal 19, No Full citation: Rubenstein, Michael, Lacey Phillabaum, John Bowling, Josh Laughlin, and tkintz, eds., Earth First! Journal 19, no. 2 (21 December 1998). Digitized in cooperation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7041 Copyright: All rights reserved. The user may download, preserve and print this material only for private, research or nonprofit educational purposes. The user may not alter, transform, or build upon this material. • art trst • Yule $3.50 December-January, 1999 THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNAL ELF BURNS DOWN VAIL awakened by the BY LACEY PHILLABAUM blazes around 4 a.m. During the night of October 18, One of the four, Neil cloaked in the dark of an almost new Sebso, had gone to moon, two or more people crept sleep around mid­ along a Colorado ridgeline, leaving night seeking warmth plastic milk jugs filled with gasoline inside a Vail restroom, as fiery calling cards at five buildings while the other three and four chairlifts. The 33,000- camped outside. Sebso square-foot, 550-seatTwo Elks Lodge says he woke from a was totaled, resulting in minimum sleepy fog, thinking damages of $12 million to Vail Asso­ .that somebody had ciates (VA). In addition, a 2, 500- opened the door, square-foot picnic shelter, a ski patrol looked in and left. The Colorado-based group Ancient building and one of the chair lifts When he got up to investigate, he Forest Rescue (AFR) has led that oppo­ were ruined, pushing the total saw nothing "and went back to bed. sition, noting that the development amount of damages much higher Next thing, I was awoken by Steve," of 2,200 acres of additional skiable than the widely-reported $12 mil­ who showed him the rising flames. terrain on public land is but a prelude lion and making this the single most The arson fires were set only five to VA's real plans for building luxury expensive act of environmental sabo­ days after a court had ruled that Vail condominiums, a new base area and tage in US history. resorts could proceed with its planned village to village gondolas on as much The only known witnesses to the Category III expansion into the Two as 3,000 additional acres. fire were four sleeping hunters, who Elk Roadless Area, despite the objec­ BY AGENT APPLE alerted the authorities after they were tions of local environmentalists. continued on page 26 On a Friday afternoon I was con­ tacted by a Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB) intelligence source known as "Deep Pastry." S/he communicated SSTORM to me that Robert Shapiro, chair­ man of Monsanto, would be de­ livering a keynote address at a conference the folloWing Tuesday. We had recently heard from Our Man in London that the Brits were planning to pie him next time he crossed the Atlantic, and naturally we couldn't let tlie Limeys upstage us in this respect (since they already BY PORI KWA MILELE have in every 'bthet'form. of anti­ In an unprecedented and dramatic genetic engineering activism). I had action, hundreds 'of Kenyan environ­ my orders: Compile a dossier on the mental activists and supporters un- target (photos, personalhabits, cu­ leashed what has been called a new era interests sparked linary preferences, etc. ),perform an in the peoples' struggle against a repres- the outrage and ac- extensive reconnaissance of the sive, corrupt and rapacious regime in tion. The transfers battlefield (the illustrious Fairmont defense of their country's amazing but were blatantly me- Hotel, where Clinton and his ilk threatened natural heritage. On Octo- 1- gal under Kenyan stay when they come to San Fran­ ber7,over500angrycitizens,organized slaw and were ac- cisco), assemble a crack pie-slinging and led by members of the Green Belt complished as a team, develop combat scenarios and await the go-ahead command. Movement (GBM), invaded an illegal ~ fund-raising mea- development in Nairobi's Karura Forest, ~ sure during the run- By Tuesday afternoon, every­ destroyed the site offices, construction ~ up to the recent thing was in place. I went to the equipment and materials, and eradi- presidential elec- · pre-arranged bake shop, ordered cated all the "improvements" that had bulldozers burning... "This is the power of the people." tions (in a maneu-. an apple-rhubarb crumble to go transformed a virgin indigenous hardwood forest into just ver only slightly more subtle than that employed in the and repaired to the pub. Even another upscale residential development. They were mad as previous election, when President Moi simply printed though I had been through the hell and served notice to the tune of $1 million in damage that and distributed billions of shillings in bribes, causing an routine before, I couldn't help but they weren't going to take it any more. "This is the power of economic disaster that conveniently manifested only tremble a tad when I reached the the people. They have decided, and there is no turning back. after he was re-elected). The allocatees, relatives and bottom of the patisserie and un­ Let every land grabber and economic saboteur. .. know that cronies of the president, in turn, sold the forest proper- covered the sealed and embossed the time for silence and inaction is over," said one activist. ties to developers, funneling their ill-gotten money back envelope which read, "Special The revelation that hundreds of acres of the Karura forest, into various ruling-party activities. Agent Apple: For Your Eyes Only." a 14,000-acre area protected since Kenya's independence, continued on page 24 had been quietly excised and allocated to shadowy private continued on page 23 EARTH FIRST! NO COMPROMISE IN THE DEFENSE OF MOTHER EARTH! POB 1415 • EUGENE, OREGON 97440 • (541) 344-8004 Fanning the FlaiDes of Resistance Earth First! " ... we can go back to the earliest recorded texts in our canon ... and assaulting the natural world. For those who care more find that those who have served power have always been rewarded about the cause than the mainstream perception of Yule with respectability ... That pattern just perpetuates through history, the movement, respectability is neither an attainable December 21, 1998 and for perfectly good reasons. If you serve power, authority and or a desirable goal. privilege, you'll end up, by and large, with respectability. And ifyou Earth First!ers aspire to become effective social critics Vol. 19, No.2 undermine them, whether it's by political analysis, moral critique or of rampant technological change, corporate domina­ anything else, they're not going to applaud you for it." tion, hierarchical class systems and unsustainable de­ The Earth First! Journal is published by an - Noam Chomsky velopment with hopes of changing the hearts and editorial staff from within the Earth First! minds of humanity. To accomplish this we must defy movement. Contents are copyrighted 1998. Precisely because it was such a sensational public denial of the a rich and powerful elite who protect their vested We are pleased to allow reprinting if credit legitimacy of authority and the privilege of power, the Vail interest in maintaining the status quo by attackingthe is given, except for those articles specifi­ bonfire was not a respectable thing to do, granted. But let's face integrity of our vision. Violent acts towards Mother cally copyrighted by the author. Art, pho­ tographs and poetry are copyrighted by the it folks, Earth First! is an ecological resistance movement that Earth and those who defend her are routinely commit­ individual artists and permission for use has come to engender beautiful radical and revolutionary ted by the extractive industries we oppose, condoned must be received from them. philosophies-not respectable ones. by the state and ignored by a media that labels us Earth First! Journal is a forum for the no­ The planned Vail expansion is just one more example of terrorists. Finding a so-called "nonviolent" way to compromise environmental movement. humans overstepping their bounds unnecessarily and at all of respond to or influence a society too far removed from Responsibility rests with the individual our peril. As big corporations like Vail Associates are allowed to the wild, too wedded to material possessions, too authors and correspondents. The contents flourish, the rich get richer, the poor poorer and enamored with technology and too do not necessarily represent the viewpoint Mother Earth suffers the most. There have always intent on profiting from exploiting of this newspaper, the Earth First! been eco-anarchists among us who truly believe movement, local Earth First! groups or the natural world to really appreciate individual Earth First!ers. that the materialist/capitalist worldview in gen­ our perspective is perhaps our greatest Submissions are welcomed and should eral, and the concept of the sanctity of private challenge. be typed or clearly printed. Send a SASE if property in particular, must be deconstructed in It may also be a fool's errand. The you would like them returned. If you want order to incapacitate the nature-destroying jug­ reality is the dominant value system in confirmation of receipt of a submission, gernaut of industrial civilization. We dedicate our culture denies the transc_endental please request it. We encourage submis­ our lives to fighting the power that turns people ·truth and beauty inherent in nature. sions on Macintosh disks or via e-mail. Art into "consumers," wilderness into "natural re­ Inflammatory actions like Vail succeed or photographs (prints are best) are desir­ sources" and intentionally indoctrinates the world in letting Babylon know there are front­ able to illustrate articles and essays. They will be returned if requested. with an ethic of exploitation. line revolutionaries willing to lead the All submissions are edited for length and After every legal (state-sanctioned) means of fight to preserve the last wild places on _clarity.
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