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Full Citation: Shapiro, Natalie, Josh Laughlin, Ayelet Hines, Lacey Phillabaum, John Bowling, and Jim Flynn, Eds., Earth First! Journal 18, No Full citation: Shapiro, Natalie, Josh Laughlin, Ayelet Hines, Lacey Phillabaum, John Bowling, and Jim Flynn, eds., Earth First! Journal 18, no. 5 (1 May 1998). Digitized in cooperation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7036 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. • trs Beltane $3.50• May-June 1998 THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNAL Vol. 18 No. S GERMAN NuKE AcTIVISTS DERAILED Wilderness With Because of an anticipated mass protest in Ahaus, the or Without You BY MICHAEL MARIOTTE & DusT BUNNY shipment began six days early, a plan known only by four The controversy over shipping nuclear waste through government officials. Beforehand, tens of thousands of BY DENNIS MARTINEZ Germany erupted again on March 20 when nearly 10,000 police were called in and occupied the small, conservative Decay, death, birth and growth are demonstrators blockaded a train carrying the nuclear city. The demonstrators' campsites, set up on sympathetic part of our everyday experience. They farmers' land, were attacked and are organic processes that all of us are forced to close. Townspeople whose intimately familiar with. Ceremonies backyards fronted the railroad tracks have evolved over time in all indig­ were evicted from their homes, and enous cultures that celebrate these fencing was put up to keep people changes in a spirit of supplication, from entering the homes or yards. All reciprocity and thankfulness. Land trains and busses to the area were stewardship practices that work with halted. Cars without local license and even direct these natural processes plates were denied entry and access. have also evolved in indigenous cul­ On March 20, getting to Ahaus re­ tures. Yet most of us in the larger quired walking at least six miles industrial Western culture live, work around police barricades. and study in a human environment At the beginning of the week hun­ seemingly at odds with.our everyday dreds, then thousands, of police perceptions of nature. We live in an moved in. The throngs of demon­ environment that is structured eco­ strators, mostly from Germany and nomically, technologically and intel­ ~ the neighboring Netherlands, fun­ lectually like a machine. [ neled in simultaneously. The police A way of being inspired by the ma­ ~ avoided the downtown shopping chine has dominated Western culture ~ zone but were at every other inter­ from the mid-19th century until the ~ section. They were on every quiet present. Viewed in this way, nature is tree-lined.side street with their vans, imagined to be unchanging unless it is . trucks water cannons and armored disturbed. Most resource managers, as nuclear shzpments face-offwztl:ifolly body-armored polzce. ' l . bl k' k' o;,.. · personne earners oc mg par mg well as the environmental movement, material. The uprising was in response to the movement . spaces and creating an atmosphere of terror. Wearing the still think about nature in terms of the of the waste to an interim storage facility in Ahaus, latest in body armor, they held helmets, shields and machine metaphor. The modern West­ located in the country's northwest corner near the Dutch batons at their sides and tear gas canisters on their belts. ern belief in the constancy and stabil­ border. The government did everything it could with Many had guns. They were ready for war. ity of nature was expressed by George strong-arm tactics to ensure a smooth transport of the six Perkins Marsh in Man and Nature as casks of high-level radioactive waste. continued on page 26 early as1864. Marsh says, "Nature, left undisturbed, so fashions her territory as to give it almost unchanging perma­ Bunnese nence of form, outline and propor­ tion, except when shattered by geo­ logic convulsions; and in these com­ Pipeline paratively rare cases of derange­ ment, she sets herself at once to repair the superficial damage and to restore, Resisted in as nearly as practicable, the former aspect of her dominion." Environmental Roots Thalland The principal prophets of the modern environmental movement-Emerson, BY EDITH T. MIRANTE Thoreau, Muir and Leopold-have re­ The Yadana gas pipeline, one of the 20th peated and enlarged the same theme of century's last great corporate crim'es, now nature functioning optimally when left slices through southern Burma's rainfor­ "' alone. Modern environmental preserva­ est, heading for neighboring Thailand. ~ tionists draw their most compelling Dozens of Thai environmentalists camped ., inspiration from these earlier transcen- out on the pipeline route from December ..~ dental philosophers. until March, in the indigenous version of The notion of "transcendental" im­ Redwood Summer. They aimed to block plies something beyond our senses which continuation of the multinational joint- Burmese exiles and rainforest activists lockdown at a Unocal facility in California {n 1996 is greater than we are. In this case, nature venture the Associated Press called "one of the most politically controversial infrastructure projects in the world." itself is viewed as a kind of divine mani­ The scheme to build a pipeline from the Yadana natural gas field, beneath Burma's Andaman Sea, to an electricity festation. Nature is conceived as being generating plant in Thailand was hatched by the arrogance of French, American and Thai corporate executives and the perfect because God is perfect. Tran­ blood lust of Burma's military regime. The Burmese army crushed a massive "people power" uprising in 1988 and scendentalism grew out of 17th and maintains a stranglehold on the country. The military ·regime, which calls itself the State Peace and Development 18th century English natural theology Council, has waged war in ethnic minority regions, attempting to stamp out any threat of insurgency from indigenous which saw God revealed through his peoples such as the Karens and Mons. In order to do so, the Burmese armed forces were increased to nearly half a million principal work, nature. You could know and re-armed with Chinese rifles, tanks and bombers, requiring the junta to seek hard currency from foreign investors. God if you knew his creation. Logging, mining and fishing companies. were invited to loot Burma's natural resources without res~raint (Burma When viewed from this historical follows no environmental laws), and their payoffs fill the generals' coffers. The biggest investors by far have been perspective, we see how similar the petroleum companies. Several explored for oil on land in Burma, but they came up dry ~nd left. By drilling underseas, industrial exploitation of nature and however, Unocal and France's Total fourid reserves of natural gas in a jointly held concession. Arco and England's the counter-industrial effort to pre- Premier, which bought Texaco1s concession last year, continue u,ndersea exploration. serve nature really are. contin!Jed on page 28 continued on page 13 EARTH FIRST! NO COMPROMISE IN THE DEFENSE OF MOTHER EARTH! POB 1415 • EUGENE, OREGON 97440 • (541) 344-8004 Unearthing a Forgo ·vii Disobedience Earth First! Beltane . Victories here mean sacrifices there. Successful more taboo concept of alternative paigns in one region often result in exchanged In a world of codes, permits, fines and city May 1, 1998 volume in another. A local to the v0;:)\..(1\,U_a Earth-friendly means of building remain recently called this the "water bed" effect. uuuL.•<::u. It is time for the government Vol. 18, No. 5 the importance of straw bale, cob the saws here, and what do you know; . The Earth First! Journal is published by an adjacent forest. just when we take a and start offering incentives editorial staff from within the Earth First! agencies swap pristine public lands to build mostly lumber- movement. Contents are copyrighted 1998. abused by industry. -· a boom and swell in this · We are pleased to allow reprinting if credit Despite thi~ uncontrollable continue to hack apart is given, except for those articles .specifi­ Although already taking on one so determined to save. cally copyrighted by the author. Art, photo­ in our industry-pampered extremely scarce af!d graphs and poetry are copyrighted by the · Now is the time - individual artists and permission for use wild need to be active in must be received from them. · While continuing the getting dirt under our Earth First! Journal is a forum for the no­ bark on an ancient but of homebuilding compromise environmental movement. disobedience~the simple Responsibility rests with the individual world of sto,re-001llJ;!Jlt authors and correspondents. The contents electricity and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of this newspaper, the Earth First! mainstream seem movement, local Earth First! groups or tinues to erode at of information for individual Earth First!ers. Ridding the Submissions are welcomed and should be means pirat­ typed or clearly printed. Send a SASE if you television sta­ would like them returned. If you want con­ witnessed the firmation of receipt of a submission, please television request it; We encourage submissions on Macintosh disks or via e-mail. Art or photo- . graphs (prints are best) are desirable to illustrate articles and essays. They will be compost piles, returned if requested. cycled lumber All submissions are edited for length arid takeover. clarity. If an ai:'tic}e_is significantly edited, As the islands we we will make a reasonable effort to contact the 'authot-prior to-pub-lication.. ..- , .- and topsoils oe,co:mE~ , unojtoctuc:ti~·e ISSN 1<)55-8411, Earth First! Journal, is production will oe,caJm·e indexed in the Alternative Press Index. The vival. Now is the E_arth First! Journal is reco~ded on microfilm must incorporate-this by University Microfilms, Int. · around our comm All correspondence should be directed to: and in elementary schools defense of precious areas Earth First! journal ping up manicured grass acts of civil disobedience POB 1415, Eugene, OR 97440 compost piles, ~recting our job not to just steward and (541) 344-8004, fax: (541) 344-7688 .
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