Germany: Call to Defend Sundi and Hambi

From Earth First! Journal

The Megamachine spreads its devastating skewers in all directions:

towards the ocean floor, other planets, and the last remaining areas of wilderness on Earth. There are many places to take a stand against a suicidal culture which, if not thwarted, will not stop before all known lifeforms have been consumed by runaway technological expansion. Not least of all in the Rhineland, so-called Germany, a European heartland of industry and extractivism.

Hundreds Converge for 44th Annual Earth First! Gathering

From Unicorn Riot, August 15, 2024

Original title: Confronting Climate Change with Direct Action: Hundreds Converge for 44th Annual Earth First! Gathering

Unicorn Riot heard from organizers and participants this year to offer a deep dive into the event and the movement behind it

Dave Foreman and the First Green Scare Case

From Counterpunch

Dave Foreman, whose vision spawned a radical wave of the US environmental movement, passed away this week at the age of 74 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was controversial, he was stubborn, but he wasn’t one to compromise the fight to save wilderness and open space. The following piece on Foreman’s foray with federal law enforcement first appeared in our book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. – Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank

Cracks In a Grey Sky, on Immediatism Podcast

This is an anthology of Do or Die: Voices from the Ecological Resistance, which ran in UK. It includes nearly 3 dozen texts on direct action, biodiversity, tribalism, sabotage, and EF!, and runs to 400+ pages in length. Immediatism episodes recorded so far include the introductory essay, A Letter From Scotland, Biodiversity & the British Isles, The New Luddite War, and The Four Tasks, which is the longer and perhaps most relevant part these days of the iconic text Down With the Empire, Up With the Spring!

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