#earthfirst
The moment when you learn something cool about a friend that you didn't know before. I was hanging out with a friend before today's Pride Parade and saw that he had a special issue of the "#EarthFirst Journal" on his coffee table. Having been in an EF affiliate group in the northeast, I asked if I could thumb through it. When I got to a certain page, my friend pointed to photograph of some people at an action. "Recognize that nerd?" he asked. "OMGs! That's you!" He then proceeded to tell me what it was like being at the tree sittings in Eugene, Oregon when they were trying to save a forest from being cut down. The cops went crazy with pepper spray, attacking the protestors in ways I won't detail (but very #ACAB). Un-armed protestors. In trees. My friend tells me that this incident radicalized a LOT of folks -- as did some of the subsequent ones that soon followed...
From Wikipedia: Eugene Oregon - 1990s: #Anarchist activity
"Attempts by the city to remove a forest grove at downtown Broadway and Charnelton were met with protests on June 1, 1997. Forty trees in downtown Eugene were cut down to make way for a housing, retail, and parking project and were met with community resistance.
"The Eugene [#policeforce] was accused of overreaction and excessive use of force for their flagrant use of pepper spray, which was defended by Republican mayor Jim Torrey. In the Whitaker District, citizens were further radicalized by the incident and helped spur the activist community, which was already burgeoning due to a lack of affordable housing and growing income inequality in the area."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_activism_in_Eugene,_Oregon
Today in Labor History May 24, 1990: Earth First! and IWW members Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were bombed in Oakland, California. Police immediately arrested the victims, destroyed evidence, and went on a witch hunt of local activist groups like Earth First! and Seeds of Peace. FBI bomb investigators were on the scene almost instantaneously, as if they knew about it in advance. Later it was discovered that the FBI had held a police bomb training in California’s redwood country, near where Bari and Cherney lived, and that the bomb in their car resembled those used in the training. According to Bari, Four of the FBI agents who were on the scene of her bombing had been students at this training. In 2002, five years after Bari’s death from breast cancer, they won their civil suit against the law enforcement agencies for violating their Constitutional Rights.
@Crispius #PR is only a benefit if each of the people’s interests e.g. those in education, has a Democratic Right to elect their Representatives to propose legislation and all the interests elected Delegates to vote on it being passed or amended. Call that #PRI #ThePeople #ConstitutingRights #OligarchsEnd #EmpiresDieForever #TheFederationLives #FascistFossils #EthicallySustainableRights #EarthFirst #FascistCultLast #FascistsAreNihilists
@godpod No one is safe who drinks from the #Ai of snake oil salesmen! Deity crushes the total control of inflation nihilists. Yah gods of mice and small men. Farther cult, tic toc MF #SnakeOil #Ouroboros #InformationHegemony #EarthFirst #FBI #TheFederation #EmpiresEnd #Deity
@thenarwhal This fills me with rage 
Gonna be driving to Hawthorne where a certain billionaire-run rocket company is HQ'd, so the day's couture will be...
https://youtu.be/eeMu7hjaOa0?si=MY7T4etdoew7ekKE
(Shirt: https://a.co/d/bxiwAp3)
#EarthFirst #MarsSucks #ElonMusk
If I put caring about people's reactions above my natural born duties to Mother Earth & her needs - I have failed.
Wild First. Or we all tumble down.
@LeatherCubAndrew Oh hey, my former coven was all about fighting back. They started a group -- the #ThomasMortonAlliance -- which allied with other radical groups (like #EarthFirst). The time has come for alliances to happen again. And for us all to learn how to fight back. #Pagans and #witches (and anyone #NonChristian) have targets on our backs as much as everyone else. We need to fight for #MotherEarth. All of us!!!
So, fracturing amongst the various environmental and social justice groups has been going on as long as I've been in the movement. But there have always been those (like myself and some of my colleagues in #EarthFirst and the #ThomasMortonAlliance and #AIM) that saw #HumanRights abuses and #EnvironmentalPollution as being connected -- and that #CorporateGreed was the main driver of most of the issues facing our planet!
Hear Me Out: In 2025, Climate Activists Should Spend Less Time on Climate
If you’re a climate activist who doesn’t know what to do for the next four years, the answer is remarkably simple: Join other movements.
“[Climate is] not more urgent than kids being ripped away from their families and dying in the desert—anyone who tries to win that argument is monstrous themselves. We either merge, join forces, or we lose,” #NaomiKlein, 2019.
Sophie Shepherd
Jan 09, 2025, Common Dreams
"Yet my optimism arises out of a different trend in the climate movement: Climate activists are (finally) showing up for other movements.
"Historically, the climate movement has attempted to isolate itself from other political and social issues, arguing that climate policy is 'just science.' This majority-white movement has failed to see that fossil fuel emissions are part of a larger history of the Global North #colonizing and exploiting both people and the planet for decades. The climate crisis is a symptom of a broader exploitative system. To change that system, we need a united left that will fight for all people—not just those who identify as environmentalists.
"In 2020, climate activists were rightfully berated for not showing up enough for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Thankfully, I think many climate activists heard that message because today, they have come out in droves for #Palestine.
"Many of the college students who organized campus encampments last spring to urge their school administrators to divest from Israel and the U.S. imperial war machine were students who had previously organized for climate justice. I witnessed this firsthand at the Claremont Colleges when I was a senior: The student organizations demanding fossil fuel divestment fell to the wayside as the crisis in Gaza intensified. Globally, many climate organizations chose to speak out and take direct action to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
"But none of these climate activists had stopped caring about the climate. In fact, they often pointed out that Israel’s actions were not just #genocide, but #ecocide as well. The onslaught of #bombs dropped on Gaza will contaminate the soil and groundwater in the region for decades. And the destruction has produced at least 54.5 million tons of carbon dioxide, equal to the annual emissions of 16 coal-fired power plants.
"Climate activists cannot claim to fight for a just future and stay silent about genocide. 'If we, as climate activists, aren’t able to see and speak up against the current #marginalization and oppression and killing of people today, then I don’t think we should be able to call ourselves #climatejustice [activists],' climate champion #GretaThunberg told Al Jazeera in early December 2024.
"As Trump prepares to enter the White House, we will undoubtedly see more people oppressed and killed. Among the many groups who are vulnerable under his administration are undocumented immigrants, whom Trump has vowed to round up and deport.
"Migrant justice has long been intertwined with climate justice. As climate change makes many areas around the world uninhabitable, climate refugees have no choice but to leave their home.
In response to Trump’s election, climate organizers Jeff Ordower and Ahmed Gaya called on their fellow activists to bring their experiences of shutting down pipelines and coal plants to fight the incarceration and deportation we can expect under Trump. Climate activists should answer this call: The struggles for migrant justice and climate justice are intertwined, and we must meet the needs of the current moment.
"'[Climate is] not more urgent than kids being ripped away from their families and dying in the desert—anyone who tries to win that argument is monstrous themselves. We either merge, join forces, or we lose,' writer and activist Naomi Klein said in 2019.
"With Trump as president, things will undoubtedly get worse before they get better. We need to build a strong left to fight fascism during Trump’s presidency and to build a just green future in its aftermath. To do so, climate activists must put their words into action when they say they fight for every living being."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/climate-movement-fight-fascism?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#WaterIsLife #NoGenocide #NoBombs #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
Every day, many clever memes and illustrations created by AI cross my timeline. I marvel at the technology.
Then I think about the amount of water and electricity being wasted on trivialities.
We spoke with Steve Ongerth about the radical history of #RedwoodSummer, and how #IWW and #EarthFirst organizer Judi Bari worked to bring together timber workers and radical environmentalists fighting to save old-growth forests.
https://itsgoingdown.org/steve-ongerth-on-the-bombing-of-judi-bari-and-redwood-summer/
Folks, I know generative AI is fun to play with, but it uses up water and electricity that we can't afford to waste, at a monstrous rate.
If there is some sort of reckoning after we die, I will face the Creator and tell them honestly that I did everything I could to protect those weaker/less fortunate than myself and to protect Creation (with the exception of a few weak moments). We should all strive to live that way. If we're only accountable to the #Bumblebees, I'm fine with that. To me, #NatureIsGod. To go against Nature is to go against The Creator. Life on Earth is so precious. We should put #NatureFirst, #EarthFirst!
A long time ago, I decided that to sacrifice myself in defense of #MotherEarth would be a good way to die. I still feel the same way.
"I wanna be a witness
Or a victim to your spell
Crackling in lightening
Dressed in shadows
Red like a carousel"
- Savage Earth Heart by #TheWaterboys (#MikeScott, #KarlWallinger), 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwX8uaOCww
#EarthFirst #SpiderWoman #PurificationDay #HopiProphecy #InDefenseOfMotherEarth #FridayNightMusicVideos #SavageEarthHeart
Sitting in Philo, Ca. Thinking about Judi Bari (1949-1997) | Industrial Workers of the World https://archive.iww.org/history/biography/JudiBari/1/ #activism #feminism #oldgrowth Already a legend when I moved to NorCal and got involved with the Headwaters protest. Rode out to an action with Daryl Cherney. Never met Judi in person. She was larger than life. #equality #earthfirst #restinpeace
Confessions of a communard: Cultivating comrade connections
We want to create a solidarity economy that provides for both the commune and the wider working class community where we make our home.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/03/02/confessions-of-a-communard-cultivating-comrade-connections/
#ACommuneInTheNorth #ConfessionsOfACommunard #EarthFirst #LandworkersAlliance
Earth First! winter moot 2024
9th-11th February at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/01/09/earth-first-winter-moot-2024/
#Activism #EarthFirst #EarthFIrstWinterMoot2024 #WinterMoot
Green Scared?
Some Lessons from the #FBI Crackdown on #EcoActivists
2023, via @CrimethInc
"For years, the FBI targeted ecological #activists as their #1 priority. This is one of the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked.
"At the end of 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements—known as the #GreenScare—with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This offensive, which they dubbed Operation Backfire, was intended to obtain convictions for many of the unsolved #EarthLiberationFront arsons of the preceding ten years—but more so, to have a chilling effect on all ecological #DirectAction.
"In this analysis, originally published in Rolling Thunder in 2008, we review everything we can learn from the Operation Backfire cases, with the intention of passing on the lessons for the next generation of #environmental activists.
My #FollowFriday list for this week has an emphasis on #EarthDefenders, #ClimateJustice and #ClimateNews! I've included descriptions from respective accounts. Suggestions welcome for the next round...!
@davidho
“#Climate scientist working on the #ocean #carbon cycle and verification of ocean carbon dioxide removal (#CDR). Founder, Bamboo #Bike Project; co-founder and Director of Science at [C]Worthy. Professor at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; also at Columbia University in NYC and École normale supérieure in Paris.”
@brianpjcronin
"#Environmental Reporter for The Highlands Current: An award-winning, non-profit, independent newspaper in New York's Hudson Valley. I also teach journalism at Marist College. Not actually a cat."
@pvonhellermannn
"#RegenerativeAnthropology and/as #ClimateAction
#ClimateDiary; writing book about palm oil; political and historical ecology, climate justice, commoning"
@primonatura
"A passionate #Environmentalist curating a daily news feed about the #Environment & #ClimateChange.
My hobbies include using my DSLR camera, mapping on Open Street Maps, listening to music, podcasts and audiobooks on topics such as #Geology, #Nature, #Geoscience, #Sustainability, #Climate, technology & privacy."
@rahmstorf
"Head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for #ClimateImpact Research; professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University; dad. Opinions my own!"
@Snoro
"#environnement #Montréal #Québec #changementsclimatiques #gay #vélo #polqc #climat #LGBTQQIP2SAA #pollution #égalité #femmes #gai #gauche #équité #justice "
@ambiente
“Le notizie più importanti e gli alert mondiali sull'ambiente e l'ecologia selezionate dagli utenti di diggita.com”
@godsouza
“Sustainable Mid Peninsula, compost, diversity, cooking, bikes, subsistence, pedestrian cities, half earth. Born 309 ppm of CO2”
@ZLabe
“#ClimateScientist (Atmospheric) PhD | Postdoc at Princeton University & NOAA GFDL | UC Irvine and Cornell University alum | Sharing data-driven stories | Be kind | Views are my own”
@RSMacKinnon@mstdn.ca [Account defunct]
“Your guide to #ClimateCollapse.”
@ExtinctionR
“Global non-violent direct action movement demanding a response to the climate and #ecological emergency. Donate at bit.ly/supportxr”
@UnicornRiot
“Independent media amplifying stories from the frontlines of social and environmental struggles."
@PariaSansPortefeuille
“« Si vous voulez aider la planète, plantez un arbre. Si vous voulez la sauver, plantez un riche » - François Avard”
@fff
“#FridaysForFuture – oder auch: "Dreimal F, F ist am sechsten Platz im Alphabet, also in dem Fall 666, da weiß man ja auch wieder, wer dahinter steckt.”
@ClimateMigration
“Follows and boosts #climate and #ClimateScience experts.”
@Bentley
“Host of @ClimateHubYYC's A Climate of Change zoomcast and The Climate Lens podcast, AB Regional Organizer for @Reality_Canada. Tweets are my own. #yyc”
@xrfrance
“Mouvement international de Désobéissance Civile Non-Violente pour la protection du vivant ”
@earthfirst - Sadly, this account hasn't posted in a while...
"The Earth First! Journal is the voice of the radical environmental movement. Published quarterly, it contains reports on direct action; articles on the preservation of wilderness and biological diversity; news and announcements about #EarthFirst! and other radical environmental groups. Follow for updates about the EF! Journal, snarky ecoposting, and updates on the struggle to minimize and adapt to climate catastrophe."