Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth
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North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network

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Acknowledgements
Dedication
Forward – Bron Taylor, Experimenting with Truth
Introduction - Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella, II

I. The History and Nature of Revolutionary Environmentalism

  1. Marilyn Buck, Poems From Prison
  2. Mark Somma, Revolutionary Environmentalism: An Introduction
  3. Noel Molland, The Spark That Ignited a Flame: The Evolution of the Earth Liberation Front
  4. Davey Garland, To Cast a Giant Shadow – Revolutionary Ecology and its Practical Implementation Through the Earth Liberation Front
  5. Mike Becker, Ontological Anarchism: The Philosophical Roots of Revolutionary Environmentalism
  6. Mathew Walton and Jessica Widay, Shades of Green: Examining Cooperation Between Radical and Mainstream Environmentalists

II. Sustainability and the Politics of Consumption

  1. Rosalie Little Thunder, Nituwepi he? (Who are you?)
  2. Robert Jensen, What is a Morally Defensible Level of Consumption?
  3. Lauren Eastwood, Contesting the Economic Order and Media Construction of Reality
  4. Adam Weisman, The Revolution of Everyday Life

III. Religion and Spirituality

  1. Kalamu ya Salaam, I don’t want to live where they are killing me
  2. Charlotte Laws, Jains, the Animal Liberation Front, and the Earth Liberation Front: At War with the “Violent Maxim”
  3. Lisa Kemmerer, In the Beginning: God Created the Earth and “Eco-Terrorism”
  4. Wanbli Watakpe (aka Russ Redner) and Paula Ostrovsky, Gwarth-E-Lass: Stick Standing Strong
  5. Jim Mason, The Animal Question: Uncovering the Roots of our Domination of Nature and Each Other

IV. Primitivism and the Critique of Civilization

  1. Levana Saxon, Death Has Already Arrived
  2. Robert Thaxton (aka Rob Los Ricos), The Lies of Progress
  3. Craig “Critter” Marshall, Attack the System
  4. Terra Greenbrier, Against Civilization, For Reconnection to Life!
  5. John Zerzan, What is Liberation?

V. Repression and Resistance

  1. Fred Hampton Jr., The Troubles I’ve Seen
  2. Jeffery “Free” Luers, From Protest to Resistance
  3. Ashanti Alston, Mojo Workin’
  4. Josh Harper, Facing the Agents of Omnicide: Hope in a Dark Time
  5. Anthony Rayson, From the Prisonhouse to the Slaughterhouse: Reflections on Lives in Captivity
  6. Kanahus Pellkey, Taking Back Our Land: Who’s Going to Stop Us? The Native Youth Movement Warriors Society
  7. Rik Scarce, Speak the Truth, Go to Jail
  8. Sara Jane Olson, Armageddon Now!

VI. Direct Action and Beyond

  1. Jesús Sepúlveda, Medusa Trilogy
  2. John Wade, Radical Environmentalism: Is There Any Other Kind?
  3. Derrick Jensen, What Goes Up Must Come Down
  4. Leslie James Pickering, People Ain’t Feeling This Bullshit
  5. Marti Kheel, Direct Action and the Heroic Ideal: An Ecofeminist Critique
  6. pattrice jones, Stomping with the elephants: Feminist principles for radical solidarity

VII. Social Movements and Alliance Politics

  1. Drew Dellinger, Ancestors and Angels
  2. Ann Hansen, Armed Struggle, Urban Warfare, and the Social Movement Influences on “Direct Action”
  3. Maxwell Schnurer, They Took Urlike Meinhof’s Brain: A Comparative Study of the Causes of and Justifications for Militant Direct Action
  4. Tony LoGrande and Robert Roche, Native Americans and the Struggle for Culture and Nature
  5. Kazi Toure, Random Thoughts on Eco-Racism and Resistance
  6. amory starr, Grumpywarriorcool: What makes our movements white?
  7. homefries, Identity Politics and Poetic Solidarity: Roots of Alliance between Feminism and Animal/Earth Liberation
  8. Richard Kahn, Radical Ecology, Repressive Tolerance, and Zoocide

Afterward – Jalil. A. Muntaqim, Katrina!!!
Epilogue: ELF Guidelines and Communiqués
Contributors’ Biographies