The Secret Environmental War Against Corporations

Hey all! I’ve got some exciting news! I finally released the first part of a three-part documentary series I’ve been working on for the last six months! The series will explore the rise, fall, and aftermath of the North American Earth Liberation Front. The story is honestly wild. From 1996 to 2009, ELF cells sabotaged $100 million worth of industrial property and subsequently became the FBI’s number one domestic terrorist threat. Definitely check out the video below, and if you’re itching for part two right now, it’s available to my Patreon supporters a month early!

Three Quotes:

1. “Some of these people in my group were sort of cut off. They just cut off from the world, and I feel like cutting yourself off from the world can create… some real big theoretical mistakes. Not even theoretical, applied mistakes that we made because we cut off, we were out of touch.”

   — Daniel McGowan

2. “Violence, certain types of violence (if you define property destruction as a type of violence), can be necessary to break down the inertia and the resistance of a deeply entrenched order and all the power interests that come with it. The scale of the transformation of our society that we need have never in history been accomplished without confrontation.”

   — Andreas Malm

3. Similarly, lionizing “heroes” can be a way for the rest of us to let ourselves off the hook: as we are obviously not heroes of their caliber, we need not hold ourselves up to the same standards of conduct. It is a disservice to glorify McGowan, Exile, Sadie, Peter Young, and others like them; in choosing anonymous action, they did not set out to be celebrated, but to privately do what they thought was necessary, just as all of us ought to.

   — Crime Thinc

Three Links:

1. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Full Movie) (Marshall Curry)

2. Dousing the BBC's Fake News Before It Can "Burn Wild" w/ Former ELF Member Daniel McGowan (Green and Red Podcast)

3. From Environmentalist to "Domestic Terrorist" with former Earth Liberation member Daniel McGowan (Green and Red Podcast)

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Hope you have a great day,

In solidarity,

Charlie