Earth First Journal! Direct Action in Defense of the Wild. Volume 40, Number 2. Fall 2021

56pp. Octavo [8.5" x 5.5"]; saddle-stapled black and white sheets in color cardstock wraps, zine-style. Sealing stickers (for mailing) adhered to covers. Some light rubbing and general wear. "Our mission is to promote, educate, and inspire the movement for direct action in defense of the natural world through an intersectional, anti-colonial, and biocentric lens, without compromise." - Earth First! "This publication was designed and printed in so-called Kansas City, on occupied Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Osage, and Ochethi Sakowin lands. [.] We're back! After 20 months, we have resuscitated the quarterly publication you know and lovewith some important differences. You probably already noticed this version of the Earth First! Journal doesn't look like the glossy-cover, newsprint magazine that became a staple of the radical environmental movement from 2010 to 2020, maintaining consistent style and content as it passed through many editorial hands and moved back and forth across the continent. We hope the Journal continues to provide unique and essential reporting on biocentrism-guided direct actions, hard-hitting solidarity campaigns, new theories and analyses, gatherings, debates, and everything else the Journal has represented over the last four decades. However, it was time for a change. [.] Partially due to the pandemic and partially due to its geographical movements, the Journal no longer operates out of a communal home-office combo occupied by short-termers and long-termers who share daily tasks. Right now, the Journal is run by one business manager, a volunteer board made up of long-time EF!ers, a virtual editorial collective, and a team of amazing volunteers (and yeah, we need YOU!). As always, our content is solicited from both EF! and the broader movement for ecological justice and environmental defense, through a biocentric and/or direct-action lens. [.] Here's to another four decades of radical and rowdy resistance. See you at the blockade!" Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980. The group set themselves apart from other environmental groups of the time with their focus on non-hierarchical structures, organic methods of organization and growth, and especially with their utilization of direct action tactics and sabotage (or "monkey wrenching" inspired by Edward Abbey's novel) in defense of wilderness. …