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DESCRIPTION:Earth First! Roadshow Hits San Francisco\n\nWHAT: Earth First! Roadshow 
 Hits San Francisco\nWHERE: Station 40; 3030B 16th St; San Francisco; Across 
 the Street from 16th St/Mission BART\nWHEN: Sunday, June 14 at 
 7:30pm\nCONTACT: Scott; 
 sparki@riseup.net\nINFO:http://earthfirstroadshow.wordpress.com/\n\nFrom 
 the Earth First! Organizers’ Conference & Winter Rendezvous in the 
 Sonoran desert this February to the Round River Rendezvous in Cascadia this 
 summer, a band of eco-rebels will be crossing the US Empire to renew a 
 fighting movement that can stop this industrial nightmare from choking the 
 life out of the earth.\n\nThe need for resistance in solidarity with the 
 wild has never been louder or clearer than it is today; the roadshow is a 
 great tool for growing that resistance. There are countless examples to 
 draw from in the story of radical movements before us: militant labor 
 organizing tours, anti-fascist resistance recruitment and international 
 speaking tours to build cross-border solidarity. The origin of Earth First! 
 itself is credited to a few roadshows that kicked it all off in the early 
 1980s. We are building on this tradition; akin to a fellowship crossing 
 Middle Earth to amass insurgents to face Mordor head-on.\n\nList-serves and 
 websites aren’t enough\nThis Roadshow’s primary intention is to 
 strengthen our radical grassroots ecological network. For almost 30 years, 
 we have been an organized voice bridging conservation biology with 
 grassroots community organizing, road blockading and eco-sabotage. In the 
 past 5 years we have seen numbers and experience-level in the EF! movement 
 decline drastically. Yet, our place has never been more urgent. New groups 
 are popping up across the country, but they are detached from many of the 
 groups, history, and skills that came before them. We can’t afford to 
 stumble and make the same mistakes over again.\n\nWe are at the tail end of 
 a decade where corporate globalization rooted itself in the US and spread 
 across the planet like a plague. And now that the reality of climate change 
 is finally sinking into the mainstream consciousness, the same superpowers 
 that pushed so-called ‘free trade’ policies to exploit wild nature more 
 efficiently are promoting carbon trading in attempt to make a profitable 
 industry out of the disasters they’ve created. The spineless Big Green 
 environmental NGOs are scrambling for crumbs and cutting deals with the 
 industry for shallow public relations victories. Earth First! must rise and 
 recognize that it’s presence is a strong component of making the broader 
 environmental movement truly effective. We are its spine, or as an EF! 
 co-founder, Howie Wolke, has put it, we are the lions of a movement 
 ‘ecosystem’. Our niche is critical, and its presence (or absence) is 
 felt deeply by our surroundings.\n\nWe need to reconnect the 
 multi-generational aspect of Earth First! that has fallen by the wayside in 
 recent years. We need to broaden our network’s base—from radical rural 
 grandparents to revolutionary urban youth. We need re-establish lost 
 relationships with scholars and scientists who resonate with us. We need to 
 re-inspire musicians and artists to contribute their passion to our 
 battles.\n\nWhen it comes down to it, solid movements are based on strong 
 personal relationships; and real relationships don’t go very far over the 
 internet. We need face-to-face interaction to build trust with—and 
 support for—each other.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/05/18600697.php
SUMMARY:Earth First! Roadshow Hits San Francisco
LOCATION:Station 40; 3030B 16th St; San Francisco; Across the Street from 16th 
 St/Mission BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/05/18600697.php
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