New book examines Earth Liberation Front's 1990s radical environmentalism legacy

A new history of the Earth Liberation Front explores the Pacific Northwest activist network's use of economic sabotage and arson to protest environmental destruction, raising questions about the resurgence of radical environmentalism.

First covered Jul 27, 2026 · 5:00 AM PT · 1 article

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1d Guardian Environment ‘It came out of real frustration’: the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet — Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night examines Earth Liberation Front, a US eco-anarchist movement, and its legacy of radical environmentalism Are echoes of 1990s…

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archives.fbi.gov Animal Rights Extremism and Ecoterrorism

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More coverage from around the web

ebsco.com Earth Liberation Front Resorts to Arson | History | Research Starters | EBSCO Research

peterlang.com Peter Lang Verlag - A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front

newrepublic.com The Eco-Sabotage Group That Went Up In Smoke | The New Republic

digitalcommons.uri.edu Greenpeace, Earth First! and The Earth Liberation Front: The Progression of the Radical Environmental Movement in America

digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu Creation of Eco-Terrorism: A History of Actions by the Earth ...

Appeared in: 2026-07-28 (#14)

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