Earth First! 27, no. 2

Gnell, Jhohsh, Mysterious Matt, troublet!, eds., Earth First! 27, no. 2 (1 January 2007). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7242. FEATURES • Nuclear Waste Resistance in Germany • Green Scare Update Operation Backfire Defendants Take Plea Deals • Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Passed by Congress and Signed into Law • Trinidad Community Fights Alcoa Smelter • Moloka’i Activists Occupy Development Site • Taking Back the Land in Miami Inside the Umoja Village Shantytown • Defending Harlem’s Community Gardens • Arbitrary Lines and Militarized Zones The Indigenous Border Summet of the Americas • Real ID Really Sucks Toward a National Identification Database • Critical Art Ensemble Anti-GE Activists Under Attack • Confessions of an Art Addict Reconsidering Pollution Art • Trannies Are Taking Over! An Introduction to Transgender Awarness • Appalachian Alternative Economies • Achers for Acres Cemeteries vs. Mountaintop Removal Mining • Randal’s Fine Wood Not-Just-Boxes • The Friendly Forest Worker • Community Resistance to Coal in Virginia • Remembering Jamie McGuinn • Brad Will Mourned and Celebrated in NYC • Memories of B • People’s Uprising in Oaxaca • Dealing with Trauma and Burnout Experiences of Support Work • EF! Organizers’ Conference February 22-26 Austin, Texas We feel loss more often than most. To be a part of Earth First!—or any movement dedicated to protecting the natural world—is to be intimately aware of the many times when our efforts fail. Every day, forests are clearcut, mountains leveled, seas polluted, gardens made barren and species driven extinct. — Josh The Rachel Carson Center’s Environment & Society Portal makes archival materials openly accessible for purposes of research and education. Views expressed in these materials do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Rachel Carson Center or its partners.