Earth First The Politics of Radical Environmentalism (1987)

Earth First The Politics of Radical Environmentalism documents the rise of the controversial ecoactivist group Earth First as told by its founders its admirers and its opponents including rare interviews with its founders Dave Foreman Mike Roselle and Howie Wolke Earth First burst onto the environmental scene in the 1980s engaging not only in civil disobedience to protect Americas wilderness from exploitation but ecotage the destruction of heavy equipment roads and mills involved in deforestation The movement become heroic to some infamous to others by scaling and occupying 200foot tall oldgrowth trees to frustrate the plans of timber companies and for treespiking hammering iron spikes into standing trees as a threat to the machinery of any mill that dared to process it Earth First includes rare footage of ecoteurs engaging in their exploits on camera