“Oh boy…oh boy…oh boy,” Earth First! founder Dave Foreman groaned as SFR explained over the phone the story running in this week’s print edition. A Santa Fe woman was busted by the Feds last summer, eight years after she engaged in an Earth Liberation Front act of vandalism. Foreman had similar experiences back when he was monkey wrenching, but is currently heading up the Albuquerque-based Rewilding Institute, which I’ll let him explain in his own words in this full transcript of our interview:
Could you talk to me for a few minutes about the way things were in back, say, 2000 or so?
Well, I haven’t been involved with Earth First! since about 1989. I was only involved during the 1980s and I left then because I didn’t like the direction it was going, becoming less of a conservation group and more sort of part of the international, anarchist, animal-rights movement.
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Tags: dave foreman, earth first, earth liberation front, ecoterrorism, katherine christianson, mountain lions, the rewilding institute
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In this week’s Santa Fe Reporter, I have a fairly long piece about Katherine Christianson, a local massage therapist who was picked up by the Feds last summer for some Earth Liberation Front sabotage she committed eight years ago when she was a teenager. Christianson–and co-defendant Bryan Lefey–pled guilty in federal court and are serving two and three year sentences, respectively.
In a way, Christianson and Lefey lucked out with their court appointed attorneys, both of whom keep environmentalism and direct action close to their hearts. Christianson’s lawyer Mark Maciolek explained in a court filing asking for leniency in her sentencing that he himself had been involved in civil disobedience when he was younger:
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Tags: bryan lefey, earth first, earth liberation front, ecoterrorism, federal court, katherine christianson, mark maciolek, reed cornia
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