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‘It came out of real frustration’: the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet

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‘It came out of real frustration’: the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet
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Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night examines Earth Liberation Front, a US eco-anarchist movement, and its legacy of radical environmentalismAre echoes of 1990s radical environmentalism returning louder or fading away? It’s a question posed by Fires in the Night, a new book on the history of the Earth Liberation Front (Elf), a loosely grouped band of US Pacific north-west activists that used economic sabotage and arson to protest environmental destruction.The members called themselves “the Family”

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