Earth First! News: On the Frontlines of Ecological Resistance. Number 1, Volume 1. Lughnasadgh. August 2, 2010

Tucson, AZ: Daily Planet Publishing, [Earth First! Journal], 2010. Very Good. 8pp. Newsletter [28cm x 21.5cm / 11" x 8.5"]; saddle-stapled. Green print on white paper stock. Horizontal crease throughout, as issued (folded for distribution). Hint of foxing along bottom edge of front cover, else a nice copy. Sealing stickers (for mailing) adhered to rear cover. Address label of American anthropologist Eugene Ruyle on rear wrap. Eugene Ruyle (b. 1936) is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Cal State Long Beach. He is a prominent socialist, feminist, environmentalist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist. Ruyle helped to found the Peace Studies Program at CSULB, and he is associated with the Institute for the Critical Study of Society at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland. He is the brother of the late Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. The first issue of this newsletter was published in the summer of 2010 around the same time as the movement's main journal ("Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal") moved its production location to Lake Worth, Florida and began releasing on a quarterly schedule. This new (shorter) newsletter was then intended to be released as a regular update in between the main journal's new quarterly release schedule. Announcement at the top of this work states:

"CHANGES AT THE EARTH FIRST! JOURNAL: Here, before you is the first issue of Earth First! News, the newsletter of the radical environmental movement. The frontlines of environmental struggles and ecological defense from around the world, we bring you a compendium of the most vital direct action, resistance and environmental news. The EF! Journal collective is currently compiling and editing the newsletter, although we intend to share these responsibilities with other EF! collectives in future editions. If you want to contribute, e-mail us at: [email protected], and we will plug you in. Forthcoming this November is the 30th Anniversary Edition of the Earth First! Journal!!! Also on the horizon, the first quarterly issue of the EF! Journal in March of next year—a bound publication of strategy and analysis. Until then, enjoy the introduction of EF! News, a developing project to be released on pace with the harvest calendar; and, check out daily reports with live links and videos at: www.newswire.earthfirstjournal.org. The newsletter can also be downloaded as a PDF for print and distribution from the newswire. Donations are needed to keep these projects going, so please send your contribution of any amount to Earth First! Journal, PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702. Thank you to everyone who has sent contributions already! If we can send you future issues via e-mail, let us know so that we can reduce our costs. And without further ado..."

Section headings of this newsletter: Frontlines (pages 1-2), In the Streets (p3), Death Toll of the Energy Empire (p4), Greenwashing Expose: Losing the Boreal Forest (p5), Eco-Prisoner Birthdates and Updates in Summer/Fall (p6), Barebones (p7), Updates (p7), Earth First! Toolbox (p8), Earth First Directory (p8), Announcements (p8). An announcement in bold at the bottom of page 8 near the mailing address box reads: "Celebrating 30 Years of Earth First! Look out for the November 2010 anniversary issue..."

Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980. The group set themselves apart from other environmental groups of the time with their focus on non-hierarchical structures, organic methods of organization and growth, and especially with their utilization of direct action tactics and sabotage (or "monkey wrenching" – inspired by Edward Abbey's novel) in defense of wilderness.