ECODEFENSE
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
New Third Edition - Revised & Enlarged
Edited by Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood
25,000 copies of Ecodefense have been sold in previous
editions. Ecodefense has been banned in Australia, and was
the target of a $3 million effort by the FBI to squelch its distribution.
Now the most controversial conservation book ever published 
is
back in an expanded, extensively updated Third Edition.
"Monkeywrenching" is taking direct semi-violent action to stop the industrial
development of wilderness areas. Ecodefense is a how-to-do-it
guide for those so motivated. It is an illustrated, step-by-step manual
for tearing down billboards, stopping logging operations, trashing bull-dozers
and other machinery, and much more. A radical and hard-ass book, which
makes you think far beyond the nuts and bolts of the illegal acts it describes.
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Monkeywrenching is nonviolent. It is not directed towards harming
human beings or other forms of life. It is aimed at inanimate machines
and tools.
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Monkeywrenching is not organized. There can be no central direction
or organization to monkeywrenching. Any type of network would invite infiltration,
agents provocateur and repression.
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Monkeywrenching is individual. Monkeywrenching is done by individuals
or very small groups of people who have known each other for years.
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Monkeywrenching is targeted. Ecodefenders pick their targets. Mindless,
erratic vandalism is counterproductive.
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Monkeywrenching is timely. There is a proper time and place for
monkeywrenching. There are also times when monkeywrenching may be counterproductive.
Monkeywrenchers, generally, should not act when there is a nonviolent civil
disobedience action (a blockade, etc.) taking place against the opposed
project.
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Monkeywrenching is dispersed. Monkeywrenching is a wide-spread movement
across the United States.
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Monkeywrenching is diverse. All kinds of people, in all kinds of
situations can be monkeywrenchers. Some operate in their backyards, others
lie low at home and plan their ecotage a thousand miles away.
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Monkeywrenching is fun. There is a rush of excitement, a sense of
accomplishment, and unparalleled camaraderie from creeping about at night
resisting those alien forces.
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Monkeywrenching is not revolutionary. It does not aim to overthrow
any social, political or economic system. It is merely non-violent self
defense of the wild.
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Monkeywrenching is simple. The simplest possible tool is used. The
safest tactic is employed.
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Monkeywrenching is deliberate and ethical. Monkeywrenching is not
something to do cavalierly. Monkeywrenchers are very conscious of the gravity
of what they do. They are deliberate about taking such a serious step.
Pretty heavy stuff! This book covers tree spiking, road spiking, flattening
tires, closing roads, disabling vehicles and heavy equipment, animal defense,
revenge and harassment, propaganda, security, and much, much more. If loggers
know that a timber sale is spiked, they won't bid on the timber. If a forest
supervisor knows that a road will be continually destroyed, he won't try
to build. If seismographers know that they will constantly be harassed
in an area, they'll go elsewhere. If RVers know that they'll get flat tires,
miles from nowhere, they won't drive in such areas.
"Sold for entertainment purposes only!"
1993, 5½ x 8½, 350 pp, profusely
illustrated, soft cover.
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