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In the 1990's in Greenpeace and then in Earth First! At the time both organizations were grounded in non-violent civil disobedience movements like the Civil Rights movements. Greenpeace had collapsed in the late 90s. We were generally under the impression that we were LOOSING the evnviornmental movement.

Earth First! had a major hub in Euguene when I lived there. We had a cable access show. When the ELF revealed themselves with their first attack on a ranger station we denounced it on our show that evening.

But this tore the community apart. Because some people in Euguene had given up on non-violence and no one knew who was in ELF. I eventually left.

In my experience, ELF was like the Weather Underground. It was a radical movement that was born out of frustration during the final days of a political movement that had been very popular and then, sort of lost its energy and focus.

Today global warming and 911 have put and end to ELF type of operations and the need for them.

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