updated Tue. March 26, 2024
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New York Times
February 13, 2018
While the national leadership of 350.org offered its support to the Valve Turners after their arrests, the response from mainstream environmental groups was subdued; for some, the shut-offs were reminiscent of the anonymous vandalism carried out by groups like Earth First! and the Earth Liberation FrontÃâà...
The News Tribune
December 17, 2017
3 Some Chicago musicians once released a “Tacoma Elf Storage” holiday CD of six songs including “the Elfin Labor Workforce Song” and “Elfin Love Song.” (Fact.) 4 Forget elves. It's really a safehouse for radical environmentalists from the Earth Liberation Front. (Myth.) 5 Elf storage was a joke in a “PearlsÃâà...
Mountain Xpress
November 29, 2017
For both the ALF and its sister organization, the Earth Liberation Front, a common means of economic sabotage is arson. Vlasak justifies this approach by specifying that ALF workers “take precautions to make sure that no one is harmed” and references a New Mexico horse-slaughter facility that wasÃâà...
Seattle Weekly
October 4, 2017
Nests of activity formed in population centers like Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, and Eugene, while increasingly recognized groups such as the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front (ALF) cross-pollinated with lesser-known groupings of home-brewed activists. The wave largely rose from here,Ãâà...
The Australian Financial Review
September 28, 2017
In 2001, the Earth Liberation Front — a militant, violent environmentalist group — was described by the FBI as one of the top domestic terrorist threats. Academics have estimated that "REAR" (Radical Environmentalist and Animal Rights) cells can be found in at least 25 countries and were responsible forÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
September 1, 2017
In 2001, the Earth Liberation Front - a militant, violent environmentalist group - was described by the FBI as one of the top domestic terrorist threats. Academics have estimated that "REAR" (Radical Environmentalist and Animal Rights) cells can be found in at least 25 countries and were responsible for moreÃâà...
VICE
May 1, 2017
The FBI has been investigating the ALF for decades, so its special agents routinely generate new reports on the leaderless movement's activism. In 2004, John E. Lewis, a deputy assistant director at the FBI, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and said that ALF, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF),Ãâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 21, 2017
A loose-knit radical environmental group, the Earth Liberation Front, or ELF, immediately took responsibility for the fire, leaving hand-painted messages on bedsheets at the scene and later confirming its involvement on its website and in an email to The San Diego Union-Tribune. But the individuals behindÃâà...
