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    Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action

    Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action

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    by Mike Roselle, Josh Mahan


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      ISBN-13: 9781429956833
    • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
    • Publication date: 09/29/2009
    • Sold by: Macmillan
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 272
    • File size: 281 KB

    MIKE ROSELLE is a co-founder of the San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network, Earth First!, and the Ruckus Society. He has been featured in numerous magazine articles, news segments, and documentaries. JOSH MAHAN is an environmental journalist and editor.

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    Lauded by some, despised by others, Mike Roselle is one of the most controversial figures in the crusade to protect the environment. Mike has succeeded in stopping a lumber project by spiking trees, struggled with death threats and the car bombing of fellow activist Judi Bari, endured countless days in jail, infiltrated the Nevada Test Site to delay nuclear bomb detonation, helped put a gas mask on Mount Rushmore's George Washington, and aided actor Woody Harelson in draping a banner up on the Golden Gate Bridge. He has spent over thirty years fighting back against big business, negligent management and the lawless actions of the government itself for the safety and preservation of our great earth.
    Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action is a fascinating autobiography from the front lines of a radical movement.

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    Publishers Weekly
    Roselle—cofounder of the Rainforest Action Network and Earth First!—offers a memoir of his career in radical activism—from teenage Yippie to career environmentalist, who admits he shares his “generation's complicity in creating the mess we are in today” and is now fighting against mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. His rollicking adventures make for entertaining reading: he is jailed after hanging an anti–acid rain sign over Mt. Rushmore, helps Woody Harrelson climb the Golden Gate Bridge to protest the redwood logging and spikes trees (a form of protest in which metal spikes are hammered into a tree trunk to make the tree harder to cut down). Did he really throw Abbie Hoffman in a pool in Miami? Did he really discuss the future of Costa Rican rainforests with future president José María Figueres over a bloody steak and a bottle of whiskey? Roselle is more interested in spinning a good yarn than supporting some of his wilder stories. He embraces every stereotype he embodies and celebrates the impact he and his collaborators have had on the past 30 years of environmental policy. (Sept.)
    Kirkus Reviews
    The memoir of a "green" radical. Now in his mid-50s, Roselle, with the assistance of environmental journalist Mahan, looks back at nearly 30 years of troublemaking as an environmental activist. Coming of age as a hippie, high-school dropout and antiwar protestor-he bounced from his native Louisville to Los Angeles and elsewhere, making ends meet as a house painter, oil-field worker and ski bum-Roselle began his career as an activist in 1980 when he and others, traveling in a VW van, shouted "Hayduke lives!" (a nod to the eco-saboteur in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang) and, then and there, founded the radical group Earth First! From those early days through his work with Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network, which he co-founded, Roselle has been deeply committed to using nonviolent civil disobedience to call attention to and force action on the destruction of wilderness. He recounts his role in blocking bulldozers to halt timber-industry incursions into Western roadless areas and in such iconic actions as hanging protest banners at Mount Rushmore and the Golden Gate Bridge. Disdainful of the Wilderness Society and other mainstream groups "too comfortable and professional" to risk civil disobedience, Roselle argues forcefully that only direct action can spur government to address the "crime" of deforestation. He takes pride in being viewed as a "nonviolent extremist" and contends that stopping climate change will require citizen action to pressure politicians addicted to coal-industry money. At the same time, he lambasts anarchists whose acts of arson and property destruction at such events as the 1999 Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization reveal a lack ofunderstanding of effective protest. "It takes more courage to sit in front of a bulldozer than to burn one," he writes. His discussion of the painstaking training required for successful nonviolent activism helps explain why confrontational environmentalism has often proven a significant force. A colorful account from a highly dedicated activist.

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