Earth First! Journal

20/01/2025

Welcome home Leonard!

03/12/2024

30/10/2024

Send letters of support to pro-choice antifascist activist Caleb Freestone.

Caleb is a 29 year old from Florida who was convicted of tagging the outside of a fake pregnancy crisis center in the wake of the Dobbs (abortion rights) decision being overturned. He and his codefendants were originally charged with the FACE Act and faced over 10 years in prison.

He was sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison in September 2024 for the vandalizing of the South Broward Pregnancy Help Center; the Life Choice Pregnancy Center, and the Heartbeat of Miami Pregnancy Help Medical Clinic. The spray-painted messages on the buildings included “Jane’s Revenge,” "Your time is up" and "We are everywhere". He is going to serve his time at FCI Yazoo City in Mississippi.

For more information see https://linktr.ee/sfl_arc
Birthday: 6/18/1995

Write Caleb:
Caleb Freestone #07786-506
FCI Yazoo City Low
P.O. BOX 5000
Yazoo City,MS 39194
11:42 AM

14/10/2024

11/10/2024

Notes on intersections of climate and prison, published just in time to call on politicians and county sheriffs across Florida to NOT use slave labor in cleaning up the hurricane mess exacerbated by fossil fuel profiteering.

In the US, prisoners are made to perform dangerous jobs that would earn them “hero” status in the free world.

19/09/2024

Some good news on fight:
"Georgia officials said they would drop money laundering charges against bail fund organizers accused of misusing funds to support violent protests against a police training center in an Atlanta-area forest..."

City still planning to move ahead with controversial law enforcement training center being built in Atlanta-area forest

08/09/2024

This rightwing pro-war soap company is blaspheming the monkeywrench with words like "productivity" and "hygiene."

Sure, there are much more egregious capitalist marketing campaigns out there...

But this one just hit close to home. (And yes, we know, it's actually a pipewrench.)

01/09/2024

Degrowth and de-capitalism necessary.

31/08/2024

Write a letter today to let Marius know you're thinking of him:

Marius Mason
#04672-061
FMC Fort Worth
P.O. Box 15330
Fort Worth, TX 76119

Visit the "Write to Marius" page for more info:
https://supportmariusmason.org/write-marius/

24/08/2024

This summer, along with destroying about half of the Uplands Preserve, the NCF administration has also started tearing down buildings, and destroying thousands of books from the library (driven in part by the elimination of Gender Studies program and the elimination of the Gender and Diversity Center—a student-run and student-curated library of books on subjects including LGBTQ+ community, Black histories and feminism).

This is the DeSantis "anti-woke" campaign to turn the school into the "Hillsdale College of the South," (referring to the private, conservative Christian liberal arts school in Michigan.)

But its also part of the Governor's anti-environmental agenda, which includes massive climate denial and leveling wildlife habitat in state parks for golf courses.

Fighting for the Uplands Preserve is part of pushing back on the growth of a movement seeking to increase the consolidation of state power among corporate business-interests and rightwing Christian churches, centered around a Euro-centric, patriarchal worldview.

Calling it anything less than fascism is a disservice to future generations.

24/08/2024

Pangolin painting by Marius Mason.

See more of his art and learn about how to send him a letter:
https://supportmariusmason.org

24/08/2024

Props to the folks fighting to protect Lincoln Forest from Project Maple's fracked gas pipeline and infrastructure.

This picture is from their treesit platform.

15/08/2024

Agency speaks with former political prisoner Daniel McGowan about DW Gibson’s book, "One Week to Change the World” By Panagioti Tsolkas and Daniel McGowan Last month, publisher Simon & Schuster released what it called “the definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization prot

02/08/2024

New College alum Jonathan White talks about his experience as an activist in the '88 Lorax Rebellion campus protests in Sarasota, Florida.

It resulted in 43 arrests, news headlines, life lessons, and movement strategy insights that remain relevant today, especially as the current administration clears the Uplands Preserve land for right-wing campus takeover led by Gov. DeSantis and NCF President Corcoran.

Save Uplands NCF

New College Florida (NCF) alum, Captain Jonathan White, talks to the Palm Court Podcast about his experience in the '88 campus protests for a grove of trees ...

01/07/2024

🚂 you don’t need to pre-register to come to the Earth First! Summer Gathering! 🚂

no tickets needed 🙅🏽‍♂️🎟️ just bring your gear and get ready for a FREE week of trainings, discussions, and workshops ⛺️🌲

19/06/2024

We have posted an updated webpage with detailed location, transport, rideshare, schedule, and some accesibility info as well as our policies for the EF! 2024 summer gathering! 🌲⛺️

Check it all out at https://earthfirstjournal.news/summergathering/

July 2-9 in Lenapehoking, so-called Northeast Pennsylvania - see you there!

11/06/2024

Please copy and paste in to your own document, print and send to: Director Collette Peters
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20534

Dear Director Peters:
Thank you for prioritizing the rehabilitative purpose and programming of the BOP in your role as Director. It was encouraging to see the Transgender Policy Manual posted again, after years of being unavailable on the FBOP site when you came into office. I appreciate the atmosphere of respect, acceptance and safety fostered at the highest level under your administration for all LGBTQIA+ people currently in the carceral system.
I am writing today to call attention to the situation of Marius Mason (née Marie Mason, #04672-061). Mason has been approved by the FBOP for gender-affirming surgery since 2022. He was transferred from FCI Danbury, a male facility, and after living there for two years, he was transported to FMC Fort Worth, where he was to undergo gender affirming surgery. This was the culmination of a 10-year process, beginning in 2013 when Mason asked to be considered for the new transgender medical policy, after a lawsuit created a pathway to medical transition.
However, Mason was informed at a meeting with Dr. Mercado (the Health Services Administrator), Mr. Strickland and Mason's therapist, Dr. Bartholomew on 5/24/24 that despite having been approved for surgery, the health services contractor that was working for FMC Fort Worth was not willing to provide gender-affirming hysterectomy. It is our understanding that there are in fact local medical professionals who can perform this procedure, without which the other surgeries will be delayed.
Also at this same meeting, Mason was informed that test results from a prior ultrasound had revealed that there was indications of an early onset of cancer in his uterus, and a further test was being ordered to confirm this possible result. If indeed Marius requires a hysterectomy due to uterine cancer, we hope this will be carried out with all possible speed.
I am asking that you please investigate the apparent refusal of a contracted health care to provide care to a trans prisoner, and also to ensure that this denial and delay do not endanger Mason's health and safety or delay the approved care long enough to prevent it being fulfilled. Thank you for continuing to be an ally to LGBTQIA+ prisoners in the Federal system.
Sincerely,