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"Being a non-organization, we don't have membership rolls. We're a movement: Earth

First! are individuals, and each is his or her own leader. There are no dues other than the $10 annual subscription to Earth First!, our newspaper, which is issued eight times a year, on the old European earth holidays. The paper is primarily a forum for the exchange of ideas on environmental activism We pay no office rent, and no one gets a regular salary; all of our income goes into publishing Earth First! and funding environmental action. Contributions to our Earth First! Foundation are tax-deductible, and should be sent to P.O. Box 6206, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Subscription orders and other correspondence should be directed to P.O, Box 26221, Salt Lake City, UT 84126."

For more insight into the history and workings of Earth First!'s brand of environmental concern, review the Plowboy Interview with Ed Abbey, which appeared in MOTHER N0. 87-and if you can find a copy of the December/January 1983 issue of Outside magazine, check out the article "The Real Monkey Wrench Gang."

There can be no doubt that these men and women have the strength of their convictions. In a very real sense, they are heroes and heroines.

ENVIRONMENTALACTION FOUNDATION

The Environmental Action Foundation (EAF) and its sister organization, Environmental Action, Inc. (a lobbying group), publish Environmental Action magazine. Their most recent coup was the disclosure last June, by EAF economist Richard E. Morgan, that American power companies are holding over $25 billion in unpaid federal taxes collected from ratepayers during the past 30 years. We'll let Alden Meyer, EA director, tell the rest of the EA/EAF story:

"Environmental Action was founded in 1970 by the organizers of Earth Day. We have been a key group in all of the landmark environmental fights: against the SST, the B-1 bomber, and the Clinch River breeder reactor; and in support of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, SuperFund, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and many others.

"One can join EA with a $15 membership contribution. This brings a year's subscription (ten issues) to the highly acclaimed Environmental Action magazine and an opportunity to join EA's activist list (people who are alerted when important environmental legislation hits Capitol Hill), as well as tree books and resources.

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