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- MONEY: Unlike most other environmental groups, including Greenpeace, require an immense
budget to do their work. In contrast, most EF! campaigns are pulled off on a shoestring, with
most actions costing under a hundred bucks in materials, gas, etc., complete with trademark use
of supermarket cardboard and dumpster-dived doughnuts. The major expenses for an EF! clan
are printing, postage, and occasional court fines.
AN EF! BANK ACCT. with more than one contact allowed to sign for it, seems ludicrous, but
allows for fair and open accounting of the scant funds going through it. As these funds are used
entirely for legal (but radical!) purposes, the resulting records are no threat.
FUNDRAlSING: Frogskins can be gathered in any season, and properly dried, can be stored in
stacks. Good places to hunt for them include:
-Benefit concerts, slide-shows, pot-lucks
-disgusting pleas for money in the various newsletters
-annual auctions of donated goodies and services
-grants from foundations for specific projects
-school money funnelled through campus clubs for EF! presentations
-EF! work parties
-profits on the sale of EF! t-shirts (available on short term credit to
credible groups)
-sale of EF! Journals
THE EF! JOURNAL is the uncensored voice for the many diverse opinions of our movement. It is
the primary source for articles on the threats to wilderness and our tribe's efforts to save it.
This is your journal. It is no better than you make it. All clans are encouraged to submit pieces
on campaigns, philosophy, biodiversity and tactics based in deep ecology and uncompromised
wilderness defense. The journal is put out by a nonhierarchical, rotating collective, and any
earnest EF! activist can work a stint on its production.
ACTION ARTICLES will invariably be printed:
-make them exciting
-stress campaign background, details of the threat, reason for the
choice of target, tactics, results, and ways for the reader to get
involved (letters to congress, doing coordinated actions in their
own town, calls for activists to come join you there...)
-include lots of good photos (preferably B&W), maps, and graphics.
FREE JOURNAL COPIES are traditionally mailed out to active EF! clans. Individual EF!'ers
are still expected to subscribe, since the journal depends on subs to survive. The free copies are
sent to contacts to be sold at full cover cost as a fund-raiser for local groups, Consider consigning
them for a small commission to newstands, campus bookstores, natural food stores, etc.
REGIONAL NEWSLETTERS augment rather than replace the national journal, focusing in
greater detail on local issues, lists of local events or demonstrations, more leeway to fit poetry
in, etc. These can be statewide newsletters, bioregional (portions of more than one state), or
specific to your community. They can be copied and stapled, and sent out without wasteful
envelopes. Production, writing, and mailing-out should be done as a group, to get the maximum
number of voices represented, and keep all the work from falling on just a few.
CAMPAIGNS include everything presently impacting biodiversity on this planet. Old-growth
forest protection, endangered species, species reintroduction, habitat destruction, the disastrous
public lands grazing, damming of rivers, the re-wilding of the east and west coast states...
To really protect a bioregion, we have to become natives, indigenous, connected through guts and
soul. To really become acquainted with that which we fight for, we need to spend a lot of time
intimately exploring our deserts and canyons, mapping the ancient forests, documenting the
existence of endangered and threatened species, and just feeling...
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