‘Eco-warrior’ and Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman dies

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Dave Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First.

FILE - Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First! poses for a portrait in Juneau, Alaska, on March 10, 1988. Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First!, has died Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, according to New Mexico-based Rewilding Institute. He was 74. – Dave Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First!, has died.

A cause of death wasn’t immediately released, but friends of Foreman said he had battled a lung illness for several months. In the 1980s, Foreman was repeatedly accused of engaging in eco-terrorism — including from some mainstream environmentalists — for his advocacy of environmental direct action, going beyond civil disobedience and tree-sitting protests to tree-spiking, cutting down billboards and pouring sand into gas tanks of bulldozers, the Star reported.

 

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