At the Earth First! Round River Rendezvous in 1987
R-L: Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke
Art Goodtimes in foreground
(Photo from the Earth First! Journal)
Foreman
On the Front Lines
He clung to the hood of the pickup
when the logger tried to run him down
Putting his wild life on the line
Standing in the path of the Machine
No small lawns of hope his vision
Nor bottom line profits über alles
But an interwoven braid of all creation
Putting Earth’s flora fauna & funga first
Protests, demos, monkeywrenching work
His was a Neo-Luddite path to change
Unfurling cracks in a dam, campfire songs
Blocking roads to the tallest redwoods
Hoping to turn our Titantic hubris away
from the looming icebergs of collapse
To show the titans of industry what radical
really meant in defense of the Mother nest
Inspiring a generation to rewild this blue planet
using seeds of big ideas & brave symbolic deeds
Really like Titanic lines. Sadly, maybe a kind of fate for the hubris
ReplyDeleteseems so, Phil. looks like we're heading into a dangerous sea. glad we share a berth on the ship of friends
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