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The Earth Liberation Front, or ELF, is a group of activists that are classified as eco-terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Though there is no leader, central organization or governing body, groups around the world follow a set of guiding principles to carry out acts of eco-sabotage in the name of protecting the environment.
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- Also known as: ELF, The Elves
- Founded: 1992 in the United Kingdom
- 2002: Classified by the FBI as a top domestic terror threatFBI: The Threat of Eco-Terrorism
- Often works in cooperation with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
- Responsible for over $100 million in damagesCBS News: Burning Rage
- Often use arson, have also built bombs and threatened livesCBS News: Burning Rage
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Urban sprawl is a top target of ELF, as evidenced by the Seattle home fires of March, 2008. The incident involved the burning of multi-million dollar houses in Seattle, Washington, for which ELF claimed responsibility. -
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#ALF economic sense: Earth Liberation Front: Resistance(or Obstinance) II http://digg.com/u1G3jr
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Earth Liberation Front: Resistance - AgWeb: The following is an excerpt from a recent interview of Craig Rosebr.. http://bit.ly/1x4npS
@planetsresource | November 10, 2009 04:42 AM -
The lesson here: Westboro Baptist Church represents the right as much as the Earth Liberation Front represents the left. [i.e., not at all]
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RT @Paceset9999:Another frightening thing about WA State is that ELF (earth liberation front) has committed many terrorist attacks here
@AlwayzSusan | November 05, 2009 03:31 PM -
@AlwayzSusan Another frightening thing about WA State is that ELF (earth liberation front) has committed many terrorist attacks here
@Paceset9999 | November 05, 2009 03:30 PM
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Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front - $20.00
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has been active in the United States officially since 1997, causing more than $45 million in damages to various entities. As the organization continues to grow and expand its range of targets, ELF has taken ...
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Earth Liberation Front 1997-2002 - $17.95
Former ELF spokesperson, Leslie James Pickering, traces the first five years of ELF activity through communiques, underground newspapers, interviews and news media releases. The first book to be published on the ELF, Earth Liberation Front ...
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Burning Down the Houses.(Earth Liberation Front tries to stop urban growth in rural Long Island): An article from: E - $5.95
This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on May 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1099 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML f...
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View All Earth Liberation Front Questions (812) | Ask a QuestionCircumference of the Earth? (2 Answers)The circumference of the earth is 40,075 kilometers or 24,901 miles. http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/circumference-of-the-earth/ read moreDistance from earth to the sun? (3 Answers)The earth is between 146 and 152 million kilometers the sun, or between 91 and 94.5 million miles. read moreDoes the earth mantle convect in two layers? (1 Answer)Yes the earth mantle convects into two layers,but there is a third layer mentioned. 1.The upper mantle 2.The lower mantle 3.D" layer(Core–mantle boundary) ----quote---- The mantle is divided into sections ... read moreWhy does the earth have a 78% nitrogen ratio? What is the source of nitrogen? (4 Answers)The attached graph show the oxygen content of the earth's atmosphere for the last 1 billion years, and has varied between 3% all the way up to 35%. So the ... read more
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Earth Liberation Front: Resistance
By Matt Bogard The following is an excerpt from a recent interview of Craig Rosebraugh regarding Earth Liberation Front's magazine 'Resistance. ...AgWeb (November 09, 2009) -
Former Earth Liberation Front spokesman starts up 'radical' environmental magazine
By Scott Learn, The Oregonian Craig Rosebraugh, a longtime activist, former Earth Liberation Front spokesman and former Portland restaurateur, ...OregonLive.com (October 19, 2009) -
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Both were members of the Earth Liberation Front who took part in the destruction of 500 trees in Rhinelander in 2000. Christianson and Rivera got 24 and 36 ...Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (November 09, 2009) -
Feds decline to re-try convicted Caltech graduate on arson charges
... with words such as "polluter," "gas guzzler," "SUV=Terrorism," and "ELF," an acronym for the militant environmentalist group Earth Liberation Front. ...Pasadena Star-News (November 09, 2009)
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