Ecotage! was a 1972 paperback book edited by Sam Love and David Obst and published by Pocket Books.
The book was a collection of ideas that had been solicited by the group Environmental Action over the previous year in preparation for the publication of the book, for using sabotage, attention-grabbing stunts, and other ideas to draw attention to environmental issues. [1] "Ecotage" is a contraction of ecological (or economic) and sabotage. The cover of Ecotage! features a photograph of a hippie throwing a pie in the face of a business executive.
The book is credited as one of the early inspirations for radical environmental activism, along with similar works such as Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. [2] [3]
The book was inspired by the actions of an individual who operated in the Chicago, Illinois area. Calling himself " The Fox", he engaged in such activities as plugging smokestacks and entering the offices of corporate executives to dump sewage on their desks. [2] In turn, some of the actions suggested in Ecotage! actually began to be carried out, particularly billboarding, when small groups in the early 1970s such as the one calling themselves the "Eco-Raiders" in Tucson, Arizona, began cutting down billboards.[ citation needed]
The term ecotage may have originated with this book; [1] [4] the term has since passed into general use as a synonym for various direct action tactics (see also monkeywrenching).
- Love, Sam and David Obst, eds. (1972), Ecotage! ISBN 0-671-78180-4
- ^ a b Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, In the Wake of Violence: Image & Social Reform ( MSU Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0870139291, Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^ a b Thomas Carl Austenfeld, Dimiter Daphinoff, Jens Herlth, eds., Terrorism and Narrative Practice ( LIT Verlag Münster, 2011), ISBN 978-3643800824, p. 211. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^ "Eco-Terrorism", St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (2000). via HighBeam Research.
- ^ Clarence Petersen, "Paperbacks", Chicago Tribune, March 26, 1972 ("Ecotage! ... adds a new word to the language ...").
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Ecotage! was a 1972 paperback book edited by Sam Love and David Obst and published by Pocket Books.
The book was a collection of ideas that had been solicited by the group Environmental Action over the previous year in preparation for the publication of the book, for using sabotage, attention-grabbing stunts, and other ideas to draw attention to environmental issues. [1] "Ecotage" is a contraction of ecological (or economic) and sabotage. The cover of Ecotage! features a photograph of a hippie throwing a pie in the face of a business executive.
The book is credited as one of the early inspirations for radical environmental activism, along with similar works such as Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. [2] [3]
The book was inspired by the actions of an individual who operated in the Chicago, Illinois area. Calling himself " The Fox", he engaged in such activities as plugging smokestacks and entering the offices of corporate executives to dump sewage on their desks. [2] In turn, some of the actions suggested in Ecotage! actually began to be carried out, particularly billboarding, when small groups in the early 1970s such as the one calling themselves the "Eco-Raiders" in Tucson, Arizona, began cutting down billboards.[ citation needed]
The term ecotage may have originated with this book; [1] [4] the term has since passed into general use as a synonym for various direct action tactics (see also monkeywrenching).
- Love, Sam and David Obst, eds. (1972), Ecotage! ISBN 0-671-78180-4
- ^ a b Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, In the Wake of Violence: Image & Social Reform ( MSU Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0870139291, Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^ a b Thomas Carl Austenfeld, Dimiter Daphinoff, Jens Herlth, eds., Terrorism and Narrative Practice ( LIT Verlag Münster, 2011), ISBN 978-3643800824, p. 211. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^ "Eco-Terrorism", St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (2000). via HighBeam Research.
- ^ Clarence Petersen, "Paperbacks", Chicago Tribune, March 26, 1972 ("Ecotage! ... adds a new word to the language ...").
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