Cracks in a Grey Sky: An Anthology of Do Or Die: Voices from the Ecological Resistance

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Do or Die was ten issues of a very influential paper out of the UK. Subtitled Voices from the Ecological Resistance, it brought together a wide variety of voices and perspectives from around the world, but was especially meaningful for those who were fighting the monolith in urban spaces, sometimes in their own backyards, vs in the US, where much of the inspiration and activity came from places that could still be called wild. This packed book is a collection of some of the best of the paper, including the one piece that people still know about, the especially-substantive "Down with the Empire, Up with the Spring!"... This is an homage to the paper, as well as a reminder of some of the creative and fiesty actions and connections still possible in our increasingly concretized world. PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL Twyford Downs Trees for Life A Letter from Scotland Car Chases, Sabotage, and Arthur Dent News from the Autonomous Zones Biodiversity and the British Isles Open Letter to Minister for Transport Going Green, a review by John C. Stauber Shoreham: Live Exports No Opencast The New Luddite War My First Genetic Crop Trashing Sabbing Shell Take A Sad Song and Make It Better? Bashing the GEnie Back in the Bottle PART 2: EXTRA-ENVIRONMENTAL Derek Fingers the Green Nazis Critical Mass: Reclaiming Space and Combating the Car Reclaim the Streets Stop Making Sense: Direct Action and Action Theatre Lights, Camera, Activism Friday June 18, 1999 Desire is Speaking Running to Stand Still Space Invaders: Rants about Radical Space PART 3: MOVEMENT EF! and Tribalism Direct Action Six Years Down the Road Action Stations! Down with the Empire, Up with the Spring PART 4: AFTERWORD Three Years After: an interview with the editors