Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
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Ecodefense is a practical handbook for environmental activists who grew frustrated with legal protest alone. Written in the 1980s by Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood, it describes monkeywrenching, a form of direct action in which people disable logging, mining and construction equipment and other machinery they see as destroying wild lands.
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The book traces the history and ethics of the tactic and sets out the general principles that its supporters believe should guide it. It argues that defending the land by any means is justified when other routes have failed, and it presents the movement as a continuation of an older tradition of resistance to industrial expansion.
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