March 20, 2001 - The underground Earth Liberation Front (E.L.F.) announces an international day of action on April 19....

Communique
March 19, 2001

As an autonomous cluster of cells within the broader Earth Liberation Front, we call for an international day of action on April 19. This year's Earth Day commemoration will mark the near-completion of mainstream environmentalism's greenwashing, with an international theme of "Clean Energy"--an oxymoron if there ever was one. Simultaneously, corporate and governmental elite from throughout the hemisphere will gather in Quebec City to carry forward the planning process for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the next escalation of capital's war on Earth and Her people.

In response to these threats to our continued existence, and in solidarity with those on the frontlines of the ecological resistance in the streets of Quebec City and throughout the world, we intend to draw attention to the only true solution to the continuing destruction of our planet's ecological integrity--massive resistance to the machinery of global capitalism, liberal democracy and industrial civilization. At the same time, we hope to divert valuable state resources from the inevitable oppression of those standing in opposition to the Summit of the Americas. We invite participation from all interested parties--cells of the Animal Liberation Front, Earth First!, anti-genetix campaigners, and any other group or individual willing to stand with us and declare, "No compromise in defense of Mother Earth!"

Earth Liberation Front