The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment". Founded in Britain in 1992, it is regarded as descending from Animal Liberation Front because of the relationship and cooperation between the two movements. The Earth Liberation Front has no formal leadership, hierarchy, membership or official spokesperson and is entirely decentralized, instead consisting of individuals or cells who choose the term as a banner to use. Like ALF, ELF emerged as a derivative of another environmentalist organization, Earth First! (EF), which had abandoned its illegal and violent activities by 1992 and become more mainstream. The first known ELF activity in the U.S. occurred in 1996 when members set fire to a United States Forest Service truck in Oregon. VideoVideo: 2008 Igniting a revolution - An…
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
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