Review: ‘Tree Spiker’

RE: Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action by Mike Roselle with Josh Mahan, St. Martin’s Press, 252 pages, $24.99

Not surprisingly, Roselle’s friends were the few black students brought in to desegregate his high school, and his activism started with protesting the Vietnam War and for legalizing marijuana with some women’s liberation and gay rights sprinkled in.  Aside from the environmental organizations Roselle helped create, he also worked as an outside agitator for groups such as Greenpeace.  But don’t let that outside agitator label fool you.  Roselle excels at finding loopholes, irritating people, and being stubborn, but not at destruction.  He practices peaceful non-violence.  As Roselle says, “it takes more courage to sit in front of a bulldozer than it does to burn one”/ Paula Younger , New West. More here .

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